Our weekly look at baseball's oddities always tries to treat all 30 teams equally. But it was impossible not to notice the New York Yankees and New York Mets doing something strange nearly every day this week.

Stephen Drew, batting ninth, had a single, double and his first triple in over a year in Sunday's win. He also drove in four runs, becoming the first Yankee with that line in almost four years. However, since RBI became official in 1920, Drew is only the second Yankee ever to go single-double-triple with 4 RBIs out of the ninth spot. And the other is the person who put him in that spot on Sunday -- current manager Joe Girardi, who did it against the Rangers on Aug. 23, 1999.

• Alex Rodriguez celebrated his 40th birthday Monday by hitting a home run. Six players have done that, the previous being Chipper Jones in 2012. A-Rod is the 10th player this season to homer on his birthday, and the first for the Yankees since Travis Hafner in 2013. He now stands alone as the only player to hit six career homers on his birthday, and Monday's longball (his 678th) was the highest-numbered one ever hit on a player's birthday, topping Barry Bonds' 646th.

A-Rod's first birthday homer came in 1996; he is the first ever to hit them 19 years apart. The previous mark was by Jim Thome, who went deep on his 23rd and 41st. Chipper Jones hit them 16 years apart and Gary Gaetti completed the feat in 15.

• Last week we saluted the number 11. The Yankees started with 11 and drew the face card to hit 21 on Tuesday. Their 11-run second inning was their biggest in nearly four years, and the first by any road team since the Indians dropped 14 against the Yankees in 2009. The Pinstripes hadn't hung 11 on the road since April 11, 1987, in Kansas City, and they were the first visiting team to do it in Arlington since Aug. 8, 2001, when the Tigers put up a 13-run ninth. A final score of 21-5 hadn't happened since Aug. 2, 1948, when the Cardinals topped the Giants by that count at the Polo Grounds.

• Jacoby Ellsbury led off Tuesday's game with an award of first base for catcher's interference by Robinson Chirinos. He then started the ninth inning the same way, against a different catcher (Tomas Telis). The only other player in the past 35 years to receive two CI's in the same game was David Murphy, who did it for the Rangers in 2010. Ellsbury is the first known player to do it against different catchers in the same game.

• Mark Teixeira followed a two-homer game in Texas with a two-homer game in Chicago, becoming the first Yankee to do it back to back on the road since Jason Giambi in July 2005. Chicago's Adam LaRoche, who started Friday's game as the designated hitter, took the mound in the top of the ninth and retired all three batters. Counting Rosales and Josh Wilson in June, it's the first time the Yankees have faced three position players in a season since 1944.

Meanwhile, in Queens...

• After retiring the first 18 batters, Noah Syndergaard finished Tuesday's game with eight scoreless innings, no walks and nine strikeouts. Jacob deGrom threw a similar game on May 21, the first time the Mets have had two pitchers do it in the same season since 1992 (David Cone, Sid Fernandez). Syndergaard is the youngest Met to throw such a game since Dwight Gooden did so on Sept. 6, 1985, against the Dodgers.

Syndergaard and Gooden would form another connection on Sunday. The pair are the only rookies in Mets history to have consecutive starts of at least eight innings, with at least nine strikeouts and no walks. The only other Mets pitcher to do that was Pedro Martinez in 2005.

• Have a week, Lucas Duda. He accounted for three of the team's five hits Wednesday, all via solo homer. He and Kirk Nieuwenhuis (July 12) join Gary Carter and Darryl Strawberry (1985) as the only Mets teammates with three-homer games in the same season. Ike Davis (2012) and Jose Reyes (2006) are the only other Mets to have three homers in a loss.

• On Saturday, Duda homered twice more and doubled. That matched his May 27 game, and made him the first Met to do that twice in a season since Carlos Beltran in 2006. Duda now has five multi-homer games this year; that leads the majors, and the rest of the Mets combined have three. The only players in team history with more in a season are Dave Kingman (1976) and Carlos Delgado (2008), each with seven.

• Wilmer Flores became the feel-good story of the week with a walk-off homer Friday, the first by the Mets this season (seven teams remain without one) and their latest since Beltran in 2008. The Mets' only other walk-off homer against Washington (not Montreal) was by Josh Thole in 2010, off now-Met Tyler Clippard. Friday's walk-off homer was also the Mets' first by a second baseman since Wayne Garrett hit a three-run shot off the Chicago Cubs and Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm ... on Sept. 28, 1970!

Kernel of the Week: "One" More Thing

There were two teams Friday (Twins and Athletics) who were held to one hit but still scored a run. That hadn't happened twice in a day since July 14, 1991, when Paul Molitor homered for the Brewers in a 15-1 loss to the White Sox, while the Mets got a double from Mackey Sasser (which did not contribute to the run) in a 2-1 loss to the Padres.

Best of the rest

• Chris Archer, Wednesday: Fourth start this year with 11+ strikeouts and zero walks, most in a single season since Randy Johnson in 2004.

• Brandon Phillips, Thursday: Third player in major league history with seven RBIs and two stolen bases; the others are Mickey Mantle (1962) and Gary Sheffield (1995).

• Travis Shaw, Saturday: First Red Sox batter with four hits, two homers and five RBIs since Walt Dropo in the team's highest-scoring game ever, a 29-4 win against the Browns in 1950.

• Curt Casali: Second player in (Devil) Rays history with back-to-back multi-homer games, joining Greg Vaughn in May 2002.

• Cleveland Indians: Three consecutive complete games by pitchers for the first time since 1994 (Mark Clark, Jack Morris, Charles Nagy).