Most Memorable Mets Games of the Noughties - Group 4

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Please vote for 10

76) - Brian Jordan Game # 2(read # 75)

77) - Pedro pitched eight good innings at MFYII , they get 1 in the first and we get 3 in the second and tack on three more through the game, they get 1 in the third and make it squeaky bum time in the ninth with two but Looper nails down the save for a 6-4 win , as remembered at the UMDB.....Beltran hit a blast and made a great game saving catch in the ninth. - 06/24/2005

78) - Opening day 2006...as remembered on the UMDB
There is nothing better than being out there for Opening Day. The Home Opener is nice, but it doesn't quite have the same feeling as the real Opening Day. Last season, for the Home Opener, it seemed like the game happened, but nobody was really prepared for it. Not this year. Everything was in place. The crowd was ready, the Bunting was in place, and the Mets took the field, and it seemed everything was right with the world.
Tom Glavine's first pitch of the season was a ball outside, prompting my friend to turn to me and say, "That's it, the season's a disaster! Break up the team!"
The first car fire of the season took place behind the bleachers in Left Field during the bottom of the 1st. Took about half an inning before firemen got to the car.
The new guys stood out, especially Nady, who ripped 4 hits, 2 of which led to runs, and LoDuca, who blooped a clutch 2-out hit in the 3rd to drive home the first run of the season.
And, of course, David "The Truth" Wright nailed his first HR of the year in the 6th, a Piazza-esque blast to Right, prompting chants of MVP! MVP! MVP!
Heilman was shaky, but a great relay throw from Floyd to Reyes to LoDuca cut down Soriano at home with the potential tying run in the 8th. Beltran also supplied a key assist from the OF as he cut down Vidro trying to stretch a single to a double in the 9th for the last out of the game, and Yes! A victory on Opening Day! - 04/03/2006

79) - Game 1 of the 2006 NLDS against LA - UMDB
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A great victory for the Mets. With everyone reeling from finding out that El Duque wasn't pitching in the Division Series, and might join Pedro in not playing at all in the playoffs, there was a lot of anxiety brewing in New York that day. But we were all able to forget about all that for a few hours. John Maine pitched a solid 4.1 innings, and an incredible play at the plate saved two runs. For some reason that I still don't understand, the Dodgers third base coach decided to send Jeff Kent and J.D. Drew around third, even though the throw was coming in from Shawn Green to Jose Valentin. Valentin threw it down to Lo Duca, who tagged Kent, looked over at the umpire, suddenly realized Drew was coming, and he tagged him too. Possibly one of the craziest moments in Mets history. Delgado had a great game, driving in a few runs and hitting a bomb, and Floyd hit a bomb that we all knew right off the bat was gone. Nomar tied it up, but Delgado got the lead right back, and Wagner made it interesting, as he always does, but we came out with the victory and that's all that matters. 1 down, 10 to go. - 10/04/2006

80) -Steve Traschel's last game as a Met....Game 3 of the 06 NLCS in St.Louis...Trach was going through personnel stuff and it was showing in the playoffs...his previous start in LA he got pulled after 3....this game caused controversy for him because there was some question as to weather he pulled himself out...faking injury or something.....St.Louis wins 5-0 and take a 2-1 lead in the series. - 10/14/2006

81) - Bob Murphy Night meshes with Piazza's first appearance at first base...in relief of Mike Glavine. A sad and weird evening at Shea. - 09/25/2003

82) - Mets forge unlikely as hell comeback versus Phillies, from down 8-4 after blowing 4-0 lead. David wins it 10-9 on two-out homer in top of ninth at CBP. Nice antidote to unassisted triple play game, 8/23/09 (whoops, I just mentioned another one). - 09/12/2009

83) - Tom Glavine wins #300 on Sunday Night Baseball against the Cubs in Chicago - Tom goes 6.1 , gives up 6 hits with 2 runs 1 walk and 1 SO - Glavine had an RBI single to help himself. - Amit over the UMDB gets carried away with his memory.
Glavine Gets # 300!!! Glavine was awesome as usual and the offense and bullpen backed him up this time. As a Mets fan I am glad I was able to watch the game from beginning to end. No doubt Glavine is a first ballot hall of famer. BRING ON THE BRAVES
Heady times indeed - 08/05/2007

84) - Mike breaks catcher longball record, 5/5/04.

85) - Not a milestone, but plenty dramatic: Mike comes off DL after three months with a resounding blast, 8/13/03 (next day the lights went out in NYC). Same pitcher -- Jerome Williams of the Giants -- gave up both. - 08/13/2003

86) - And no discussion of the decade's homers could be complete without acknowledging Mo Vaughn's 505-foot detonation off the Budweiser sign, 6/26/02.

87) - Plus latter day horror show of note: Phillies 11 Mets 10, 8/30/07 after we had a 5-0 lead, trailed 8-5 and led 10-8. Yet we were still stunned one month later - 08/30/2007

88) - Another milestone: Lenny Harris breaks all-time career pinch-hit record, 10/6/01. I swear they treated it like it was Cal Ripken Night (which was going on some 200 miles to the south). - 10/06/2001

89) - Lastings high-fives the fans following first ML home run (such a contretemps). - 06/04/2006

90) -Pratt slam beats L.A. in ninth (longest ninth-inning game in N.L. history to that point, 4:09 - 05/30/2000

91) - Mets clinch playoff berth for second consecutive year for first time ever. - 09/27/2000

92) The Chip Ambres Game. Every decade needs one of these. - 07/22/2007

93) Joe McEwing takes ownership of Randy Johnson (Mike takes him very deep, too) - 5/21/00

94) -(N): Ryan Church second concussion, beginning of end - 5/20/08

95) - Water main break delays start, Pirates wallop Ollie 13-1, Billy rags on Ollie thereafter - 4/30/08

96) - 9/25/08: Shea's last walkoff win: Beltran gets one past the lethal Micah Hoffpauir in the rain, scoring Reyes. Featured big hits by Robinson Cancel and Ramon Martinez, plus Pedro's farewell.

97) - : Delgado goes 5-for-5, his fifth hit one Omar Infante falls down on, scoring Wright in the bottom on the ninth to beat the Braves 5-4. - 08/21/2008

98) - : Delgado goes the other way, to left, scoring Cancel and Wright (David captured inadvertently posing like Captain Morgan after crossing home plate, one knee in the air), beats Phillies 3-1 to take series in which the two rivals came in tied for first...first time since September 1985 Mets entered a three-game series tied for first to play the team with whom they were tied. - 7/24/08

99) - : Damion Easley's inside-the-park home run breaks tie, keys Brian Lawrence (!) to victory over the Brewers, 12-4. - 08/02/2007

100) - Mets win longest game of the decade, 17 innings, 5-3 over the Astros. Marked by Beltran's diving catch onto Tal's Hill in the sixteenth; he drives in winning run in the seventeenth. - 07/07/2007

Edited December 24, 2009 by Guest

[Guest themetfairy]

I went with 78. 79, 82, 83 and 91.

79 is my favorite of the batch - the first and only time I've seen the Mets win a postseason game in person (I was also at Reed's loss to the Cardinals in 2000).

[TransMonk]

76, 80, 83, 86, 88, 89, 100