While there is no game today in Syracuse, per Twitter: the Syracuse Mets will be broadcasting gameplay of the “MLB
The Show 20” video game played by @Mets catcher @ReneRivera13. They’ll begin a virtual broadcast with a
pre-recorded game shown on our Facebook page tomorrow at 2:05 p.m.
SNY.TV:
WATCH: New York teams release unified video with sports on hold due to
coronavirus. The Mets, Yankees, Jets, Giants, Buffalo Bills, and
Knicks were among 15 New York teams to post the video.
Centerfield
Maz: Remembering Mets History (2000): NL Champion Mets Have Season Best Win
Streak At Nine Games. April 16-April 24,
2000. Maz has lots of game details
during the stretch from big names like Mike Piazza
and Robin
Ventura, but also names like Jon Nunnally
and Pat
Mahomes.
SNY.TV:
Mets' Pete Alonso
drops in on high school geometry class on Zoom. 'I don't even know what the
hell a cyclic quadrilateral is'
SNY.TV:
Mets' Jeff McNeil on Noah Syndergaard's injury, what he expects from Luis Rojas.
Regarding Rojas: "Everyone was super excited for the hire," Jeff McNeil
said. "We all love Luis, he's been in the organization a long time --
spent 14 years in the organization. Just about everybody that's gone through
our system has played for him at some time. Guys like playing for him. I think
he was the best guy for the job in the situation we were in. ...”
Rising
Apple: If Mets history rhymes, David Peterson will be a midseason asset in 2020. Tim Boyle says: History may not repeat
itself, but it can rhyme. And in 2020, we may see David
Peterson play a role closely resembling what Noah
Syndergaard did for the New York Mets in 2015.
SNY.TV
is asking you to rank the top 5 games of the decade which they will then show
the week of April 20th. They
want you to choose among Johan
Santana’s No Hitter, Wilmer
Flores Walk-Off, David
Wright’s 2015 return, the 2015 division clincher, or David
Wright’s final game. All good
games but I say that the 2015 NLDS clincher against
the Dodgers and the 2015 September game against
the Nationals where they game back from a 7-1 hole should be there
before the 2015 division clincher.
Jim O’Malley Mets 360.com: Mets Song of the
Month: ‘There’s Dirt on old Fifteen’. An Ode to Jerry Grote.
Empire
Writes Back: The Zack Wheeler divorce really hurts now. That decision looks even worse now that Noah
Syndergaard is out.
MLB News:
MLB.com:
MLB players team up, offer kids millions of meals. Mets Steven Matz
and Michael
Wacha are part of the effort.
MLB.com: One
weird nicknamed player from each MLB team. For the Mets Marvelous Marv
Throneberry. That Famous Beer commercial
is included.
MLB.com:
Today is the greatest debut date in MLB history. Frank Robinson, Luis Aparicio, and Don
Drysdale all debuted today April 17, 1956.
NY
Post: Mike Trout’s big worry over MLB’s ‘pretty crazy’ Arizona plan. Mike Trout
said Wednesday in a video interview with NBC Sports. “What are you gonna do
with family members? My wife is pregnant. What am I gonna do when she goes into
labor? Am I going to have to quarantine for two weeks after I come back?
Yahoo
Sports: Hall of Fame case closed? These baseball legacies could suffer if MLB's
season is canceled. Among those listed that will be hurt are Joey Votto,
Matt
Chapman, Josh
Donaldson, Dusty
Baker, and Jacob
deGrom.
NY
Post: Longtime scout Cesar Presbott retiring after 28 years with Yankees. He had a hand in Dellin
Betances becoming a Yankee out of Grand Street Campus High School in
Brooklyn.
A
Missed Opportunity For The Tigers? In 2017, the Cubs were apparently
willing to give up Javier Baez for Michael Fulmer, while the Astros would have
surrendered Alex Bregman for Michael Fulmer and reliever Justin Wilson.
The
Awkward Tenure & Uncertain Future Of A Steady Dodgers Slugger. Which
Dodgers player has hit the most total dingers since the start of the 2015
season? That’d be outfielder Joc Pederson.
Asian Baseball:
Korea Times:
American pitcher Mike Wright ready for 'challenge' vs. ex-MLB teammate in KBO. Former Oriole Mike Wright
of of the NC Dinos will have to face another former Baltimore teammate of his,
outfielder Kim
Hyun-soo when he pitches against the KBO Twins.
Yesterday in the Taiwan CBL, the Rakuten Monkeys beat the
Uni Lions 15-3 (Line Score).
Some Video Highlights via twitter: Unstoppable man! 10
AB, 7H (5 HR), 9RBI, OPS 2.900. Zhu,Yu-Xian is on fire. Here is a Uni Lions
home run.
You
can watch the English version of the Taiwan CBL game today starting at 6:30 on
twitter. 2020/4/17 CPBL Fubon
Guardian vs Rakuten Monkeys. They are also streaming here (not in English).
Mack’s
Blast From The Past: Mack Ade – Daily Minors Report - 4-17-12. Matt den
Dekker, Wilmer Flores, and Gonzalez Germen are among those mentioned.
