The week in interesting & unusual stats (April 25 – May 1)

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Major League Baseball rule 1.05 states: “The objective of each team is to win by scoring more runs than the opponent.” It doesn’t say how many more, or how you have to get there, as several teams proved this week.

The Mets sent 15 batters to the plate in a 40-minute third inning Friday, scoring a team-record 12 runs, the first double-digit frame this season and the most since the 2012 Cardinals. Yoenis Cespedes hit a grand slam to cap the scoring; it followed his two-run single earlier in the inning. He’s the first player in Mets history with six RBIs in an inning, and the first in the majors since Kendrys Morales in 2012.

Seth Smith led off the sixth inning Friday with a solo homer that would end up being the Mariners’ only hit. They won. It was the first time the Mariners had ever won a game where their only hit was a home run, and Felix Hernandez became the first pitcher in the modern era to win a one-hitter on offense and also lose a one-hitter on defense in the same season.

Jackie Bradley Jr.’s solo shot provided all of Boston’s scoring on Monday. The Red Sox had not won a 1-0 game via solo homer since Manny Ramirez beat the Giants in …

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