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9/3/20

John From Albany – Mets News and Breakfast Links 9/3/2020


Good Morning. Happy Birthday David Peterson and Corey Oswalt, Mets 9 Orioles 4, and Tom Seaver passes away at 75. 



Section Links: Mets Links, MLB Links, and This Day in Mets History.

NY Post: Tom Seaver, greatest Met ever, dead at 75.






Greg Prince Faith and Fear in Flushing “No. 41 in Our Hearts”: “Terrific only began to say it. Tom Seaver was everything to the New York Mets. Everything. He was everything to me. Everything. And I know I’m not alone in that assessment.”

Metstradamus: The Mound Is His Home.

Steve Serby NY Post: Tom Seaver was everything to Howie Rose.

NY Post: Photos: Remembering Mets legend Tom Seaver.

NY Post: Mets and the baseball world mourn the death of Tom Seaver.

John Harper SNY.TV: Remembering Tom Seaver, the Mets' first true icon.

We posted more comments on Tom Seaver passing yesterday on Mack’s Mets.

Mets Links:

Mets 9 Orioles 4 Michael Wacha 3 innings, 4 hits, 2 runs, 2 earned runs, 1 walk, 2 Ks, 69 pitches – 41 strikes;; David Peterson (W, 4-1) 4 innings, 2 hits, 0 runs, 2 walks, 1 K, 59 pitches – 36 strikes; Miguel Castro 1 inning, 1 hit, 0 runs; Justin Wilson, 1 inning, 3 hits, 2 runs, 0 ER, 3 Ks; Michael Conforto 4 for 5 (HR #6), 5 RBIs, 1 run scored; Jeff McNeil 1 for 5, 1 run scored, 1 RBI; Pete Alonso 1 for 4 (HR #7), 1 RBI, 2 runs scored; J.D. Davis 2 for 3, 1 run scored, 1 walk; Robinson Cano 1 for 4; Wilson Ramos 2 for 5; Amed Rosario 1 for 3, 2 runs scored, 1 WALK; Jake Marisnick  2 for 4, 1 RBI, 1 run scored. (Box Score).

SNY.TV: What’s next. The Mets and Yankees will play one make-up game on Thursday at 4:10 p.m. at Citi Field, as Robert Gsellman faces J.A. Happ.


213 Miles from Shea: Game Preview: Yankees vs Mets.
You Tube: Mets-Orioles Game Highlights 9/2/20.


SNY.TV: Mets Takeaways from Wednesday's 9-4 win over Orioles, including Michael Conforto's monster day. Pete Alonso also hit a moonshot in the victory.




NY Post: Todd Frazier considers Mets return a ‘good surprise’.

Mike’s Mets: “I Won't Be Ignored, Dan!”

MLB Links:

MLB.com: Wheeler follows Nola's lead, dominates Nats. Phillies 3 Nationals 0 (Box Score).

MLB.com: 'That's what aces do': Ryu picks up Blue Jays. Blue Jays 2 Marlins 1 (Box Score).

MLB.com: Braves make 3-homer game history. Adam Duvall hits 3 home runs night after Ozuna completes the feat. Braves 7 Red Sox 5 (Box Score).


Padres 11 Angels 4 (Box Score).

Here is the full MLB Scoreboard from yesterday. 

Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com:

Born on this date:

1962
The expansion Mets are blanked for the 30th time this year, bowing to the Bucs at Forbes Field, 2-0. The Amazins' tie the 1906 Senators for the second-most times a team has been held scoreless, but the 1908 Cardinals' mark of being whitewashed in 33 contests during the season will remain as the major league mark.
1978
At Dodger Stadium, Lee Mazzilli becomes the first Mets player to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in a game. The center fielder's first and seventh inning blasts respectively hit off southpaw Tommy John and right-hander Charlie Hough, pace the last-place club to an 8-5 victory.

2002
By losing their 15th straight game at Shea Stadium, the Mets pass the dubious mark set by the 1911 Braves to establish a new National League record for consecutive losses at home. The Amazins' did not win one home game in August, finishing the month 0-13 in New York.
2007
Mets right-hander Pedro Martinez, making his first start of the season, whiffs Reds hurler Aaron Harang to become the 15th major league pitcher to record 3,000 career strikeouts. The three-time Cy Young winner has missed most of the season recovering from rotator cuff surgery.

2009
After starting 13 games with two different clubs, Pat Misch's team finally wins a game he starts when the Mets beat the Rockies, 8-3. The former Giants' starter, who earned the Coors Field victory for New York, had tied a dubious mark established over the 1993-94 seasons by Seattle's John Cummings for the longest winless streak endured by a team with the same starter of the mound.


1965: The Mets top the Cards, 6 - 3, behind the slugging of Jim Hickman, who cranks three home runs off Birds pitcher Ray Sadecki. Hickman is the first Mets player to hit three home runs in a game.

1986: Pitching in the 3rd inning against the Mets, Giants rookie Terry Mulholland snags a hard grounder off Keith Hernandez but can't retrieve the ball from the webbing of his glove. Thinking fast, Mulholland runs towards first and tosses his mitt to 1B Bob Brenly for the out. The Giants come up short, losing, 4 - 2.

