Worst Game Experiences

[Gwreck]

The Luis Castillo game usually comes to mind when this question is asked.

[Chad ochoseis]

MFS62 wrote: Don't remember the date, but it was a double header against the Pirates on a Sunday. It was blistering hot, high 90's, and the only available seats were in the upper deck at Shea. The Mets lost the first game something like 10-9. So, MMYF said it was too hot to stay, I reluctantly agreed and we left. When we left the ballpark, we decided to get some pizza, so we went to a place on Northern Blvd. in Flushing. We had ordered, sat down and tried to relax. Then, we realized that the air conditioning was broken and we were too drained to leave. So we ate, sweated, and then went home. We later found out the Mets went on to win the second game with a similar high score. That might have been fun to watch. Sigh. Oh, we also were at another game at Shea that included the longest (at that time) rain delay in Mets history. Later

UMDB has a doubleheader on July 3, 1966 that fits that description (Pirates win 8-7, Mets win what they used to call the nightcap 9-8). And WUnderground says that it got up to 102 that day.

[MFS62]

Yup.
That sounds like the one.
I'm still sweating.
Thanks!

Later

[Fman99]

Gwreck wrote: The Luis Castillo game usually comes to mind when this question is asked.

I'd have to think this would have been a monumentally bad game to attend, the way it ended and all, with (I assume) plenty of YLDBs in attendance. It was rough enough to watch it on TV as it happened.

[Guest cooby]

Dad and I used to take a bus from Williamsport to Shea every year around my birthday to see the Mets. It was, obviously, my birthday present.

Maybe the second or third year we did this, the bus driver realized around Scranton that he'd forgotten to bring the tickets for the game. The poor guy called back to the bus terminal (which probably reamed him out) and when we got to the game he pleaded with the ticket office to let us have our seats, which were paid for.
They wouldn't do it so he had to buy a busload of tickets probably with his own money because I don't know that the bus company could have wired any in time.
When we got seated (mid-level; it wasn't really too bad) we could see a group of empty field level seats and Dad said "there's our seats!"

We had a good time anyway. Maybe even better, because we could crowd watch from up there


Another bus trip which was chartered from Corning, Inc, in State College, where my husband worked at the time, the bus driver got lost and we were driving around in the Bronx. Our friend Hidecki, who grew up in Flushing, woke up and groaned when he saw how lost we were and offered help, which the driver refused. Next thing we knew we were in New Jersey at a mall, where he finally asked someone for help. We were a little late for that game. Maybe four innings.

Oh and then there was the game in Pittsburgh that we also attended with Hidecki, in which the Pirates clinched the NL East against the Mets, which was Mets vs Pirates all through the season...

[Lefty Specialist]

Was at the Pendleton game and the Opening Day Gl@v!ne game, both of which were pretty bad. Was right at the tippy-top of Shea on a day when it was 35 degrees with a 30-mile wind.

But July 3, 2010 was a bummer. Mets came in 10 games over .500, playing the Nats in DC. We'd decided to make a weekend of it with friends and see the new Nats ballpark. R.A.Dickey, who'd just been picked up off the scrap heap outpitching a rookie Stephen Strasburg. 2-2 after 7, crisply played. Mets score 3 in the top of the 8th to go up 5-2, but Parnell gives up a run in the bottom of the 8th to make it 5-3.

To the bottom of the 9th. K-Rod, the new closer, had been solid if a little scary up to this point, always putting a runner or two on but always escaping. Today, though, he. just. couldn't. get. anybody. out. Nats scored 3 runs, including a walk-off single by the 43,000 year old Ivan Rodriguez. Just disastrous. It was an inflection point for both him and the team. He was never quite the same after that, and the Mets tanked as well.

To top things off, we were staying in the Mets hotel, and Henry Blanco was in the next room. His wife had some small dog that yapped the whole night, keeping us awake. One to forget.

[Gwreck]

Lefty Specialist wrote: But July 3, 2010 was a bummer. Mets came in 10 games over .500, playing the Nats in DC. We'd decided to make a weekend of it with friends and see the new Nats ballpark. R.A.Dickey, who'd just been picked up off the scrap heap outpitching a rookie Stephen Strasburg. 2-2 after 7, crisply played. Mets score 3 in the top of the 8th to go up 5-2, but Parnell gives up a run in the bottom of the 8th to make it 5-3. To the bottom of the 9th. K-Rod, the new closer, had been solid if a little scary up to this point, always putting a runner or two on but always escaping. Today, though, he. just. couldn't. get. anybody. out. Nats scored 3 runs, including a walk-off single by the 43,000 year old Ivan Rodriguez. Just disastrous. It was an inflection point for both him and the team. He was never quite the same after that, and the Mets tanked as well

I was there as well and also remember that game. Adam Dunn hit what would have been a walk off grand slam in the bottom of the 9th that was incorrectly ruled "in play" instead of a homer, and somehow the umpires didn't overturn it.