Welcome back to this season’s final edition of Monday Stat Party, a weekly series showcasing some of the most curious and nostalgia-inducing statistical developments from the past week of Mets baseball. What unites each entry is the sense of intrigue which they aim to spark, and the unbridled love of the game’s anomalies from which they arise. Without further ado, let the stat party begin.
TUESDAY
With his 25th stolen base of the season, A.J. Ewing broke Mookie Wilson’s 1981 record for the most stolen bases
by a rookie in franchise history.
Kodai Senga became one of just 11 Japanese-born players to reach eight career saves, joining: Kazuhiro Sasaki (129), Koji Uehara (95), Takashi Saito (84), Akinori Otsuka (39), Shigetoshi Hasegawa (33), Shingo Takatsu (27), Hideki Irabu (16), Hisanori Takahashi (10), Masanori Murakami (9), and Yoshihisa Hirano (8).
Francisco Alvarez and Carson Benge each hit two doubles, marking the first time multiple Mets hit multiple doubles in a game since Ronny Mauricio and Jeff McNeil did it on July 27, 2025, in San Francisco.
WEDNESDAY
Marcus Semien hit his 15th home run of the year, giving the Mets six or more players with 15+ homers for the fifth time in franchise history after 2000 (7), 2017 (8), 2019 (6), and 2025 (6). The only teams with more 15-homer players this season were the Cubs, Reds, and Dodgers (all tied at 7). Of the Mets’ players with 15+ homers last season and this season, only two (Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto) overlap.
Juan Soto reached base four times for the 103rd time in his career, moving past Ted Williams for the third-most such games by a player before turning 28 years old. Soto trails only Mickey Mantle (121) and Jimmie Foxx (112).
Soto became the fifth Met to get intentionally walked three times in a game, after Claudell Washington (August 26, 1980), Vince Coleman (August 10, 1992), Todd Hundley (June 28, 1997), and David Wright (May 19, 2007, and July 18, 2009).
Brett Baty’s 455-foot home run tied the longest blast of his big league career, a homer off Brad Lord on August 20, 2025, in Washington.
Francisco Alvarez’s seventh-inning single registered an exit velocity of 113.7 mph. It was Alvarez’s 15th career batted ball with an exit velocity of 112+ mph, the second-most by a Met player in the Statcast era (since 2015) behind Pete Alonso, who had a whopping 130.
Alvarez, Lindor, and Baty each recorded a batted ball with an exit velocity over 110 mph, marking the first time the Mets recorded three batted balls with an exit velocity of 110+ mph in the same game since September 10, 2025, in Philadelphia.
Nolan McLean completed his rookie year with a total of 179.2 innings pitched, the most by a Mets rookie since Jae Weong Seo (188.1 in 2003), and 194 strikeouts, the third-most by a Mets rookie behind Dwight Gooden (276 in 1984) and Kodai Senga (202 in 2023).
McLean recorded his 250th strikeout in his 39th career game, tying Jacob deGrom for the fifth-fewest games by a Met to reach that milestone behind Dwight Gooden (29 games), Matt Harvey (34 games), Noah Syndergaard (36 games), and Kodai Senga (38 games).
McLean recorded his 26th game with at least five strikeouts this season, the most by a Mets pitcher since deGrom (29) and Syndergaard (27) in 2019.
McLean became the first rookie with 20 quality starts since the Royals’ Yordano Ventura (22 in 2014). McLean’s 20 quality starts this season were tied with Sonny Gray and Cam Schlittler for fifth-most in the majors behind Cristopher Sánchez (22), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (22), Sandy Alcantara (21), and Michael Wacha (21). McLean also recorded his 21st start of six or more innings pitched this season, the second-most by a Met in a season since 2020, trailing only Chris Bassitt (23 in 2022).
THURSDAY
Zac Thornton’s 63 strikeouts through 15 career games ranks fourth among Mets left-handers, behind Steven Matz (87), Bill Pulsipher (74), and David Peterson (69).
Juan Soto became the second Mets player to get intentionally walked four times in a two-game span, after Travis d’Arnaud did it while batting in the No. 8 spot ahead of Jon Niese and Bartolo Colón on June 1-2, 2014, in Philadelphia.
The Mets scored two or fewer runs through nine innings for the 63rd time this season. That ties 2013 for the most such games the Mets have had in a season in the Wild-Card Era (since 1995).
Over the franchise’s first five trips to Arlington, the Mets are still yet to lose a series on the road against the Rangers. They won two of three in 2003, won two of three in 2011, split a two-game set in 2017, won two out of three in 2024, and won two out of three again in 2026.
FRIDAY
Carson Benge became the first Mets rookie with 20+ homers and 20+ stolen bases in a season.
