Biggest HRs in Metstory (split from "They Can Do This - Game Three Post Season IGT 10/03/24 NYM at Mil")

[batmagadanleadoff]

So what are some of the biggest HR's in Mets history, besides the one Alonso hit last night? The first two that immediately came to my mind both involved Todd Pratt: his walk-off HR over the outstretched arms of Steve Finley against the DBacks in the playoffs and Robin Ventura's Grand-Slam single. And of those two, the second one was, technically, not a HR.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Lenny Dykstra's "Strat-o-Matic" walk-off againt the Astros in the playoffs.



How about Tim Harkness's walk-off grand slam at the Polo Grounds?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Francisco Lindor's game winning blast from a few days ago to clinch a playoff spot.

[Fman99]

Benny Agbayani's 13th inning walk off to beat the Giants in game 3 of the 2000 NLDS comes to mind.



I will rant (again) about the stupidity of the post wild card winning champagne showers. You advanced and that's great, but the NFL teams don't do this after every playoff win. They just keep playing. To me there should be 3 occasions for the goggles and drenching - 1) clinched the playoff spot, 2) won the pennant, and 3) winning the World Series. All the other stuff is just in between stuff you need to do to get from 1 -> 2 and 2 -> 3.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Darryl Strawberry in St Louis in October 1985.

[Centerfield]

Biggest HRs in Met History. Off the tope of my head. Not in any particular order.



1. 1986 WS Game 7. Ray Knight. Gave the Mets the lead

2. 1986 WS Game 7. Darry Strawberrry. (next inning)? Extended lead to 7-5.

3. 1999 NLDS. Todd Pratt game winner

4. 1999 NLDS. Game 1. Edgardo Alfonso GS off Bobby Choiunard

5. 1999 NLCS. Robin Ventura Grand Slam Single

6. 2000 NLDS. Benny Agbayani walkoff

7. 2024. Lindor vs. Atlanta, game 161

8. 2024 WC Game 3. Alonso beats Brewers

9. 2001. vs. Braves. Piazza first game after 9/11

10. 2015 NLDS Game 5. Murphy beats Greinke and Dodgers

11. 2015 NLCS Game 2. Murphy 1st inning against Arrieta

[Gwreck]

=Centerfield post_id=174032 time=1728077210 user_id=65]
Biggest HRs in Met History. Off the tope of my head. Not in any particular order.



1. 1986 WS Game 7. Ray Knight. Gave the Mets the lead

2. 1986 WS Game 7. Darry Strawberrry. (next inning)? Extended lead to 7-5.

3. 1999 NLDS. Todd Pratt game winner

4. 1999 NLDS. Game 1. Edgardo Alfonso GS off Bobby Choiunard

5. 1999 NLCS. Robin Ventura Grand Slam Single

6. 2000 NLDS. Benny Agbayani walkoff

7. 2024. Lindor vs. Atlanta, game 161

8. 2024 WC Game 3. Alonso beats Brewers

9. 2001. vs. Braves. Piazza first game after 9/11

10. 2015 NLDS Game 5. Murphy beats Greinke and Dodgers

11. 2015 NLCS Game 2. Murphy 1st inning against Arrieta

[Centerfield]

Omg. The Dykstra HR. Can't believe I forgot that.



Agree on your others too but the Piazza HR was a loss. So ultimately I leave it off. Kinda like the Endy catch.

[Gwreck]

Agreed that it falls down the list due to the loss (although the HOF-vs-HOF aspect is still notable).

[Frayed Knot]

Please split this topic off!

[Edgy MD]

Lee Mazzilli, 1979 All-Star game, Seattle Kingdome.



Rusty Staub, Game 4 of 1973 World Series. It was no valedictory, being in the first inning, but with two on and no out, sometimes a keynote address is important too.



Al Weis, Game 5, 1969 Series.



Steve Henderson, Steve Henderson game, Father's Day, June 14, 1980.



