MIAMI – After Mike Piazza’s RBI streak ended at 15 straight games last night, he joked about going after another record.

“I would throw that streak away and take Hack Wilson’s record,” Piazza said, referring to Wilson’s 191 RBIs in one season.

The Marlins’ Jesus Sanchez denied Piazza an RBI in four at-bats in the Mets’ 2-0 loss at Pro Player Stadium. Ray Grimes of the 1922 Cubs holds the major-league mark with 17.

“It wasn’t anything I was trying to be too conscious of,” Piazza said.

Piazza extended his hitting streak to 21 games in the eighth and nearly pushed the RBI streak to 16.

After Marlins first baseman Derrek Lee missed a popup near the right-field stands, Piazza launched an enormously high fly ball to left. It didn’t go out, though. It hit the regular looking wall that sits in front of the left field Aqua Monster here.

Piazza had two men on base in both the first and the third innings, but flew to right both times. In the sixth, Piazza led off by flying out to left. It was a hard shot, but Cliff Floyd made a fine, running catch just in front of the warning track. Piazza said he jammed himself on the swing because he thought he had gotten his pitch.

Piazza’s numbers are stunning, even when everyone expects so much from him. The RBI streak is one thing, but it is not as if he’s driven in just one guy and then gone home. Over the 15 games before last night, he had 28 RBIs.

But it was the RBI streak that had everyone talking. Todd Zeile, taking nothing away from Piazza, said it is also a team statistic because Piazza has to have guys on.