Most Memorable Mets Games of the Noughties

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

8/8/06 - Mike Piazza's return to Shea as a member of the Padres.

[Guest themetfairy]

8/8/06 - Mike Piazza's return to Shea as a member of the Padres.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

August 22, 2006. Pujols hits two home runs and knocks in seven runs. Delgado hits two home runs and knocks in five. Beltran wins it with a walk-off off Isringhausen. Michael Tucker (!) starts in left for the Amazin's, goes 1-2 with a walk and a HBP. It's the first game that popped into my head outside of those mentioned above.

[Benjamin Grimm]

These are the games (from the 2000's) that have received the most comments on the UMDB:
[list:p5n26jzj]
2000-10-26 27 (2000 World Series Game 5)
2006-10-19 18 (Endy Chavez, Yadier Molina, Beltran caught looking, nuff said.)
2000-10-07 14 (Benny Agbayani homer wins NLDS Game 3 in the 13th inning, my daughter is conceived immediately thereafter)
2007-09-30 13 (Miserable final game of the 2007 collapse)
2000-10-16 11 (Mets win NLCS)
2000-06-30 10 (Mets score 10 runs in the 8th to beat Atlanta 11-8)
2000-10-08 9 (Bobby Jones; almost perfect)
2000-07-08 8 (Clemens beans Piazza, split Shea-Yankee Stadium doubleheader)
2004-10-03 8 (last game ever played by Montreal Expos)
2000-10-05 8 (The comeback after the J.T. Snow homer)
2006-09-18 7 (Mets clinch NL East)
2006-10-04 7 (NLDS Game 1, two runners cut down at home on one play)
2001-09-21 7 (Piazza's post-9/11 homer)
2005-06-11 7 (Marlon Anderson's inside-the-park homer)
2006-08-22 7 (the Pujols/Delgado game mentioned in the previous post)[/list:u:p5n26jzj]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

8/8/06 - Mike Piazza's return to Shea as a member of the Padres.

[HahnSolo]

Included in that list is the game I was going to post: the 10-run eighth to beat the Braves June 30, 2000. Capped by Piazza's HR.

http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=6153

[Frayed Knot]

Santana's gem from 2008 that temporarily saved the season (actually put off the inevitable).

9/27/08 -- http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=7555




Geremi Gonzalez gives up 4 in the 1st to the Yanx, Mets come back with 3 in their half off Sour Unit ... Wright wins it w/a walk-off double off Mariano in the 9th following a 3-K top of the 9th from Wagner

5/19/06 -- http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=7101

[Guest Edgy DC]

2004 also gave us the "I Love Todd Zeile" game:

At the UMDB: http://leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=6788&tabno=A

At the Pool: http://p094.ezboard.com/fthecranepoolforumfrm36.showMessageRange?topicID=117.topic&start=1&stop=20

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jorge Sosa's finest hour, staving off the doom that would eventually catch them anyhow.

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=7383

[Centerfield]

Geremi Gonzalez gives up 4 in the 1st to the Yanx, Mets come back with 3 in their half off Sour Unit ... Wright wins it w/a walk-off double off Mariano in the 9th following a 3-K top of the 9th from Wagner

5/19/06 -- http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=7101[/quote:1u7j4fpy]

I didn't realize that was a Geremi Gonzalez start. I guess if we start feeling sorry for ourselves, we can take solace that the last few years have been better to the Mets than they have to poor Geremi.

[Gwreck]

The best game of 2005 was probably August 30, 2005. Late 3-run come-from-behind homer by Ramon Castro over the Phillies.

I remember NLCS Game 6 in 2006 (Reyes lead-off homer, Maine betters Chris Carpenter in an elimination game) as pretty memorable.

[Guest themetfairy]

Also, I'll need a new alibi for 8/8, then.[/quote:31uel5mc]

I'll vouch that you were celebrating MK's birthday

[G-Fafif]

Sentimental favorites, one per year, beyond the fairly obvious and, unless I've missed something, those that have been mentioned:

August 12, 2000: Mets 3 Giants 2
Giants score a run when Benny Agbayani hands a kid in the stands a live ball. That the Mets won in spite of Benny's boner makes it charming. Fondly recalled because Mrs. Fafif and I were on the last leg of our journey home from a day trip involving various trains and buses to and from Hyde Park (FDR Library, Vanderbilt Mansion) at the end of baseball-oriented vacation that involved lots of Shea, a little Jacobs Field and a cameo at the Polo Grounds. The day in question had nothing to do with the Mets but then I turned the game on that night and there they were, joining us on our adventure one more time.