Gary Carter, walkoff off Neil Allen, opening day, 1985.



Darryl Strawberry, hitting roof of Olympic Stadium, opening day, 1988.

[Gwreck]

To me, there are very very few regular season homers that can compete with the postseason.



Not yet mentioned:

Curtis Granderson - any of his 3 World Series home runs in 2015 when the Mets were tied or down. A heroic effort.



David Wright's 2015 WS Game 3 homer.

[Edgy MD]

Doug Flynn, inside-the-parker in the midst of the team's first-ever 10-run inning, June 12, 1979, when 10 runs was typically a week's allotment.



Marlon Anderson, inside-the-parker, June 11, 2005, tying the game in the ninth inning off of Francisco Rodriguez.



Omir Santos, May 23, 2009, Mets down 2-1 in the ninth at Fenway against Jonathan Papebon, two outs, one on, putting Mets up to win a half inning later.



Bartolo Colón, May 7, 2016, in San Diego.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=Centerfield post_id=174040 time=1728081421 user_id=65]
Omg. The Dykstra HR. Can't believe I forgot that.

[Edgy MD]

That's on the board in the post above yours.



Kirk Nieuwenhuis, June 16, 2013, three-run walkoff homer, down two, with two on and two out, vs. Cubs.



Mookie Wilson, September 20, 1981, two-run walkoff homer, down one, with one on and two out, vs. Cards, off future-Hall-of-Famer Bruce Sutter.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy's got some real good HR's going on here, but he's now into the 20s and 30s. But keep 'em coming because they are so juicy. These are the deep tracks of great Mets HR's.

[Edgy MD]

One makes me think of another.



The Omir Santos homer had a parallel. Another ninth-inning game winner against a seemingly invincible closer (Kimbrel?) hit by a journeyman backup catcher, perhaps the next season. Can't remember who, but it may have been even more unlikely.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Didn't Ramon Castro have a big HR,? The Castro Blastro, maybe,?

[Edgy MD]

That sounds about right. Not more unlikely, as Castro had puncher's power, but a parallel to the Santos homer.

[Edgy MD]

Tommie Agee, April 10, 1969, hitting a monster blast that, by amazing coincidence, hit the Tommie Agee seat in the upper tank at Shea.



Yoenis Céspedes hit some particularly dramatic homers in 2015, but to be honest, they all came so rapidly, that it's hard to distinguish them.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mo Vaughn more than halfway up.the huge Shea scoreboard. Maybe not so momentous or impactful, but the HR itself was huge, distance-wise. And so was Mo.



Other famous tape measure jobs-- the Agee blast that garnered a seat marker. The spring training Dave Kingman bomb. Kingman on Waveland Avenue.

[Fman99]

The Piazza home run to cap the big comeback against Atlanta when they won 10-8 (June 2000).



David Wright's ASG HR

[Lefty Specialist]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the Wilmer Flores 'tears of joy' walk-off home run to win the game in the 12th inning aainst the Nats in 2015. That was trajectory-changing for that season.

[G-Fafif]

Willie Mays's homecoming home run in 1972



Carlos Beltran's two double-OUTTA HERES in 2006.



Asdrubal Cabrera eliciting the same pair of OHs from the booth down the stretch in 2016.



Ray Knight capping Fireworks Night 1986.



Mike Piazza taking Ramiro Mendoza to the top of the picnic tent roof in what became the Matt Franco Game, 1999.



Carl Everett grand slam, September 13, 1997, off Uggie Urbana, the ninth that started 6-0 and was now 6-6.



Dave Kingman's 35th, Todd Hundley's 41st, Pete Alonso's 53rd.

[G-Fafif]

Donn Clendenon (each of three), 1969 WS.



Swoboda walking off the Giants in 1966 (the biggest moment of Howie Rose's young life).



Tommy Davis, 11th-inning winner in May 1967 that a) certified he was fully back from his injury-plagued years; and made a winner out of Jack Fisher, who had gone all 11.



