Quirks of 2019

[seawolf17]

I love the hell out of this. KC and Detroit played a game in Omaha celebrating the CWS yesterday, and this happened:

[G-Fafif]

Elias delineates the Mets-Astros game Kobel wound up finishing for Falcone after Kranepool disappeared as a protest upheld and not technically a suspended game, so tonight is technically the seventh resumption of a suspended Mets game, though the eighth resumption of a game otherwise played on a previous date.

[G-Fafif]

On June 19, Stephen Nogosek pitched wearing No. 72 and was succeeded on the mound in the same inning by Daniel Zamora wearing No. 73. That's as high-numbered as it's ever gotten in consecutive Met pitchers.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Wow. I woulda figured Benitez (49) relieving Wendell (99) at least once. They were teammates for three seasons. Or Turk relieving either Hershiser (55) or Rogers (73).

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Wow. I woulda figured Benitez (49) relieving Wendell (99) at least once. They were teammates for three seasons. Or Turk relieving either Hershiser (55) or Rogers (73).

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Wow. I woulda figured Benitez (49) relieving Wendell (99) at least once. They were teammates for three seasons. Or Turk relieving either Hershiser (55) or Rogers (73).

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm back! Wendell relieves Hershiser in mid-inning, 4/14/99.

[batmagadanleadoff]

New record. 10/1/99 - Wendell relieves Rogers in mid-inning.

[G-Fafif]

On June 19, Stephen Nogosek pitched wearing No. 72 and was succeeded on the mound in the same inning by Daniel Zamora wearing No. 73. That's as high-numbered as it's ever gotten in consecutive Met pitchers.

Consecutive numbers is what I intended to express: 73 relieving 72. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Yes, Wendell 99'd everybody in sight, but there was no Met pitcher (or player) wearing 98.



In 2016 and 2017, we had the possibility of Josh Edgin (66) relieving Robert Gsellman (65), which I can't say for sure happened, because I haven't looked it up. But we've never had two consecutive higher-numbered pitchers on the same Met staff than 73 and 72, and now we have not only that, but an incident of 73 taking the ball from 72 (via the manager).



OE: On April 13, 2017, in the Mets' 16-inning victory over the Marlins at Miami (which, in retrospect, was the high point of that season), Terry Collins removed Gsellman in the fifth inning and replaced him with Edgin, which established the consecutive high-number successive pitchers standard that was topped Wednesday night in Atlanta.

Edited June 20, 2019 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

good quirk

[G-Fafif]

Coming into this week, the Mets had won games by a score of 10-2 23 times in their history. This week, they won two games by that score -- both on the same road trip, both against first-place clubs, under the watchful eye of two different pitching coaches.



Read more about the Mets keepting their hands at 10 and 2 http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/06/23/hands-at-10-and-2/here.

[Edgy MD]

In 2016 and 2017, we had the possibility of Josh Edgin (66) relieving Robert Gsellman (65), which I can't say for sure happened, because I haven't looked it up.

April 13, 2017, https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=gsellro01&t=p&year=2017Edgin relieved Gsellie for the first time. Don't yet know if it was the last.

[G-Fafif]

That info re 4/13/17 appears above.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Low Point: June 27, 1965, Larry Miller (16) relieves Al Jackson (15).

[batmagadanleadoff]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1965&t=NYNhttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1965&t=NYN



According to Baseball Reference, but not MBTN or UMDB, Larry Miller of the Mets wore #16 for at least a part of the 1965 season. I bring this up because on June 27, 1965, Larry Miller relieved Al Jackson (#15). This would probably be the Mets record for the lowest total of consecutive numbered pitchers to appear consecutively in ascending uniform number order if Miller wore #16 on that date. Both MBTN and UMDB assign #16 exclusively to Danny Napoleon for '65. FWIW, Napoleon did not appear in that June game. Also, according to all of these sources, Napoleon wore no other uniform number as a Met (or with any other team being that he never played for any other MLB team).



