Best Day

[Guest Edgy DC]

What was the best day for each 2007 Met, in alphabetical order?

I'll start with one of the hardest. On second thought, it's kind of easy.

Jon Adkins had his best and only day throwing a scoreless seventh as the Mets trailed the Nats, 5-2, on July 27 at Shea. His effort wasn't enough, as the Mets would go on to lose 6-2.

After relieving Jorge Sosa to start the inning, Jonny faced the top of the Nats ineup. Felipe Lopez lined out to Wright at third, Ronnie Belliard (who would absolutely kill the Mets down the stretch), flied out to right, and Ryan Zimmerman grounded to third. Poifect.

This was Jon Adkins' best day, and we could use more of them. What was Sandy Alomar, Jr.'s best day?

Sandy Alomar, Jr.
Moises Alou
Chip Ambres
Marlon Anderson
Carlos Beltran
Ambiorix Burgos
Luis Castillo
Ramon Castro
Endy Chavez
Willie Collazo
Jeff Conine
Carlos Delgado
Mike DiFelice
Damion Easley
Pedro Feliciano
Julio Franco
Tom Glavine
Carlos Gomez
Ruben Gotay
Shawn Green
Aaron Heilman
Anderson Hernandez
Orlando Hernandez
Philip Humber
Ben Johnson
Brian Lawrence
Ricky Ledee
Paul Lo Duca
John Maine
Pedro Martinez
Lastings Milledge
Guillermo Mota
Carlos Muniz
David Newhan
Chan Ho Park
Mike Pelfrey
Oliver Perez
Jos� Reyes
Scott Schoeneweis
Aaron Sele
Joe Smith
Jorge Sosa
Lino Urdaneta
Jos� Valentin
Jason Vargas
Billy Wagner
Dave Williams
David Wright

[seawolf17]

It would have to be that one day in mid-May where he actually made a correct decision in sending a runner.

Oh, wait... you meant Junior. That would have to be July 8, when he doubled and scored in the seventh inning. Ah, the life of a fifth-string catcher.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Chip Ambres singled home the winning run in one of my favorite games of the year, the rally again the Dodgers in the rubber game of that series July 22.

[seawolf17]

Yeah, because I never liked Moises Alou either.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ramon Castro = funny-looking dancer.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Screw Alou.

No, accidently overlooked him.

Probably that dreadful 6-run 9th inning game in Septermber.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mellancamp bolluxed up my thread.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

And I unbolloxed it too, now move along.

Marlon Anderson is batting

[metirish]

Marlon has had a few and going on memory here his best day might have been when he joined the team in LA and helped beat his old team, or his bases loaded double against the Braves to ice that game.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Declarative sentences. Not mere speculation.

[metirish]

August 31 - Mets 7 -Braves - 1

RBI: Delgado 3 (77), Reyes (49), Anderson 3 (23).
2-out RBI: Delgado 3; Reyes; Anderson 3.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Quitting.

[metirish]

Beltran -

NY Mets 7, San Diego 6 08/21/07

Beltran - 5rbi




Beltran - 5 RBI, Castillo wins it in the ninth

[G-Fafif]

Momentary rebollix for Alou:

August 12: Two homers, four ribbies against Marlins at home in game Mets desperately needed (and got) after blowing back-to-back nights against the Fish. Announced with authority that Moises was back and in a groove that would carry him (if not us) to the finish line.

Honorable mention to September 21 and setting the single-season Met hitting streak record. I probably cared about it more than Moises did, but it was nice to see 25 get reached at last.

Who we up to? Ambiorix Burgos? Yeesh.

But wait! It also happens to have been the Mets' best day (arguably) of 2007: May 17. Two perfect innings, two strikeouts and a win for pitching the eighth and ninth at Shea versus the Cubs. Ambiorix kept the score 5-1 Cubs and a slew of teammates made the final 6-5 Mets.

Luis Castillo is in the on-deck circle...

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's the kind of narrative I'm looking for.

[bmfc1]

Luis Castillo: On August 5th, the Mets were the Sunday Night Game of the Week as Tom Glavine attempted to get his 300th win. The team lost a bad game the previous day against the Cubs and were trying to get the win to avoid having Glavine's attempt at baseball history hanging over their collective head for another five days. Luis Castillo was a mere 4 for 20 in his first days as a Met and some fans were grumbling as Castillo was popping up time after time (a preview of Jose Reyes' September). Before the biggest audience in ESPN history for a Sunday night game, Castillo showed why Minaya traded for him. Castillo went 4 for 5, including a double, a steal, and two runs scored. His fielding was eye opening in support of Glavine and Mets. Final score, Mets 8 Cubs 3.

On deck: Ramon "Bucket Head" Castro.

[G-Fafif]

Ramon Castro waited until September 22, a 7-2 victory over the Marlins, to make his optimal on-field impact (though he is said to keep the fellas loose inside the clubhouse), walloping a fourth-inning three-run homer off Byung-Hyun Kim at Dolphin Stadium to give Oliver Perez some much-needed breathing room (5-0) and help ensure the Mets would of their first consecutive wins in ten days.

Gosh, that was a long sentence.

