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This was probably the first time since the Mets temporarily prevented the Marlins from clinching the Wild Card in 1997 that they've taken a truly big game from them -- big for the Marlins -- and, man, it feels good.

Mets confirm Edwin, despite his progress, will not pitch in what's left of this season.

As the starting lineup indicates, Luis Guillorme has been activated. Jonathan Araúz has been optioned.

Dennis D'Agostino, who worked under Jay Horwitz in Mets PR in the 1980s before moving on to the Knicks, has died of a heart attack at 66. He wrote what, at its time of publication (following the 1980 season), was one of the most remarkable books any Mets fan could pick up: This Date in New York Mets History. The title doesn't begin to describe what a treasure trove of information and insight it was, Mets Internet before such a thing existed. Not just the data, but the warmth. It may have been the first time I read something by a Mets fan that spoke the Mets language — one of us when, again, those voices weren't readily accessible unless you knew a guy. He stayed active in sports for many years while living in Southern California. Wrote Keepers of the Game, recording the memories of the last generation of baseball beat writers from when it was still all about newspapers, plus Garden Glory, a really thoughtful and knowing oral history of the Knicks. I exchanged a couple of notes with him over the years. A very nice man.

Featuring third-sacker Ronny Mauricio.

187. Ronny Mauricio 09/15/2023

Coonrod goes down so Lucchesi can rise up.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's hard to believe he was born in 1985. When I hear that someone was a Mets fan as a kid, I tend to assume that they would have been rooting for Seaver, Koosman, Jones, and Agee, but Stearns is too young to even remember Hernandez, Carter, Strawberry, and Mookie. His youth would have been the Piazza and Alfonzo years. One of the profiles I read said his first game was won on a Dave Magadan walkoff homer, of which there were two -- I'm assuming it's the one from May 9, 1992, a Saturday afternoon when he was 7, rather than June 2, 1989, a Friday night when he was 4. (I was at both of those.) The upshot was he was happy the Mets won but sad that there wouldn't be any more baseball.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=137326 time=1694562840 user_id=68] So were any of those Pirates games not televised?

The decision to televise didn't occur until after the game of Sept. 19, the third of the five games vs PIT.

I very definitely watched that play in real time and discussed it at the bus stop the next morning with the father of one of the other kids who was impressed/disturbed I'd stayed up to see the game to its stunning conclusion.

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Wasn't scheduled to be televised, but it was. This is from the next day's Daily News: Mets on TV In Quick Deal Bowing to public pressure, the Mets televised last night's game with the Pirates and hope to do likewise tonight against the Bucs. The games were not previously scheduled under their contract with Rheingold. The Mets and Rheingold didn't receive a dime, the beer company being one of 11 special sponsors in a quick deal arranged by WOR. <span style= 21 Sep 1973, Fri Daily News (New York, New York) Newspapers.com <span style= 21 Sep 1973, Fri Daily News (New York, New York) Newspapers.com This was from the day of the game: Met Fans Ask Why No TV? Protest calls are pouring in on Rheingold like draft beer. Indignant Mets fans want to know how come no television these important pennant games. "We have received about 3.000 phone calls," disclosed a member of the public relations staff of Rheingold, the primary sponsor of Mets games. "They say. no Pirates games, and no Willie Mays Night on TV? How come! We tell them that Pepsi-Cola has turned down our request to add these games to the TV schedule. Pepsi is our parent company now. They told us they don't believe there i sufficient public interest. Can you imagine that?" <span style= 20 Sep 1973, Thu Daily News (New York, New York) Newspapers.com Hopefully the links embedded in the code will lead to the original copy.

Mets very quietly commemorating Ball Off the Top of the Wall play with a mostly unpublicized visit tonight from Cleon, Felix and Ron. "In my mind," says Hodges, a rookie on that team, "it's probably the single most important defensive play in the history of the Mets. … Some people might say (Ron) Swoboda's catch (in the 1969 World Series). And people will argue, one way or the other. "But this was a fantastic play. That play just re-energized the Mets and led us to the pennant, I think. We had that 'Ya Gotta Believe' atmosphere and to have a play like this happen, that's the only response you can have, that we're going to win. "There were a lot of writers who jumped on the idea that God had taken an apartment out in left field and wouldn't let anything out there that would hurt the Mets." To commemorate the play, the Mets are slated to host Hodges, Jones and second baseman Félix Millan Tuesday at Citi Field. (The Mets are in Miami on the actual anniversary). "It'll be good to be here now to talk about it and be able to see my teammates and reminisce about the good things that happened that year," Jones says. "I still say that play was a turnaround in the ‘73 season." It certainly set Shea – and beyond – abuzz. "Everybody all over the city was saying, 'Did you see that play? What a great play,'" Jones recalls. https://sny.tv/articles/mets-ball-wall-1973https://sny.tv/articles/mets-ball-wall-1973

