​Welcome back to Monday Stat Party, a weekly series that highlights the most curious and nostalgia-inducing statistical quirks from the past week of Mets baseball. Each entry is united by a sense of intrigue and a deep appreciation for the game’s anomalies that emerge from the numbers. Here’s the rundown.
On Tuesday, Kodai Senga finished a five-game stretch in which he allowed 27 earned runs, joining a select Mets list of nine pitchers who have surrendered 27 or more runs in five consecutive games. The company includes Jack Fisher, Bobby Jones, Al Leiter, Pedro Astacio, Bobby Parnell, Johan Santana, Jason Vargas, and David Peterson.
Wednesday’s first game saw Nolan McLean rack up a career-high 19 strikeouts over six innings, the most for a Mets right-hander since Kodai Senga’s 22 in Colorado on June 6, 2025. McLean’s 12 whiffs on his fastball were the most by a Mets right-hander since Tylor Megill’s 12 on April 9, 2025 against the Marlins.
In the Wednesday doubleheader’s second game, the Mets surrendered nine runs in three straight games for only the second time since 2007, a streak that accompanied four Mets homers in that span—yet still a loss. The team has now lost seven times since 2023 when totaling four homers. No other MLB club has suffered that many such losses in the same timeframe. The Mets also committed six errors, tying for second-most in a single game in franchise history and marking the most errors by a Mets opponent since September 1, 2014, in Miami, as well as the most by any MLB club since the Cubs did it on April 1, 2019 in Atlanta. Since 2000, the Mets have committed six errors in a game on five occasions—the most by any team in that period.
Francisco Álvarez became the first Mets player to homer in both ends of a doubleheader since Francisco Lindor did so on September 27, 2023, at Citi Field. Álvarez has eight homers this season, with four of them coming in the vicinity of a teammate’s homer—inside two batters of another Mets player’s shot, including one he hit in Wednesday’s doubleheader (one batter after Young’s homer in Game 1, two batters before Ewing’s homer in Game 2).
The Mets were also involved in ten runs across both games of a doubleheader, marking the sixth time in franchise history they’ve allowed ten or more in both games of a twin bill, and the first occurrence since July 23, 1996, at Coors Field. Nico Hoerner joined a rare Cubs trio by becoming the fourth Cubs player to collect three doubles against the Mets in a single game, following Billy Williams (June 5, 1968), Scot Thompson (October 1, 1978), and Mark Grace (June 9, 1993). The Phillies remain the only other franchise to have four players accomplish that feat against the Mets.
Finally, the Mets’ allowed 50 runs over a five-game span marked only the third time in franchise history that such a total has occurred, underscoring the recent stretch of high-scoring, rough games.