Most Memorable Mets Games of the Noughties - Group 3

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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

59) -the 2 HR game by Piazza as a member of the Padres 08/09/06

60) - Pedro takes a no-hitter into the seventh inning against the Astros....I remember someone here linked a thread from the SOSH , they had a thread going on it....I guess they missed Petey ...he went 9 innings , gave up 2 hits ,1 run , 1 walk and SO 12
06/07/2005


61) - Benny's pinch slam in the Tokyo Dome - 03/30/2000

62) - Pedro flirts with a no-hitter in LA.......Pedro coughs up two in the eighth as Williams can't catch up with the drive, and they get only one run in support of Martinez, despite four doubles...Penny went 9. - 08/14/2005

63) - Trachsel vs. the Rox, broken up opposing pitcher Chin-Hui Tsao in the sixth (one-hitter) - 08/18/2003

64) - Glavine vs. the Rox, broken up by Kit Pellow in the eighth (one-hitter) - 05/23/2004

65) - Seo, Weathers, Benitez pitch to the minimum 27 batters vs. the Marlins, 6/17/03

66) - Trachsel vs. Angels, notable for just-called-up rookie SS Jose Reyes' first HR, a grand slam -06/15/2003

67) - Final game at Shea, 9/28/08

68) - First game at Citi Field, 4/13/09

69)- Carlos Delgado, who was batting .235 at the time and sucking so badly that there was serious talk of cutting him and trading for Richie Sexson (?!?), sets a Met record with 9 RBIs to help beat the Yankees 15-6 at MFYSII. He then goes on to have possibly the best three month stretch of any position player in Met history, and had a real shot at being named MVP if the Mets had managed to win the division. - 06/27/2008

70) - Speaking of Matt Franco, the middle game of the first Subway Series sweep was a 10-9 thriller won a dribbler by Shane Spencer. 07/03/2004

71) - The next day in which Ty Wigginton dominated, was pretty great, too - 07/04/2004

72) - The first game after that losing streak is the game I remember the second-most from that year (the game I mention below is my favorite). This time our two new studs Pedro and Beltran won the game and the Mets held on. Pedro and Smoltz were dueling, Braves led 1-0 in the top of the eighth. The 0-5 start combined with some general pessimism had me thinking this was another 1 run game against the Braves that we couldn't win. Then Beltran hit a two run home run in the eighth with one out to get Smoltz out of there, and Floyd and Wright opened it up on the bullpen with home runs of their own in the inning. Got us going to win 7 in a row after the disappointing start from the new free agents and manager.

I still like to think that that game, and specifically that Beltran homer, got the franchise turned around. - 04/10/2005

73) - I also attended Piazza's last game as Met and am convinced he was blowing all those kisses directly at me. Not sure if anyone else brought that one up. - 11/02/2005

74) - A come-from-behind victory by the B-team Mets caps a three-game sweep in a 126-degree day-camp special afternoon, in which at least 50% of the attendees at the game are picnickers from the Mets Online Forum.

Bobby Valentine, appreciating the MOFo support, treats us all to three seperate leftfielders (one of whom, Mike Marshall, executes a pull-back) and ice cream.

The sweep is the first peep of hope that what seemed like a lost season may include a helluva run after all. - 08/08/2001

75 ) - On the downer side of memorable, 9/23/01 9/29/01, the two Brian Jordan games. Super sigh

Edited December 24, 2009 by Guest

[Guest themetfairy]

I went for 61, 67, 69, 70 and 74.

Benny's grand slam in Tokyo is my favorite game of the bunch, although the MOFO picnic was a lot of fun - the first time that I met many of you guys in person!

[TransMonk]

51, 57, 59, 61, 67, 68, 69, 70