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

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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?  

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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.

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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!

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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?

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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.

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  • Pete Alonso
  • Ike Davis
  • Daniel Murphy
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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!)

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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.

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2 hours ago, seawolf17 said:

Nimmo.

Brandon Nimmo wasn't quite established in the Kimbrel GLORY years in Atlanta, and didn't cross his path much after CK became a journeyman, and so far homerless vs. Dirty Craig.

2 hours ago, The Hot Corner said:

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

Mark Vientos indeed caught up with Kimmy in 2024 while the great man had been reduced to working as a setup man for Jose Alvarado.  That shot put the Mets up by one, in a game that ended as a one-run Met victory.

A pretty big shot when you consider that the 2024 Mets ended up clinching on the last day of the season.  Good job!

1 hour ago, Johnny Lunchbucket said:

Wilmer Flores hit a lot of late-inning homers

Famously so, but none against the crane-posing closer of the Braves.

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  • Pete Alonso
  • Ike Davis
  • Daniel Murphy
  • Brandon Nimmo
  • Wilmer Flores
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1 hour ago, metirish said:

Granderson 

Curtis Granderson, one-time recipient of the Roberto Clemente Humanitarian Award, was 1-for-10 against Craig Kimbrel.  Fortunately for you Curtis and for you, that one hit was a homerun!

Un-fortunately for you, that homerun came in 2018 as a member of the Blue Jays.  As a Met, Curtis went 0-for-4 (with two walks, tho'!) against Kimbrel.

1 hour ago, Johnny Lunchbucket said:

Jay Bruuuuuce

Jay Bruce went 0-for-6 (with two walks, tho'!) against Kimbrel lifetime, but merely 0-for-1 as a Met.

Bruce did not let that upset him, because he absolutely owned Lance Lynn (!!), going .349 / .392 / .674 // 1.067 against him in 51 plate appearances.  When Jay Bruce is having a bad day, he thinks about Lance Lynn and feels a lot better.

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  • Pete Alonso
  • Ike Davis
  • Daniel Murphy
  • Brandon Nimmo
  • Wilmer Flores
  • Curtis Granderson
  • Jay Bruce
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23 hours ago, Edgy MD said:

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.

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  • Pete Alonso
  • Ike Davis
  • Daniel Murphy

I'm proud of that one ;) 

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7 hours ago, metirish said:

Cepades 

While Yoenis Cespedes hit 76 different homers for the Mets off of 62 different pitchers playing for 18 different teams, he never went deep off of any version of Craig Kimbrel.

Arizona (1) Kansas City (1) Pittsburgh (1)
Robbie Ray Ian Kennedy J.A. Happ
Atlanta (9) Miami (10) San Diego (5)
Aaron Blair Adam Conley Andrew Cashner
Arodys Vizcaíno Jarred Cosart Brad Hand
Chris Martin José Ureña James Shields
Edwin Jackson Justin Nicolino Joey Lucchesi
John Gant Mike Dunn Kyle Lloyd
Luke Jackson Nick Wittgren (x2) San Francisco (5)
Michael Soroka Tom Koehler Jake Peavy
Mike Foltynewicz Wei-Yin Chen (x2) Jeff Samardzija
Williams Pérez Milwaukee (2) Matt Moore
Boston (1) Junior Guerra Mike Broadway
Matt Barnes Zach Davies Ty Blach
Chicago-N (2) New York-A (2) St. Louis (3)
Jason Hammel Domingo Germán Adam Wainwright
John Lackey Luis Cessa Luke Weaver
Cincinnati (2) Philadelphia (16) Michael Wacha
Brandon Finnegan Aaron Harang (x2) Texas (1)
Michael Lorenzen Aaron Nola (X3) A.J. Griffin
Cleveland (2) Adam Loewen Washington (7)
Bryan Shaw Adam Morgan (x2) A.J. Cole
Cody Anderson Clay Buchholz Drew Storen
Colorado (6) Colton Murray Gio Gonzalez (x2)
Christian Bergman (x2) Jeremy Hellickson (x3) Joe Blanton
Germán Márquez Jerome Williams Max Scherzer
Jon Gray Nick Pivetta Stephen Strasburg
Tyler Chatwood Vince Velasquez  
6 hours ago, Johnny Lunchbucket said:

Daniel Muffin

Daniel Murphy already guested.

 

Correct:

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  • Pete Alonso
  • Yoenis Cespedes
  • Ike Davis
  • Daniel Murphy (x2)
  • Brandon Nimmo
  • Wilmer Flores
  • Curtis Granderson
  • Jay Bruce
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Marlon Boid was not plussed by no Craig Kimbrel, going .400 / .571 / .400 // .971 in seven plate appearances.  But only two of those appearances were as a 2013 Met, when he went 1-for-2 with a single.

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  • Pete Alonso
  • Marlon Boid
  • Jay Bruce
  • Yoenis Cespedes
  • Ike Davis
  • Wilmer Flores
  • Curtis Granderson
  • Daniel Murphy (x2)
  • Brandon Nimmo
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Maybe Lindor got him once as a Met?  I forget exactly which years Kimbrel was in the AL versus the NL once he left Atlanta.

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Asdrubal Cabrera is almost forgotten now, but he showed some good Metly power during the Kimbrel Era.

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