Ten years ago Thursday, Bartolo Colón took one of the greatest swings in baseball history. O.K., maybe not. But it is certainly among the most memorable of the last decade. On May 7, 2016, Colón—42 years old at the time—started his sixth game of the season for the Mets , a Saturday evening tilt on a beautiful night at Petco Park in San Diego. The night began how many Colón starts went over the years. He retired all three Padres he faced in the bottom of the first inning, and after the Mets sent eight hitters up in the first two frames, Colón dug into the batter’s box with two outs in the second. Colón stepped up to the plate that night with batting stats so bad they might not be safe for work. He was 0-for-9 with six strikeouts to start the 2016 campaign. Over the first 17 seasons of his career, Colón owned a .093/.100/.102 slash line with just 20 total hits in 237 plate appearances. Just two of those 20 hits went for extra bases, and both were later in his career—a double in 2014 and another in ’15.…