September 27, 2001: Mets 12 Expos 6
After the first Brian Jordan Game and before the second Brian Jordan Game the Mets sucked it up one final time and swept the eternally pesky Expos after trailing 6-2. There was no margin for error post-9/11 and the Mets just kept fighting back in this one. The five in the ninth that put it away took, I swear, about half an hour. The inning started as I was leaving work and continued throughout an uptown subway ride and a block's walk to Penn Station to finding a seat on the train. Let out many whoops along the way.

June 29, 2002: Mets 11 Yankees 2
A pounding of the crosstown rivals that I can truly say I needed, for reasons that had little to do with the standings or anti-MFY self-esteem. We lost our cat Casey the night before and took him to Bide-a-Wee to arrange his cremation. Sadly and absently, we turned the game on not particularly concerned with the outcome. Felt uncommonly lifted by the proceedings that followed, including Roger Cedeno's straight steal of home, a spectacular misplay by Enrique Wilson and a homer to the heavens by Mo Vaughn. It's a long story, but Mo hitting one for Casey (and maybe to Casey) couldn't have been more appropriate.

July 27, 2003: Reds 8 Mets 5
Worst Met year of the decade, so sure it's a loss. It was a loss of more than a game, though. Murph announces his retirement in the sixth inning. Me, like a schmuck, left after five in an effort to execute a Mets-Cyclones doubleheader. A comedy of errors ensued, so I never got to Brooklyn and missed the announcement and ensuing ovation. I learned about it on the train home and went into shock. No more Bob Murphy? I think I'm still in shock.

August 21, 2004: Mets 11 Giants 9 (12)
The greatest game I'm certain nobody remembers. Bonds and Wright both explosive. Glavine comes back from cab ride. Looper pitches bravely. Howe even manages pretty well. Game is won on a fly ball lost by the other guys in the San Francisco sun.

April 16, 2005: Mets 4 Marlins 3
Pedro vs. Leiter, true beginning of the new era. New era didn't necessarily last as long as it should have, but everything felt different that sold out Saturday. Chris Woodward made a sensational catch in the outfield. Castro drives home Diaz in the ninth. As I'm leaving Shea amid a jubilant throng, a 7 train rolls west and everybody, without provocation, shouts and points at them. I don't know why we did it, but it felt great.

September 7, 2006: Mets 7 Dodgers 0
By my calibration, the high point of the decade. Mets 35 games over .500, 16-1/2 in first place. Jose Jose!s his way around the bases for an inside-the-parker. Slides home, calls himself safe. Damn, I think, there's no way we're not winning the World Series.

May 17, 2007: Mets 6 Cubs 5
This was the five-run ninth. Shea could not have been deader for this pre-Subway Series day game. First eight innings had almost no regulars in action. Then the Cubs' pen sprung a leak, Willie -- in his finest hour -- juggled star pinch-hitters and Delgado snuck one to right field for the win. High-fiving strangers, screaming Let's Go Mets all the way to subway, the whole bit. And I was by myself.

August 7, 2008: Mets 5 Padres 3
David's first and only walkoff homer, off Heath Bell. Went with my three best friends from high school, two of whom came to town special for the occasion of our final game at Shea together. In a season notoriously lacking happy endings, this was the real deal.

October 4, 2009: Mets 4 Astros 0
In a year best appreciated for the pleasures one could glean from it personally, this Nelson Figueroa shutout tied a bow on a strange phenomenon. The Mets won a lot when I went and were otherwise pathetic. Home record with me in attendance, 26-10; without me, 15-30; on the road, 29-52. A lovely day to end an unlovely year in a memorable if ultimately unrewarding Met decade.

[metirish]

1) -Bobby Jones - 10/08/00-NLDS - Game 4 versus the Giants , Jones one hits the Giants.

2) - Endy Chavez - "The Catch" - Game 7, 2006 NLCS - 10/19/06

3) - Benny Agbayani's game-winning homer in the 2000 NLDS.- 10/07/2000

4) - Another game from the 2000 NLDS: J.T. Snow hits a demoralizing homer off Armando Benitez, but the Mets come back and win on a Darryl Hamilton RBI, with the game ending on John Franco's top moment as a Met, his strikeout of Barry Bonds. - 10/05/2000

5) - Piazza in the first baseball game played in New York after September 11. - 09/21/2001

6) - Clemens beans Piazza, split Shea-Yankee Stadium doubleheader. - 07/08/2000

7) - Clemens tries to kill Piazza in public again, - 10/22/2000?

8) - Game One of the 2006 NLDS was October 4, 2006.

9) - Estes vs. Clemens - 06/15/2002

10) - Glavine shits the bed in 40 degree weather on opening day - 03/31/2003

11) - The Victor Diaz Game : 9/25/04

12) - 8/8/06 - Mike Piazza's return to Shea as a member of the Padres.

