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[Guest Edgy DC]

... Carlos Mendoza.

A 1997 Met and I don't know anything about him.

[metirish]

Coaches with the SI Yankees

A career BA of .182 but the Mendoza line is not named in his honour.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wore No. 6. September recall. I don't remember him much either.

[G-Fafif]

As a pinch-hitter, Mendoza broke up Dustin Hermanson's no-hitter on a sixth-inning single that could have been ruled an error, 9/14/97. That was going to be that (no more Met hits, that is) until the Mets got to Hermanson in the ninth, then into the Expos pen and then, finally, a two-out grand slam by Carl Everett off Ugueth Urbina to bring the Mets all the way back from 0-6 entering the final frame to a 6-6 tie. Won on Gilkey's three-run blast in the eleventh. Kept me Believing the Wild Card was not out of reach even though it ultimately was.

Carlos Mendoza had nothing to do with the remarkable comeback, but he did get that hit, which Fran Healy kept suggesting, while it was still a one-hitter, could be changed later to an error by Red Foley, to which Howie Rose scoffed, sure, it will be a retroactive no-hitter and the Expos will run out of the clubhouse and celebrate on the mound after everyone's gone home.

[Met Hunter]

That's not the same Mendoza coaching the SI MFYs. Our Carlos has darker features. I think he's living back in VZ. I noticed Wikipedia has it wrong about him coaching.

[seawolf17]

Never heard of him. You made him up.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

He taught the mambo to Alice, Trixie and Mrs. Manicotti.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's not the same Mendoza coaching the SI MFYs. Our Carlos has darker features. I think he's living back in VZ. I noticed Wikipedia has it wrong about him coaching.[/quote:1r93kncf]

Fix it.