9/11 Anniversary

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On the 46th anniversary of 9/11, re-live Bake McBride's mad dash to home plate as the Cards edge the Mets in one of baseball's longest games ever. BONUS: A Brock Pemberton sighting!



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[Benjamin Grimm]

I was at the game on this date in 1987, in field-level seats at Shea (handed down to me from my boss) when Terry Pendleton hit one of the more infamous opposing homers in Mets history. (Thirteen months later I had the privilege of seeing another infamous homer in person, by Mike Scioscia.)

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Don't peek at that box score because it's quiz time!



Six ex-Mets or would-be Mets appeared in that 1974 marathon game in the Redbirds uni. Name them.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll start with Keith Hernandez

[G-Fafif]

I did not know Bowie Kuhn was a) at the 25-inning game and stayed for 25 innings.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'll start with Keith Hernandez

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I did not know Bowie Kuhn was a) at the 25-inning game and stayed for 25 innings.

[G-Fafif]

Joe Torre.

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Joe Torre.

[whippoorwill]

That does not look like keith

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That does not look like keith

[Edgy MD]

José Cardenal.

[G-Fafif]

Jack Heidemann.

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Yes to Heidemann. Cardenal was no Cardinal in '74.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Teddy Martinez?

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Teddy Martinez?

Yes and No. Martinez played in that game. But for the "wrong" team. Teddy was a Met in '74.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

9/11 2018: Tuesday Night Mets Club watches Mets fail to support deGrom despite a decent outing, Gselly and Swarzak put it out of reach even of a 2 out 9th inning home run by Plawecki

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Let's flip the rest of these cards over. Get it? Cards? Cards? Cards! HAHAHA.

[MFS62]

I was fahklempt at the Dave Schneck sighting.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Given a week, the only one I might have gotten was Ron Hunt, and that's only because once or twice, Keith has reported that Hunt was his first roomie.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was at the game on this date in 1987, in field-level seats at Shea (handed down to me from my boss) when Terry Pendleton hit one of the more infamous opposing homers in Mets history. (Thirteen months later I had the privilege of seeing another infamous homer in person, by Mike Scioscia.)

Pendleton, Scioscia, Molina. But somehow, not Dave Henderson.

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Edgy MD wrote: Given a week, the only one I might have gotten was Ron Hunt, and that's only because once or twice, Keith has reported that Hunt was his first roomie.

That marathon game was one of Keith's first MLB games. Keith made his major league debut less than two weeks before, on August 30, 1974. Also, that was one of the last games Joe Torre would play for the Cards. Next Stop: the New York Mets.

[G-Fafif]

Nolan Ryan appeared in his first major league game (and notched his first strikeout) on September 11, 1966.

[Frayed Knot]

September 11, 1985 saw Pete Rose notch hit #4,192 to pass Ty Cobb on the all time hit list.

If you happen to run into Pete you just might be able to convince him to talk about it.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: If you happen to run into Pete you just might be able to convince him to talk about it.

If I ran into him, he wouldn't be in any condition to talk. I'd "remind" him of Bud Harrelson.

Later

[MFS62]

The MFYs wore first responder caps on 9/11 and some NY stations are making it sound like it was their idea and they were the only team doing it.

Later

[G-Fafif]

September 11, 1997: John Olerud hits for as unlikely a cycle as one could imagine.

[Edgy MD]

On September 11, 1972, Tug McGraw relieved Jerry Koosman with two perfect innings, giving the Mets a 4-2 win over the Phillies.



The victory raised Koosman's won-loss record on the year to ... wait for it ... 9-11.



Creepy.

[G-Fafif]

From Howard Bryant.

After two decades, the memory of Dec. 7, 1941, was neither forgotten, nor did it hover so viscerally over the new generation of Americans entering adulthood in 1961. This is appropriate. The memory of 9/11 should not be forgotten, nor should the difficult and inevitable geopolitics that created it. But its memorializing can be a respectful, tasteful annual event without the daily elevation of law enforcement, which serves a political motive almost completely detached from the twin towers.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/29979519/police-protest-pandemic-end-9-11-erahttps://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/29979519/police-protest-pandemic-end-9-11-era