Endy, Endyone?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

N.D. as in No (good) Days

[Guest sharpie]

April 24, bottom of the 12th vs. Colorado, Endy lays down a drag bunt to score Shawn Green from third to pull out a 2-1 victory. Game was scoreless til the 10th when Wagner gave up a run. Damion Easley (maybe his best game, we'll see) tied it with a pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the frame. Two innings later Endy ends it in a most unlikely fashion.


It's Willie Collazo time!

[G-Fafif]

Willie Collazo pitched himself a perfect inning in his Shea debut on September 7, a Mets 11-3 win over the Astros. That his name was spelled incorrectly on his uniform that night...

http://www.metsbythenumbers.com/?p=58

...shouldn't detract from his splendid Friday evening in Flushing.

How about the Best Met day for the erstwhile Mr. Marlin, Jeff Conine?

[bmfc1]

Jeffrey Guy Conine's best day as a Met came on August 25th as he drove in what proved to be the winning run as the Mets beat the Dodgers 4-3. Conine made his first start as a Met, batting fifth. He went 1 for 2 with a 7th inning double that scored David Wright. Conine also had two walks as he was pitched around in favor of slumping Carlos Delgado. This was the game that Aaron Heilman saved as Billy Wagner had a "dead arm" (an issue we heard more about as the season went on).

Up next: Carlos Delgado.

[TransMonk]

May 26th, 2007 - Mets at Marlins
Carlos Delgado homered twice and drove in five to power the Mets past the Marlins 7-2. This was the 41st multi-homer game of Delgado's career, tying him for sixth most by an active hitter. Delgado's bombs went a combined 878 feet. Delgado's five RBIs matched his total from his previous 10 games combined.

"You find that groove, that power swing, it's been that way my whole career. I've been feeling better at the plate. Once you start hitting better, you can find that groove." -- Delgado 05/26/07

DiFilice is on the clock.

[bmfc1]

Mike DeFelice's best game came with yours truly in attendance on a Friday night at RFK, August 17th, as the Mets defeated the Nationals, 6-2. It was a nice, relaxed game as the Mets were doing what they were supposed to do: beat the Nationals (note the foreshadowing). Before the game, I said to my 14 year old son Dylan, "if DeFelice hits a grand slam, I'll buy you a personalized DeFelice jersey." DeFelice didn't do that, but he still went 1 for 3 with 3 RBI (a career high) including a two run triple that just missing leaving the big ball park.

On deck: Damion Easley.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Beating the Nats seemed easy back when Mike DiFelice was clearing the bases with a triple off of Big Fat Ray King, to the joy of young attending Edgy. Three RBI for the Felicitator fueled Tom Glavine's 301st victory, after number 300 lauched Paul Lo Duca onto the disabled list. The momentum led the Mets to a sweep of the Nats, their penultimate sweep of the season.

"We have a starting catcher and he is not me," DiFelice said back in 2001. I couldn't, however find any 2007 quotes from him regarding this, his best day.

[Guest Edgy DC]

BASTARD!

[bmfc1]

It's Mike DeFelice MANIA!!! It was a two-run triple--the other RBI was a Sac Fly.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270817120

Odd that we picked the same given, given the plethora of great Mike DeFelice games!

[Guest Edgy DC]

You only beat me because of futile search for quote.

The factual error, well, that's beyond excusing.

[G-Fafif]

Damion Easley will happily share April 24 with with Endy, introducing himself to Mets fans with that two-out, 2-2 homer off Brian Fuentes to knot the Mets and Rockies at one in the bottom of the tenth, paving the way for the Chavez Buntoff win. He would also take the homer off Jose Valverde that tied the Diamondbacks in similarly hopeless circumstances in the top of the ninth on May 3, sparking the comeback from down 3-4 to up 9-4...and also enjoyed his sixth-inning inside-the-parker on August 2; it broke a tie in Milwaukee en route to a 12-4 rout.

But let's go with the first one. It was the most unexpected Easley of 'em all.

Pedro Feliciano has got to have some of your attention. Give it to him...

[bmfc1]

Pedro Feliciano's best day of the season came on September 1st against the Braves. Mike Pelfrey pitched a dominant 6 innings (1 ER, 1 hit), Mota pitched the 7th, and the Mets lead 4-1 when Feliciano came in for the 8th. He retired the first batter via a fly ball and then struck out Diaz and Johnson. He pitched so well that Willie Randolph actually altered his norm and left Feliciano in for the 9th--or perhaps it was the tack-on run that did the trick to make it 5-1. Feliciano then struck out C. Jones, Teixeira and McCann to end the game. 2 perfect IP, 5 K's and his second save of the season.

Next up: Julio Franco.

[G-Fafif]

Can we say Julio Franco enjoyed a superb 24 hours that covered two games? The prime choice would be April 28 in Washington when the ageful non-wonder singled home Endy Chavez in the ninth with two out to tied the game at two (this was the Saturday night when Tony Randazzo was screwing the Mets left and right). Sunday afternoon, Julio gets a big nod for filling in at first and pulling a Keith Hernandez-type play on a bunt (nabbing Austin Kearns at third) to keep the score 1-0 Mets, the eventual final.

The next name is one surprisingly spelled with more than four letters: Tom Glavine.