Welcome to Monday Stat Party, a new series devoted to showcasing the most eyebrow-raising, nostalgia-inducing, and often wildly obscure statistical developments from the past week of Mets baseball. These entries could be as broad as setting an MLB record or as specific as hitting the most home runs in a thirteen-game, single-season span for a player under 26 in franchise history — which, as it turns out, is one of the accomplishments on today’s list. 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. So without further ado, let the stat party begin…

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Mark Vientos recorded two doubles and a hit by pitch, becoming the first Met to do so since someone with the same first name almost exactly thr

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