Insane stats about Steven Matz

Steven Matz might have only made six regular season starts with the Mets in 2015 but he certainly made the most of them. In fact, the southpaw had one of the best starts to a career in the history of the franchise. Check out some of the facts about Matz:

- Matz was tied for the fewest career regular season games for a pitcher (6) at the time of his first World Series start.

- He was the first Mets pitcher born in New York to start a playoff game for the team

- His 2.27 ERA trails Dillon Gee (2.09) and Tom Seaver (2.21) for the lowest in franchise history after six Major League outings.

- Matz is the first pitcher in Mets history to allow two runs or fewer in each of his first five major league starts.

- His 1.80 ERA after five games was the lowest for any pitcher in team history after five career outings with at least 30 innings pitched.

- Matz joined Jacob Jacome as the only pitchers in Mets history to win four of their first five games

- He is the first Mets pitcher to start 4-0 after five career games.

- Matz is the third Met to win his first four career decisions joining Vic Black and Grant Roberts.

- The southpaw recorded 20 strikeouts in his first three starts, the second-most in team history in a pitcher’s first three games.

- Matz is the first pitcher in team history to record at least six strikeouts in each of the first three starts of his career.

- In his final regular season start on September 24th in Cincinnati, Matz became the third pitcher in Mets history to strikeout at least eight while walking none in one of his first six career games.

- He joined Jacob deGrom as the second pitcher in franchise history to toss more than five innings and allow five hits or fewer in each of his first three career starts.

- Matz became the first Mets pitcher since 1982 to throw at least 7.2 innings in his big league debut.

- His four RBI set a franchise record for any player’s major league debut.

- He is the only pitcher to collect at least four RBI in his big league debut.

- His three hits tied a Mets record for any player’s major league debut and tied a club record for any pitcher in a game.

- He is the second pitcher in the last 70 years with at least three hits in his major league debut.

- Matz is the first player to go 3-for-3 or better with at least four RBIs in his first major-league game since at least 1920 (when RBI were first tracked).

- He joined Doc Gooden as the only pitchers in franchise history to have three hits and four RBI in one game.

- Matz leads the team in personalized sandwiches (1) at Long Island delis.

We think think the last one is true, either way the Long Island product impressed from the beginning. Just ask his grandpa.

