Steven Matz loses no-hitter in eerie fashion reminiscent of Johan Santana's no-no

Santana had a possible hit called foul while Matz had a close hit called fair

The Mets won over the Padres, 5-1, on Sunday and got a dominant Steven Matz performance in doing so. He actually had a no-hitter through 7 1/3 innings before this happened:

Other angles of replay would show that the ball went over first base and actually bounced in foul territory when it first hit the ground. Now, we know the rule is that the ball just has to go over first on close calls like that, but you could also justify a foul call because the umpire is only eye-balling it crossing the bag and the first real thing we know definitively was the ball hitting in foul territory.

I do think this was the correct call, but I also think this is really funny, given that the only no-hitter in Mets history came from Johan Santana. And in his 2012 no-hitter, this was ruled foul:

From my colleague Dayn Perry, at the time:

This is a really weird kind of coincidence, no? It would have especially been hilarious if the umpire on Sunday had ruled Alexei Ramirez's single a foul ball and Matz had gone on to complete the no-no. The Mets would have had two no-hitters with controversial calls; one on each foul line.

Regardless, excellent outing for the rookie Southpaw and the Mets now have two straight wins after falling below .500.