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Now THAT'S what I call an In Action card!

Dylan Ross is up. Kevin Herget has been DFA'd. Ross wearing 50.

What fun to have a 10-point game full of worthy recipients from Thursday night. A small pleasure worth noting as PotG goes the way of Pathmark and Waldbaum's.

For archival sake, this was Game 159.

For clarity's sake, tonight is Game 160.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Stockholm headquarters of the Crane Pool Forum announced today that 2025 will be the final year of Schaefer voting. A spokesperson indicated that the reasons include voter attrition, overall declining interest, and pressure from the Federal Communications Commission. The CPF Schaefer Player of the Game voting was inspired by similar voting performed by the WOR Mets broadcast team during the 1970s. Its current iteration has lasted for 21 years. The inaugural winner in 2005, David Wright, would amass six Schaefer titles. Pete Alonso is a four-time winner, and Jacob deGrom won the award three times. Other winners were Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, Yoenis Cespedes, Michael Conforto, and Francisco Lindor. Voting will continue for the remainder of the 2025 season, and the 2025 winner will be announced some time in October. Any lapsed voters who wish to return to the fold for the final days of this long-standing tradition will be welcomed. One last beer run. May it end in a champagne shower. Hoisting a Schaefer -- more than one -- to Grimm, the keeper of Player of the Game flame. His efforts on behalf of this prize will always rate a 6.0.

DeGrom on the mound at Citi Field! Will the Mets score at all against him, if just to remind him they infrequently scored enough for him? Will they score for one of the pitchers they fancy as their next deGrom? A win is a Tong time coming. 7:10 on SNY.

4-for-4 on the cards! Tyler Rogers's purpose in putting on a Mets uniform was to land horizontally in 1974. And what a thrill to see Nolan McLean's mauden cardboard voyage.

Yet we never made a play for Jimmy Key.

There are as many living 1962 Mets as there are living New York Baseball Giants.

The youngest ever among Met pitchers (and first Baby Boomer Met) preceded by one on the all-time roster the first-born among all Mets, 44-year-old Warren Spahn, the only Met to see light in 1921. In hindsight, our now 1,286-player annals had quite a run of debuts in the first weeks of ’65. 89. Ron Swoboda 90. Jim Bethke 91. Warren Spahn 92. Danny Napoleon 93. Tug McGraw 94. Yogi Berra

From Awful Announcing: This deal also means the Mets will reach 30 years with Channel 11, which seems incongruous relative to they’re having been on Channel 9 forever (37 years).

Next-day coverage of Jim Marshall’s reception at the Polo Grounds 1962 opener, when he was announced as playing in place of Gil Hodges.

Nice story. Untrue, but nice anyway. Hodges played the entire opener. Marshall pinch-hit in the 9th for Clem Labine. Home Opener, not Opening Night in St. Louis — Hodges was a late scratch and did not play; Marshall started, batted sixth and went 1-for-3 with a walk: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196204130.shtml

The last of the absolutely Original Mets, those who played in orange and blue on the Eleventh of April, Nineteen Sixty-Two. “It was a special place, a special time,” he told Post+ in a story published online this past June when asked to remember New York’s reaction to that first team. “It was unlike anywhere else I had ever been. They treated us great. Everyone was so enthusiastic. I could never forget all that.” This from the guy they booed in the Home Opener for daring to fill in for an achy Gil Hodges.

Bohm and Turner on IL for Phils, Marsh sick.

Torrens on the IL with an arm contusion; Senger back up.

Lindor SS Soto RF Alonso 1B Nimmo LF Vientos DH McNeil 2B Alvarez C Baty 3B Mullins CF - McLean RHP

1,286. Brandon Sproat

He's No. 40. May it last on him longer than it did on Blade Tidwell.

https://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/09/06/the-place-to-be-2/

Part of a large Met bullpen cohort to have performed better than Ryan Helsley.

1,285. Jonah Tong

Francisco Lindor, NL Player of the Week.

Bill Hepler, 1966 Met reliever, died at the age of 79, on August 12. He was living in Dade City, Fla. https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/43957034/william-lewis-hepler