1995: The Mets outslug the Giants, 11 - 6, despite Barry Bonds hitting the Giants' 11,000th franchise homer. Barry's father, Bobby Bonds, hit the 8,000th franchise homer exactly 24 years ago, on this day in 1971.

2019 - Down by 6 runs against the Mets in the 9th inning, the Nationals mount the biggest comeback in team history as they score 7 times to pull off an improbable an 11 - 10 win. Leading 10 - 4 after scoring five times in the top of the 9th, the Mets decide to rest closer Edwin Diaz and instead send in Paul Sewald to close the books. He allows two runs while getting just one out before being replaced by Luis Avilan, who loads up the bases with a single. That's when manager Mickey Callaway calls upon Diaz to face pinch-hitter Ryan Zimmerman. Zimmerman hits a two-run double, then after drawing a full count, Kurt Suzuki parks a pitch in the left field seats for a walk-off three-run homer. Now five games back in the wild card standings, the Mets may well be effectively eliminated from postseason contention as a result of this heartbreaking loss.

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7 comments:

  1. Tom BrennanSeptember 3, 2020 at 7:23 AM

    Endless accolades for Tom Seaver. In sum total, they are woefully insufficient. If he had more offense behind him over the years, may have been considered the greatest ever. He made a joke franchise into a champion.

    Pete's bomb was impressive. But it was high in the zone and over the outer half, and he barely kept it fair. Tells me his timing is still off.

    Conforto a terrific game in his terrific start to this truncated season.

    I don't know where David Peterson ranks in ROY competition but being 4-1 doesn't hurt.

    Thankfully, Marisnick was not hurt. I think you have to know where the wall is better, or you'll get carted off.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 3, 2020 at 8:34 AM

    In the moments following the Mets winning the World Series in 1969, Karl Erhardt, the Mets "sign man" held up a sign that said: "There are no words".

    Today, in a different sense, there are no words.

    R.I.P. Tom Weaver

    Bob W

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2020 at 11:54 AM

    It would be so amazing for the NYM to find (WOR) and get the "Kiner's Korner" footage with Ralph and Tom. They were such great fun to watch together. It would be a wonderful way for the younger players and fans to become familiar with who Tom Terrific was as a man, and why he was so well respected as a NYM pitcher as well.

    It isn't just wins and losses.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2020 at 12:30 PM

    Great effort last night.

    I still simply say this. If the NYM can find a way to get their pitching as good as their hitting is now, then this team will have an exquisite chance at going for it all in 2021.

    I am not a big fan of the late season sort of "desperation style trades" that (as NYM fans) we have seen here way too many seasons. It's too short sighted for em and the return usually nets way too many geriatric for me. The offering is always a really good, up and coming player too.

    This season was one of their best MiLB lefty starters Kevin Smith, 23 years old. Kevin had an MiLB 12-8 record with an impressive 2.75 ERA over that same time. In 140 innings, he had 158 strikeouts and just a 1.17 WHIP. His stats were noticeably better than David Peterson's, although David had more games and innings to his credit and is a fine pitcher himself.

    Thomas Szapucki is another kid NYM left-handed starter, the third one from 2019 who had shown much promise. Smith and Peterson are not flamethrowers but rather have a nice control assortment of pitches to compliment an average fastball. Szapuki on the other hand, does have a quicker fastball (esp. for a lefty in the 94 mph range) and has assembled slowly (due to a TJ surgery) much optimism.

    My point here is this one.

    The NYM had the possibility to put together something very unusual here, three impressive lefty starters in the same one rotation. This worked exceptionally well for the Red Sox in recent seasons. It's so unusual.

    All three NYM kid lefty pitchers had above average ability, selection of pitches, and promise. But they sent Kevin Smith packing for veterans who probably won't make a lot of difference here, being that most are older now.

    I don't like these kinds of trades and yet, they happen every season here for whatever reason.

    Noah Syndergaard may not be back in 2021 due to his TJ surgery. Porcello is a one year and out, and the Red Sox didn't bite on 2020 with him. Matz probably will be gone because sometimes lefty relievers are way more common than great lefty starters. And Stroman? Who knows. Not the typical NYM strikeout starter.

    So I saw maybe this in 2021.

    SP deGrom, Wacha, Peterson, Smith, and Szapucki or Oswalt. Do not underestimate Corey Oswalt. He threw 90 mph fastballs in high school. He is very close with his own game now.

    These six anyway. And I think it is time soon, to sweep out the pitching barn.

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2020 at 3:43 PM

    Zach Wheeler

    4-0 / 2.20 ERA / 29 KO's in 45 innings of work / 9 walks

    Not bad.

    My sources have seen Yo'C back home going into a hair transplant shop with LeBron James. They said 'Bron was talking to Yo'C about buying the NBA and moving it to West Africa with the BLM. Okay with me, I am a longtime Knicks fan.

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  6. John From AlbanySeptember 3, 2020 at 3:57 PM

    Not bad at all for Wheeler - we could use him.

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