Club Three

[Edgy MD]

The ten members of a very exclusive club.

Date	Player	Team	Ballpark	Victims	Score	HR on Year	Pos	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	BB	IBB	SO
9/3/65	Jim Hickman	@ Cardinals	Sportsman's Park	Ray Sadeki x3	W, 6�3	10�12 of 15	1b-lf	4	3	4	0	0	3	13	4	0	0	0
6/4/76	Dave Kingman	@ Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	Burt Hooton x2, Al Dowling	W, 11�0	18�20 of 37	rf	5	3	3	0	0	3	12	8	0	0	1
6/22/80	Claudell Washington	@ Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	Dave Goltz x2, Charlie Hough	W, 9�6	2�4 of 11	rf	5	3	4	0	0	3	13	5	0	0	1
8/5/85	Darryl Strawberry	@ Cubs	Wrigley Field	[crossout]Dick[/crossout] Derek Botelho x2, Ron Meridith	W, 7�2	13�15 of 29	rf	4	4	4	0	0	3	13	5	1	1	0
9/3/85	Gary Carter	@ Padres	Jack Murphy Stadium	Dave Dravecky x2, Luis DeLeon	W, 8�3	21�23 of 32	c	4	3	3	0	0	3	12	6	0	0	0
8/30/99	Edgardo Alfonzo	@ Astros	The Astrodome	Shane Reynolds, Brian Williams, Sean Bergman	W, 17�1	21�23 of 27	2b	6	6	6	1	0	3	16	5	0	0	0
8/15/06	Jos� Reyes	@ Phillies	Citizens Bank Park	Randy Wolf x2, Brian Sanchez	L, 11�4	12�14 of 19	ss	3	3	3	0	0	3	12	4	1	0	0
5/12/11	Carlos Beltran	@ Rockies	Coors Field	Ubaldo Jimenez, Franklin Morales, Matt Lindstrom	W, 9�5	6�8 of 22	rf	5	3	3	0	0	3	12	6	0	0	0
7/28/12	Ike Davis	@ Diamondbacks	Chase Field	Ian Kennedy x3	L, 6�3	18�20 of 32	1b	4	3	4	0	0	3	13	3	0	0	0
7/12/15	Kirk Nieuwenhuis	vs. Diamondbacks	Citi Field	Ruby De La Rosa x2, Randall Delgado	W, 5�3	1�3 of 3 and counting	lf, cf	4	3	3	0	0	3	12	4	0	0	1

[Centerfield]

I was too young for the first three. But I think I watched 6 of the last 7. (The Ike Davis game being the exception.)

[seawolf17]

I was seriously like "who the hell are Dick Botelho and Ron Meredith?" -- turns out those are (almost) actual people. (It was Derek Botelho, now a pitching coach in the Miami system, apparently.)

I remember six of the last seven; don't remember Ike's at all.

[MFS62]

I remember Jim Hickman's. But for some reason I recalled that he had done it against the Cubs.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember Strawberry's most vividly. I also recall Reyes and Carter and Claudell Washington.

I have no memory of Ike Davis', and Beltran's vaguely rings a bell. (Vanis Takee, Carlos!)

[TransMonk]

The Strawberry game was the first Mets game I ever got to see from the stands at age 10.

There was no turning back after that...I was hooked on the team.

[Edgy MD]

Sorry to mess up Botelho's name. I actually kind of remember him well (as well as could be expected). He was a sad sacrificial lamb � an over-his-head call-up during a period where Chicago had pretty much their entire starting rotation (which had been a fantastic recycled veteran unit in 1984) on the disabled list. I think he gave up two homers to Gary Carter in his very next start. Meridith was an emergency fill-in also, I think.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: Sorry to mess up Botelho's name. I actually kind of remember him well (as well as could be expected). He was a sad sacrificial lamb � an over-his-head call-up during a period where Chicago had pretty much their entire starting rotation (which had been a fantastic recycled veteran unit in 1984) on the disabled list. I think he gave up two homers to Gary Carter in his very next start. Meridith was an emergency fill-in also, I think.

