Rockes @ Shea 1993-2008

[G-Fafif]

No playoffs, no signature moments, but moments nonetheless...

� ROCK ON! (4/5/93)
--Colorado plays and loses its first game ever; Doc opens the Shea season for the final time, winning 3-0

� LET'S GET THOSE GUYS (7/14/95)
--Mets jump all over future Mets Armando Reynoso and Juan Acevedo in 13-4 win; I break personal-worst 8-game losing streak at Shea

� FRANCO SU...AW, YOU KNOW (4/21/96)
--Johnny blows 3-2 lead in ninth, Mets lose 6-4, I boo a Met for probably the last and loudest time

� YOU BROUGHT THAT FROM HOME? (6/26/96)
--Mets complete midweek sweep of Rockies; both teams are nothing special; there is no rivalry to speak of; yet fans actually wave brooms

� ARMS GONE WILD (5/18/97)
--Rockies bullpen allows a single, five consecutive walks, three more singles and a double to convert a 4-2 lead into a 10-4 defeat

� THE QUIET MAN (5/19/97)
--Greg McMichael blows lead for Armando Reynoso in eighth; Fonzie doubles in ninth, Olerud homers for 4-3 win on a Monday afternoon when I'm listening in my office and rush out in excitement only to find nobody where I work even knew the Mets were playing a day game; I hate the MFYs

� IT ALL LOOKS GOOD ON US (8/18/98)
--For first time I can remember (and it doesn't seem like it was possible it could have happened before) Mets wear different uniform combinations for Shea doubleheader...and win both ends.

� EVERYBODY'S GRAND (9/5/99)
--Earlier in the year, Brian McRae hit a grand slam, only to be traded for Darryl Hamilton; today Hamilton hits a grand slam; not in the boxscore: Mets play current hit "Mambo No. 5" after "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," which seems to go over all right, but I never hear it again as "Lazy Mary" is institutionalized

� BUBBA WHO? (5/16/00)
--Bubba Carpenter, never heard from before or again, homers off Turk Wendell in the eleventh for a Rockie uprising

� WRONG WAY YOSHII (8/17/00)
--Mets maul mate Masato, now with Colorado, for nine runs in five innings; Bordick homers later even; Mets wins getaway game 13-2

� SCHOOL'S IN (8/21/01)
--Mike Hampton welcomed back unwarmly; Mets win 5-2; latter-day Signman photographed in Daily News brandishing TRAITOR and LOOSER placards

� HAMPTON STILL DOESN'T GET IT (5/11/02)
--Any love, that is. McEwing tags him, Leiter beats him; returns of Todd Zeile, Benny Agbayani and Rick White spark no nostalgia either

� STEVE WORKS FAST (8/18/03)
--Trachsel gets the ball, throws it, gets it back, throws it...and it works quite well: a one-hitter spoiled only by opposing pitcher's Chin-hui Tsao's double; I really thought this was going to be the day; also Cliff Floyd's final '03 appearance before surgery -- he ends on a hot streak and is showered by an ovation when everyone realizes it's his last at-bat 'til '04; finishes four-game set 11-for-15 with 6 RBI

� TEARS ON MY PELLOW (5/23/04)
--T#m Gl@v!ne's preemptive shot at absolution for all future sin, a no-hitter into the eighth until worldbeater Kit Pellow gets his Qualls on

� STILL POWERFUL (9/29/05)
--Mike Piazza smacks Sunny Kim for final Met homer; Gl@v!ne strikes out 11, allows 2 hits, goes 9; Mets win 11-0

� MORE POWERFUL (10/2/05)
--Piazza does nothing but show up in Met farewell; only game I ever saw put in park because somebody's contract was ending

� LUCKY YOU WEREN'T AROUND THEN (8/19/06)
--Mets schedule '86 reunion against expansion Rockies; old guys send chills to upper deck by cutting through field boxes; new guys wear throwbacks and stick it to team that didn't exist twenty years earlier

� EASLEY & ENDY TAKE IT AWAY (4/24/07)
--One strike from prevailing in a tense ten-inning pitchers' duel, Brian Fuentes surrenders homer to heretofore bit player Damion Easley; Endy Chavez lays down incredible drag bunt in twelfth to score speedy Shawn Green for life-affirming 2-1 win

� FIVE PITCHERS, ONE HIT (7/12/08)
--Pedro Martinez departs after four inning with tightness here and there, but Muniz, Heilman, Schoeneweis and Wagner pick up slack to preserve 3-0, 1-hit victory; Mets win eighth in a row, the last five with no more than three hits given up in any one game; but you already knew that

[nymr83]

]but I never hear it again as "Lazy Mary" is institutionalized

i HATE lazy mary. either mix it up with a different thing every night, find a better song, or just play God Bless America (or how bout the less often heard America the Beautiful)

[metirish]

] � STEVE WORKS FAST (8/18/03) --Trachsel gets the ball, throws it, gets it back, throws it...and it works quite well: a one-hitter spoiled only by opposing pitcher's Chin-hui Tsao's double; I really thought this was going to be the day; also Cliff Floyd's final '03 appearance before surgery -- he ends on a hot streak and is showered by an ovation when everyone realizes it's his last at-bat 'til '04; finishes four-game set 11-for-15 with 6 RBI

I remember that game clearly, nice round up, thanks.

[Frayed Knot]

]BUBBA WHO? (5/16/00) --Bubba Carpenter, never heard from before or again, homers off Turk Wendell in the eleventh for a Rockie uprising

I was at that one - cold night.
It's the one where Turk not only pulled off the 'fake to 3rd-throw to 1st' pick-off but did so twice in the same inning.
Unfortunately he gave up the HR first.
Oh well.

Bubba Carpenter actually surfaced in the Met system the next year but never made it to the big club.

[stevejrogers]

The Mets actually created a special program to commemorate the Rockies first ever game 41 years after the Mets debuted:



Not to be left out, they did the same when the Marlins visited Shea for the first time in May of that year



I'm disappointed they didn't do that in 1998 for the Diamondbacks, but I guess by then things were changing with the way the Mets put out their programs.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Interleague play the year before also introduced a few inaugural series.

[G-Fafif]

Necessary addendum...

� ROCKSLIDE COMPLETED (7/13/08)
--Mike Pelfrey and Joe Smith combine on 7-0 shutout to sweep Colorado in its last trip to Shea; Mets finish homestand vs. SF and COL 6-0; pitching staff yields 4 runs and 20 hits across 54 innings; Mets enter ASB on nine-game winning streak

[batmagadanleadoff]

Here's the Mets pitching line for this six-game homestand:

6-0. Four shutouts.

ERA 0.67
H/9 3.33
BB/9 3.83
K/9 8.0
HR allowed - 1 in 54 innings.


That 3.33 hits allowed figure would lead the majors in team ERA by a good margin. Awesome.