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2012
Today In Mets History: Look Who’s No. 1
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On September 10, 1969, the scoreboard said it all…
“LOOK WHO’S NO. 1″
After trailing the Chicago Cubs by ten games on August 13th, the New York Mets made it all the way back, plus one, after a doubleheader sweep of the Montreal Expos.
The Mets took the opener 3-2 in 12 innings. Jim McAndrew started and gave up two runs on four hits in 11 innings, while Ken Boswell drove in the game-winner with a single in the 12th off Bill Stoneman.
It was all Nolan Ryan in the second game as he gave up a run on three hits as the Mets completed the doubleheader sweep with a 7-1 victory.
The Mets used just three pitchers to work all 21 innings, and the Cubs helped out by losing that night’s game to put the Mets ahead in the standings by mere percentage points.
This all happened the day after that infamous black cat visited the Cubs dugout at Shea Stadium on September 9th.
About the Author: John Delcos
I am an active member of the BBWAA and have covered Major League Baseball in several capacities for over 20 years, including ten in New York working the Mets' and Yankees' beat. I covered the Baltimore Orioles for eight years and the Cleveland Indians before that. I currently serve as an editor and senior staff writer for Mets Merized Online. Follow me on Twitter @jdelcos.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 23 | 18 | .561 | - |
| Nationals | 23 | 19 | .548 | 0.5 |
| Phillies | 20 | 22 | .476 | 3.5 |
| Mets | 16 | 23 | .410 | 6.0 |
| Marlins | 11 | 31 | .262 | 12.5 |
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For all the people who complain all the time about negative posts, I find it amazing that it’s the positive ones which this site posts plenty of that never gets any comments. Let me break that trend at least for today by saying thank you John for reminding us of the good ol’ days.
LGM!
what is the column on the line score just to the right of the errors column?
and I love the out of town scoreboard. Washington beating up on the also ran Yankees. Talk about the good old days!
After the E is 1g or first game— with the score 3-2. Happened to be there that evening.
that makes sense. Hard to make out the font, and not something you normally see on the line score.
That’s interesting, I have seen a few different pics and it always has something in that column, is it just the previous game if it isn’t a double header?
That’s absolutely right. That column was only used during the second games of doubleheaders to show the results of the first game. Very good nickname, Amazin. It serves you well on a site like this.
Wow, I guess all the old pics are always of double headers.
What a treat. That photograph was taken 43 years ago today and I was there to see it. I have to set something straight about that game one victory. Tommie Agee was the unsung hero of that game.
Agee got on base twice without the benefit of a hit and scored the Mets first two runs, both of them were unearned. He got on with a walk and then advanced on a passed ball, a groundout and the scored on a single. The second time around he beat out two hopper to second base that was ruled an error. He should have gotten a basehit. Anyway he scored and the game was tied.
Now before the Mets won it in the bottom of the 12th inning, there was the top of the 12th.
After two outs, shortstop Remy Hermoso singled for the Expos. Kevin Collins came in to pinch hit and lined a single to center. The speedy Hermoso came tearing around third base and made a dash for home plate to score the winning run, but Tommie Agee fired a bullet to Jerry Grote to nail Hermoso for the third out. What a play it was! Agee saved the game and the Mets won it in the bottom of the inning.
Good stuff Carl……..My hat’s off to you for being able to remember all that………This picture and your memory bring back such wonderful memories of a great time to be both a baseball fan and a Mets fan……..thanks again……….
Really enjoyed your memory of that game. Thanks for sharing it.
No throwing of objects, and yet the field is littered with objects.
Maybe Sandy should sign a black cat because if he was running the team back then we would have given up in July as we did this year despite being much closer to a Playoff run than we were back then!
If Sandy was running the team back then the Mets would have no World Series Championship in 1969 and no World Series appearance in 1973 because:
1) In 1969 he would given up, become a seller and we never would have had Don Clendennon.
2) He would def have given up in 1973 so no need to say anything else
Thanks for polluting a nice thread.
YOUR welcome!
Someone has to remind you folks that QUITTERS NEVER WIN!
69ers didn’t quit and neither did the 73′s!
YOU’RE, not your, completely clueless as well as classless.
I lived it, I remember, as I’m living it now. You are just a miserable person, and if you think for one minute that spewing the same diatribe in every post, every day is going to change a thing, well sir, you have serious issues.
Sad and pathetic
Sad and Pathetic is supporting a GM who goes on TV in July to tell the world “We are done!”
Sad and Pathetic according to you is Insulting other posters or is this really only relevent when YOUR the poster who gets insulted and those rules don’t apply to you in your dealings with others?
Want to know why you get attacked Kay?
