Bartolo gets share of NL Player of Week

LOS ANGELES — The rest of baseball recognized what Mets fans knew already. This was Bartolo Colon’s week. The Mets veteran righthander, who set the Internet on fire Saturday with his first career home run, was named the Co-National League player of the Week Monday.

But it was not just the big blast that earned Colon the honor.

In two starts last week, Colon went 2-0 with a 1.72 ERA with 12 strikeouts in 14.2.

Colon earned his 220th career win on Monday, with 8 scoreless frames and seven strikeouts in a 4-1 win over Atlanta. With that win, Colon surpassed Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez for the second-most wins all-time by a Dominican-born pitcher, behind only Hall of Famer Juan Marichal (243).

On Saturday, Colon fanned five in 6.2 innings. That, however, was overshadowed when he crushed the first home run of his 19- year career. The two-run blast gave the Mets a 4-0 lead in the second inning of an eventual 6-3 win over the Padres.

At 42, Colon became the oldest player in major league history to hit his first home run, eclipsing

STAT OF THE DAY

While the Mets lineup leads the majors in homers, their pitching staff has been the stingiest to give up the long ball, allowing an MLBfewest 16.

TEST YOUR METS IQ

Steven Matz entered Monday night’s game with an 8-1 record through his first 11 career starts, the most in club history. Since 1913 there are only three pitchers in baseball who won more in their first 11 starts. Name one.

NEXT GAME

Monday, 10:10 p.m., at Dodgers, RHP Jacob deGrom (3-1, 1.99) vs. LHP Alex Wood (1-3, 5.18); TV: SNY the record previously held by Randy Johnson, who clubbed his first longball at 40 on Sept. 19, 2003 at Milwaukee.

Colon shared the honor with Ben Zobrist of the Cubs, the one player the Mets had targeted this offseason and missed out on.

TRAVIS PICKLE

Travis d’Arnaud was sent to New York to be checked out by team doctors. The catcher, who has been on the DL since April 26 with a strained right rotator cuff, was shut down when trying to throw during his rehab program on Saturday. Team doctors told the Mets told there was no change in d’Arnaud’s diagnosis, according to Mets assistant GM John Ricco. He was given a platelet-rich plasma injection and told to rest further before trying to throw again.

There is no timeline for his return or when he will try to throw again, Ricco said. It’s a situation where he will be retested by physical therapists in Port St. Lucie to see how he is doing.

WAITING FOR WALKER

With the inside of his right leg dark purple from knee to his heel, Neil Walker was out of the lineup for a second straight game. The second baseman said the swelling was still significant and he wanted to keep it from going into his ankle. “Hopefully tomorrow or the next day,” Walker said. “We haven’t set a day yet, but we want to get it now before the swelling goes to the ankle.”

The Mets are facing lefthander Alex Wood on Tuesday and with them trying to get Wilmer Flores going against lefties, it is likely that Walker will sit out that game too.

CONFORTO OUT

Not surprisingly, Michael Conforto was out of the lineup on Monday against Dodgers lefthander Scott Kazmir. The outfielder has been struggling lately and not just against lefties.

Conforto is hitting just .150 against left-handed pitchers, but that hasn’t been his only issue of late. He is just 2 for his last 14 at-bats. “We’ve been working on trying to get him to relax a little at the plate,” Kevin Long said. “His last at-bat (Saturday night) was the best at-bat he’s had in a long time. He just focused on being relaxed and not trying to do too much. The pitchers have adjusted to him and he is making some adjustments to that,” Long said. “It’s nothing I am worried about.”