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The 2025 New York Mets are, generally speaking, a very good baseball team. The 2025 Pittsburgh Pirates are, objectively, a very bad baseball team. Those two facts alone made the Pirates’ three-game weekend sweep — capped off with an emphatic 12-1 win on Sunday — improbable enough.
It’s not what anybody expected going into the weekend, especially with the Pirates not even throwing their best pitcher — Paul Skenes — in any of the games.
But it’s not just that the Pirates won three straight games against the Mets, it’s the way they won those games, absolutely dominating in a way that few teams have ever dominated another opponent in a three-game series.
Take, for example, this sequence of numbers that no other team has ever matched in a three-game series:
