IGT 9/15/13 Fish at Metropolitans

[Zvon]

unbelievable. Come on Mets. 2 out now for Travis.

[Frayed Knot]

The fact that virtually all of our outs for the entire game haven't left the infield makes this inning no surprise at all.

[Zvon]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaababy!

[Zvon]

Nice to see them jumpin around out there.
Turner & Hawkins with the pies! Subguys takes a pie!

[Edgy MD]

That's Tracky filling in for Guys?

[Frayed Knot]

Boy that was some display of hitting there -- a rally which consisted of a walk, a seeing eye hit, a walk, two ground-outs too soft to be turned into DPs, and a seeing eye hit.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Boy that was some display of hitting there -- a rally which consisted of a walk, a seeing eye hit, a walk, two ground-outs too soft to be turned into DPs, and a seeing eye hit.

It was like that with the Fish all game. Gettin them om, pushing them along. But they couldn't plate a run. Baseball is so wacky. The first ground out by Lutz should have been two and we got a break there. The key was Muffys single on a pitchers pitch.

[Edgy MD]

Baseball is somewhat less wacky if you square up a pitch a couple of times a game and drive it.

What's the record for the longest shutout the Mets have ever notched?

[Zvon]

Blah game (it would have been exciting if Young tried a bunt back in that spot), but good ending and some wacky baseball. That insane play by Murphy to throw to third and Flores with the push tag was worth the price of admission.

[Edgy MD]

I went and checked the indispensable UMDB .

There was a 12-inning 1-0 win 9/28/1965. Ron Hunt singled home Joe Christopher.

Turns out a lot of these wars without weapons happen in late September when I really should be back at school.

There was a 15-inning 1-0 win 6/14/1969. Wayne Garrett plated Tommie Agee.

Same year, on 8/19/1969, they also pulled off a 14-inning 1-0 shutout over Willie Mays' Giants. Agee did the hitting this time, homering off of a distance-going Juan Marichal. Hunt helped out that day by going 0-6.

No shutouts of 12 innings or more were completed thereafter until 6/17/1976. The honors were done, as they tended to be done that summer, by a Dave Kingman homer.

[Edgy MD]

In our search for 12-inning bagels, we move on to the glorious 1980s, and we find a game on July 31, 1983, when the Pirates were blanked by Mike Torrez for eleven before Jesse Orosco grabbed the win. This was one of the two Foster-knocks-in-Mookie-from-second games.



A rare spring marathon happened on April 23, 1992, as a 13-inning effort by Bret Saberhagen (9), Paul Gibson (2/3), Jeff Innis (1 1/3), and John Franco was capped in the oddest of manners, as pinch-runner Rodney McCray was sent home on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch of Darryl Boston. (Gibson was really the best you could do for the first guy out of the pen?)



What I expect will turn out to be the mother of them all took place the following year, in the midst of the miserable season of 1993. On September 29 (shocking), Bobby Jones labored for 10 innings before yielding to Jeff Innis (3), Goose Gozzo (3 more) and Kenny Greer (really?) for the final frame. The 17-inning marathon of futility was put to rest when Jeff Kent doubled in Eddie Murray.

[Zvon]

That's great stuff Edge. I'm gonna make a card for all of them using their corresponding Topps years. I never would have thought of that.

[Edgy MD]

There's a few more that I didn't get to.

And since I searched under "walkoffs" at UMDB, those are only the longest shutouts that they've had at home.

[ashie62]

Dennis Ribant 11 shutout innings....

[Benjamin Grimm]

Extra inning shutouts that the Mets didn't lose. The value before the stadium name is the number of innings.

1965-08-14 Houston Astros W 1 0 10 Astrodome
1965-09-28 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 12 Shea Stadium
1965-10-02 Philadelphia Phillies T 0 0 18 Shea Stadium
1966-06-22 St. Louis Cardinals W 2 0 10 Busch Stadium
1967-06-06 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 10 Forbes Field
1968-06-10 Los Angeles Dodgers W 1 0 10 Dodger Stadium
1969-05-28 San Diego Padres W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium
1969-06-04 Los Angeles Dodgers W 1 0 15 Shea Stadium
1969-08-19 San Francisco Giants W 1 0 14 Shea Stadium
1971-04-11 Cincinnati Reds W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium
1972-07-27 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 10 Three Rivers Stadium
1973-08-24 San Francisco Giants W 1 0 10 Shea Stadium
1976-06-17 Los Angeles Dodgers W 1 0 14 Shea Stadium
1982-10-01 Philadelphia Phillies W 1 0 10 Veterans Stadium
1983-07-31 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 12 Shea Stadium
1984-08-17 San Francisco Giants W 2 0 10 Candlestick Park
1985-09-06 Los Angeles Dodgers W 2 0 13 Dodger Stadium
1985-10-01 St. Louis Cardinals W 1 0 11 Busch Stadium
1992-04-23 St. Louis Cardinals W 1 0 13 Shea Stadium
1993-09-29 St. Louis Cardinals W 1 0 17 Shea Stadium
1995-10-01 Atlanta Braves W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium
1998-03-31 Philadelphia Phillies W 1 0 14 Shea Stadium
2001-04-12 Atlanta Braves W 1 0 10 Shea Stadium
2001-07-07 New York Yankees W 3 0 10 Yankee Stadium II
2005-04-13 Houston Astros W 1 0 11 Shea Stadium
2006-05-31 Arizona Diamondbacks W 1 0 13 Shea Stadium
2006-07-26 Chicago Cubs W 1 0 10 Shea Stadium
2010-09-13 Pittsburgh Pirates W 1 0 10 Citi Field
2013-05-07 Chicago White Sox W 1 0 10 Citi Field
2013-09-15 Miami Marlins W 1 0 12 Citi Field

[Edgy MD]

Wow, missed the 18-inning tie. Also in late September.

Of the 30 games, seven (23.33%) take place after August. Above average (16.67%), but not such a big percentage after all.