RIP Sandy Alomar, Sr., 1943-2025

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Sandy Alomar, Sr., who played from the Mets in 1967, coached for them four decades later, and saw two sons suit up for his old team, passed away today in Salinas, Puerto Rico, just shy of his 82nd birthday.

https://noticel.com/deportes/20251013/fallece-santos-alomar-padre-de-los-hermanos-roberto-y-sandy/

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His 0-for-22 with no walks and no reaching base through any other means represents an all-time team record for batting futility among players who alleged themselves to be batters. (Even Randy Tate had a walk.)

Only Corey Oswalt, with an 0-for-24, keeps him from the record among all Mets.

But hey, he was 2-for-2 in getting his sons to wear the right uniform, even they didn't quite wear it right.

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Sandy Sr. deserved a few spiritual Schaefer points for his defense of one of his players amid the madness of the John Maine no-hit bid ruined by Paul Hoover on September 29, 2007.

From Mike Puma in the Post:

 

Marlins catcher Miguel Olivo missed with the clenched fist he directed at Jose Reyes, but didn’t sound like somebody who had any remorse about charging his friend in the first place.

“I missed, and [Reyes] is lucky, too,” Olivo said after the Mets beat the Marlins 13-0 yesterday at Shea Stadium.

Countered Reyes: “He made no contact with me, I’m too quick for that.”

Reyes actually might want to thank Mets third-base coach Sandy Alomar Sr. for getting between him and an enraged Olivo. The cavalry ensued, with several pushes and shoves between the two teams, but no further punches thrown.

The chaos started moments earlier when Marlins reliever Harvey Garcia threw behind Luis Castillo, who shot an angry glare toward the pitcher. Both teams spilled onto the field, but no punches were thrown. When order was restored, Castillo walked, and Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez came to the mound to make a pitching change. Olivo then made his move, sprinting from the mound to Reyes at third base.

Reyes said Olivo challenged him to fight. Thinking it was a joke, Reyes gestured for Olivo to come get him.

“He’s a friend of mine, I know him from the Dominican,” Reyes said. “We always talk before the game, after the game, when I come to home plate to hit. I’m kind of surprised.”

Olivo said Reyes was talking trash at third base.

“I’m a man,” Olivo said. “I take care of myself. I’m not scared of anybody – I can take anybody, anywhere I don’t care.”

Is it possible Reyes was kidding?

“I don’t know,” Olivo said. “I’m not kidding, though. I just went to the mound and I saw him talking crap.

“The thing that [ticked] me off, I got kicked out of the game and [Reyes] got a helmet and threw it at me. Nobody saw that.”

Olivo said if he’s suspended for the incident Reyes also should be punished.

Alomar said it all seemed like some sort of joke until Olivo came rushing toward Reyes.

“They were kidding around,” Alomar said. “And Olivo said, ‘You want to fight?’ Jose said, ‘I’m not going to run away from you, not going to be scared.’ ”

Alomar, 63, had no regrets that he got between Reyes and Olivo.

“I have no fear whatsoever,” Alomar said. “I was going to protect Jose.”

Olivo said the incident isn’t behind him, then contradicted himself by saying he’ll still be friends with Reyes, if Reyes wants it that way.

Gonzalez dismissed the incident as “boys being boys” and doesn’t expect any carryover to today’s game.

“We’ve played 17 games [against the Mets] and there hasn’t been anything going on, and there won’t be anything going on [today],” Gonzalez said.

 

https://nypost.com/2007/09/30/pulling-no-punches-2/