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7/13/20

John From Albany – Mets Breakfast Links 7/13/2020


Good Morning. Happy Birthday Mike Fitzgerald. Yoenis Cespedes homers off Seth Lugo in the intra-squad game plus it is the anniversary of the 1977 “Blackout” game.


Mets Links:




Prime Time Sports Talk: Mets’ Updated 60-Man Pool With IL. Yehuda Schwartz has the current 58 man list with recent additions Catcher David Rodriguez, RHP Matt Blackham, and RHP Franklyn Kilomé.


Mets.com: Melky to 'give it my all' in fight for roster. Anthony DiComo also included these notes on yesterday’s Intrasquad competition - Starting at designated hitter in the Mets’ simulated game Sunday, Yoenis Céspedes drove home a fourth-inning run with an RBI single off reliever Seth Lugo. Céspedes had homered off Lugo several days earlier. He spent the entire game at DH, despite manager Luis Rojas indicating he will see time at left field in the coming days.  Other highlights from the intrasquad game included Edwin Diaz striking out a pair in a perfect inning, and Rick Porcello stretching out to four innings of one-run ball.







NY Post: MetsMarcus Stroman wants to ‘dominate’ high-stakes season.





The Mets Police: Edgardo Alfonzo wants you to step up your census game. “Today, I would like to ask you a favor that will be fundamental for our own future and the future of our families,” Alfonzo says in the PSA.








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Asian Baseball:

Yesterday in Japan:

Yakult Swallows 3 Yomiuri Giamts 2 Nori Aoki 1 for 3, 2 runs, 1 BB, 1 RBI (Box Score).


All the games yesterday in the KBO were postponed. 














Mack’s Blast from the Past: Mets Minor League Report – July 13, 2014: Binghamton (57-38) edges Erie (44-51) 5-4. Hansel Robles: 5.0 IP, 3 R, 2 ER, 8 H, (HR) 2 BB, 4 K.; Brandon Nimmo: 3-5, R.; Dilson Herrera: 1-3, HR, BB, 3 RBI, 2 R.; Darrell Ceciliani: 2-2, 2B, 2 BB.


Born on this date:
Transactions:

New York Mets purchased 
Joe Pignatano from the San Francisco Giants on July 13, 1962.

New York Mets signed free agent Bob McClure on July 13, 1988.

New York Mets signed free agent Jeurys Familia on July 13, 2007.

New York Mets released Juan Padilla on July 13, 2008.


1977
With New York third baseman Lenny Randle at the plate in the sixth inning, Shea Stadium goes dark when the Big Apple suddenly experiences a blackout. Before the game against the Cubs is suspended due to the power shortage, the Mets' players drive their cars onto the field and amuse the crowd by performing a variety of antics in front of the headlights. (My thanks to Anthony Ventarola for submitting this event).





1975 - The Reds score four runs in the 8th inning to defeat Tom Seaver and the Mets, 5 - 3. The Reds have won 41 of their last 50 games.

1977 - At Shea Stadium, the Cubs' game is suspended due to a major black-out which darkens New York City. The Mets players amuse the crowd by performing antics in front of the headlights of cars which they drive onto the field.

2001: Mets C Mike Piazza hits his 300th career home run in New York's 3 - 1 loss to Boston.

2012: Chipper Jones ties Mike Schmidt for second place on the all-time list for RBI by a third baseman, knocking in his 1,595th run with a homer in Atlanta's 7 - 5 win over the Mets. Jones is now one RBI behind George Brett among players who played the majority of their careers at the hot corner. C David Ross filling in for Brian McCann, who is on paternity leave, drives in 4 runs for the Braves, who also benefit from 11 walks issued by New York pitchers.




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2 comments:

  1. Cespedes for MVP? WHy not think big.

    Sounds like lots of promising Mets performances so far. Season (virus willing) is what, 10 days away? I'll take a World Championship in the weirdest season ever.

    Turn the lights off and it appears a whole lot like June 2020, don't it? I know, I'm a regular riot, ALice tells me.

    I almost got stuck in an elevator in the 1965 one while delivering the Long Island Press.

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  2. and happy birthday to our newest reader, Jean Carlos Soto.

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