Craig Kwizbrel

[Edgy MD]

Only four Mets have homered off of Craig Kimbrel in MLB regular season play.  Name those four Mets.

One answer per post.  No consecuposting.

[metirish]

Pete Alonso 

[duan]

Ike Davis. 

[Gwreck]

I couldn’t give the year with certainty but I definitely recall a David Wright 9th inning homer in Atlanta/blown save for Kimbrel.  Maybe 2012?  

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

As posted in the Memories thread I recall the Davis one. I think it was when he was really struggling but before the Valley Fever diagnosis and I wanted to believe it was the swing that turned his/our season around. It wasn't. Anyway Duan remembers too.

[Edgy MD]

No Alonso homer.  No Ike Davis homer.

Correct:

• David Wright (Gwreck)— May 3, 2013, 9th inning, game tying)
  https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201305030.shtml 

Incorrect:

• Pete Alonso
• Ike Davis

[duan]

Lucas Duda

[duan]

1 hour ago, Johnny Lunchbucket said:

As posted in the Memories thread I recall the Davis one. I think it was when he was really struggling but before the Valley Fever diagnosis and I wanted to believe it was the swing that turned his/our season around. It wasn't. Anyway Duan remembers too.

I'll be honest I was just trying to remember who hit some home runs for us when he was on the Braves. Can't say it was anything other then that!

[seawolf17]

Daniel Murphy?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Does anyone remember the Ike Davis home run I'm talking about?

I wanna say it was early in the season, I wanna say it was Atlanta. It was a tough left-handed reliever. Was it Johnny Venters?

[seawolf17]

I wish we had an easy way to search ancient IGTs.

Poked through Ike's BR page for a bit, though. He homered a bunch against the Braves, but none of them were particularly dramatic except maybe this one from 2013 against Luis Ayala? https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN201308200.shtml

[Edgy MD]

43 minutes ago, duan said:

Lucas Duda

Lucas Duda is our second dude to take ClassickTM Kimbrell downtown.

Daniel Mufftone is incorrect.

Ike's Valley Fever journey is one of the more bizarre incidents in Mets history.  Davis was a contemporary and something of a rival asset with Paul Goldschmidt his first year or two.  Now he's a trivia question (literally, in this thread), long consigned to civilian life, who even made a switch to pitching in his failed quest to remain on stage, while Goldschmidt is in his 16th season playing first base for the Yankees.

He just got sick and was never good again, from an exotic illness unheard of in baseball circles, as radio commenters continually spewed ignorant hot-takes about "Ike and his Jungle Fever."

Ike Davis should be starring in a Ben Stiller-directed dark comedy called Go to Hell, Paul Goldschmidt.

Correct:

• David Wright (Gwreck)— May 3, 2013, 9th inning, game tying)
  https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201305030.shtml
• Lucas Duda (9th inning, tack-on, September 18, 2011)
  https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201109180.shtml

Incorrect:

• Pete Alonso
• Ike Davis
• Daniel Murphy

[The Hot Corner]

I'm going to go with Juan Soto since he seems to hit HRs against virtually everyone at some point and time.

[Edgy MD]

Not Soto.  Not as a Met, anyhow.

In fairness, Juan Soto hasn't faced Craig Kimbrel as a Met, as Kimbrel only threw 12 innings in the bigs last year, 11 in the American League with Houston.

And of course, Soto and Kimbrel were teammates this year. (But holy crap!  Kimbrel has already thrown one inning for Tampa Bay!)

[Edgy MD]

So yeah, we have Lucas Duda and David Wright who homered off of Craig Kimbrel ClassickTM back in his indomitable Brave days.  Our other two victimized subsequent versions of Journeyman Kimbrel.

[seawolf17]

Nimmo.

[The Hot Corner]

I will take a guess that possibly Vientos got a hold of a fastball when Kimbrel was with the Phillies.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Wilmer Flores hit a lot of late-inning homers