This is it!
Do you ever come here to talk baseball??? Do you ever come here to stablish a conversation about the state of the mets at all?? I am not sure how people like you are allowed to be here just to come in, wait for someone to say something so you can attack them and insult them. then of course, when those people attack back to defend themselves, you use the i’m a female and i’ve been disrespected card so you can get those people into trouble, or to be view as the bad guys.. You’re lucky joe D is the owner of this site, because anybody else would’ve seen right trough you and ban you from out of here a long time ago
I don’t really care about you guys feud with Kay but I do have a serious question. Why does every thread have to be the same thing? Why is it that we can’t remember a great season with some great pics without going through the same biases in every thread. Again this is like trying to watch a good football game with the election coming up. Without DVR it gets damn impossible.
Hey we were on topic…You are not!
My post goes directly towards what that history SHOULD tell you but apprently didn’t!
Aren’t you the social studies teacher here?
Don’t you know your supposed to learn lessons from history?
Well in THIS case History says NEVER give up because anything can happen and no matter where you are the season isn’t over in July!
Tell me how “Maybe Sandy should sign a black cat because if he was running the team back then we would have given up in July as we did this year despite being much closer to a Playoff run than we were back then!” has anything to do with this great article? You know what your comment was designed to do and it worked perfectly.
Point 4. You are making this too easy. Keep with the insults and crying that someone baited you Metsie. Lack self control much?
No your making this too easy I am up to almost 150 posts from you that have nothing to do with the topic at hand!
Again, if you don’t know the feud and the history of this lady please SHUT UP! .. why do you try to butt in on everything in here? Jeez.. She clearly has an agenda against some of the guys in here, she’s been doing the same thing. We get it, she’s part of the slurpers, but she does it attacking others most of the time. then whenever there’s retaliation against her, she goes on and on about how we don’t respect women etc. just because we criticize her, she’s without a doubt, the biggest baiter in this site.
Who the hell cares about baiters? Isn’t that just an excuse for grown men who have no control of their own emotions?
I don’t care about feuds, why can’t you guys keep them out of here? I look at each post individually. In fact if you notice, I responded respectfully to Bay and even agreed with his post. I don’t care about the author and do not hold grudges, you should try it.
Back to her point, is she right or wrong? Is it fair to have this post turned into another Sandy free for all?
“Who the hell cares about baiters?
You obviously do because you never really talk baseball just play Ebert “At the Posters”
and bait every one to create a new 200 link promo for your site!
Again, why do you care what post becomes or not? This ain’t your site, don’t worry about what people comment on a thread. Who the hell are you? MMO Police? for someone who is parading around his blog with a click of his name while in another blog you got big ass cojones to tell others what they should or shoudn’t do no? Mind your business and if you don’t like what others are posting or saying don’t reply back, noone made you in charge of what’s been posted here. I am sure if someone would’ve said something positive about your lord you wouldn’t have an objection about it. Stop trying to pretend like you care about MMO, when your boy kingman was in here sh**** on everything MMO and its bloggers you were LOL’ing all over the place until joe D finally banned his ass to the desert for good. He should do the same to anyone that tries to advertise other site while in here. that should be your concern, not what people write about SA. Slurper!
Blah, blah, blah, blah. I guess I baited you into the insults. My fault. LOL.
Yep you did!
It’s what you always do and then play innocent once the insults start flying back!
No you didn’t. YOu’re jsut proving how much of a self center idiot you are.. ANd a loser who even having his own desert.err, i mean blog, STILL have the need to be here ALL DAY because you have noone to chat with over there… Sad if you ask me TRSlurper…
Ohhhh, I have baited him into full attack mode. He has no control over his own emotions, watch out before he turns green and rips off his shirt…. ARHHHHHHHH!!!
Danananana Couer Power… The great American Hero, Couer is there…
Yes you did!There were 135 comments in my pice yesterday…26 posts by you not ONE was about the topic at hand and all just a failed attempt to bait the poster!
Either start talking baseball or get the hell out of here already!
You are a baiter, a baiter I tell you… again since when is it that man has no control over his own actions. I ask you again Metsie, how many comments did you make on your own article and how many of them weren’t even on topic?
Point 5. Seriously too easy.
http://www.uncommonhelp.me/articles/how-to-control-your-emotions/
Yawn you should read it! Also something about winning friends and influencing people because you suck at both!
Metsie — C’mon. You’re too smart to start telling folks what they have to post. I’d like to think you just had a bad moment. As Alex68 says:
“This ain’t your site, don’t worry about what people comment on a thread.”
But… but… he did it fwwwwist. LOL.
Excuse me Des but since you only eer seem to try and stop me and not him I’m pretty much going to ignore you whenever you try it with me….
