The 2025 New York Mets are, typically talking, an excellent baseball crew. The 2025 Pittsburgh Pirates are, objectively, a really dangerous baseball crew. These two info alone made the Pirates’ three-game weekend sweep — capped off with an emphatic 12-1 win on Sunday — inconceivable sufficient.
It isn’t what anyone anticipated going into the weekend, particularly with the Pirates not even throwing their greatest pitcher — Paul Skenes — in any of the video games.
Nevertheless it’s not simply that the Pirates received three straight video games towards the Mets, it is the way in which they received these video games, completely dominating in a manner that few groups have ever dominated one other opponent in a three-game sequence.
Take, for instance, this sequence of numbers that no different crew has ever matched in a three-game sequence:
