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in Mets History.
Deesha
Thosar NY Daily News: We desperately need a ‘Last Dance’ with the World Series
champion 1986 Mets. “As much as we know about the 1986 Mets, there’s still
so much we don’t. Picture Hernandez or Darling sitting in the comfort of their
homes, with a glass of whiskey idling on a table nearby, recounting their
memories of that ‘86 season — totally unfiltered and unafraid of the
social-media backlash that will likely follow. It’s the type of content that’s
begging to be produced — now more than ever.”
12Up.com:
The One Contract Holding Back the New York Mets. “To the dismay of Mets
fans and delight of their opposition, Cano is on the books until the end of the
2023 season, when he turns 40. Good luck trying to build a contender with that
deal, Mets.”
Mike’s
Mets: Maybe There's Another Way. Mike looks at pitching velocity, Tommy
John surgeries, and defense.
Mike
Puma NY Post: Jacob
deGrom’s Cy Young quest gets harder with coronavirus break.
Centerfield
Maz: Remembering Mets History (1991) : Hojo's Walk Off HR & Two Mets Pinch
Hitters Hit Back To Back HRs For 1st Time In Team History. Mackey
Sasser and Mark
Carreon hit back to back pinch hit home runs to tie the game in the ninth.
Scott Ferguson Mets
360: The 1962 Mets: What George Weiss should have done. “Houston lost 96
games, but also laid the groundwork for what it hoped would be a decent group
of players that could be boosted by spending money on the farm system. The Mets
did the opposite. Their team president, George Weiss, decided to acquire “name
players” to help get people to the stadium.”
Joel
Sherman NY Post: The biggest Mets losers with MLB on hold. “That is why
when it comes to the Mets, I see Van Wagenen losing the most of anyone in the
organization with games not being played — except, of course, for the Wilpons,
who might be losing millions (or billions) in franchise value.”
Elite
Sports NY: New York Mets SS Amed
Rosario needs to improve against offspeed pitches in 2020. “Rosario’s
issues to create fly balls and hard contact against changeups and splitters
worsened in 2019. If these struggles continue, he’ll likely face even more
offspeed pitches this season.”
Metsmerized
Online: 2021 Mets Free Agent Targets: Starting Pitchers. 1) Trevor
Bauer; 2) Marcus
Stroman; 3) Anibal
Sanchez; 4) Rick
Porcello and/or Michael
Wacha.
CBS
Sports: MLB prefers to have teams play as many games as possible in home parks
for 2020 season, report says. “According to
Marc Topkin of the Tampa
Bay Times, MLB's
"preferred plan" is to play as many games in each team's home
big-league ballpark as possible. Other plans, including the hub plan and
holding the season entirely in Arizona, are reportedly becoming less and less
likely.”
CBS
Sports: Who has MLB's best curveball? Ranking baseball's best curves with
two Tampa Bay aces cracking the list.
R.J. Anderson has 1. Charlie
Morton, Tampa Bay Rays; 2. Sonny Gray,
Cincinnati Reds; 3. Tyler
Glasnow, Tampa Bay Rays; The best-kept secret James
Karinchak, Cleveland. Who's next? Deivi
Garcia, New York Yankees. No mention
of Seth
Lugo.
ESPN.com:
Tim Kurkjian Baseball Fix: The history of the sacrifice fly is fascinating. Not sure I’d day fascinating but he did
include this…” In 1954, the first year sacrifice flies were counted continuously,
the Dodgers' Gil Hodges had 19 sac flies, which, 66 years later, remains the
record.”
The
Virginia Pilot: Whatever Happened To ... former major leaguer and NFL running
back D.J. Dozier? “D.J. Dozier…played
five seasons in the NFL, and on May 6, 1992, he made his Major League Baseball
debut with the New York Mets.”
Asian Baseball:
CBS
Sports: 10 players to know from KBO and CPBL, including potential future MLB
stars and a Wade Boggs-like slugger.
#1 on the list: Yu-Hsien Chu, OF/1B, Rakuten Monkeys (CPBL). “Chu won
the CPBL's Most Valuable Player Award last season, homering 30 times and
batting .347/.394/.605…Chu is on his way to earning more hardware this year,
with a .514 average and eight homers in nine games.”
Yahoo
Sports: A KBO primer: Here's what you need to know to enjoy the return of
baseball in South Korea. Baseball
returns in South Korea tomorrow May 5th.
Yahoo
Sports: MLB will be watching as KBO tries to bring back baseball amid
coronavirus recovery. “The KBO will play its games in empty stadiums…
players and staff will enter and exit facilities through one door, where their temperatures
will be taken; all personnel not in baseball uniforms are required to wear
masks and gloves; a player who shows symptoms will be quarantined and the
stadium where he last played will be closed; a positive test would lead to
contact tracing, more quarantines if necessary and a possible league-wide
shutdown for three weeks or longer; no spitting; no high-fives.”
YonHap
News: Starting this season, when umpires in South Korean baseball put on
their headsets to connect with the league replay center, fans will be able to
watch the same feed as officials in the video room.
FANGRAPHS: Get
to Know the KBO, Part One. Doosan Bears Chris
Flexen: “He’ll look to get back to what worked for him in the minors, a mix
of sinkers and an upper-80s slider, with the Bears.” Kia Tigers: Drew Gagnon:
“The newly de-juiced KBO baseball should fit his style much better; if the
fastballs aren’t leaving the yard, the changeup will work nicely.”