I made a post that was TOPICAL for the article written.
TRS has yet to make one of those posts in two days of 100 Comments…
He’s baiting and if you don’t see that then obviously YOUR NOT smart enough to be telling me how to react to baiters!
Point 3.
Point 3 = trs still has no point but feelsw foolish posting the same dumb comment twice in a row!
Metsie — Sorry. I disagree. I was simply trying to keep things focused but that obviously is difficult here right now. You seem to want to provide cover for Alex68 and you’ll need a big tent to do it. Alex68 sometimes makes a great post. But his name calling and whining undermine his writings. Then too often you support him. Oy veh.
Des All I’m saying is if you really want to keep things focused take those who took it off focus to task not the guy they decided to attack to take it where it went!
I made a perfectly relevent statement regarding giving up in a season where most felt it was a lost cause thats all!
And the other two (and I don’t blame Kay as much as TRS here) are the ones who decided to make this a poster attack thread having nothing to do with the 69 Season not me!
So I’m not going to listen to someone who can’t even figure out WHO needs the change of attitude on keeping threads in focus!
Yep keep on going dude!
I’m copying and pasting it all!
Metsie, pay him no mind… The guy has a blog, has noone going over there other than his buddies, so he feels lonely and that is why he’s here promoting his blog and posting on every thread…. i understand his frustration..
Alex, again with the blog insults. It’s all you got on me because I run a pretty tight ship and I am in control of my own emotions. You should try it, it would save you a lot of clothes in the long run.
Thank you for the perfect example. In the real world adults don’t get to blame others for their own lack of self control.
Oyh trust me I’m really UNDER control here…
You should hear what I would LIKE to say to you but didn’t!
” I’ll take it all the way with him ”
Point 2.
Point 2 = TRS has no pint just getting the comments up!
Metsie, you win. I am done responding to anymore of your drivel. Have fun. I will make a bet though that you will engage in the same behavior with someone else. I guess they will be promoting something as well. You really should check out that link.
Back to baseball.
Yep it will happen like someone else just as it did this time….
But here is your problem….
Note who I was replying to that started it this time?
JoeD please note that as well!
Seriously Metsie why bring that over here?
For the same resons you two polute all the others!
Because I (and you) can!
Here is a little more litter for you…
Phillies who were behind us in the standings when Sandy gave up are only 6 games out of the Wildcard!
sandy did not “give up”. He kept the team intact, and said you got us here, so go the rest of the way.
the phillies are the team that “gave up” and sold off whatever was expiring (like with Beltran last year!).
He didn’t keep the team intact…He lost players and didn’t bother to replace them!
Really? So you thought it necessary to have the same tired Sandy debate here as well?
I thought it neccesary to REMIND everyon what lesson was to be learned from 1969!
NEVER QUIT!
Got it?
Do you disagree do you think we should always quit?
Is that what you want to get accross here without jumping off your fence?
No Metsie, we all know what your intentions were and they worked perfectly. Nice job.
Again, where else could you find an entire site full of adults that actually use baiting as an excuse for their actions? Enough, grow up and be responsible for what you post. You want the Mets and Alderson to be accountable and stop with excuses yet every day some on here use baiting as an excuse for childish behavior instead of being accountable for their own actions. You have a choice Metsie as to respond to me or not. However, your childish nature will not allow you to have anyone else be the last one to post.
Certainly not on your site because you baited them all away with the crap your trying to do here!
Please you started this all I did was make point about the significance of 69 to this year!
And what lesson should have been learned!
And we all know what your intentions were!
To take over another thread with your attcking and then feigning innocence here!
Where’s your dignity? After reading the first nice comments and then scrolling down to yours, all I could think was how poor your taste and judgement is.
My Dignity is rigt here with me Alex!
The Dignity that comes from NEVER quitting even when things look dark as was the case in 69 where we went and got clendenon and didn’t just fold up the ship because it was too hard!
Who did the Mets add in 73 Metsie? It’s slipping my mind.
No one and they lost the WS!
Great memories, thanks John.
Alex, please stick to the topic and stop using the word slurper to describe any of our readers here. I deleted your last three comments. Please stick to subject and for the love of God please stop harassing TRS at every turn. If you stopped and read any of his insights here you would see he adds a lot to the community. Just stick to the post topic and you’ll be fine.
Joe D, why is it ok for him to be here attacking us, the site and promoting his site at the same time? YOu sure show a weird way to defend us who have been here for a long time with you and you take others side a lot…
The word slurper is for the people weho drink sandy’s koolaid, but as usual, you seem to be persuated by some that that is an offensive word somehow…
Show me ONE place Alex that I have promoted my site? In fact for years now MMO and TRDM have worked together and even share an author. You haven’t the slightest idea.
