Good Morning. Happy July 4th. Happy Birthday to Jose
Oquendo, Binghamton Catcher Austin
Bossart, and Brooklyn and St. Lucie Shortstop Manny
Rodriguez. The 2020 All Star Game is officially cancelled and the Mets are
back in Citi Field!
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👀 @JdeGrom19 🏃 💨 pic.twitter.com/gmI418WLdp
— New York Mets (@Mets) July 3, 2020
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— New York Mets (@Mets) July 3, 2020
The boys are back! #LGM pic.twitter.com/WWY3m8HxyO
— New York Mets (@Mets) July 3, 2020
Mike
Lupica Mets.com: Rojas uniquely qualified for a short season. “A rookie
manager who looks young enough to be a rookie player. Son of Felipe Alou. Son
of a former manager the way the other New York manager, Aaron Boone, is. The
Mets have chosen the former manager of the Chosen One Lions. They have
believed, as Rojas worked his way through their system, that he was born to
this kind of work, and that was before a season that was shortened to
winter-ball length. We're about to find out. Fast.”
NY
Post: Inside look at Mets’ coronavirus protocols at Citi Field. “First,
there would be a standard bag check. But then came the new twists: a quick
temperature scan, followed by a waiver that needed to be signed releasing the
Mets from responsibility should you become infected by the coronavirus on the
premises. Masks were required for entry. The Mets provided extras if needed.”
Gus Livaditis Mets
360.com: The most indispensable Met in 2020. Gus makes a strong argument that Amed
Rosario is one Met they can’t replace.
Last
Word on Baseball: New York Mets Ugly Eleven Losses # 9. Benitez Blows Save…September
23rd, 2001 vs the Atlanta Braves at Shea Stadium.
Amazing
Avenue: Steven Matz could be make or break for the Mets in 2020. With so
little time, Steven Matz
needs to tap into his potential or risk sinking the team.
Metsmerized
Online: Rick
Porcello’s Strong 2019 Finish Is Encouraging.
MLB
Trade Rumors: Trout: “I Still Don’t Feel Comfortable”. “Honestly, I still don’t feel comfortable with the baby
coming,” Trout told reporters today on a Zoom call (link via USA Today’s Bob Nightengale). “There’s a lot of things on my mind. I’m trying to be the
safest and most cautious way to get through the season. It’s going to be tough.”
MLB
Trade Rumors: Twins Willians Astudillo Tests Positive For COVID-19.
For a veteran minor leaguer, being included on the 60-man player pool could be worth tens of thousands.https://t.co/ZF4cHrER5z
— Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) July 3, 2020
Yesterday in Japan:
Yesterday in the KBO:
Kia Tigers 8 NC Dinos 2 Aaron
Altherr 2 for 3 with a walk, Drew
Gagnon. 6.1 innings in the win for Kia, 2 runs, 6 hits, 2 BB, 5 Ks. (Box
Score).
Today in the KBO.
Chris
Flexen is off to a tough start for Doosan. 4 innings, 9 hits, 6 runs (Box
Score).
Aaron
Altherr is back in CF for the NC Dinos (Box
Score).
Mack’s
Blast from the Past: Mets Minor League Report – July 4, 2013: Las Vegas
(45-39) falls to Tucson (47-40) 6-5. Jacob
deGrom took a beating: 5.0 IP, 6 R, 8 H, (HR) BB, 6 K.; Wilmer
Flores: 2-5, 2B, RBI.
Binghamton (52-30) nips New Hampshire (40-45) 7-6. Logan Verrett
got off to a bad start, allowing 4 R, 3 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, K, in 2.2 IP. Jim
Fuller, (W, 2-0) on the other hand, was outstanding, tossing 3.2 perfect
innings with 6 K. Pedro
Feliciano was also perfect in his 1.0 IP, and Jeff Walters (S, 22) earned
his league leading 22nd save, despite giving up a R on 3 H after coming in with
1 out in the 9th. Danny Muno
flexed his muscles, going 2-4, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 2 R. You read right – Danny boy batted in all 7
B-Mets runs.
Born on this date:
- Jose Oquendo (1963)
- Austin
Bossart
(1993)
- Manny
Rodriguez
(1996)
- Zachary
Hammer
(2000)
Transactions:
New York Mets sold Butch Metzger to the Philadelphia Phillies on July 4, 1978.
New
York Mets signed free agent Miguel
Batista on July 4, 2011.
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1972
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In front of a large holiday crowd
gathered at Shea Stadium for a doubleheader against San Diego, Tom Seaver
takes a no-hitter into the ninth inning for the second time in his career.