FANGRAPHS: Get
to Know the KBO, Part Two. NC Dinos Aaron
Altherr. “The Altherr who played in 2019 was a mess; he may still have been
struggling with a ligament tear in his big toe, which he suffered in late 2018,
but he also looked lost at the plate. Even in a small sample, a 17.5% swinging
strike rate is ghastly. We’ll have to see how the signing turns out, but it’s a
boom/bust gamble.”
Yesterday in The CPBL –
Rakuten Monkeys 9 Chinatrust Brothers 3 (Line Score)
Chu, Yu-Hsien hits record-breaking 10th home run in the first 13 games! Unbelievable night!😍— CPBL 中華職棒 (@CPBL) May 3, 2020
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Definitely the most stimulating moment in a #baseball game! Base loaded & #BOOM!— CPBL 中華職棒 (@CPBL) May 3, 2020
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Mack’s
Blast From The Past May 4, 2009, UPDATE: 2009 MLB Draft - Top RHP. Noted names on the list: 1. Steven
Strasburg; 5. Zach
Wheeler; 6. Shelby
Miller; 18. Drew Storen;
32. Trevor
Cahill; 35. Brooks
Pounders.
Born May 3:
- Red Ruffing (1904)
- Chris Cannizzaro (1938)
- Jack DiLauro (1943)
- Walker Lockett (1994)
Died on this date:
- Darrell Johnson (2004)
Transactions:
New York Mets purchased Mike Phillips from the San Francisco Giants on May 3, 1975.
New York Mets released Travis
d'Arnaud on May 3, 2019.
Born May 4:
- Ken Oberkfell (1956)
- Manny Aybar (1972)
- Miguel Cairo (1974)
- Robinson Cancel (1976)
- Kevin Torres (1999)
- Johan Armado (2001)
Transactions:
Toronto Blue Jays claimed Pete Walker of the New York Mets on waivers on May 4, 2002.
New York Mets purchased Logan
Verrett from the Texas Rangers on
May 4, 2015.
1963
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The first reported use of the
familiar refrain "Let's Go Mets" is heard at the Polo Grounds in
the bottom of the ninth inning during a rout by San Francisco. With the
Amazins' trailing by 13 runs and down to their last out with no one on base,
the rallying cry begins to be chanted by some of the 'New Breed,' the affectionate
name given the fans of the National League expansion team.
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1991
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At Shea Stadium, Mackey Sasser and
Mark Carreon, the first two batters in the ninth inning, both go deep as
pinch-hitters off Jeff Brantley to knot the score at two runs apiece in the
Mets' eventual 4-2 victory over San Francisco in 12 innings. It is the first
time in the 30-year history of the franchise that two pinch-hitters have hit
back-to-back round-trippers.
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2007
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The second inning Chase Field
matchup of Mets first baseman Julio Franco against Diamondback fireballer
Randy Johnson marks the oldest hitter-pitcher confrontation in big league
history. With a mere 92+ years of age between them, the nearly 49 year-old
goes deep off the southpaw, who is four months shy of 44, to extend his
record as the oldest player to homer, and with his ninth-inning swipe of
second, he continues to be the oldest to steal a base.
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2012
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An anonymous bidder pays $418,250
for the baseball hit by Mookie Wilson that rolled through the legs of Bill
Buckner, allowing the Mets to cap a two-out rally with a 6-5 walk-off victory
in the tenth inning in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. The historic
horsehide was the centerpiece of memorabilia being offered by Heritage
Auctions from the collection of Los Angeles songwriter Seth Swirsky, which
also included Reggie Jackson's third home run ball from Game 6 of the 1977
Fall Classic ($65,725), the Ranger cap that Jose Canseco was wearing in 1993
when a ball bounced off his head over the wall for a homer ($11,950), and a
1965 baseball signed by the Beatles from the Shea Stadium concert ($65,725).
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2011: Tim Lincecum has a good night in shutting out the Mets,
2 - 0, at Citi Field. He fans 12 batters in 7 innings for the 29th
double-digit strikeout game of his career. That total is the most ever
by a Giants pitcher, overtaking Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson who set the previous mark back
in the days the franchise played in New York.
2019 -
The longest game in the history of Miller Park goes 18 innings before Ryan
Braun ends it by driving the winning run with his 6th hit of the night. A
two-run single with one out in the 18th gives the Brewers and 4 - 3 win over the Mets.
Braun outhits all of his teammates, given Milwaukee only tallies 11 safeties as
a team; in the winning rally, the Mets' Chris Flexen walks the bases loaded before facing
Braun.
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5 comments:
Chu, Yu-Hsien hits record-breaking 10th home run in the first 13 games! Nothing like an excited home run call in Korean.
Wonder how good the guy really is. Major League caliber?
Funny seeing some dummies in the stands. Not much different in that regard than many US ballparks.
I can't imagine Darling and Keith doing something now, 1986-memories-wise, that could jeopardize their broadcast careers.
Speaking of great curve balls, anyone remember Sid Fernandez's curve? Sweeping. Koosman had a great curve too.
There have been some good games so far in Taiwan, close games, late inning comebacks. They were off tonight (this morning here). I have been including links to the live games every morning which are being broadcast on Twitter for free. I will try to show KBO highlights especially if Chris Flexen and Drew Gagnon are involved.
Like, not like? Please, let me know.
Hey guys.
Late to the game again. Noon tends to be my new 8am what with the increased meds being given me. Wish I could be better but at least I'm not Don Shula today.
I just can't get into Asian, fantasy, or virtual baseball. It is like going to dinner with your cousin. Not a date.
John, feel free to post the Korean stuff, but I am kind of like Mack, as much due to I have no idea how well the guy with the home run streak would do in MLB or AAA.
I prefer Asian baseball over the simulated games. I have teenagers. I have all the simulated games I need.
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