13) - June 17, 2001 (Father's Day). Sunday night baseball, Subway Series. The Mets come back to beat the MFYs with a dramatic 6-run 8th inning rally, capped by a Mike Piazza home run.

14) - Welcome Abordick - 07/29/2000

15) - Tom Glavine gives up seven earned runs in a third of an inning, thereby ending his Mets career - 10/30/2007 - now this was a memorable game.

16) - The 16-inning win over the Phillies - 05/23/2006

17) - The John Maine one-hitter on September 29 that got them there was also pretty memorable - 10/29/2007

18) - Omir Santos hits a disputed go-ahead homer at Fenway in the top of the ninth, and an angry Jonathan Papelbon leaps out of the dugout. Plus, a save by J.J. Putz - 05/23/2009

19) - The Mr. Koo game. - 5/21/05

20) - two HRs from The Moustache(J Valentin) - Mets 4 - Marlins 0 - 09/18/2006

21) - The four-game sweep at the Phils that kicked off the collapse in earnest, including the Marlon Anderson baseline call and the 11-10 fall-back/comeback/Wagner choke job to end it. - 08/27/2007

22) - Pujols hits two home runs and knocks in seven runs. Delgado hits two home runs and knocks in five. Beltran wins it with a walk-off off Isringhausen. Michael Tucker (!) starts in left for the Amazin's, goes 1-2 with a walk and a HBP. It's the first game that popped into my head outside of those mentioned above. - 08/22/2006

23) - Miserable final game of the 2007 collapse - 09/30/2007

24) - Mets win NLCS - 10/16/2000

25) - Mets score 10 runs in the 8th to beat Atlanta 11-8 - 06/30/2000

26) - ast game ever played by Montreal Expos - 10/03/2004

27) - Santana's gem from 2008 that temporarily saved the season (actually put off the inevitable) - 09/27/2008

28) - Mets clinch NL East - Various Mets parade around with booze and cigars - 09/18/2006

29) - NLDS Game 1, two runners cut down at home on one play - 10/04/2006

30) - Marlon Anderson's inside-the-park homer - as remembered on the UMDB.....lets not forget Floyd

1 out in the bottom of the 9th at Shea and the Angels have electric Francisco Rodriguez closing. Anderson, pinch hitting, drives one just shy of the track in right center, with RF Vladimir Guerrero running towards center and CF Steve Finley sliding while running toward RF to make the catch; he can't and it bounces off his leg and rolls into a vacant RF; he gets up and tracks the ball down, all the while Anderson is busting it around the basepaths, and despite a perfect relay throw, Anderson just beats the throw home to tie the game at 2. His face slammed into the catcher; he's there laying in pain, but when he gets up, oh what an ovation. And the capper: Cliff Floyd hit a 3-run walkoff homer in the 10th.

31) - Geremi Gonzalez gives up 4 in the 1st to the Yanx, Mets come back with 3 in their half off Sour Unit ... Wright wins it w/a walk-off double off Mariano in the 9th following a 3-K top of the 9th from Wagner - 05/19/2006

32) - 2004 also gave us the "I Love Todd Zeile" game: -
Todd Zeile hit a 3 Run Home Run to tie the game and hit a go ahead Home Run in the 10th to account for all 5 of the Mets runs in this 5-3 win over the Phillies. UMDB - 06/02/2004

33) - Jorge Sosa's finest hour, staving off the doom that would eventually catch them anyhow.
Well who would have thought that Mike Pelfrey would have been the stopper? It's the future of the Mets that saves them in the present. Coupled with Phillies loss (thanks to last years NLCS villian Yadier Molina) Mets shave 2 more games off of their Magic number. We are still a long ways away from a division title but there is no doubt the Mets needed this one. Credit Sosa for coming in and putting out a fire in the 6th and credit Alou for playing hurt and producing at the same time. Mets are off to Florida for 4 and then back home to end the season against the Nats, Cards, and Marlins. Hopefully things go well and we can capture a second straight division crown. - UMDB - 09/19/2007

34) - The best game of 2005 was probably August 30, 2005. Late 3-run come-from-behind homer by Ramon Castro over the Phillies. - 08/30/2005

35) - NLCS Game 6 in 2006 (Reyes lead-off homer, Maine betters Chris Carpenter in an elimination game) as pretty memorable. - 10/18/2006

36) - Benny Agbayani hands a kid in the stands a live ball. That the Mets won in spite of Benny's boner makes it charming - 08/12/2000