OE Napoleon debuted in the Mets 2nd game of the '65 season, and as far as I can tell, was on the roster all season. Plus, he played the game before and after Miller relieved Jackson. So it appears unlikely that this game set the low number record. But youse number people might wanna look into this Miller 16 stuff.

[Edgy MD]

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That info re 4/13/17 appears above.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1965&t=NYNhttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1965&t=NYN According to Baseball Reference, but not MBTN or UMDB, Larry Miller of the Mets wore #16 for at least a part of the 1965 season. I bring this up because on June 27, 1965, Larry Miller relieved Al Jackson (#15). This would probably be the Mets record for the lowest total of consecutive numbered pitchers to appear consecutively in ascending uniform number order if Miller wore #16 on that date. Both MBTN and UMDB assign #16 exclusively to Danny Napoleon for '65. FWIW, Napoleon did not appear in that June game. Also, according to all of these sources, Napoleon wore no other uniform number as a Met (or with any other team being that he never played for any other MLB team). OE Napoleon debuted in the Mets 2nd game of the '65 season, and as far as I can tell, was on the roster all season. Plus, he played the game before and after Miller relieved Jackson. So it appears unlikely that this game set the low number record. But youse number people might wanna look into this Miller 16 stuff.

on it

[Edgy MD]

August 26, 1989, Jeff Mussleman (#13) relieved Ron Darling (#12).



This, of course, falls short if Darling had already done his in-season swap to #15.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: August 26, 1989, Jeff Mussleman (#13) relieved Ron Darling (#12). This, of course, falls short if Darling had already done his in-season swap to #15.

Missed it by exactly three weeks, according to UMDB & MBTN. Darling switched to #15 on 8/5/89. That woulda surely been the low record, I'd guess.

[Edgy MD]

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[Edgy MD]

This was the random assortment of thumbnails I got today on the front page of Baseball-Reference:



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How weird that (1) their photo of Jed Lowrie is in a Met kit that he still hasn't officially appeared in, and (2) Daisuke Matsuzaka, despite 132 games started in the Major Leagues (and 26 relief appearances), they depict him in a Las Vegas 51s uniform.

[G-Fafif]

Edwin Diaz has saved consecutive games — Mets games 85 & 86 — for the first time since the first two games of the season.

[G-Fafif]

Before Steven Matz's relief debut, his 87 Met appearances as a starter w/o relieving stood as seventh-most in franchise history. Top six:



Leiter 213

Gl@v!ne 164

Trachsel 160

deGrom 157

Wheeler 113

Santana 109

[G-Fafif]

The Mets have now played in three series as visitors to the White Sox in the same ballpark, and each time they have visited, the ballpark has had a different name.



2002: Comiskey Park

2013: U.S. Cellular Field

2019: Guaranteed Rate Field

[Willets Point]

I hope this means that the South Side ballpark will be renamed before the Mets return in the future. Perhaps a name with some dignity.

[Edgy MD]

It's not really trending in that direction, though, is it?



On the other hand, it's not like Charlie Comiskey was particularly worthy of the honor either.

[Willets Point]

Yeah, none of the names are particularly good. Comiskey's name should've stuck with the old ballpark.

[G-Fafif]

It was mentioned on the telecast Wednesday night that the back-to-back home runs in the eleventh inning on 7/30/2019 -- McNeil, followed by Conforto -- were the first such set the Mets have ever hit in extra innings.

[Edgy MD]

Brooklyn Cyclones pitcher Nelson Leon is from Leon, Nicaragua.

[G-Fafif]

Last night, September 3, 2019, was the seventh 11-10 loss in Mets history. The first came on April 8, 1969, the day last night's opponents were born as the Montreal Expos.



One of the other 11-10 defeats came at Pittsburgh, on May 26, 1994, the day of last night's benchwarmers, Sam Haggerty, was born.