Benge became just the eighth player in MLB history to join the 20/20 club in their debut season, joining: Jackson Chourio (2024), Anthony Volpe (2023), Bobby Witt Jr. (2022), Julio Rodríguez (2022), Marty Cordova (1995), Ellis Burks (1987), and Mitchell Page (1977). (source: Sarah Langs on X)
Benge recorded his 43rd multi-hit game of the season, breaking Pete Alonso’s 2019 record for the most multi-hit games by a rookie in franchise history.
With a pinch-hit single in the eighth inning, Brett Baty extended his career-high 18-game on-base streak. It was snapped with an 0-for-4 performance on Saturday.
Bo Bichette hit his fourth home run at Nationals Park this season, tied for the most by a Mets player in any season on the road against the Nats/Expos. His six extra-base hits trail only David Wright (7) in 2012.
Francisco Lindor didn’t notch his 300th home run on Friday night, but he did record three batted balls in a game at 107+ mph for the first time in the Statcast era (since 2015). Unfortunately for him, only one of the three resulted in a base hit.
The Mets allowed five wild pitches in a game and four wild pitches in an inning for the first time in franchise history.
SATURDAY
Jonah Tong set career highs with nine strikeouts and 19 whiffs in a game.
Mets pitchers recorded 14 or more strikeouts in a game for the 12th time this season, the fourth-most such games in a season in franchise history behind 2021 (19), 2019 (17), and 2022 (17).
With a start at shortstop, Brett Baty became the first Mets player to play six different positions in a season since Jeff McNeil in 2023.
Nate Lavender has recorded 19 scoreless appearances in his first 21 career outings, tied with Jaime Cerda, Erik Goeddel, and Daniel Zamora for the second-most by a Met behind Joe Smith (20).
In the Mets’ penultimate game of the season, their No. 8 and No. 9 hitters hit back-to-back homers (A.J. Ewing and Ronny Mauricio). The 2026 Mets had done that once before — in their first game of the season, when Carson Benge and Francisco Alvarez went deep at Citi Field against the Pirates.
The Mets clinched their sixth consecutive victory in the season series with Washington. Their record against the Nationals is 57-33 over that span.
SUNDAY
Francisco Lindor became the fifth player to hit their 300th career home run while having played at least 50% of their games at shortstop, joining Ernie Banks, Cal Ripken Jr., Alex Rodriguez, and Miguel Tejada. (source: Sarah Langs on X) He is also the 11th switch-hitter to reach the 300-homer mark. (source: Sarah Langs on X)
Lindor became one of 27 players with 300 home runs and 200 stolen bases, and the third active player to have reached the milestone along with Andrew McCutchen and Mike Trout. He is the fifth member of that club to have played for the Mets; the others were Willie Mays, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Sheffield, and Carlos Beltrán.
Lindor became the seventh player to hit their 300th home run as a Met, joining Dave Kingman, George Foster, Gary Carter, Mike Piazza, Mo Vaughn, and Curtis Granderson.
Lindor’s 300th homer registered a 110.8-mph exit velocity, marking the third-hardest-hit homer as a right-handed batter in his career. His only harder-hit homer from the right side as a Met came on another afternoon in Washington, when he took MacKenzie Gore deep on August 21, 2025.
Ronny Maurcio became the first Met to hit three consecutive homers out of the No. 9 spot, with two on Saturday and one on Sunday. (source: SNY broadcast)
Carson Benge recorded his 14th three-hit game of the season, extending his record for the most three-hit games by a rookie in franchise history.
Juan Soto holds a 1.101 OPS against the Nationals in 39 games played facing his former team. That’s the third-highest OPS for any player with at least 150 plate appearances against the Nationals/Expos, trailing only Jim Edmonds (1.198) and Todd Helton (1.114).
Miscellaneous Mets stat of the week:
Let’s talk about the rookies.
In Carson Benge, Nolan McLean, A.J. Ewing, and Zac Thornton, the Mets have four rookies with at least 1.5 bWAR*. That’s tied for the most rookies with 1.5+ bWAR* in a season in franchise history, matching the mark from 1983 (Darryl Strawberry, Carlos Diaz, Walt Terrell, and Doug Sisk).
In Benge, McLean, and Ewing, the Mets have three rookies with at least 3.0 bWAR*. Prior to this year, they had never had as many as two such rookies in a single season. In fact, the 2026 Mets are just the third team in the modern era (since 1900) to have three rookies with at least 3.0 bWAR*, joining:
2006 Marlins (4: Hanley Ramírez, Dan Uggla, Josh Johnson, and Aníbal Sánchez)
1989 Orioles (3: Randy Milligan, Bob Milacki, Gregg Olson)
*bWAR separated for position players and pitchers, not cumulative
Thank you for following along all year! Here’s to many more stat parties in 2027…
