This Day In NY Mets History..

[Guest Edgy DC]

June 26:

Tim Harkness hit a grand slam in the 14th inning off Jim Brewer of the Cubs at the Polo Grounds on this date in 1963 to lift the Mets to an 8-6 victory. ... Rusty Staub tied Dave Philley's Major League record with his eighth straight pinch-hit in the first game of a doubleheader against the Phillies on this date in 1983.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Five years ago today. Where were you?

I was driving to Maine.

[url]http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/30/985533.html[/url]

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I was right where I am now. Except that it was my old computer chair, and probably two computers ago. I was too nervous to watch the unfolding drama on television, and only ran to the living room for the replay of the homer.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Piazza was consequential.

Avi was there.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I went to bed.

I remember finding out about the comeback on my car radio the next morning. I got the news as I was pulling into a parking spot at my local 7-Eleven.

[soupcan]

I was there.

Great night.

I lay claim to being the only fan to attend both Mets game at Shea when the Mets posted 10-run innings.

That one and [url=http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=2825]this one[/url]

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Holy cow!

That boxscore shows "A" runs in the sixth inning.

I thought I had put in code to translate the hexadecimal digits three years ago!

I guess I didn't. I'll have to add that to the to-do list.

[soupcan]

So does the box from the 2000 game. I assumed you couldn't fit two digits in there and that's why there was an 'A'.

[Guest Edgy DC]

In an odd way, I remember the 1978 game more.

Oh, yeah, I was living in New York and following it live.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

To keep things simple, I score the linescores in only two fields (one for the Mets and the other for the opponent).

So a typical entry might look like this:

Mets line score: 001100020
Opponent line score: 30001100x

I didn't want to have a separate field for each inning, as some games can go 25 innings or more. So to get around that I put an A instead of a 10, a B for an 11, etc. The part that's missing is the part that sees an A and displays a 10. I thought I had done that. I know I meant to.

[seawolf17]

1962: Sandy Koufax no-hits the Mets.
1978: Dave Parker collides with John Stearns, breaking Parker's cheekbone and causing him to wear that special face mask. (Uni Watch found a photo of it, but I can't find the Uni Watch archives.)
1989: Ron Darling homers in his second straight start, becoming only the second Mets pitcher to accomplish that feat (Seaver was the first).
2000: The aforementioned 10-run inning.

Neat day of history, methinks. And it's Ron Swoboda's birthday.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Walt Terrell homered in successive starts in 1984, I'm almost certain.

[seawolf17]

Nope. He homered twice in a game in Chicago in 1983, and his third that season came three starts later.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Seawolf beat me to it:

http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0338&tabno=4&ThisYear=1983

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bammer.

[metirish]

On July 7, 1964, the National League defeats the American League, 7-4, on Johnny Callison�s two-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Philadelphia Phillies� right fielder connects against Boston Red Sox relief ace Dick Radatz, ending the game at Shea Stadium�

Anyone here at that game?

[metirish]

On July 8, 1962, 41-year-old Stan Musial becomes the oldest man to hit three home runs in a game when he victimizes the New York Mets. The longtime star, who had homered in his last at-bat the previous game, helps the St. Louis Cardinals to a 15-1 win.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

metirish wrote: On July 7, 1964, the National League defeats the American League, 7-4, on Johnny Callison�s two-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Philadelphia Phillies� right fielder connects against Boston Red Sox relief ace Dick Radatz, ending the game at Shea Stadium� Anyone here at that game?

Saw it on TV. I think (I'm pretty sure) that was the game Ron Hunt got elected to the A-S game, the first time for a Met. I was totally jazzed.

[metirish]

On July 11, 1985, Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros becomes the first pitcher in history to record 4,000 strikeouts. Ryan notches the milestone when he fans New York Mets outfielder Danny Heep on three pitches in the sixth inning.


This is not Met history but I have to post it..

]On July 11, 1961, San Francisco Giants pitcher Stu Miller is literally blown off the mound during the All-Star Game at Candlestick Park. In the ninth inning, high winds cause the 165-pound Miller to lose his balance. Umpires call a balk, allowing the tying run to score. The National League eventually wins, 5-4, in 10 innings.

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/history/index.htm

now that would have been fun to see.

[MFS62]

I remember Stu Miller. That wind was probably several MPH faster than his best fastball.
He had two pitches, a curve and a changeup. He spotted the fastball off the plate just to let batters know he had one. Then when they were laughing at it, he got them out with another pitch.

Later

[metirish]

Again not Mets history but a Met connection..

]On July 15, 1973, Nolan Ryan pitches his second no-hitter of the season, as the California Angels defeat the Detroit Tigers, 6-0. In the sixth inning, Tigers slugger Norm Cash comes to the plate with a piano leg, instead of a bat. Cash, who had struck out his first two times up, will pop out after exchanging the piano leg for a regulation bat.

A piano leg,WTF?

[seawolf17]

New York Mets traded Armando Benitez to the New York Yankees for Jason Anderson, Ryan Bicondoa and Anderson Garcia on July 16, 2003.

Ah, yes. A great day indeed.

Anderson is back with the Yankees; he was one of five pitchers in yesterday's 17-1 laugher:

Pitchers

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

HR

PC-ST

ERA

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

]edit: Why is all that space in there? I didn't do that.

Line feeds in your HTML. If you edit, and make it look like one big thick paragraph, you'll get rid of the blank lines.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Armando likes to make peeps look bad when they take shots at him.

[metirish]

On July 18, 1964, Ken Boyer, Tim McCarver, and Bill White hit back-to-back-to-back home runs for the St. Louis Cardinals. The power outburst takes place in the eighth inning of a 15-7 rout of the New York Mets.

ouch.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Today is also the 65th birthday of former Met player and manager (and player-manager!) Joe Torre.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

="seawolf17"]New York Mets traded Armando Benitez to the New York Yankees for Jason Anderson, Ryan Bicondoa and Anderson Garcia on July 16, 2003. Ah, yes. A great day indeed.

Of those 3 guys we're still fooling around with Anderson Garcia, who's a reliever at AA.

Ryan Bicondoa was closing for an Indy League team last year.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Notevery team that has two guys sporting the first name of "Anderson," though.

[seawolf17]

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This Date in Mets History

Today is July 20
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Nothing. Nothing happened in Mets history. No birthdays, no trades, no waiver claims, no managerial firings, no deaths. How bizarre.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

July 20, 1969

Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon, proving that the previously unimaginable can become reality. This is the first of two miracles of human achievement that would occur in 1969.