Nine to Know: Mets/Royals regular season homer feats in games

Lucas Duda had seven multi-homer games for the Mets

Nine to Know from the Bill Chuck Files: HR feats by the league champions

1. The Royals homered in 95 games and went 64-31. The Mets homered in 93 games and went 63-30.
2. The Royals hit one homer in 62 games, the fourth most in baseball, and went 37-25, the only team with more wins when homering once were the Cardinals who went 38-18. The Mets homered once in 44 games, the fewest in baseball, they were 27-17 in those games.
3. The Mets homered twice in 26 games and went 15-11. The Royals homered twice in 24 games and went an incredible 21-3 (just like the Pirates).
4. The Mets homered three times in 16 games (14-2), tied with the Rockies for the fourth most in the majors. The Royals hit three homers seven times going 4-3.
5. The Mets were 5-0 and the Royals 2-0 when they hit four homers. The Mets were 1-0 when they homered five times.
6. Curtis Granderson led the Mets homering in 23 games. Salvador Perez and Mike Moustakas each homered in 21 games to lead the Royals.
7. The Royals only had four players with multi-homer games: Lorenzo Cain, Mike Moustakas, and Ben Zobrist who each hit two homers in a game one time each and Kendrys Morales who had a two-homer game and a three-homer game.
8. The Mets had six players who had a total of 14 multi-homer games. Wilmer Flores and Anthony Recker each had a two-homer game. Curtis Granderson had three two-homer games. Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Yoenis Cespedes each had a three-homer game. Lucas Duda had seven multi-homer games: six two-homer games and one three-homer game. Duda tied Carlos Delgado and Dave Kingman for the franchise record for multi-homer games in a season.
9. The Blue Jays led the majors with 71 multi-homer games (54-17), while Chris Davis led all individual batters with eight multi-homer games.