Padres fail to throw no-hitter in record 8,020th consecutive game

The San Diego Padres' no-hitter drought is now in a class of its own.

The Padres - still the only MLB franchise without a no-hitter - failed to throw one on Thursday for the 8,020th consecutive game, breaking the New York Mets' record for the most games played by an organization before recording its first no-no, according to Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal.

Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Adam Frazier put the Padres into the record books with a third-inning single off starter Eric Lauer.

To put the team's futile run into perspective, the Padres' 1969 NL expansion cousins, the Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals), threw a no-hitter just nine games into their existence.

Padres pitchers have taken no-hitters into the eighth inning on 22 occasions, according to NoNoHitters.com. Only five of those bids made it into the ninth inning, and just two were broken up after 26 outs.

The most notable loss of a Padres no-hitter came in 1970 when starter Clay Kirby was lifted for a pinch-hitter after eight no-hit innings and watched the bullpen give up a hit in the ninth. Jordan Lyles' 7 1/3 perfect frames on May 15, 2018 was the team's most recent bid.

San Diego's current run is now officially the second-longest no-hit drought in MLB history. The longest stretch without a no-hitter for any franchise still belongs to the Philadelphia Phillies, who went 8,945 games without throwing one over a 58-year, one-month, 18-day stretch between 1906 and 1964.

The Mets didn't throw a no-hitter over their first 8,019 games before Johan Santana's 134-pitch no-no on June 1, 2012.

The Cleveland Indians own the longest no-hit drought for teams with at least one, last throwing one in 1981.