The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox.It’s so rare for one game to take up two sections in this newsletter, but between Dansby Swanson’s all-time heater and the Mets’ all-time … whatever that was, you’re getting a heavy dose of Cubs-Mets today.Plus: Shohei Ohtani and Dalton Rushing had a frustrating communication breakdown, and Ken Rosenthal examines the front-office hot seat. I’m Levi Weaver — welcome to The Windup!Big Swings: Big-time slugger SwansonWe’ll get to the Mets in a moment, but let’s start with Dansby Swanson, who was hitting .183 with a .617 OPS when this series began Tuesday.Three games later, he’s up to .202 and .688 after going 7-for-12 with a double, a triple and three home runs (including a grand slam) … and 15 RBIs (!!!).Some context:
15 RBIs over a three-game span: The last person to hit that mark was Sammy Sosa, who tied an MLB record with 16 in August 2002. Among potential asterisk factors: The last two of those games came in pre-humidor Coors Field.
15 RBIs over a three-game span vs. the same team: Nobody’s done it since Reggie Jackson (for the A’s against the Red Sox) in 1969. The only two others in history: Tony Lazzeri against the (Philadelphia) A’s in 1936 and Lou Gehrig with 16 against Cleveland in 1930.(Of note: Lazzeri’s also came in a four-game series; he technically had two overlapping three-game 15-RBI spans.)
