Oct 12 2007 12:22 PM
Chip Ambres singled home the winning run in one of my favorite games of the year, the rally again the Dodgers in the rubber game of that series July 22.
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Best Day
| Edgy DC Oct 12 2007 12:10 PM |
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What was the best day for each 2007 Met, in alphabetical order?
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| seawolf17 Oct 12 2007 12:18 PM |
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It would have to be that one day in mid-May where he actually made a correct decision in sending a runner.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2007 12:22 PM |
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| seawolf17 Oct 12 2007 12:23 PM |
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Yeah, because I never liked Moises Alou either.
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| Edgy DC Oct 12 2007 12:31 PM |
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Ramon Castro = funny-looking dancer.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2007 12:36 PM |
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Screw Alou.
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| Edgy DC Oct 12 2007 01:44 PM |
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Mellancamp bolluxed up my thread.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2007 01:45 PM |
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And I unbolloxed it too, now move along.
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| metirish Oct 12 2007 01:56 PM |
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Marlon has had a few and going on memory here his best day might have been when he joined the team in LA and helped beat his old team, or his bases loaded double against the Braves to ice that game.
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| Edgy DC Oct 12 2007 02:00 PM |
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Declarative sentences. Not mere speculation.
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| metirish Oct 12 2007 02:04 PM |
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August 31 - Mets 7 -Braves - 1
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| Edgy DC Oct 12 2007 02:18 PM |
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Quitting.
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| metirish Oct 12 2007 02:38 PM |
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Beltran -
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| G-Fafif Oct 13 2007 03:58 AM |
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Momentary rebollix for Alou:
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| Edgy DC Oct 13 2007 11:09 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Oct 13 2007 09:24 PM |
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That's the kind of narrative I'm looking for.
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| bmfc1 Oct 13 2007 07:00 PM |
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Luis Castillo: On August 5th, the Mets were the Sunday Night Game of the Week as Tom Glavine attempted to get his 300th win. The team lost a bad game the previous day against the Cubs and were trying to get the win to avoid having Glavine's attempt at baseball history hanging over their collective head for another five days. Luis Castillo was a mere 4 for 20 in his first days as a Met and some fans were grumbling as Castillo was popping up time after time (a preview of Jose Reyes' September). Before the biggest audience in ESPN history for a Sunday night game, Castillo showed why Minaya traded for him. Castillo went 4 for 5, including a double, a steal, and two runs scored. His fielding was eye opening in support of Glavine and Mets. Final score, Mets 8 Cubs 3.
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| G-Fafif Oct 15 2007 12:19 PM |
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Ramon Castro waited until September 22, a 7-2 victory over the Marlins, to make his optimal on-field impact (though he is said to keep the fellas loose inside the clubhouse), walloping a fourth-inning three-run homer off Byung-Hyun Kim at Dolphin Stadium to give Oliver Perez some much-needed breathing room (5-0) and help ensure the Mets would of their first consecutive wins in ten days.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 15 2007 12:37 PM |
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N.D. as in No (good) Days
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| sharpie Oct 15 2007 12:37 PM |
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April 24, bottom of the 12th vs. Colorado, Endy lays down a drag bunt to score Shawn Green from third to pull out a 2-1 victory. Game was scoreless til the 10th when Wagner gave up a run. Damion Easley (maybe his best game, we'll see) tied it with a pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the frame. Two innings later Endy ends it in a most unlikely fashion.
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| G-Fafif Oct 15 2007 12:44 PM |
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Willie Collazo pitched himself a perfect inning in his Shea debut on September 7, a Mets 11-3 win over the Astros. That his name was spelled incorrectly on his uniform that night...
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| bmfc1 Oct 15 2007 01:56 PM |
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Jeffrey Guy Conine's best day as a Met came on August 25th as he drove in what proved to be the winning run as the Mets beat the Dodgers 4-3. Conine made his first start as a Met, batting fifth. He went 1 for 2 with a 7th inning double that scored David Wright. Conine also had two walks as he was pitched around in favor of slumping Carlos Delgado. This was the game that Aaron Heilman saved as Billy Wagner had a "dead arm" (an issue we heard more about as the season went on).
