Inconsequential Fun Fact

[Benjamin Grimm]

Jacob deGrom, today's starting pitcher, will also be the starting pitcher the next time the Mets play an official game, Friday's Division Series opener in Los Angeles.

How often has something like this happened? The same pitcher starting two consecutive games? This will be the tenth time, but of the previous nine occurrences, eight have been because the pitcher who started the last game of one season started the first game of the next season. The only previous time the Mets had the same pitcher start two consecutive games in the same year was in 1973, when Tom Seaver started the final game of the season on October 1 and then pitched the first game on the NLCS in Cincinnati on October 6.

The eight times when the pitcher who started the final game of the regular season was also the opening pitcher of the following season are:

[list:2jez02wd]Jack Fisher (1965 and 1966)
Tom Seaver (1968 and 1969; 1871 and 1972; 1975 and 1976)
David Cone (1991 and 1992)
Al Leiter (2000 and 2001)
Mike Pelfrey (2010 and 2011)
Bartolo Colon (2014 and 2015)[/list:u:2jez02wd]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Another Fun Fact: deGrom last time out became the Mets' all-time leader in victories among Guys who wore no. 48, surpassing Aaron Hielman

[Edgy MD]

Seaver only got the honor of closing the regular season and opening the NLCS due to the sudden and spontaneous cancellation of the season's last game after the division was clinched in the penultimate.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If the Mets had held on to win Game 6 of the 1999 NLCS, Al Leiter would have started Game 7, which would have made him the only Mets pitcher ever to get starts on two consecutive days.

[Gwreck]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: If the Mets had held on to win Game 6 of the 1999 NLCS, Al Leiter would have started Game 7, which would have made him the only Mets pitcher ever to get starts on two consecutive days.

Reed would have started game 7 on 3 days rest. (He started Game 4, and was the only Mets pitcher to not pitch in Game 5 or 6).

[Benjamin Grimm]

Bobby Valentine has said that he was going to let Leiter start that game.

[Edgy MD]

Each of the 2015 Mets' most frequently appearing outfielders at the three positions finished with the same batting average.

[list:zldus98d]LF � Michael Cuddyer: .259
CF � Juan Lagares: .259
RF � Curtis Granderson: .259[/list:u:zldus98d]