Eponymous games

[Guest Kid Carsey]

The Alberto Castillo Game.

[Frayed Knot]

The Dave Mlicki game

[Guest iramets]

Kid Carsey wrote: The Alberto Castillo Game.

This is the one WP and I saw in Boston? Where he went nuts after Piazza got HBPed out of the game (by that crazy asshole headhunting cretin Pedro)?

I was trying to track down the date on UMBD and came across this rather personal assessment of Alberto's people skills, by his ex-wife:

"He is a bum. I was married to him in 1990 in Dominican Republic. I travelled there stayed a month during winter ball and we got married. He divorced me 3 years later, I think because I didn't get him a green card fast enough and he found someone else who did. During the time I was married to him I sent his family money, him money plus he had used my phone card to over $800 letting every Dominican on the team charge their calls home to me."

Another poster on the UMBD memories site confirms: "He is a pig.To this day me and my friends think he is a womanizer."

Anyway, it was June 5 1998 I was thinking of as the Alberto Castillo game.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I think of the Castillo game as this 1998 opening day memory for me:

METS 14TH: M. Franco singled to center; McRae walked [M. Franco
to second]; On a bunt Alfonzo forced M. Franco (pitcher to
third) [McRae to second]; Gilkey singled to left [McRae to
third, Alfonzo to second]; Lopez popped to third; CASTILLO
BATTED FOR WENDELL; Castillo singled to right [McRae scored,
Alfonzo to third, Gilkey to second]; 1 R, 3 H, 0 E, 3 LOB.
Phillies 0, Mets 1.

It was the last day of March and it was like 85 degrees and beautiful. It was
the first year I had season tickets but I didn't have them yet and we sat in
the left field field boxes. KB wanted to go, KB wanted to go, KB wanted to
go ... it was worth the sunburn and the wait.

Regarding the Cubs memory above, didn't Vic leave us before the happy
ending. I don't remember the exact seating arrangements but weren't like
six of us there. My two seats and the two next that I bought from whoever
and then two of us carpetbagged. My memory is shot.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

The Bobby Jones game was a game where I stupidly went to half the Jets
game, missed the first inning because we had to park a mile away. Probably
the most exciting baseball game I've been to. I think. See closing comment
above.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2000/B10080NYN2000.htm

[Guest Mr. Zero]

The Terry Pendleton Game.

[Guest iramets]

Kid Carsey wrote: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2000/B10080NYN2000.htm

There's some unusual stuff in that retrosheet account--editorial insertions as to what players where THINKING at times, etc. Not that I mind it, but it's kinda weird.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Gardenhire Game.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

That should be the Rick Ownbey game, for walking 8 and allowing 6 hits, yet only one run.

[Willets Point]

Secret Gardenhire.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cool. Nice to see the walkoff guy write "few remember" about a game that... I remember!

Forgot it was the first half of a doubleheader, but I seem to recall it made it out pretty easily. It also made the post-season highlight film.

[Centerfield]

="Kid Carsey"]I think of the Castillo game as this 1998 opening day memory for me: METS 14TH: M. Franco singled to center; McRae walked [M. Franco to second]; On a bunt Alfonzo forced M. Franco (pitcher to third) [McRae to second]; Gilkey singled to left [McRae to third, Alfonzo to second]; Lopez popped to third; CASTILLO BATTED FOR WENDELL; Castillo singled to right [McRae scored, Alfonzo to third, Gilkey to second]; 1 R, 3 H, 0 E, 3 LOB. Phillies 0, Mets 1. It was the last day of March and it was like 85 degrees and beautiful. It was the first year I had season tickets but I didn't have them yet and we sat in the left field field boxes. KB wanted to go, KB wanted to go, KB wanted to go ... it was worth the sunburn and the wait.

That was the game I thought of too. I moved to NY in June of '97, and shortly afterward, re-kindled my love of the Mets. (I had been a distant fan through my college years). The 97-98 off-season had been the first that I had followed with that sort of attention. It was then that I discovered WFAN.

On Opening Day, I watched all 14 innings and thought to myself we might be ok at the catcher position after all. (A few months later, we'd make trade for some guy named Piazza) Sometime in April or May of '98 I was poking around the internet and found a cool Mets site with a forum of interesting fans...

[Willets Point]

Centerfield wrote: Sometime in April or May of '98 I was poking around the internet and found a cool Mets site with a forum of interesting fans...

Wow, where is that website? I'd like to find something like that online.