Welcome to the third edition of Monday Stat Party, a weekly series celebrating the most fascinating statistical developments from the past week of Mets games (even if the games themselves are not worth celebrating). This week, the Mets welcomed back Citi Field’s statistical prince Jacob deGrom, and honored him by giving their young pitchers absolutely abysmal run support.
The bad news: this edition will feature no advanced stats from Saturday’s Alumni Classic, though we’re all curious about the exit
velocity on Edgardo Alfonzo’s long single off Matt Harvey. The good news: Mets alum Steven Matz is mentioned twice in this edition, with both a historically good and historically bad record of his somehow being matched on consecutive days. So without further ado, let the stat party begin…
MONDAY
Monday marked the Mets’ first 1-0 loss of the season, and their first since July 4, 2024 in Washington. The Mets have only lost 1-0 at Citizens Bank Park on one other occasion, when Pedro Martínez threw eight scoreless innings against his old team in the third-to-last start of his career on September 13, 2009.
Despite allowing just one earned run over 5.1 innings of work, Nolan McLean received his first major league loss. It’s the first time a Mets pitcher lost a game while allowing just one run in at least 5.1 IP since Joey Lucchesi on September 30, 2024, in the final game of the regular season hours after the team clinched a postseason spot.
TUESDAY
With his 30th stolen base of the season, Juan Soto became the fifth Met to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in a single season, more commonly known as joining the 30-30 club. The Mets’ other 30-30 members are Francisco Lindor (2023), David Wright (2007), Howard Johnson (1991, 1989, 1987), and Darryl Strawberry (1987). No other franchise has had five different players accomplish the feat.
WEDNESDAY
Wednesday marked the first time in franchise history that the Mets have issued a hit by pitch to four different players. The team’s four total HBP issued tied a club record, set on April 6, 2006 against Washington and matched on April 15, 2023 in Oakland.
Clay Holmes and Gregory Soto each allowed four earned runs to the Phillies just a day after Sean Manaea and Justin Hagenman had done the same. It’s the first time that multiple Mets pitchers allowed at least four earned runs on consecutive days since April 3, 2023 and April 4, 2023, when the Mets lost by scores of 10-0 and 9-0 to the Brewers.
THURSDAY
The Mets suffered their sixth straight loss while striking out at least nine times in each one. It was the longest such streak in Mets history.
For the second time this season, the Mets lost a game in which they scored four runs in the first inning, having also done so on April 27 in Washington. It’s only the fifth season in franchise history that the team has lost multiple games in this fashion, along with 1975, 1979, 1980, and 1993.
Thursday’s game also marked just the third time in Mets history that the team has scored four runs in the first inning and lost without scoring again. The previous time it happened was also in Philadelphia, on August 15, 1993, with the Mets facing Curt Schilling. The first time it happened was at Shea Stadium against Keith Hernandez and the Cardinals on August 8, 1979.
FRIDAY
Jacob deGrom now has 703.2 innings pitched, 901 strikeouts, and 42 wins at Citi Field — holding the ballpark record for each stat. Jon Niese is second with 551.0 innings pitched and 430 strikeouts, while Noah Syndergaard is second with 28 wins.
After making positive Mets history over the past two weeks, Jonah Tong became just the 12th Mets starting pitcher to allow at least six earned runs in less than an inning of work. Steven Matz was the last to do it on April 16, 2019 in Philadelphia, with Matz and Óliver Pérez being the only Mets to have reached the unfortunate mark twice. The last Met to do it at Citi Field was current pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, who got bombarded on September 20, 2012 against the Phillies.
SATURDAY
After joining the 30-30 club on Tuesday, Juan Soto joined the 40-30 club by hitting his 40th home run. He is just the 13th member in baseball history, joining Hank Aaron, José Canseco, Ellis Burks, Barry Bonds, Larry Walker, Jeff Bagwell, Álex Rodríguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ryan Braun, Christian Yelich, Ronald Acuña Jr., and Shohei Ohtani.
The Mets allowed at least ten hits for the fifth game in a row, making it the team’s longest such streak since July 11, 2021-July 20, 2021, when they surrendered ten hits in six straight games during a road trip to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.
Brandon Sproat has thrown twelve innings and surrendered just three earned runs through his first two big league starts. He and Nolan McLean are the first Mets pitchers to debut in the same season and record at least 12 IP with 3 ER or less over their first two starts since Steven Matz and Logan Verrett in 2015.
SUNDAY
33 days after setting the Mets’ all-time home run record, Pete Alonso set another franchise mark by hitting his fifth walk-off home run. Previously, the Polar Bear was tied with five other Mets at four walk-off home runs: Cleon Jones, Chris Jones, Kevin McReynolds, Mike Piazza, and Wilmer Flores. Alonso is now one walk-off away from tying Wilmer Flores’ franchise record of ten walk-off RBIs.
With his solo home run, Brandon Nimmo became the fourth Met to reach 50 extra-base hits this season after Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor, and Juan Soto. The 2025 Mets are the tenth team in franchise history to have four batters reach 50 extra-base hits, joining the 1987, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2019, and 2022 teams.
Nolan McLean threw six scoreless innings and received a no-decision a day after Brandon Sproat experienced the same unlucky line. The franchise leader in games with at least six scoreless innings and a no-decision is (unsurprisingly) Jacob deGrom, who had 13 such games during his Mets tenure.
McLean’s 1.19 ERA through his first six career starts is the eighth-lowest of any MLB pitcher since integration with an average of 6.0 IP per start. From lowest-to-highest ERA, the leaders are: Fernando Valenzuela, Steve Rogers, Zach Duke, Cisco Carlos, Tom Browning, Jered Weaver, and Jarred Cosart. Valenzuela is the only player on that list with more strikeouts (50) than McLean (40).
Miscellaneous Mets stat of the week:
Among the former players who participated in Saturday’s Alumni Classic, only one spent their entire major league career with the Mets: Josh Satin, who in 2013 recorded the fourth-highest on-base percentage (.511) of any Met through their first 15 games of a season (min. 45 plate appearances).
