We Can Pod It Out 174: The End

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We Can Pod It Out 174: The End

The Beatles song, not the end of We Can Pod It Out

Aug 24, 2023

Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo each went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts last night in Georgia, another rough night in a rough season, and another little edit to the Mets’ history books.

The list of career three-strikeout games is an interesting one, because it’s one of those things… like… you’ve got to be pretty good to be in the lineup to strike out three times regularly enough to be on the list. So, it’s probably not a surprise that David Wright holds the record at 61, for as long as he was a power-hitting Met. It’s a pretty wide gap, 10 of these games, to number two on the list, Michael Conforto at 51. Then it’s Darryl Strawberry at 48, and now a tie for fourth at 44 between Dave Kingman and Alonso.

Nimmo already was in the top 10, and now has broken his tie with Ron Swoboda for ninth place. Nimmo’s 30th three-strikeout game puts him six behind the two men tied for sixth, Tommie Agee and Lucas Duda. Rounding out that top 10, with 28 times striking out three times in a game, is Jerry Koosman, who more than made up for it with the strikeouts he racked up on the mound — 1,799 of his 2,556 career K’s came in orange and blue.

The next 10 are pretty interesting as a mix: Curtis Granderson and Mookie Wilson at 24; Todd Hundley, Howard Johnson, and Cleon Jones at 22; Ike Davis at 21; Mike Piazza at 20; Carlos Beltrán and Tom Seaver at 19; and it’s actually 11, not 10, because tied for 20th place on this list are Carlos Delgado and Francisco Lindor, with 18 three-strikeout games as Mets.

Lindor was 1-for-2 last night, with a walk and a hit by pitch. That moved him up to sole possession of 48th place on the Mets’ all-time list for reaching base three times in a game. He’s done it 65 times now, snapping a tie with Ángel Pagán. Next time Lindor gets on base three times, he’ll tie George Foster and Todd Zeile for 46th, with Gregg Jefferies (67), Hubie Brooks (69), and Ron Swoboda (70) on the radar. Wright has that team record at 336, with Nimmo the active leader at 142 (13th all-time, between Mookie and Lee Mazzilli), and Alonso even with Jeff McNeil at 109 (a 22nd-place tie between Conforto and Kevin McReyonlds).