Eponymous games

[Guest iramets]

From the IGT about the "Marlon Anderson" game, etc. I wonder how many games could be fairly said to be one particular player's game. In Anderson's case, he had neither a long nor especially distinguished Met career, so we all remember, as long as we remember him, the ITP HR and the game associated with that exciting moment. I suspect if you said "The Robin Ventura game" people will understand which game you mean-- though Ventura obviously had several memorable games, that's the first one that comes to (my) mind. This works somewhat better with opposing players, but even there it could get tricky: If you say "The Roger Clemens Game" I'm sure some people will think you mean the game he beaned Piazza and others will think the game he threw the shattered bat at him. (Some people even think ithose were both one game.)

So write a 4-word post: "The _________ __________ Game" and let us decide if we agree on the game you have in mind.

I'll start with an easy one: "The Jimmy Qualls" game.

Double points if the name you suggest is also your current posting level. Extra points for the oldest, newest, most obscure game.

[stevejrogers]

Seaver's ImPerfect Game, of course

The Ramon Castro Game

[Guest OlerudOwned]

The Victor Diaz Game

Upon edit, we had some hell of a lineup that day.

CF Gerald Williams
SS Kaz Matsui
3B David Wright
1B Mike Piazza
RF Richard Hidalgo
LF Eric Valent
C Jason Phillips
2B Jeff Keppinger
SP Aaron Heilman

Yates, Stanton, Bartolome Fortunato, Bell, Botallico, Wilson Delgado, Zeile, and one Jose Reyes made cameos, along with Craig Brazell(!) and Victor Diaz, who both homered. Who else but Ryan Dempster gave up a couple of late runs for the Cubs.

[Guest iramets]

Since I was there, with KC and Vic Sage, I remember the Victor Diaz game well--vs the Cubbies --knocking them out and pissing in their beer--at the end of the '04 season.

The Ramon Castro game is still on the board, if anyone wants that one.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

iramets wrote: Since I was there, with KC and Vic Sage, I remember the Victor Diaz game well--vs the Cubbies --knocking them out and pissing in their beer--at the end of the '04 season. The Ramon Castro game is still on the board, if anyone wants that one.

You don't remember that well or you'd remember who ya saw it with.

[seawolf17]

The Castro home run came against the Phillies, right? Late 2005?

Easy one: The Edgardo Alfonzo Game.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The one-game playoff for the Wild Card?

[stevejrogers]

seawolf17 wrote: The Castro home run came against the Phillies, right? Late 2005?

Yup. Against soon-to-be teamate Billy Wagner to effectivily end the Phillies 2005 season.

Someone please come up with the Daily News cover the next day featuring the headline "Blast-Ro!"

I saw it once on Google (Ramon Castro Mets) but now I'm coming up empty

[Guest Kid Carsey]

The Todd Pratt Game

[stevejrogers]

1999 NLDS Game 4

The Dave Magadan Game

[seawolf17]

I was thinking Fonzie's 6-for-6 in Houston, actually.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: The one-game playoff for the Wild Card?

To me that's the Al Leiter game.

[stevejrogers]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: The one-game playoff for the Wild Card?

How about his offensive display against the Astros, or his Senor Octobre performance in Game 1 against the DBacks?

OE: Seawolf says its the display against the Stros

[Guest Edgy DC]

seawolf17 wrote: I was thinking Fonzie's 6-for-6 in Houston, actually.

Soitenly.

[G-Fafif]

SteveJRogers wrote: 1999 NLDS Game 4 The Dave Magadan Game

Could be the '86 clincher, but I'll go with the breakout doubleheader against the Cubs in '90. Two games, I guess.

The Lenny Dykstra Game.

[stevejrogers]

I was thinking the 86 clincher.

1986 NLCS Game 3

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Tuffy Rhodes Game.

[G-Fafif]

Opening Day '94.

The Oliver Perez Game...

[stevejrogers]

I'm still sticking with Game 7 2006 NLCS. Yeah the pen blew it, and yeah he left with a tie ballgame, but that was one of the top postseason pitching performances we have ever had.

[G-Fafif]

For tonight I'll go with tonight. But I don't have a lot of perspective at the moment.

Ditto the Endy Chavez Game.

[Frayed Knot]

<<<<------------- The Steve Henderson game was already mentioned in the other thread


I was w/Dickshot at "The Bobby Jones Game"

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Others that come to mind:

The Mike Scoiscia game
The Eric Davis game
The Mr. Koo game
The Matt Franco game

[Guest Edgy DC]

I have no problem thinking of the game where Rusty flip-flopped between left and right as the Rusty Staub Game.

Does the invocation of Olerud-Schilling suggest that duos are allowed?

The Rose-Harrelson Game. The Cameron-Beltran Game. The Knight-Davis Game.

Does Angel Hernandez get a game, or are their too many for one to stand out?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think of the Mike Scott game as the Game Seven that never happened.

Let's try this differently. I give the date and you give the eponym. 10-1-1982.

[Gwreck]

I would call the Knight-Davis game The Brawl Game.

The Benny Agbayani game.

The Dave Mlicki game.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

The Fucking Timo Game

[Guest iramets]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: You don't remember that well or you'd remember who ya saw it with.

My memory is at odds with yours; of course my memory is also at odds with my hand-written notes on the backs of the stubs. Sorry.

I remember the DIck Rusteck game. My little brother got go to that one, and stayed home and listened to the radio.

Is the benny agbayana game the opener in Japan, or the brainfreeze live-baseball giveaway one?

The Bill Buckner game, of course. The Todd Pratt game. The Jim Bunning game. The Jimmy Piersall game. The Steve Finley game.

[Gwreck]

Which one is the the Steve Finley game? Note that Steve also played a fairly significant role in both the Todd Pratt game and the Marlon Anderson game.

I was thinking that the Agbayani game was the 13th inning homer off Aaron Fultz in 2000 NLDS Game 3.

[Guest iramets]

Gwreck wrote: Which one is the the Steve Finley game? Note that Steve also played a fairly significant role in both the Todd Pratt game and the Marlon Anderson game. I was thinking that the Agbayani game was the 13th inning homer off Aaron Fultz in 2000 NLDS Game 3.

Ahh, this is complex stuff. The same one as the Todd Pratt game, is what i was thinking. The looking-in-the-glove one, and we all go nuts

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'd also call the one-game playoff in 1999 the "Al Leiter Game"

To me, the "Edgardo Alfonzo Game" would be this one:

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=6067