After getting Dave Roberts to ground out to second base, Leron Lee singles up
the middle to spoil the no-hit bid of the 27 year-old Mets right-hander, who
has to settle for his fourth one-hitter when he induces the next batter to
hit into a game-ending double play.
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1985
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With a double in the first, a
triple in the fourth, a homer in the eighth inning, Keith Hernandez completes
the cycle with a single in the twelfth frame of a 19-inning contest with the
Braves. The Mets first baseman's four hits, all off different pitchers,
contribute to New York's 16-13 early morning victory at Atlanta-Fulton County
Stadium.
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1985
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"If he hits a home run to tie
this game, this game will be certified as absolutely the nuttiest in the
history of baseball." - JOHN STERLING, TBS broadcaster
commenting to his partner Ernie Johnson about Rick Camp’s
at-bat.
The Mets outlast the Braves,
finally winning the game 16-13 in 19 innings, after Rick Camp,
a weak-hitting hurler with a .060 average and 83 strikeouts in 167 at-bats,
hit an improbable two-strike, two-out homer off Tom Gorman
to tie the game in the bottom of the last frame. Shortly after the game ends
at 3:55 in the morning, the approximately thousand fans left in Atlanta
Fulton County Stadium stay to see the pre-dawn fireworks which awaken and
frighten many of the ballpark's neighbors.
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2006
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Billy
Wagner becomes the 20th pitcher baseball history to record 300 career saves.
The significant save for the Mets' southpaw, who has also played for the
Astros and Phillies, is his sixteenth of the season.
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1967: The Mets end
a 19-game losing streak to Juan Marichal with their first win
against the Dominican Dandy, 8 - 7. Marichal's win streak started in 1962. Jack
Fisher is the winning pitcher.
1972: Leron Lee singles
in the 9th to break up Tom Seaver's
no-hitter, but the Mets shut
out the Padres,
2 - 0, in the opener. Seaver strikes out 11. The Pads take the nitecap, 4 - 2,
as Nate Colbert hits his 16th homer.
1979 - The Phillies' Steve Carlton shuts out the Mets, 1 - 0, on a one-hitter, but the Phils
manage to lose three other hurlers on the same day: Larry Christenson pulls a groin muscle, Dick Ruthven goes on the disabled list, and Randy Lerch fractures his thumb in a brawl.
1985 - In a
marathon game that borders on the surreal, the Mets endure two rain delays and 6:10 of
playing time to beat the Braves, 16 - 13, in 19 innings on Fireworks Night in Atlanta. The
Mets take a 10 - 8 lead in the top of the 13th inning, only to watch the Braves
tie it up. The Mets score again in the 18th, but relief hurler Rick Camp (a .060
hitter who is batting because Atlanta has no more position players available to
pinch-hit) ties the score with his first major league home run on a two-out,
two-strike pitch in the bottom of the inning. No pitcher had ever homered that
late in a game before. Finally, the Mets erupt for five runs in the 19th off
Camp and Atlanta can respond only with 2. Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle for the Mets,
and the game ends at 3:55 A.M. on July 5th, the latest finish
in major league history. At 4:01 A.M., the post-game fireworks display begins,
causing local residents to think the city is under attack.
2012: The Phillies' Cliff Lee finally
earns his first win of the year in beating the Mets,
9 - 2. He is now 1-5 in 14 starts, and his lack of production has been one of
the reasons the Phils have fallen behind the pace in the NL East.
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6 comments:
Bette Midler has agreed to come to Citifield every day to sing "From A Distance" to remind players to socially distance.
Camp's home run to tie that insane extra inning Mets game in 1985 was nuttier because he was a TERRIBLE career hitter, even for a pitcher.
In his last season, he hit that insane 2 run HR, and he ended his career with 175 ABs, just .074,and just that 1 HR and 7 RBIs.
Betances looks trim and ready in that brief clip
Muno... 2 HRs... 7 RBIs... no Tom mention.
You're losing it, buddy.
Sorry Mack. The story about Cespedes sprinting had my head spinning.
Thanks for the kind words John.
I remember watching that whole Mets/Braves game, but didn’t remember the facts too well, LOL. My memory had Camp hitting both homeruns to tie the games twice in extra innings and then flying out to the warning track to get it. Oh boy. What I can remember well was my dad waking up at 4:00am to go to work and wondering what was wrong with me to still be awake watching a baseball game. Ah to be a student with nothing to do during the summer. Problem is, I might still do it today!
It would be nice if they televised some scrimmage games just finally see a game.
Mack, Muno's 7 RBIs? Too bad those were 7 runs more than he drove in as a major leaguer. Call him Danny Zero instead? I am happy to know that Danny and I had the same number of major league RBIs, and I did it in less at bats.
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