Mike Hessman's Met Cycle

[G-Fafif]

Hessman's first four Met hits have been a double, a single, a homer and a triple: A cycle, albeit over eleven games, with a .167 average in tow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Dabidrye over his last eleven:

.122 / .182 / .171 // .353

[G-Fafif]

Took Hessman 28 plate appearances to complete the First Four Met Hits cycle.

2B: 2nd PA
1B: 8th PA
HR: 16th PA
3B: 28th PA

Last to do it? Jim Tatum, 1998: 13 plate appearances...and in "natural" order, to boot.

1B: 3rd PA
2B: 7th PA
3B: 11th PA
HR: 13th PA -- a walkoff three-run pinch-hit job, at that

Tatum, like Hessman, wore No. 19. He finished his Met career with more triples than doubles (2 to 1) AND more extra-base hits than singles (5 to 4). He is the only Met with more than one hit to be able to say such a thing.

The other Met who can say such a thing, though I don't know if he actually ever mentions it? Eric Cammack, the 2000 reliever whose only major league plate appearance resulted in a triple at Pro Player Stadium...site of Tatum's second Met triple.

ETA: As long as I'm obsessing on the topic, I've done a little more checking and discovered Jim Tatum is the only major leaguer since 1920 who has had as many as 50 plate appearances in a season (1998) and collected as many as 9 hits, with more extra-base hits than singles, and more triples than doubles, while registering at least one extra-base hit of each type.

Roberto Ortiz of the 1942 Washington Senators had 5 XBH to 2 singles (7 hits total), and 3 triples to 1 double, in 48 plate appearances. Tatum came to the plate 57 times in his only Met season.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Tatum also hit the first grand slammy in Rockies history.

[G-Fafif]

Can't get enough of the Hessman-Tatum axis, now featuring Billy Baldwin and Cory Sullivan -- here.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I was hoping this was about a lost episode of Orange County Choppers.

Oh well, this will just have to do.

[G-Fafif]

Rockin' Doc wrote: I was hoping this was about a lost episode of Orange County Choppers. Oh well, this will just have to do.

If all my research served only to set up the posting of this picture, then it was done in vain.

[Frayed Knot]

Rockin' Doc wrote:

Not only was I at that game (at least I'm assuming Lolich and Torre only pulled that stunt once) but I was up front and along that LF line somewhere.
It was the annual 'Photo Day' promotion where early arrivers could crowd the front rows and click their 'instamatics' as the players walked - or, in the case of those guys, 'hogged' - the gauntlet around the warning track.
I don't see myself in the photo and suspect I was a little further down the line.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I still have the giveaway photo album, although the pages have come loose from the binding. I don't recall any photos that were taken, or if they survived.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I assume that's 80% of the audience right there.

The late seventies Mets --- tiny crowds, but they were happy to be there.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The '10 Mets will be lucky to win as many games as the '76ers did.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Certainly, but they've already outdrawn the '76ers by a half million.