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Benjamin Grimm
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And McReynolds it is! To sum up: The record for walkoff homers by a Met is four, and it's shared by Cleon Jones, Kevin McReynolds, Chris Jones, and Mike Piazza. Thanks for playing! More tomorrow!
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Yes, Piazza is the guy who hit walkoffs in both the 1990's and the 2000's. Our one remaining four-walkoff guy hit 2 in the 1980's and 2 in the 1990's. And it's not Darryl Strawberry. (Darryl had 3: in 1985, 1988, and 1990.)
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OOPS... cross post. Edgy didn't even need my clue. Yes, Cleon Jones and Chris Jones. Cleon's home runs cover the 1960's and 1970's, and Chris' all took place in the 1990's. We still need a guy who homered in the 1980's and one who did it in the 2000's. (And both of them also did the walkoff thing in the 1990's.)
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One of the name-sharing guys only hit 12 homers as a Met, and four of them were walkoffs! The other guy with that last name hit a lot more than 12. He was formerly on the Mets all-time top ten list in home runs. The other two guys hit even more home runs than the one mentioned above.
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Keith only had one. Kingman had three. Choo Choo had one, Vince had none.
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None for Fonzie.
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Oddly enough, neither Glavine brother ever hit a walkoff home run for the Mets. Glavine never gave one up either.
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Delgado had 2. HoJo had 3, and Mark Johnson had zero.
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NEXT QUESTION: The record for most career walkoff homers by a Mets player is four, and it's shared by four players. Two of the four players share a last name. The combined 16 homers by the four players span all decades (except the current one) that the Mets have played in. Can you guess who the four are? Carlos Beltran is not one of the four, but he can join this exclusive group if he hits one more. And hopefully he will.
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Benjamin Grimm wrote: No. He started over 400 games as a position player. I should have clarified that those 400 starts came as a Met.
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DING! Kevin Elster hit a walkoff homer for the Mets (off Alejandro Pena) on May 31, 1988, and did the same against the Mets on May 31, 2000 against Turk Wendell. Thanks for playing!
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Not Mitchell, not Jefferies, not Milner. Yet another hint: Not only did he play in the postseason; he was on a World Series winning team as a Met.
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Not Grote. Not Dykstra. Another hint: Our guy was an infielder.
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Garrett had two as a Met (one in 1970 and one in 1975) but none as an opponent.
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Not Jorgensen. Not Youngblood. Another hint: Our hero/villain has participated in post-season play as a Met.
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No. He started over 400 games as a position player.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Whatever the answer is that's an unbelieveably great trivia Q. I'll guess Hubie Brooks. Thanks! Not Hubie. His only Mets walk-off came in 1991, and his career was long over by 2003.
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Hickman had two walkoffs as a Met, both in 1963.
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Not Ventura; remember, the against-the-Mets homer came twelve years after the for-the-Mets homer. And no, not Hickman either.
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I was thinking about what I might have guessed if I didn't already know the answer, and Jeff Kent was the first name I thought of. But no, he's not the answer. Kent did the walkoff thing against the Mets on May 3, 2000 but never hit one during his time as a Met.
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There's only one player who has hit walk-off home runs both for and against the Mets. The one that came first was the one that led to a happy recap. It came against a pitcher who would later be a Met. The second homer, the one against the Mets, came on the 12-year anniversary of the first homer. It was hit, naturally, against a pitcher who was currently a Met. Anybody care to guess who this batter is?
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Just wait until the All Star Game comes to Citi Field. There won't even be home runs in the Home Run Derby! It will end in a scoreless tie!
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Thanks! Of the road uniforms the Mets wear, that's the one I like best. (Grey jersey, blue-brimmed cap.) I'd prefer to see the solid blue cap on the road, but that probably won't happen again until they're ready to close the third Yankee Stadium.
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I'm curious: What cap/jersey combo did David Wright wear?
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Massive Heart Attack For Steinbrenner
Benjamin Grimm replied to TransMonk's topic in New York Mets Talk
I got through the Daily News sports section in record time this morning. I flipped through the pages as if it was a December morning with no baseball news. It was wall-to-wall George and I had no interest in reliving his highs and lows.
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