One of a Kind (Carlos Torres)

[G-Fafif]

Carlos Torres led off an extra inning, singled and scored the go-ahead and eventual winning run last night.

No other Met reliever had ever done exactly that.

The last Met reliever to score in extra innings was Roger McDowell, 27 years ago in what was a very big series for late June. On 6/29/1988, McDowell, with one out in the top of the eleventh, doubled and came around to score the go-ahead and eventual winning run on Kevin McReyolds's single.

McDowell became the first Met reliever to get a hit and score a run in extras. Torres is the second -- and the first to be the de facto top-of-the-order catalyst.

Met relievers have scored either five or six runs in extra innings. The discrepancy comes from this weekend's bobblehead-honoree Jesse Orosco, who scored twice: once in 1984 as a reliever for sure, once in 1986 as a reliever who had been shifted to right and was in fact the right fielder when he walked and scored against Cincinnati (the ejections, fight, Dave Parker dropping the ball, Gary Carter at third, Keith charging on the bunt, HoJo homer game of 7/22/1986).

Besides Orosco, McDowell and Torres, the other runs to cross home plate in extra innings via reliever: Dale Murray in 1978, Paul Siebert in 1977.

All told, Met relievers have scored 88 runs in franchise history (as relievers, not as pinch-runners). No Met reliever scored any runs in 2015 until this week. Then two scored in Philadelphia: Sean Gilmartin on Monday, Carlos Torres on Thursday. The last Met reliever before them to score was Robert Carson, early in 2014.

The last Met reliever to score twice in a single season was Darren Oliver, 2006.

The Met reliever with the most runs scored in a Met career: Tug McGraw, with five, including a home run. The only other Met reliever with a home run? Skip Lockwood.

(All props to Baseball Reference's Play Index.)

[Frayed Knot]

As I said last night in the IGT somewhere, after seeing Carlos Torres run, both to 1st on the carom play and later to home on Murphy's double, my money's on him as the fastest man on the team.
Not fastest pitcher, Fastest - Player - Period! (or Fastest - Player - 'Full Stop' for those of you listening in overseas via Armed Forces Radio)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Does this make Carlos a unicorn?

[Benjamin Grimm]

What an era we live in. It only took me a moment to find a photo on the Internet of a unicorn named Carlos.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Carlos Torres also last night became the ALL-TIME leader in hits, total bases and runs scored by a guy who wore 72 for the Mets.

I like the guy. He signed our banner on Banner Day.

[dinosaur jesus]

RBIs by relievers are probably a little more common, but what Torres's heroics make me think of is that game in 1999 when Pat Mahomes drove in the winning run in the 13th and was the winning pitcher. Mahomes was a hell of an athlete too.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Funny, it only took me 30 seconds to find a picture of a unicorn named Pat Mahomes. I'm all of a sudden skeptical about the supposed uniqueness of unicorns.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pat Mahomes (in Staten Island)

--All hail JSW52