Walk-off trivia

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Tellya what weirded me out: 12 seasons, 400 games. That's a long career for so few games.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Really, but that's in part because it's a red herring. Elster played 940 games in his career. Included in that total is 537 as a Met.

Both figures are technically "over 400," but that's some major-league misdirection by our interlocutor.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: No. He started over 400 games as a position player.

I should have clarified that those 400 starts came as a Met.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Not that it helped or anything; it prevented me from guessing Amos Otis.

[Benjamin Grimm]

NEXT QUESTION:

The record for most career walkoff homers by a Mets player is four, and it's shared by four players.

Two of the four players share a last name.

The combined 16 homers by the four players span all decades (except the current one) that the Mets have played in.

Can you guess who the four are?

Carlos Beltran is not one of the four, but he can join this exclusive group if he hits one more. And hopefully he will.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shared name: Howard and Mark Johnson.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Delgado?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Delgado had 2. HoJo had 3, and Mark Johnson had zero.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shared name: Tom and Mike Glavine.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oddly enough, neither Glavine brother ever hit a walkoff home run for the Mets.

Glavine never gave one up either.

[metirish]

This would seem to be easy, it's not.

Alfonso

[Benjamin Grimm]

None for Fonzie.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Kong?

Keith and Andy Hernandy? Choo Choo and Vince Coleman? Flerg.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Keith only had one. Kingman had three. Choo Choo had one, Vince had none.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I know, right? I'm thinking Shawn and Pumpsie Green. That won't work.

I'm putting Cleon and Chris Jones out there.

[Benjamin Grimm]

One of the name-sharing guys only hit 12 homers as a Met, and four of them were walkoffs!

The other guy with that last name hit a lot more than 12. He was formerly on the Mets all-time top ten list in home runs.

The other two guys hit even more home runs than the one mentioned above.

[Benjamin Grimm]

OOPS... cross post. Edgy didn't even need my clue. Yes, Cleon Jones and Chris Jones.

Cleon's home runs cover the 1960's and 1970's, and Chris' all took place in the 1990's.

We still need a guy who homered in the 1980's and one who did it in the 2000's. (And both of them also did the walkoff thing in the 1990's.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Coolio.

Strawb and Ventura.

[metsmarathon]

strawberry

olerud

[HahnSolo]

Straw and D. Wright?

edit: scratch Wright. I missed the 90s clue. Piazza?

Edited July 14, 2010 by Guest

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Piazza.

[metsmarathon]

i might need to swap out olerud for pratt.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yes, Piazza is the guy who hit walkoffs in both the 1990's and the 2000's.

Our one remaining four-walkoff guy hit 2 in the 1980's and 2 in the 1990's.

And it's not Darryl Strawberry. (Darryl had 3: in 1985, 1988, and 1990.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hojo

[Guest Edgy DC]

HoJo was guessed already, which leaves us with McReynolds.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And McReynolds it is!

To sum up: The record for walkoff homers by a Met is four, and it's shared by Cleon Jones, Kevin McReynolds, Chris Jones, and Mike Piazza.

Thanks for playing! More tomorrow!

[Benjamin Grimm]

The record for most walk-off home runs against the Mets is 3, shared by two players. (We're counting regular and post-season here.)

There are eight guys who hit two walkoffs. Let's see if we can name all ten of them.

Here are the initial hints:

Four of them have been voted into the Hall of Fame.

Six of them have played for the Chicago Cubs. (Not necessarily when they hit the homers, thouhg.)

None of them were ever Mets.

Two of them have played in the big leagues in 2010.

Three of them made their big league debut in the 1960's.

Two of them played their entire career for the same team.

Three of them played against the Mets in the post-season. (And one of these three hit one of their walkoffs in a post-season game against the Mets.)

[DocTee]

Ryne Sandberg.

[metirish]

Sammy Sosa
Derek Lee

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Chipper.