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| TransMonk Oct 15 2007 02:15 PM |
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May 26th, 2007 - Mets at Marlins
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| bmfc1 Oct 15 2007 02:24 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 15 2007 02:25 PM |
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Mike DeFelice's best game came with yours truly in attendance on a Friday night at RFK, August 17th, as the Mets defeated the Nationals, 6-2. It was a nice, relaxed game as the Mets were doing what they were supposed to do: beat the Nationals (note the foreshadowing). Before the game, I said to my 14 year old son Dylan, "if DeFelice hits a grand slam, I'll buy you a personalized DeFelice jersey." DeFelice didn't do that, but he still went 1 for 3 with 3 RBI (a career high) including a two run triple that just missing leaving the big ball park.
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| Edgy DC Oct 15 2007 02:25 PM |
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Beating the Nats seemed easy back when Mike DiFelice was clearing the bases with a triple off of Big Fat Ray King, to the joy of young attending Edgy. Three RBI for the Felicitator fueled Tom Glavine's 301st victory, after number 300 lauched Paul Lo Duca onto the disabled list. The momentum led the Mets to a sweep of the Nats, their penultimate sweep of the season.
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| Edgy DC Oct 15 2007 02:26 PM |
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BASTARD!
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| bmfc1 Oct 15 2007 02:27 PM |
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It's Mike DeFelice MANIA!!! It was a two-run triple--the other RBI was a Sac Fly.
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| Edgy DC Oct 15 2007 02:30 PM |
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You only beat me because of futile search for quote.
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| G-Fafif Oct 15 2007 03:53 PM |
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Damion Easley will happily share April 24 with with Endy, introducing himself to Mets fans with that two-out, 2-2 homer off Brian Fuentes to knot the Mets and Rockies at one in the bottom of the tenth, paving the way for the Chavez Buntoff win. He would also take the homer off Jose Valverde that tied the Diamondbacks in similarly hopeless circumstances in the top of the ninth on May 3, sparking the comeback from down 3-4 to up 9-4...and also enjoyed his sixth-inning inside-the-parker on August 2; it broke a tie in Milwaukee en route to a 12-4 rout.
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| bmfc1 Oct 15 2007 05:50 PM |
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Pedro Feliciano's best day of the season came on September 1st against the Braves. Mike Pelfrey pitched a dominant 6 innings (1 ER, 1 hit), Mota pitched the 7th, and the Mets lead 4-1 when Feliciano came in for the 8th. He retired the first batter via a fly ball and then struck out Diaz and Johnson. He pitched so well that Willie Randolph actually altered his norm and left Feliciano in for the 9th--or perhaps it was the tack-on run that did the trick to make it 5-1. Feliciano then struck out C. Jones, Teixeira and McCann to end the game. 2 perfect IP, 5 K's and his second save of the season.
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| G-Fafif Oct 15 2007 08:06 PM |
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Can we say Julio Franco enjoyed a superb 24 hours that covered two games? The prime choice would be April 28 in Washington when the ageful non-wonder singled home Endy Chavez in the ninth with two out to tied the game at two (this was the Saturday night when Tony Randazzo was screwing the Mets left and right). Sunday afternoon, Julio gets a big nod for filling in at first and pulling a Keith Hernandez-type play on a bunt (nabbing Austin Kearns at third) to keep the score 1-0 Mets, the eventual final.
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| Nymr83 Oct 15 2007 09:17 PM |
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theres 6 letters in his middle name: "fuckin"
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| bmfc1 Oct 16 2007 06:40 PM |
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After a slew of posts to this thread, it was time for Tom Glavine and everything has come to a screeching halt. This is a surprise as it's easy to remember Glavine's Best Day of '07 as it only happened a few weeks ago...
