Run Of Runs

The Mets have scored five or more runs in each of their last eight games, and six or more runs in each of their last five games. Both streaks are one game short of tying a franchise record. The longest Met streak of five or more runs in a game is 9 games, a streak the franchise has achieved three separate times -- in June of last season, in September 2002 and in June of 1990. The Mets' current streak of 5 straight games with 6 or more runs is the longest such streak for the franchise in this decade. The longest 6 or more run streak in team history is six games, which the Mets have done twice -- in May of 1992 and May of 1998.

Putting the Mets current streaks in context, the longest streak by a major league club, in the current decade of the 2000s, of games scoring 5 or more runs is Oakland's 14 game streak in the spring of 2000. The longest such NL streaks in the current decade are Houston's 12 game streak in August/September of 2004 (during Carlos Beltran's half-season with the Astros) and Atlanta's 12 game streak over virtually the same time period. The longest streak of games with 6 runs or more this decade is another Oakland streak, in August 2002, that ran 12 games. The longest NL streak, in the 2000s, of games scoring 6 runs or more was part of that same late 2004 Houston stretch with Beltran (11 straight games of 6 or more runs).