Walk-off trivia

[Benjamin Grimm]

Not Benitez, but it was a Mets pitcher.

[HahnSolo]

It probably wasn't Dennis Cook, but I would have liked to have seen Dennis Cook's reaction to having a game-ending balk called on him.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pete Falcone

[Centerfield]

I was thinking of this game:

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270529121

Benitez balked in the tying run.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He was a Met who arrived after Pete Falcone left, and left before Dennis Cook arrived.

Falcone, by the way, was on the mound for only one Mets walkoff; a bases-loaded walk to future coach Bill Robinson, then with the Phillies, on 6/25/82.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

PedroDos keeps coming to mind, but that's just because it was a game-decider in the CitiField opener, right?

I'm-a go with Orosco.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Doug Sisk

[Benjamin Grimm]

Orosco... Sisk... Very close...

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Rajah?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yup, it's Roger McDowell.

And now it's time for me to lift the curtain. All of the above information, and more, is now at your eager fingertips:

Mets Walkoff Wins and Losses

All 762 of them!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

nice!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

!

You salesman.

[DocTee]

Who has 762 fingertips?

[metirish]

Very cool....scanning quickly and this jumps out at me

Shane Spencer - Tanyon Sturtze

remember that crazy game.....

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=6815


Matt Ginter started , didn't last long. Took up music after that IIRC

[seawolf17]

DocTee wrote: Who has 762 fingertips?

Antonio Alfonseca?

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's not just this year, then. We suck at walkoffs in the whole Jerry Era. (The Jerra.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hard to imagine that Charlie Brown's historically inept team would be on the verge of a championship, but somehow it happened.




Poor Charlie Brown.



Meanwhile, the recently introduced UMDB walkoff page has received some media credit, from a WFAN blogger named John Schweibacher. (Is he an on-air guy? I've never heard of him.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Chuck also got picked off third when Snoopy had a chance to beat Hank Aaron to homer #715.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think Schweibacher does news updates sometimes.

[Gwreck]

8
Ed Kranepool
Kevin McReynolds

7
Cleon Jones
Rusty Staub
David Wright

6
Carlos Beltran
George Foster
Jerry Grote
Mike Piazza

[Gwreck]

How about Chris Jones, with 5 walk-offs in his 362 Mets plate appearances?

[seawolf17]

Reason enough for Kevin McReynolds to be the 2011 entrant to the Mets HoF.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I like him for manager as well.

[seawolf17]

I like him for manager as well.

Agreed.

Padres, 1982: .500
Padres, 1983 pre-callup: .447
Padres, June 2, 1983 through 1986: .514, NL Champs 1984
Padres, 1987: .401, last place

Mets, 1987-1991: .553, NL East Champs 1988
Mets, 1992: .444, 5th place
Mets, 1993: .364, 7th place
Mets, 1994: .487, 3rd place
Mets, 1995-1996: .459

Royals, 1991: 6th place (of seven in the AL West)
Royals, 1992: 5th place
Royals, 1993: 3rd place
(In 1994 they moved to the new five-team AL Central and finished third.)

McReynolds' tenures in bold. He made his teams better; the Derek Jeter of his time.