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Perhaps the Most Insane Mets Fact Ever Came Out of Tuesday's Game vs. Chicago White Sox

The New York Mets beat the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, 11-10. In addition to all the offense, perhaps the most random and absurd fact in Mets history came out of the game.
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Perhaps the Most Insane Mets Fact Ever Came Out of Tuesday's Game vs. Chicago White Sox
Perhaps the Most Insane Mets Fact Ever Came Out of Tuesday's Game vs. Chicago White Sox

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In what was a historic offensive day around baseball on Tuesday, the New York Mets beat the Chicago White Sox, 11-10.

Mets rookie Francisco Alvarez hit two home runs in the victory and three Mets players had multi-hit efforts as New York moved to 44-50 on the season.

While the game result is great for the Mets, and the individual performance was great for Alvarez, the game also provided maybe the most fun and random piece of Mets trivia that you'll see all year.

Per a user on social media:

In today's stats you'd never be able to find without @Stathead: DJ Stewart is the first DH to bat ninth in a Mets home game. The Mets are playing their 4,859th regular season home game.

I don't know when you'll ever need to know such a fact, but now you can impress all of your friends with it. For what it's worth: Stewart went 1-for-4 at the plate with a run scored and an RBI. The 29-year-old is hitting .222 this year across just nine at-bats with a homer and two RBI.

For his career, he's got 27 homers across six major league seasons with the Orioles and Mets. He was a first-round pick of Baltimore back in 2015.

At 44-50, the Mets are effectively toast in the National League East, where they are 17.5 games back. In the wild card race, they are 8.0 games back.

The Mets will take on the White Sox again on Wednesday. First pitch is 7:10 p.m. ET.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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