The Mets finished the 2010s in the middle road of most offensive categories with the highlights few and far between outside of their magical run in 2015.
Their 1661 home runs ranked 9th out of 15 National League teams for the decade and their 6828 runs scored came in 10th.
As the Mets enter a new decade with a strong offensive core of Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Brandon Nimmo, and J.D. Davis, let’s look at the top 10 offensive highlights from the last 10 years.
Assman Steals the Show (9/22/16)
It was a wild game that included numerous lead changes, six home runs, and the rarity of Addison Reed struggling, but Asdrubal Cabrera would wrap it up with a three-run walk-off homer in the 11th inning and a glorious bat flip.
Captain Rocks Citi Field in October (10/30/15)
It was a long ride, painful ride for David Wright to play in a World Series game in front of Mets fans. What he did when he finally got that moment was poetically perfect, a crushed two-run homer that gave the Mets an early lead and had Citi Field rocking.
Polar Bear Breaks Rookie Record (9/28/19)
The rookie season for Pete Alonso was one for the record books, and now he sits all alone in Major League history with 53 home runs in his first season. He broke Aaron Judge‘s previous record of 52 set back in 2017.
Wright Return Homer (9/24/15)
There were questions about whether David Wright would ever play again, well he did and returned with a bang. In his first at-bat in over four months, the Captain hit a towering blast off that was so emotional that even some of the home fans in Philadelphia stood up and applauded the long-time Met.
Nieuwenhuis Goes Deep Thrice (7/12/15)
First Mets hitter in team history to hit three homers in a home game? Yup, that would be former top high school football player Kirk Nieuwenhuis. The outfielder entered the game with no big league home runs that season then hit all three by the bottom of the fifth inning.
Later that season, Kirk would have one of the biggest hits of the season with a solo homer off Jonathan Papelbon to cap the Mets comeback from a 7-1 deficit to the Nationals.
The win pushed the Mets six games ahead of the Nationals and was the middle game of what turned out to be a monumental sweep in Washington.
The Impossible Has Happened (5/7/16)
Bartolo Colon went deep and Gary Cohen had one of the best calls in major league history. It was also one of the slowest home runs trots in history as Bart took his time around the bases in San Diego.
Enter Tears of Joy (7/31/15)
Just two days after Wilmer Flores cried on the field because of a trade that never went through, he blasted a walk-off home run against the Washington Nationals in the bottom of the 12th inning.
Teammate Michael Cuddyer called it one of the best walk-off homers he had ever seen, and it will certainly be remembered in Mets history for a long time.
Postseason Power Surge (Postseason 2015)
Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy hit 14 home runs in 499 regular season at-bats in 2015, the playoffs were a completely different animal. He would hit three in the NLDS against the Dodgers including in back-to-back games to close out the series win.
The he would hit a home run in all four of the National League Championship Series games in the sweep of the Cubs. Murphy became the first player to hit a home run in six consecutive postseason games.
Yo Breaks It Open (10/15/2015)
Yoenis Cespedes was everything the Mets had hoped for when they acquired at the trade deadline in 2015. He had 35 extra base hits and 44 RBI’s in only 57 games as the Mets won the division.
He would also hit two homers in the playoff run, including a massive dong to left field that put the Mets on top 10-3 in Game 3 of the NLCS against the Dodgers.
Beating the Best (5/28/13)
Walking off against Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera is not something that happened often, though the Mets did that in late May of 2013 with three straight hits to begin the and end the inning.
With the Mets down 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth, Murphy started with a double, Wright singled to score Murphy, and then Lucas Duda singled to score Wright for the walk-off win.
