There’s an well-worn adage in sports: The box score doesn’t tell the whole story.

In this case, however, it absolutely does.

Here’s the situation: The New York Mets found out before Wednesday’s tilt against the Yankees that they would be without infielders Wilmer Flores and Jose Reyes due to injury, which left them without a third baseman. So they got creative and put catcher Travis d’Arnaud at third, a position he’d never played professionally.

And then manager Terry Collins did something pretty smart — he switched second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera with d’Arnaud if there was a righty at the plate, hoping to keep the ball away from d’Arnaud.

That produced this box score, which is just insane:

Whaaaaaa?!?!? Send that thing to Cooperstown, that’s got to be historic somehow.

(Thanks to NBC Sports for sharing.)