37) - After the first Brian Jordan Game and before the second Brian Jordan Game the Mets sucked it up one final time and swept the eternally pesky Expos after trailing 6-2. There was no margin for error post-9/11 and the Mets just kept fighting back in this one. The five in the ninth that put it away took, I swear, about half an hour. The inning started as I was leaving work and continued throughout an uptown subway ride and a block's walk to Penn Station to finding a seat on the train. Let out many whoops along the way. - 09/27/2001

38) - A pounding of the crosstown rivals that I can truly say I needed, for reasons that had little to do with the standings or anti-MFY self-esteem. We lost our cat Casey the night before and took him to Bide-a-Wee to arrange his cremation. Sadly and absently, we turned the game on not particularly concerned with the outcome. Felt uncommonly lifted by the proceedings that followed, including Roger Cedeno's straight steal of home, a spectacular misplay by Enrique Wilson and a homer to the heavens by Mo Vaughn. It's a long story, but Mo hitting one for Casey (and maybe to Casey) couldn't have been more appropriate. - 06/29/2002

39) - Worst Met year of the decade, so sure it's a loss. It was a loss of more than a game, though. Murph announces his retirement in the sixth inning. Me, like a schmuck, left after five in an effort to execute a Mets-Cyclones doubleheader. A comedy of errors ensued, so I never got to Brooklyn and missed the announcement and ensuing ovation. I learned about it on the train home and went into shock. No more Bob Murphy? I think I'm still in shock. - 07/23/2003

40) - The greatest game I'm certain nobody remembers. Bonds and Wright both explosive. Glavine comes back from cab ride. Looper pitches bravely. Howe even manages pretty well. Game is won on a fly ball lost by the other guys in the San Francisco sun. - 08/21/2004

41) - Pedro vs. Leiter, true beginning of the new era. New era didn't necessarily last as long as it should have, but everything felt different that sold out Saturday. Chris Woodward made a sensational catch in the outfield. Castro drives home Diaz in the ninth. As I'm leaving Shea amid a jubilant throng, a 7 train rolls west and everybody, without provocation, shouts and points at them. I don't know why we did it, but it felt great. - 04/16/2005

42) - By my calibration, the high point of the decade. Mets 35 games over .500, 16-1/2 in first place. Jose Jose!s his way around the bases for an inside-the-parker. Slides home, calls himself safe. Damn, I think, there's no way we're not winning the World Series. - 09/07/2006

43) - This was the five-run ninth. Shea could not have been deader for this pre-Subway Series day game. First eight innings had almost no regulars in action. Then the Cubs' pen sprung a leak, Willie -- in his finest hour -- juggled star pinch-hitters and Delgado snuck one to right field for the win. High-fiving strangers, screaming Let's Go Mets all the way to subway, the whole bit. And I was by myself. - 05/17/2007

44) - David's first and only walkoff homer, off Heath Bell. Went with my three best friends from high school, two of whom came to town special for the occasion of our final game at Shea together. In a season notoriously lacking happy endings, this was the real deal. - 08/07/2008

45) - In a year best appreciated for the pleasures one could glean from it personally, this Nelson Figueroa shutout tied a bow on a strange phenomenon. The Mets won a lot when I went and were otherwise pathetic. Home record with me in attendance, 26-10; without me, 15-30; on the road, 29-52. A lovely day to end an unlovely year in a memorable if ultimately unrewarding Met decade. - 10/04/2009

46) - Mets win Game 3 of the 2000 WS - Benitez gets the Save

47) - Eric Valent hits for the cycle in Montreal , and the UMDB reminds in the memory section about the guy in the stands that was riding Cameron and made the bet with him that if he(Cam) hit a HR he would leave his seat....Cameron obliged but the fan didn't....07/29/2004


48) - Game 4 of the 2000 NLCS - Mets are down 2 and rally big for the win
Perez 2B
Alfonzo 2B
Piazza 2B
Ventura 2B
Zeile groundout
Agbayani 2B and the Mets are up 4-2.

49) - Hampton 3-hit shutout and the Mets clinch their only pennant of the '00s - NLCS - Game 5 - 10/11/2000

50) - Tom Glavine "wasn't good" -A. Pujols but still managed 7 IP, 0 H, 2 BB to start the series off right. - NLCS Game 1 - 10/12/2006

51) - Cameron hits walk-off HR vs. Tigers; the night Piazza was honored for setting a new HR record for catchers - 06/18/2004

52) - Day after the Mets clinch; all-scrub lineup still defeats Marlins - 09/19/2006(good one)

53) - Mets 2, Rockies 1. Easley hits tying HR with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th; Endy's walk-off drag bunt wins it. - 04/24/2007

54) - Mets 2, MFYs 0. Final time that Clemens faces Mets; Reyes parks one and shows him up well. 7 1/3 shutout innings from Perez. - 06/15/2007

55) - Reyes dances off third and scores a 12th-inning game-tying run on an Armando Benitez balk. Moments later, the Mets win 5-4 on Carlos Delgado's second homerun of the game. - versus Giants - 06/29/2007

56) - The only time the Mets ever faced Dwight Gooden - 07/08/2000 - Grim the game memories have the wrong memories ....