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| G-Fafif Oct 17 2007 07:33 PM |
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Carlos Gomez chose an ideal venue for his Best Day of 2007: The 1970s municipal parking garage known as renovated Yankee Stadium where he went 2-for-3, scored a run and made an Endy Jr. catch to rob Miguel Cairo of a potential home run and then doubled Hideki Matsui off second. Of the many things that went wrong in 2007, CarGo's injury was one of the overlooked ones. He has the tools, he'll know how to use them.
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| bmfc1 Oct 17 2007 08:05 PM |
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Ruben Gotay was one of the pleasant surprises of '07. He didn't go north with the team and is now somebody that looks like a definite member of the '08 Mets. His best day was one of the Mets best days--one of the games that SNY will play during the winter, one of the games that will get us revved up for the Mets to return.
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| Edgy DC Oct 17 2007 08:29 PM |
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Ruben's best day might have been Willie's also.
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| G-Fafif Oct 17 2007 11:40 PM |
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Shawn Green's greatest day left him out of the picture altogether:
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| bmfc1 Oct 18 2007 07:30 AM |
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Even though Aaron Heilman isn't one of my favorite Mets (I love them all but some more than others), I wanted to write up his Best Day so somebody else has to write Anderson Hernandez's Best Day.
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| sharpie Oct 18 2007 08:12 AM |
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With Anderson Hernandez one has four choices for best day as he only appeared in four games.
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| TransMonk Oct 18 2007 08:14 AM |
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Sunday, July 22nd @ LA:
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| Edgy DC Oct 18 2007 08:31 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 18 2007 08:39 AM |
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I'm going with Handy Andy's successful [url=http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070722&content_id=2102354&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym]July 22nd [/url]pinch-running appearance over his successful July 28th pinch-hitting appearance.
Andy's best day.
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| Edgy DC Oct 18 2007 08:32 AM |
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I received three phone calls while typing. I apologize to nobody for the lateness of my post.
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| sharpie Oct 18 2007 08:45 AM |
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At least there is a consensus on which day was his best day.
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| Edgy DC Oct 18 2007 08:49 AM |
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I think three guys simultaneously writing about Anderson Hernandez's best day made today his best day.
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| G-Fafif Oct 18 2007 04:22 PM |
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Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez was El Magnifico on June 23 at Shea against the Oakland Athletics: seven shutout innings, six hits, one walk, seven strikeouts. It was the elan that separated this outing from several other good Duque deeds in 2007, particularly the way he wriggled out of trouble again and again (119 pitches) with the entirety of the arsenal. Eric Chavez, for example, went down on Duque's storied Bugs Bunny fastball. It's still heading for the plate. The Mets won in the bottom of the ninth when David Wright placed a double just beyond the reach of rightfielder Travis Buck to score Ramon Castro from second. He's also still heading for the plate.
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| G-Fafif Oct 18 2007 04:28 PM |
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Philip Humber made his first Major League start on September 26 against the Washington Natonals at Shea in the heat of a pennant race. For three innings, it was an affair to remember, as the Mets raced to a 5-0 lead and Humber showed the stuff that made him a first-round draft pick three years earlier. Unfortunately, all that sitting around and waiting to make his first Major League start began to show in the fourth as Philip gave up a two-run dinger to Ryan Church. In the fifth, a walk, a single and a double drove Humber from his first Major League start. He still held the lead, but Joe Smith and Pedro Feliciano would relinquish it in short order as the Mets would bow to the Nationals 9-6 at the worst possible juncture of the season.
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| bmfc1 Oct 18 2007 05:02 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 19 2007 07:20 AM |
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Ben Johnson came to the Mets last November in a trade with San Diego and many of us thought that he would be the '07 version of Xavier Nady who also came from the Padres. This optimism lasted until we saw that he couldn't a) hit b) field c) run. Other than that, he was fantastic!
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| G-Fafif Oct 19 2007 12:41 AM |
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Brian Lawrence put in one very representative start, on August 10 versus the Marlins at Shea: 6 innings pitched, 2 runs allowed. He left as the pitcher of record on the winning side, 3-2. Billy Wagner recorded only his second blown save of the season in the ninth to take the win away from Lawrence, who would have moved his record to 2-0.
