This is getting ridiculous.



Daniel Murphy hasn't stopped hitting since October. With the second month of the 2016 season about to wrap up, the ex-Mets star owns eye-opening numbers for the Washington Nationals: .395/.426/.621, 75 hits, 8 HR, 15 doubles.



After Monday night's three-hit game against the Phillies, Murphy's .395 average is 40 points higher than the next highest in all of baseball. Hit eight long balls put him just six short of a previous career high of 14. His 26 percent line drive rate is in the top 25 percent of all of baseball, according to Fangraphs.

All he does is hit! Daniel Murphy delivers his third knock of the game. Revere and Werth score! #Nats 4, Phils 2 pic.twitter.com/xHHMuM0NED — Washington Nationals (@Nationals) May 31, 2016

In every way, Murphy is raking. If it continues, we're in the midst of watching one of the greatest offensive seasons ever. Heading into play on May 31, Murphy is on pace for 234 hits, 47 doubles, 25 home runs and 103 RBI. When you combine that stat line with a batting average hovering around .400 this late into the year, you get numbers that haven't been posted for a long, long time.



The last time a player posted a season with least a .390 batting average, 200 hits, 40 doubles, 25 home runs and 100 RBI was 1930. One of the three players to actually accomplish it? Some Yankees slugger named Babe Ruth in 1923.



Last fall, Murphy morphed from an above-average hitter to a postseason legend for the Mets. That production hasn't stopped and the Nationals are benefiting from it.

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