Agee, 14th inning, ending a 1-0 win off starter Juan Marichal.



Jimmy Piersall off Dallas Green, in which Piersall rounds the bases backwards.

[G-Fafif]

Kelly Johnson and Yoenis Cespedes throttling Strasburg and Storen in the inning that altogether ended the Nationals for 2015.



Daniel Murphy, “this team doesn't know how to lose!,” at no longer scary Turner Field, September 2015.



Straw's last huge homer, off Drabek, as the Mets desperately chased the Bucs, September 1990.



James Loney in clinching the 2016 Wild Card.



HoJo plucking the Cardinals in April 1986 and sinking the Pirates in June 1988.



McReynolds winning a back-and-forth breath holder vs the Cubs, 13th inning, June 4, 1988.



Elster, bottom of the 8th to win 1-0 duel between Oneida and Smiley, July '88.



Carter's 300th, Delgado's 400th, Sheffield's 500th, Piazza passing Fisk, Hodges hitting the franchise's first, Thomas going on a multiday tear, Rusty joining Ty Cobb's exclusive before 20/after 40 club, Rick Cerone and Hubie Brooks tying and beating the Phillies in the 9th and 10th on Opening Day II in 1991.



Damion Easley tying it in the ninth in the game Endy would breathe the Rockies with a bunt; Delgado providing the blast following Benitez's balks; Bonilla's pair on Opening Day 1992 (what a signing!); Lindor breaking up the no-hitter and sparking the sixth-run ninth in Toronto; Todd Frazier off Sean Doolittle, setting up the shirt-tearing era of Mets celebration moments later, Piazza and Hundley for one night in Houston, living the dream they'd co-exist powerfully; Kranepool off Jenkins ahead of the Don Young meltdown; and Marv touching them all as he walked off the Pirates long before the term existed.

[Edgy MD]

I was trying to summon that Elster one.



Really, all four homeruns from May 6, 1983, the day Darryl Strawberry came up.

2. Danny Heep, who had just lost his job to Straw, breaking through against a shutout-throwing Mario Soto, hitting a pinch-hit homer with two outs in the eighth. Soto had been throwing a one-hitter. (José Oquendo, of all people, had the one hit.)


4. Dave Kingman, who would soon lose his job to Hernandez, tying the game against that same Mario Soto, hitting a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth.


6. Hubie Brooks, who had just seemingly lost his job to Tucker Ashford, coming up on the same day as Straw and getting the start over the slump-mired Hubie, tying the game again off Tom Hume with two outs in the tenth.


8. George Foster hitting a three-run shot to win it off of Frank Pastore — just brought in specifically to face Foster — with two out in the 13th.

None may have taken the fans' breath away that day as much as a foul ball by Straw that seemed to go 500 feet.



Also, about half of Jordany Valdespin's 12 career Met homers.

[dinosaur jesus]

June 14, 1980. With two outs in the ninth, Steve Henderson hits a walkoff three-run homer, a line drive that sneaks over the right-field fence. The Mets were down 6-0 after five innings and 6-2 after 8. After starting the season 10-18, they were now 26-27, and would finally reach .500 a month later. They'd finish the season on a 24-52 run, but it sure was fun for a while.

[MFS62]

The game winner Jim Hickman hit to end Craig Anderson's losing streak.

It caromed off the upper deck scoreboard into the lower left field stands.

And I have it. The crowd was so sparse that it was just lying in the aisle as I was walking out,

Later

[whippoorwill]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=173991 time=1728068382 user_id=68]
So what are some of the biggest HR's in Mets history, besides the one Alonso hit last night? The first two that immediately came to my mind both involved Todd Pratt: his walk-off HR over the outstretched arms of Steve Finley against the DBacks in the playoffs and Robin Ventura's Grand-Slam single. And of those two, the second one was, technically, not a HR.