How about we rustle up 5 more games to make it 50 then close this and figure out the polling....I would like to strive for an ultimate Top 10.


I have a feeling we are missing a few games , a few one hitters perhaps...D'Amico...a Glavine gem in there somewhere.....Pedro in the rain...

Edited December 9, 2009 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

The 2-run 8th plus an Armando save (but I thought he always ...) for the only WS game we won in the noughties oughta qualify.

[seawolf17]

Sentimental?

1) July 22, 2004. Blew off work with a colleague on a beautiful Thursday afternoon to head to Shea to see this Wright kid everyone was talking about. Kid got his first major league hit; I just sold the ticket stub on eBay for eleventy billion dollars.

2) May 31, 2008. MiniWolf's first and only trip to Shea.

3) September 24, 2008. The extra-inning Cubs loss during the spiral that year. My last trip to Shea; I cried like someone had eaten my dog.

(Obviously, none of those are real Top 50 material.)

[metirish]

Eric Valent hits for the cycle in Montreal , and the UMDB reminds in the memory section about the guy in the stands that was riding Cameron and made the bet with him that if he(Cam) hit a HR he would leave his seat....Cameron obliged but the fan didn't....07/29/2004

[Gwreck]

I also was a big fan of NLCS Game 4 of 2000, where the Mets start bottom of the 1st inning down 2-0 and then go:

Perez 2B
Alfonzo 2B
Piazza 2B
Ventura 2B
Zeile groundout
Agbayani 2B and the Mets are up 4-2.

Some great postseason pitching performances:
NLCS Game 5, 2000 - Hampton 3-hit shutout and the Mets clinch their only pennant of the '00s.
NLCS Game 1, 2006 - Tom Glavine "wasn't good" -A. Pujols but still managed 7 IP, 0 H, 2 BB to start the series off right.

Others:
June 18, 2004 - Cameron hits walk-off HR vs. Tigers; the night Piazza was honored for setting a new HR record for catchers

September 19, 2006 - Day after the Mets clinch; all-scrub lineup still defeats Marlins

April 24, 2007 - Mets 2, Rockies 1. Easley hits tying HR with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th; Endy's walk-off drag bunt wins it.

June 15, 2007 - Mets 2, MFYs 0. Final time that Clemens faces Mets; Reyes parks one and shows him up well. 7 1/3 shutout innings from Perez.

[seawolf17]

I also was a big fan of NLCS Game 4 of 2000, where the Mets start bottom of the 1st inning down 2-0 and then go:

Perez 2B
Alfonzo 2B
Piazza 2B
Ventura 2B
Zeile groundout
Agbayani 2B and the Mets are up 4-2.
[/quote:1g4ytc2a]
Ooh! A game I was actually at, sitting in the last row of the upper deck in the next-to-last section in left field.

[Guest Number 6]

May 29, 2007 vs. SFO - Reyes dances off third and scores a 12th-inning game-tying run on an Armando Benitez balk. Moments later, the Mets win 5-4 on Carlos Delgado's second homerun of the game.

Did we get that one already?

[Benjamin Grimm]

This one is memorable as a curiosity: The only time the Mets ever faced Dwight Gooden. http://leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=6160

[metirish]

1) -Bobby Jones - 10/08/00-NLDS - Game 4 versus the Giants , Jones one hits the Giants.

2) - Endy Chavez - "The Catch" - Game 7, 2006 NLCS - 10/19/06

3) - Benny Agbayani's game-winning homer in the 2000 NLDS.- 10/07/2000

4) - Another game from the 2000 NLDS: J.T. Snow hits a demoralizing homer off Armando Benitez, but the Mets come back and win on a Darryl Hamilton RBI, with the game ending on John Franco's top moment as a Met, his strikeout of Barry Bonds. - 10/05/2000

5) - Piazza in the first baseball game played in New York after September 11. - 09/21/2001

6) - Clemens beans Piazza, split Shea-Yankee Stadium doubleheader. - 07/08/2000

7) - Clemens tries to kill Piazza in public again, - 10/22/2000?

8) - Game One of the 2006 NLDS was October 4, 2006.

9) - Estes vs. Clemens - 06/15/2002

10) - Glavine shits the bed in 40 degree weather on opening day - 03/31/2003

11) - The Victor Diaz Game : 9/25/04

12) - 8/8/06 - Mike Piazza's return to Shea as a member of the Padres.