Born on
this date:
- Solly Hemus (1923)
- Denny Walling (1954)
- Gary Bennett (1972)
- Jed Lowrie (1984)
1964
|
After spending the first two years
of their existence at the Polo Grounds, the Mets play their first game at
Shea Stadium in front of 50,312 fans in Queens. The Amazins' drop the stadium
opener to Pittsburgh, 4-3, with Willie Stargell hitting the first
homer in the Flushing facility.
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1969
|
In only the ninth game of the
franchise's history, Expos hurler Bill Stoneman, who had never
thrown a complete game in the major leagues, tosses a no-hitter, defeating
the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium, 7-0. The 25 year-old right-hander, the
future GM of the Angels, will throw another no-hit game in 1972 against the
Mets.
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2006
|
In front of 36,867 Shea Stadium
patrons, Pedro Martinez becomes the 103rd
pitcher in major league history to win 200 games when the Mets beat the
Braves, 4-3. The Dominican ace has lost only 84 contests at the time of
reaching the milestone, putting him behind only Bob Caruthers (74), Whitey Ford (79), and Lefty Grove (83).
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2009
|
At Citi Field, Gary Sheffield becomes the 25th
player to hit 500 career home runs. Joining Ty Cobb and Rusty Staub as the only major
leaguers to homer as a teenager and as a forty year-old, the recently
released Tiger DH becomes the first to reach the milestone as a pinch hitter
and the first to accomplish the feat in a Mets uniform.
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1967
- In the only game scheduled on this Monday evening, the New
York Mets pound Pittsburgh, 9 - 6. Obscured amidst the
offensive fireworks is the sorry plight of poor Jerry Buchek, a career backup infielder on the
verge of his career year who's got to be wondering what he ever did to Pirate
right fielder Roberto Clemente, likewise embarking on his
own best-ever season. Clemente abuses Buchek on both sides of the ball, starting
with his 2nd-inning snatch of his 400-footer to right center. Pirate beat
writer Les Biederman reports: "Clemente went
toward the exit gate for a startling back-handed stab of Buchek's long
drive." Next inning, one of Roberto's patented one-hop rockets undresses
the Met second baseman even as it dares him to return Clemente's favor.
"Clemente slammed a vicious one-hop shot right at Buchek," writes
Biederman, "but the second baseman dropped the ball as he set himself to
throw."
1970 - Bud Harrelson of the New York Mets hits a
home run in the 1st inning of a 6 - 0 win over the Phillies. The homer is one
of only seven in Harrelson's 16-year career and the only one he will ever hit
at Shea Stadium.
2006: At Shea Stadium, the Mets continue their
strong start to the season with a 4 - 3 victory over Atlanta as Pedro Martinez
collects his 200th win with relief help from Duaner Sanchez and Billy Wagner.
Martinez, from the Dominican Republic, improves his record to 200-84 and joins
Dennis Martinez of Nicaragua (245-193), Dominican Juan Marichal (243-142) and
Cuban Luis Tiant (229-172), as the only Hispanic American pitchers to reach the
200-win major league mark.
2009 - Gary Sheffield becomes the 25th member of
the 500 home run club. He delivers a pinch-hit homer off the Brewers' Mitch
Stetter in the 7th inning of a game at Citi Field, still in its first month of
operation. It is Sheffield's first home run for the New York Mets, after having
been released in spring training by the Detroit Tigers while sitting on 499
home runs. The Mets win the game, 5 - 4, on Luis Castillo's 9th inning two-out
single.
2010: The Mets need 20 innings to beat the
Cardinals, 2 - 1, in the longest game since this date in 2008. Jose Reyes
drives in the winning run with a sacrifice fly after going 0 for 7 for the day
in a game dominated by the pitchers. Both starters, Johan Santana for New York
and Jaime Garcia for St. Louis, pitch 7 scoreless innings and the game is still
scoreless after 17 frames, but the Cardinals eventually run out of able-bodied
pitchers. 2B Felipe Lopez is sent out to the mound and pitches a scoreless 18th
inning, while P Kyle Lohse goes out to play left field, but their teammate, OF
Joe Mather, gives up a run in the top of the 19th. However, Mets closer
Francisco Rodriguez gives the run right back, but the Mets score again off
Mather in the 20th. Mather is saddled with the loss, while Rodriguez gets the
win and starter Mike Pelfrey comes out in the 21st to record the save for the
Mets.
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3 comments:
I thought it was amazing that Frank ROBINSON, Luis Aparicio, and Don Drysdale all debuted on the same day in 1956...until I realized that it was probably opening day, back when Super 2 and all that nonsense did not exist.
Willie Stargell first Shea homer? Not surprised. He hit a lot there. His HR rate was far lower in huge Forbes Field than in Three River Stadium, not surprisingly. Still remember his 458 fly out to Agee in a 1-0 Mets win in the 9th inning.
Tom,
Was that a game that Donn Clendenon hit a homer for the Mets' run?
Let the best players play. What a concept.
I'll take the bottom of the heap rather than this right now.
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