There Have Been NO No-Hitters This 2025 MLB Season-First in 20 Years

Every season baseball fans have become accustomed to seeing at least one pitcher hurl a no-hitter. In fact, normally it occurs at least two or three times throughout the year. However, with the season about to reach its conclusion; a new drought has now commenced. The records show that there have been NO no-hitters this 2025 MLB season which is a first in 20 years.

Yes, the last time Major League Baseball went an entire season without witnessing a no-hitter was two decades ago. Going all the way back to 2005. A length of time long enough to see a new baby born, grow into a teen, reach adulthood and be about ready to enjoy its first beer.

Nevertheless, it’s not like a few pitchers didn’t come close this season. For instance, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto went all the way to the ninth inning. He even had two outs before the opposing team (Baltimore Orioles) finally broke up Yoshinobu’s commanding and dominant performance. Jackson Holliday hit a two-out solo home run in the ninth inning, breaking up the bid at Camden Yards.

It would have been the first solo no-hitter for the Dodgers since 2014 and would have been the first no-hitter of the 2025 MLB season. Yet still, Yamamoto struck out 10 batters, and threw a career-high 112 pitches.

There Have Been NO No-Hitters This 2025 MLB Season-First in 20 Years

However, with less than 48 hours to go, the likelihood of seeing a no-hitter is quickly diminishing. Even the MLB has taken a moment to speak on this particular historic rarity. The league mentions,

“MLB hasn’t seen a no-no since three Cubs pitchers combined to no-hit the Pirates on Sept. 4, 2024. The last solo no-hitter belongs to Blake Snell on Aug. 2, 2024. That’s right: Despite a handful of close calls, 2025 has yet to see a single no-no, and that’s rare.

How rare, exactly? Well, if no one (or no team) can pull off the feat before the end of the season, it will be the first year without a no-hitter since 2005 and just the fifth year without a no-no in the Divisional Era (since 1969). (Yes, we’re tempting fate by publishing this story.)

There have been four in each of the past three seasons, and there were a single-season-record nine in 2021. With 39 no-hitters in all since 2015, we’re in a relative Golden Age for the feat. (Though it should be noted that 10 of those 39 were combo no-hitters.)

So any season that has yet to see a no-hitter by mid-to-late-August is, by definition, an anomaly. The last time a season’s first no-hitter came in August or later (not counting the shortened 2020 season) was 2006, when Aníbal Sánchez tossed the year’s only no-no on Sept. 10 — MLB’s first no-hitter since Randy Johnson on May 18, 2004.”

Very interesting. So if it felt weird not seeing a no-hitter this year, you’re not alone. It is strange; especially, given how often they have occurred as of late.

However, there is always next year. But, if the drought continues we will once again be observing MLB history. One would have to go back to 1932-33 to find two consecutive seasons without a single no-hitter.

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