The Mets rode Anna Benson's husband's arm to victory today, 7-5, to top .500 (15-14) for the first time since April 26. The Mets have been two games over .500 for only two days so far this year (10-8 on 4/23 and 11-9 on 4/25).

Meanwhile, across town, at least mentally, the Yankees lost for the third time straight to the lowly Devil Rays to fall into virtual tie with them for last in the AL East. The Yanks haven't been at .500 since April 13 (4-4) nor over .500 since the fifth game of the season (3-2).

New York is not a very forgiving town when it comes to losing, and, at least in baseball, they haven't had to be all that forgiving. With both New York teams hovering at or well below .500, it could be the first time that both the Mets and the Yanks had losing records since 1992.

Moreover, it would be just the eleventh year that New York would be without a winner. Here are the previous years:

Actually, that's being a bit unfair to the Big Apple. There are only six years in the 109 in total in which two teams represented New York where none of their teams has a winning record (Brooklyn wasn't officially part of New York until 1898). That's 5.5%.

If you compare that to the other cities that have been represented by multiple teams, that becomes even more impressive.

Los Angeles (or LA of Anaheim) has two teams leading their division this year, but they have had the same number of years as New York (6) in which both teams had losing, or .500, records in the 44 years that LA has had two teams. That's 13.6%.

Here they are:

The White Sox are on a roll this year and the Cubs have been around .500. However, in the 106 years that Chitown has had more than one team, 21 of them have been witnessed without a team with a winning record. That's 19.8%, and here they are:

The A's and Giants are hovering around .500 while they wait for their young rotation to gel and their old star to return, respectively. The San Fran-Oakland metro area has had two teams for 37 years and, even with the great A's teams of the past, there have been eight years (21.6%)in the bay area without a winning team:

Then there are the cities in the original 16 teams that have since seen one of their two teams relocate. That is, Boston, Philly, and St. Louis. Philadelphia lacked a winner in one-third of the seasons in which the twp teams represented the city (22 of 66). Here they are:

Boston had 55 years with two teams but had no winner in 21 of them (38.2%):

St. Louis had 14 years out of the 56 with two teams in which neither team had a winning record (25%):