Alex, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve warned you over the years about insulting other posters here because they disagree with you. I’ve already been forced to put Bayonne on permanent moderation because he cant be trusted to post freely. I don’t believe I’ve reached that point yet with you.
But to answer your question, my role here is not to defend you or anyone else, but to keep the debates civil. I thank you for your years of support but that doesn’t entitle you to any more of a defense from me than anybody else here.
What I am responsible for is defending the many good readers we have from being subjected to reading some of these threads that evolve into a food fight in a fifth grade cafeteria.
When I delete your comments it is not because I’m taking sides, it’s because the site is better off without them, and yours were not the only ones that were deleted this morning as Metsie can attest.
You have your opinions and are entitled to them much like TRS or anyone else have theirs. But we don’t have to harp on the same things day in and day out and drag every thread into the mud because we differ in our opinions. That’s the part you don’t seem to get.
Your obsession with people who comment here from other sites is also becoming a concern. I blog on other sites all the time and I’m glad I don’t get treated by those communities in the same manner as you treat them here. And among those sites I go to is the Real Dirty Mets whose community has always treated me with respect.
Finally, the way you, Maniac, Metsie and Bayonne can take a simple word from our English vocabulary and turn it into something vile or synonymous with whatever meaning you choose to give it has been incredible to see this past year. I could never have foreseen that one day I would be putting the word slurp in our ban filter which is what I did a few minutes ago. You guys are very creative, I wish you would apply that creativity in more positive ways instead of using to try and usurp our comment guidelines.
Your hatred of Alderson, which sounds personal although you’ve never met or spoken with the man, is over the top. Do you think he wants to destroy the team? Ironically, I disagree with his decisions as well time to time, but that doesn’t mean I attack him unmercifully or that I should make those attacks personal. I make my arguments with his moves. I explain why I have a problem with them and suggest how I would have preferred he handled it. A week later I might be posting about a great move that he made. It goes both ways and that’s because I criticize the moves not the person making them.
You seem to have one direction. Hate everything he does and hate the man too. I’ll never understand that position.
Wow… Just Wow.
Joe D, if Cerrone had been as proactive as you are then sites like mine would not even exist and yours might not have the followers it does today. Again, I appreciate your efforts to continue to run what I believe is the best Mets blog out there today.
TRS, where were those “kind” words when your buddy kingman was basically shi**** on the site and Joe D?? Yeah, thought so…
Question already answered Alex. Lets move on.
“But to answer your question, my role here is not to defend you or anyone else, but to keep the debates civil.”
Joe I just want it noted that my original posts that started this was civil to everyone except maybe those who thought July was a good time to give up and I have to ask have if warnings been given to those who attacked me for expressing that?
Joe, you really do run a great site and I am incredibly addicted to it as you know. My fear has always been that such a great site will be ruined by the few just as Metsblog was years ago. You have a place unlike many of the top blogs where all opinions are welcome and hopefully where all are respected for their point of view. I apologize for any inconveniences and I will do my best to refrain from any flame wars. LGM.
Wow, really TRS????? REALLY?? after you called the shoutbox a fuming pile, you were LOL at all the kingman insults and attacks to the site, after you went and literally copy and paste the site design’s for your own advertisement NOW you’re praising joe D and the site????
You my friend have got to be the biggest HYPOCRITE on the face of the earth…. Seriously, you’re a piece of work.. You encourage your girl to take shots at the CORE yet if we use the CORE you called us childish and immature. WOW, just WOW
OK last one Alex.
You will have to talk to NorthJersey about our site design as he did an incredible job that we are proud of.
Joe knows the truth about the Kingman situation and the response I made.
As for the shoutbox, I think that Joe saw the same thing I did and unfortunately had to clean up a mess made by grown men.
Have fun Alex blaming someone else for your lack of self control.
TRS. Last one for you? Why do you feel the need to have the last word? See how self centered you are? You’re a phony and a hypocrite, not sure why joe D don’t see right trough you.
Now i am done, i hope as you said you’re done as well with this conversation.. although, knowing you, you’d feel the urge to write back, as the last word needs to be yours as usual..
All three of them are acting like a bunch of preschoolers and it’s pathetic. At least for today just shut up with this garbage.
I agree and I am done with it Salty. I will remain in control of my own emotions and refrain from the same tired debate.
Joe please delete every comment after my post as that is where the baiting from TRS started and got us where we are today, and yesterday, and the day befor4e and the day before that….
You want to delete my original post that started it all feel free I think my point has been made which is why I got attacked the way I did!