Fun with Mets Opening Day Home Runs

[G-Fafif]

From Hodges to Cespedes and (most of) the dozens in between.



A whole thing http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2021/04/05/herbie-harbingers-home-run-hindsight/here.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The one that will forever stand out in my memory is Gary Carter 1985.

[Edgy MD]

What stands out to me is the home opener in 1984, following the Mets open with an excruciating nine games on the road. Early season schedules being what they are, that adds up to 15 days total. An eternity.



But the Mets, after ending their long opening day win streak with a loss to the Reds, improbably took the next six games, and even after losing the last two of that road trip, they came home 6-3, and myself and five friends took some trains and jumped some turnstiles and wondered if, maybe, Davey Johnson's Mets would be different from Joe Torre's/George Bamberger's/Frank Howard's Mets.



They of course were, but not so much that day, losing 10-0 to the Expos, following a thundering fourth-inning grand slam by Gary Carter — a player that wasn't just good, but so professionally good, that we despaired for the reality that the Mets could never have such players. We stayed to the last out, of course, then collected our frozen testes and trained it home.



Harbingeriffic, indeed.

[kcmets]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The one that will forever stand out in my memory is Gary Carter 1985.

Yes, everyone chantng Gary Gary Gary as we decended the ramps!