I think of everyone from that era in terms of baseball cards, which is why I didn't recognize either name. Meridith made it into the 1986 Donruss set, but despite 24 innings in 1983 with KC and 44 with the Cubs in '85, never made it to the big time cardboard.

[dgwphotography]

i watched Kingman's from our room at The Concord while my parents were in the nightclub...

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember hearing Strawberry's third homer on a transistor radio (!) in the Long Island Rail Road waiting area in Penn Station.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Did anyone see the Ike Davis game? Does anyone remember having seen the Ike Davis game? (I didn't/don't, either.)

[Edgy MD]

[Edgy MD]

Pretty comparable to Ike's three-homer game.

Date	Player	Team	Ballpark	Victims	Score	HR on Year	Pos	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	BB	IBB	SO
9/3/65	Jim Hickman	@ Cardinals	Sportsman's Park	Ray Sadeki x3	W, 6�3	10�12 of 15	1b-lf	4	3	4	0	0	3	13	4	0	0	0
6/4/76	Dave Kingman	@ Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	Burt Hooton x2, Al Dowling	W, 11�0	18�20 of 37	rf	5	3	3	0	0	3	12	8	0	0	1
6/22/80	Claudell Washington	@ Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	Dave Goltz x2, Charlie Hough	W, 9�6	2�4 of 11	rf	5	3	4	0	0	3	13	5	0	0	1
8/5/85	Darryl Strawberry	@ Cubs	Wrigley Field	[crossout]Dick[/crossout] Derek Botelho x2, Ron Meridith	W, 7�2	13�15 of 29	rf	4	4	4	0	0	3	13	5	1	1	0
9/3/85	Gary Carter	@ Padres	Jack Murphy Stadium	Dave Dravecky x2, Luis DeLeon	W, 8�3	21�23 of 32	c	4	3	3	0	0	3	12	6	0	0	0
8/30/99	Edgardo Alfonzo	@ Astros	The Astrodome	Shane Reynolds, Brian Williams, Sean Bergman	W, 17�1	21�23 of 27	2b	6	6	6	1	0	3	16	5	0	0	0
8/15/06	Jos� Reyes	@ Phillies	Citizens Bank Park	Randy Wolf x2, Brian Sanchez	L, 11�4	12�14 of 19	ss	3	3	3	0	0	3	12	4	1	0	0
5/12/11	Carlos Beltran	@ Rockies	Coors Field	Ubaldo Jimenez, Franklin Morales, Matt Lindstrom	W, 9�5	6�8 of 22	rf	5	3	3	0	0	3	12	6	0	0	0
7/28/12	Ike Davis	@ Diamondbacks	Chase Field	Ian Kennedy x3	L, 6�3	18�20 of 32	1b	4	3	3	0	0	3	12	3	0	0	0
7/12/15	Kirk Nieuwenhuis	vs. Diamondbacks	Citi Field	Ruby De La Rosa x2, Randall Delgado	W, 5�3	1�3 of 3 and counting	lf, cf	4	3	3	0	0	3	12	4	0	0	1
7/29/15	Lucas Duda	vs. Padres	Citi Field	Tyler Ross, Kevin Quackenbush, Marcos Mateo	L, 7-3	16�18 of 18 and counting	1b	3	3	3	0	0	3	12	4	1	0	0

Only the third Met to get three homers in a game off of three different pitchers.

[seawolf17]

It reads like a line from one of those old awful Jayson Stark stat dump columns: "It took the Mets 53 years to get their first three-home run game at home, by Kirk Nieuwenhuis on July 12. So of course the next one came just seventeen days later, by Lucas Duda."

[stevejrogers]

This thread needs Tommy Lasorda's opinion of Kingman's performance!

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