13) - June 17, 2001 (Father's Day). Sunday night baseball, Subway Series. The Mets come back to beat the MFYs with a dramatic 6-run 8th inning rally, capped by a Mike Piazza home run.

14) - Welcome Abordick - 07/29/2000

15) - Tom Glavine gives up seven earned runs in a third of an inning, thereby ending his Mets career - 10/30/2007 - now this was a memorable game.

16) - The 16-inning win over the Phillies - 05/23/2006

17) - The John Maine one-hitter on September 29 that got them there was also pretty memorable - 10/29/2007

18) - Omir Santos hits a disputed go-ahead homer at Fenway in the top of the ninth, and an angry Jonathan Papelbon leaps out of the dugout. Plus, a save by J.J. Putz - 05/23/2009

19) - The Mr. Koo game. - 5/21/05

20) - two HRs from The Moustache(J Valentin) - Mets 4 - Marlins 0 - 09/18/2006

21) - The four-game sweep at the Phils that kicked off the collapse in earnest, including the Marlon Anderson baseline call and the 11-10 fall-back/comeback/Wagner choke job to end it. - 08/27/2007

22) - Pujols hits two home runs and knocks in seven runs. Delgado hits two home runs and knocks in five. Beltran wins it with a walk-off off Isringhausen. Michael Tucker (!) starts in left for the Amazin's, goes 1-2 with a walk and a HBP. It's the first game that popped into my head outside of those mentioned above. - 08/22/2006

23) - Miserable final game of the 2007 collapse - 09/30/2007

24) - Mets win NLCS - 10/16/2000

25) - Mets score 10 runs in the 8th to beat Atlanta 11-8 - 06/30/2000

26) - ast game ever played by Montreal Expos - 10/03/2004

27) - Santana's gem from 2008 that temporarily saved the season (actually put off the inevitable) - 09/27/2008

28) - Mets clinch NL East - Various Mets parade around with booze and cigars - 09/18/2006

29) - NLDS Game 1, two runners cut down at home on one play - 10/04/2006

30) - Marlon Anderson's inside-the-park homer - as remembered on the UMDB.....lets not forget Floyd

1 out in the bottom of the 9th at Shea and the Angels have electric Francisco Rodriguez closing. Anderson, pinch hitting, drives one just shy of the track in right center, with RF Vladimir Guerrero running towards center and CF Steve Finley sliding while running toward RF to make the catch; he can't and it bounces off his leg and rolls into a vacant RF; he gets up and tracks the ball down, all the while Anderson is busting it around the basepaths, and despite a perfect relay throw, Anderson just beats the throw home to tie the game at 2. His face slammed into the catcher; he's there laying in pain, but when he gets up, oh what an ovation. And the capper: Cliff Floyd hit a 3-run walkoff homer in the 10th.

31) - Geremi Gonzalez gives up 4 in the 1st to the Yanx, Mets come back with 3 in their half off Sour Unit ... Wright wins it w/a walk-off double off Mariano in the 9th following a 3-K top of the 9th from Wagner - 05/19/2006

32) - 2004 also gave us the "I Love Todd Zeile" game: -
Todd Zeile hit a 3 Run Home Run to tie the game and hit a go ahead Home Run in the 10th to account for all 5 of the Mets runs in this 5-3 win over the Phillies. UMDB - 06/02/2004

33) - Jorge Sosa's finest hour, staving off the doom that would eventually catch them anyhow.
Well who would have thought that Mike Pelfrey would have been the stopper? It's the future of the Mets that saves them in the present. Coupled with Phillies loss (thanks to last years NLCS villian Yadier Molina) Mets shave 2 more games off of their Magic number. We are still a long ways away from a division title but there is no doubt the Mets needed this one. Credit Sosa for coming in and putting out a fire in the 6th and credit Alou for playing hurt and producing at the same time. Mets are off to Florida for 4 and then back home to end the season against the Nats, Cards, and Marlins. Hopefully things go well and we can capture a second straight division crown. - UMDB - 09/19/2007

34) - The best game of 2005 was probably August 30, 2005. Late 3-run come-from-behind homer by Ramon Castro over the Phillies. - 08/30/2005

35) - NLCS Game 6 in 2006 (Reyes lead-off homer, Maine betters Chris Carpenter in an elimination game) as pretty memorable. - 10/18/2006

36) - Benny Agbayani hands a kid in the stands a live ball. That the Mets won in spite of Benny's boner makes it charming - 08/12/2000

