Great Mets vs. Padres memories

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I was trying to think of memorable games played between the Mets and the Padres, and I couldn't come up with very much. (Perhaps this coming October will finally give us a Mets-Padres game for the ages.)

The first game that came to mind was the no-hit bid by Tom Seaver that was spoiled by Leron Lee. This was the game I mentioned in the "No-****r" thread. I remember being nine years old and turning on the radio in my backyard and hearing Lindsey Nelson or Bob Murphy say, "Tom Seaver is pitching a no-hitter!"

The other memory was of back-to-back doubleheaders that the two teams played at Shea in the late summer of 1984. The reason I remember is that I was at Shea both days; I attended four games in roughly a 30-hour period.

I also checked the box score lookup popularity of Mets-Padres games on the UMDB. The first game listed, September 6, 1986, is way ahead of all of the others, which are all pretty well clustered together, and I'm really not sure why. (Nobody's posted a memory of that particular game.)

The Leron Lee game came in at number 7, and one of the four games from the back-to-back doubleheaders came in at number 6


1. September 6, 1986
2. April 22, 1970
3. May 18, 1988
3. August 16, 1989
5. April 1, 1997
6. September 1, 1984
7. July 4, 1972
8. May 23, 1986
9. August 22, 1983
10. August 27, 1975

[Willets Point]

Memorable, for bad reasons, is the Beltran-Cameron collision in San Diego on Aug. 11, 2005.

[Guest cooby]

I remember Nate Colbert hitting 4 homeruns in a doublehearder once. Was that against the Mets?

[Frayed Knot]

Seaver's 19K game (including the final 10 in-a-row) came against the Pads

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Yep, that's right. That's the April 22, 1970 game that's the second most-popular.

[Guest sharpie]

Roger Cedeno breaking Mookie Wilson's single-season stolen base Met record was against the Padres.

[soupcan]

="Willets Point"]Memorable, for bad reasons, is the Beltran-Cameron collision in San Diego on Aug. 11, 2005.

Video of same

[Guest Edgy DC]

Um, thanks for that.

Floyd was hurt that game also, but stayed in, unwisely to my thinking, because the Met bench was so short (and they were still in the game).

That same series featured David Wright's barehanded grab.

Beltran finishes the play knocked senseless and draped across Cammy's beautiful torso, but you can see him struggling. "Must stay conscious and... undrape... myself... b-because I'm... not... g-gay."

Or he sees it as unseemly to lay on top of unconsicous teammate. It could be that also.

[Guest Edgy DC]

When Trevor Hoffman wants an August landmark, he calls hte Mets:

August 15, 2001: Trevor Hoffman pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save, completing a two-hitter that lifted the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets 2-1.

August 14, 2002: Trevor Hoffman became the first reliever in major league history to have 30 or more saves in eight straight seasons in San Diego's 6-2 win over the New York Mets.

Lastly 16,1996: With 23,699 fans at the 25,644-seat Estadio Monterrey, the San Diego Padres defeated the New York Mets 15-10 in the first major league regular-season game played outside the United States or Canada.