Brian Wright selects: Edgardo Alfonzo Goes 6-for-6! Twelve Mets in history have blasted three home runs in a game. Even fewer have collected six hits. Edgardo Alfonzo managed to do both on one night in Houston nearly 21 years ago. Alfonzo spent his career in New York overlooked and under-appreciated by the national and local media, but he stood alone on August 30, 1999 — establishing or...
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If the Mets hadn’t converted all their disbelievers by now– those who were still convinced the Orioles superiority would overcome New York’s combination of pitching, timely hitting, and spectacular plays in the field — would be given even more of a reason to believe in miracles after game 4. Of no miracle was the performance by Tom Seaver on this afternoon. Following a...
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Five-and-two-thirds innings into his outing on April 22, 1970, Tom Seaver had faced 22 batters. Two managed to get hits and nine were strikeout victims. For any ordinary pitcher, it was a great day. For Seaver, who in three seasons had established himself as arguably the best at his position, it was a rather ordinary day. Prior to this mid-week afternoon encounter with the San Diego Padres at...
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There were two themes to Mets’ regular season of 1986. One, clearly, was dominance. The National League East was all but secured by early summer. They held a vice-grip-like 13-game lead, and had the manager of the defending NL champs, the Cards’ Whitey Herzog, waving the white flag in surrender. They didn’t just beat the opposition, they beat them down. Which gets us to...
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A full week after their 18-hour flight from halfway around the world, the Mets still showed symptoms of jet lag. They dropped two of three to the Padres and only managed to scrape together two hits in the opener against Los Angeles. The Mets actually won that night in spite of their anemic offense — and have Rick Reed to thank for it. Reed augmented his solid start in Japan with 7.2...
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