37) - After the first Brian Jordan Game and before the second Brian Jordan Game the Mets sucked it up one final time and swept the eternally pesky Expos after trailing 6-2. There was no margin for error post-9/11 and the Mets just kept fighting back in this one. The five in the ninth that put it away took, I swear, about half an hour. The inning started as I was leaving work and continued throughout an uptown subway ride and a block's walk to Penn Station to finding a seat on the train. Let out many whoops along the way. - 09/27/2001

38) - A pounding of the crosstown rivals that I can truly say I needed, for reasons that had little to do with the standings or anti-MFY self-esteem. We lost our cat Casey the night before and took him to Bide-a-Wee to arrange his cremation. Sadly and absently, we turned the game on not particularly concerned with the outcome. Felt uncommonly lifted by the proceedings that followed, including Roger Cedeno's straight steal of home, a spectacular misplay by Enrique Wilson and a homer to the heavens by Mo Vaughn. It's a long story, but Mo hitting one for Casey (and maybe to Casey) couldn't have been more appropriate. - 06/29/2002

39) - Worst Met year of the decade, so sure it's a loss. It was a loss of more than a game, though. Murph announces his retirement in the sixth inning. Me, like a schmuck, left after five in an effort to execute a Mets-Cyclones doubleheader. A comedy of errors ensued, so I never got to Brooklyn and missed the announcement and ensuing ovation. I learned about it on the train home and went into shock. No more Bob Murphy? I think I'm still in shock. - 07/23/2003

40) - The greatest game I'm certain nobody remembers. Bonds and Wright both explosive. Glavine comes back from cab ride. Looper pitches bravely. Howe even manages pretty well. Game is won on a fly ball lost by the other guys in the San Francisco sun. - 08/21/2004

41) - Pedro vs. Leiter, true beginning of the new era. New era didn't necessarily last as long as it should have, but everything felt different that sold out Saturday. Chris Woodward made a sensational catch in the outfield. Castro drives home Diaz in the ninth. As I'm leaving Shea amid a jubilant throng, a 7 train rolls west and everybody, without provocation, shouts and points at them. I don't know why we did it, but it felt great. - 04/16/2005

42) - By my calibration, the high point of the decade. Mets 35 games over .500, 16-1/2 in first place. Jose Jose!s his way around the bases for an inside-the-parker. Slides home, calls himself safe. Damn, I think, there's no way we're not winning the World Series. - 09/07/2006

43) - This was the five-run ninth. Shea could not have been deader for this pre-Subway Series day game. First eight innings had almost no regulars in action. Then the Cubs' pen sprung a leak, Willie -- in his finest hour -- juggled star pinch-hitters and Delgado snuck one to right field for the win. High-fiving strangers, screaming Let's Go Mets all the way to subway, the whole bit. And I was by myself. - 05/17/2007

44) - David's first and only walkoff homer, off Heath Bell. Went with my three best friends from high school, two of whom came to town special for the occasion of our final game at Shea together. In a season notoriously lacking happy endings, this was the real deal. - 08/07/2008

45) - In a year best appreciated for the pleasures one could glean from it personally, this Nelson Figueroa shutout tied a bow on a strange phenomenon. The Mets won a lot when I went and were otherwise pathetic. Home record with me in attendance, 26-10; without me, 15-30; on the road, 29-52. A lovely day to end an unlovely year in a memorable if ultimately unrewarding Met decade. - 10/04/2009

46) - Mets win Game 3 of the 2000 WS - Benitez gets the Save

47) - Eric Valent hits for the cycle in Montreal , and the UMDB reminds in the memory section about the guy in the stands that was riding Cameron and made the bet with him that if he(Cam) hit a HR he would leave his seat....Cameron obliged but the fan didn't....07/29/2004


48) - Game 4 of the 2000 NLCS - Mets are down 2 and rally big for the win
Perez 2B
Alfonzo 2B
Piazza 2B
Ventura 2B
Zeile groundout
Agbayani 2B and the Mets are up 4-2.

49) - Hampton 3-hit shutout and the Mets clinch their only pennant of the '00s - NLCS - Game 5 - 10/11/2000

50) - Tom Glavine "wasn't good" -A. Pujols but still managed 7 IP, 0 H, 2 BB to start the series off right. - NLCS Game 1 - 10/12/2006

51) - Cameron hits walk-off HR vs. Tigers; the night Piazza was honored for setting a new HR record for catchers - 06/18/2004

52) - Day after the Mets clinch; all-scrub lineup still defeats Marlins - 09/19/2006(good one)

53) - Mets 2, Rockies 1. Easley hits tying HR with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th; Endy's walk-off drag bunt wins it. - 04/24/2007

54) - Mets 2, MFYs 0. Final time that Clemens faces Mets; Reyes parks one and shows him up well. 7 1/3 shutout innings from Perez. - 06/15/2007

55) - Reyes dances off third and scores a 12th-inning game-tying run on an Armando Benitez balk. Moments later, the Mets win 5-4 on Carlos Delgado's second homerun of the game. - versus Giants - 06/29/2007

56) - The only time the Mets ever faced Dwight Gooden - 07/08/2000 - Grim the game memories have the wrong memories ....

