Monday’s 5-0 Mets win over the San Diego Padres wasn’t just a big bounce-back game for Max Scherzer — who pitched five scoreless innings of one-hit baseball — but also it apparently broke a tremendous drought for one Mets fan out there.
According to Mets owner Steve Cohen, a fan attended the game at Citi Field having previously seen the Mets lose 28 consecutive games over a 16-year span. Why this person was allowed in the stadium — we have no clue. The odds of that are pretty astounding — if not straight-up impossible. But when it comes to bad luck, we really shouldn’t downplay the extent of pain that any single Mets fan is capable of experiencing.
I was made aware of a fan that had gone to 28 Mets losses in a row over 16 years before finally ending that streak last night . Now that is true fan loyalty.
— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) April 11, 2023
So while there was a decent chance that this fan was exaggerating, it had to be legitimate enough for word to make its way over to the owner of the freaking team.
Without taking into account matchups (and just saying the Mets had a 50/50 chance every game), the odds of that happening for 28 random games looked like this:
By my *possibly wrong* calcs the probability of that being true are:
0.0000003725%
— Antoine Gara (@AntoineGara) April 11, 2023
Just wild.
MLB Twitter also had thoughts on that one unfortunate fan’s string of losses.