The 1970 upper-case Q meshes well temporally with when I (sort of) learned to craft one of that nature in second grade. In fact, had I gotten a Quintana that summer, I might not have been confused months later by what I thought was a curly 2 when Mrs. Cohen taught our class penmanship.

David Wells makes the Roger Clemens trade look like an even swap when it comes to personality.

…find out if (or how many times) the Mets have had four rookies in the lineup batting consecutively. I'd think it's rare, but I'm never wrong sometimes. The final five in the nightcap batting order of October 2, 1965, were all rookies, with the 9-hitter throwing 15 scoreless innings (and as scoreless a tie as the Mets ever contested being the result). https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196510022.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196510022.shtml

Tim Britton visits Seaver Vineyards. It's quite a tour. CALISTOGA, Calif. — The walk takes about 20 minutes, clockwise, uphill then down, and it induces a healthy amount of sweat when the temperature cracks 90, as it does on this late September afternoon last year. “This is what he did every day,” Anne Seaver says, accompanied by three black labradors. “He walked the vineyard with his three dogs. So what I do, every day, is I walk the vineyard with my three dogs.” The walk offers exercise, a remarkable view atop Calistoga's Diamond Mountain and communion with the past. When Tom Seaver made this walk each morning, he chatted along the way with his late mother or his older brother, Charles, who'd died from cancer decades ago. A little more than three years ago, Seaver passed away from Lewy body dementia and complications from COVID-19. Now, for his younger daughter Anne, that same walk is a chance to reconnect with Tom. “All the little things I took for granted about Dad, now I appreciate so much more,” she says. “I can hear his laugh in my head, especially up here. “I feel almost closer to him now than when he was alive.” As we walk past the rows of grapevines that constitute Seaver Vineyards on a still and cloudless day, the crunch of the ground under our feet the only noise, Anne leans down to pick up a feather. “Since he's passed,” she says, “I've been finding all these feathers.” He loved birds, she explains, enough to coo at them when he came across them in the wild, enough to put a quail on the front gate at the vineyard. His favorite poem, the one written by Charles that hangs in the barn at the vineyard, is about watching the geese: Oh I wish you could have been here on that day to share the feelings that we felt to see them fly away. “The feathers are the symbols,” Anne says. “He leaves the feathers.” Outside Citi Field, sitting at 41 Seaver Way, there is one extraordinary tribute to Seaver: a statue that stands 10 feet tall, bronze and steel, the pitcher in the middle of his trademark drop-and-drive delivery. It's a testament to Seaver the pitcher — the pitcher who defined the Mets as a franchise, who won three Cy Youngs and 311 games, who for a quarter-century had received a higher percentage of votes for the Hall of Fame than anyone else in history. Some 2,900 miles west, at the top of Diamond Mountain, sits a different kind of monument: Seaver Vineyards. This one pays homage to Seaver the man, to a person dedicated not just to his craft but to the concept of craftsmanship. Tom and his wife, Nancy, purchased the 116-acre plot in 1997 when Seaver was between broadcasting gigs and feeling stagnant in retirement. He'd grown up in Fresno, and his father had worked in the fruitpacking industry, with a focus on raisins. His first job was working the land there. Later, when he lived in Greenwich, Conn., he'd built his own wine cellar out of cement and PVC pipes. “He had to make sure he had something stimulating to do,” Anne said. https://theathletic.com/4816507/2023/09/05/tom-seaver-mets-vineyard/https://theathletic.com/4816507/2023/09/05/tom-seaver-mets-vineyard/

Oakland: 42 wins Alonso: 41 homers

Hello, Grant Hartwig; see ya, Denyi Reyes.

Kid lined a double to right, literally the hardest hit from any Met in 2023: 117.3 MPH.

1,217. Ronny Mauricio

Ronny M wears 10, bats 9th and plays 2nd in his debut.