57) - Opening day 2005 brought out every emotion in the book. Pedro coughs up three in the first, and his debut is looking for all the world like the recent opening day trainwrecks of Mike Hampton and Tom Glavine --- that the Mets had again gone for the wrong ace at the wrong time to start another joyless chilly opening day in the noughts. And then something crazy happens. Pedro recovers. He more than recovers, he becomes PEDRO MARTINEZ. He strikes out 12 hapless Reds in six innings with dancing changeups that has us (me, anyhow) thinking, "Wait a minute, we really got this guy? There's not going to be a recall or anything?"

Kaz Matsui opens his second of three consecutive seasons with a homer, and Pedro's fellow NewMet Carlos Beltran goes deep for three runs later, giving the Mets, old and new, a 6-4 lead in the ninth.

It's almost perfect when Looper blows it in the ninth, as it leaves Met fans to suddenly absorb the reality that scapegoating Benitez can't make it all go away. But even as the notion of scapegoating is shattered, the notion of redemptors is not, as that start by Pedro is so inspiring that the very thought of it keeps Met fans modestly warm through what should have been a soul-crushing 0-5 start for the season and for Willie's career - 04/04/2005

58) - August 23, 2009. The Mets spot the pennant winning Phillies six first inning runs in Pedro Martinez's first start against his ex-teammates, but battle back. Comeback highlights include an Angel Pagan inside the park Home Run gimme when Phils centerfielder Shane Victorino stops chasing the line drive, incorrectly assuming that the umps would call a ground rule double. Pagan's drive ends up wedged in the outfield wall padding but the umps rule that the ball is nevertheless playable. In the bottom of the ninth, down 9-7, the Mets first two batters reach base. Jeff Francouer steps up to the plate, representing the winning run with nobody out. You know the rest. - 08/23/2009






I have a feeling we are missing a few games , a few one hitters perhaps...D'Amico...a Glavine gem in there somewhere.....Pedro in the rain...

Edited December 9, 2009 by Guest

[Fman99]

Santana's gem from 2008 that temporarily saved the season (actually put off the inevitable).

9/27/08 -- http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=7555

[Guest Edgy DC]

Opening day 2005 brought out every emotion in the book. Pedro coughs up three in the first, and his debut is looking for all the world like the recent opening day trainwrecks of Mike Hampton and Tom Glavine --- that the Mets had again gone for the wrong ace at the wrong time to start another joyless chilly opening day in the noughts. And then something crazy happens. Pedro recovers. He more than recovers, he becomes PEDRO MARTINEZ. He strikes out 12 hapless Reds in six innings with dancing changeups that has us (me, anyhow) thinking, "Wait a minute, we really got this guy? There's not going to be a recall or anything?"

Kaz Matsui opens his second of three consecutive seasons with a homer, and Pedro's fellow NewMet Carlos Beltran goes deep for three runs later, giving the Mets, old and new, a 6-4 lead in the ninth.

It's almost perfect when Looper blows it in the ninth, as it leaves Met fans to suddenly absorb the reality that scapegoating Benitez can't make it all go away. But even as the notion of scapegoating is shattered, the notion of redemptors is not, as that start by Pedro is so inspiring that the very thought of it keeps Met fans modestly warm through what should have been a soul-crushing 0-5 start for the season and for Willie's career.

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=6899

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ah, yes. Joe Randa.

[Gwreck]

I seem to recall Dunn (?) hitting the tying homer off Looper first and absolutely crushing it. Even for a bigtime closer, there's not a lot of shame in Adam Dunn getting you for the occasional homer. The fact that Randa hit the very next pitch (??) also out was just unbelievable.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Where is avi when you need him.

[metirish]

62 might be a nice number to stop at. Thoughts on how the polling would work? How about a poll to trim this list down to say 25 then after that a poll to find the Top Ten Most Memorable Mets Games oif the Noughties.

Edgy you are great with polls.....how many times can a person vote in the first poll....these are things that need sorting.

Ideas please.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Make it 64, seed, and sort into subgroups.

[metirish]

Excellent.....I like the various descriptions of the games , they help jog the memory ......in the poll what do you think about using numbers that correspond with the descriptions....so you would vote on the number in the actuall poll.

Oh wait , that wouldn't work with the seeding would it?