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| TransMonk Oct 19 2007 02:11 AM |
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Rickey Ledee had his best day in 2007 on June 18th at Shea vs. the Twins. He went 2 for 3 with a walk, a HR and 2 RBI. His single to right field in the fourth inning drove in Shawn Green who would be the winning run as the Mets went on to victory by a score of 8-1. Ledee's solo shot in the 8th sparked a four run inning for the home team. The Mets had lost 7 out of 8 coming into the game. In other notes from that day: Luis Castillo, then playing for the Twins, went 0 for 4 ending a 32 game hitting streak at Shea Stadium.
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| bmfc1 Oct 19 2007 06:39 AM |
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Paul LoDuca's Best Day of '07 was on September 4th when the Mets defeated the Reds 11-7 in Cincinnati. Ollie was ineffective but, get this, four relievers held the lead. Paulie went 3-5, with 2 3-run homers, 2 runs scored, and 7 RBI (a career high).
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| G-Fafif Oct 19 2007 10:49 AM |
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As was the case on October 18, 2006, John Maine pitched the second-to-last game of the Mets' season and came up huge. In 2007, the date was September 29, the situation just as dire as it was in Game Six of the previous year's NLCS: Win or forget about it. John Maine won: 7-2/3 innings of 14-strikeout, NO-HIT BALL against the Florida Marlins, with the Mets' first brawl in eleven years and potential elimination as backdrops. Throwing high, hard strikes all day, Maine kept those of us fortunate enough to be at Shea on the edge of our seats by flirting with history and embracing excellence. It would take a swinging bunt that trickled maybe 40 feet off the bat of somebody named Paul Hoover to wreck the "A" story, but not unimportantly, Maine led the Mets to a scintillating 13-0 victory. Paired with a Phillies loss to the Nats, the Mets moved back into a first-place tie.
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| G-Fafif Oct 19 2007 11:11 AM |
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For someone whose active contributions to the Mets season totaled only five days, Pedro Martinez has plenty from which to choose. His return on September 3 in Cincinnati was memorable. His final turn on September 27 against St. Louis (7 IP) was baseball-heroic. But it was his homecoming to Shea against the Astros on September 9 that deserves to go down as Pedro Martinez's best day of 2007.
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| bmfc1 Oct 19 2007 11:33 AM |
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Lasting Milledge's BD was not John Maine's BD as you shouldn't have to answer questions about your behavior on your BD. Instead, Milledge's BD was on July 24th in a home game against Pittsburgh. As with the penultimate game of the season, Milledge's heroics were in support of a John Maine victory. On this day, Milledge was 3 for 3 with one homerun and an RBI as the Mets defeated the Pirates and Ian Snell 8-4.
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| TransMonk Oct 19 2007 11:34 AM |
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Looking through the game logs for Lastings Milledge he had some very good days during some of the memorable pitching performances this season. He hit 2 HRs in the above mentioned best day for Maine. He went 3 for 4 with a SB during Glavine's 300th victory.
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| TransMonk Oct 19 2007 11:35 AM |
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Beat again. At least we agree.
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| G-Fafif Oct 19 2007 11:54 AM |
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On August 3 at Wrigley Field, Guillermo Mota pitched a scoreless eighth, preserving a 2-2 tie. The Mets scored four in the ninth giving him his first win of the season. The less said about him in the context of "best" anything, the better.
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| sharpie Oct 19 2007 12:09 PM |
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In one of his two appearances Carlos Muniz pitched a scoreless, hitless inning on September 29 to preserve the shutout begun by John Maine and, briefly, Willie Collazo.
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| G-Fafif Oct 19 2007 12:23 PM |
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On Saturday May 12 against the Brewers at Shea, pinch-hitter David Newhan launched an absolute bomb in a losing cause, though when it was struck in the fifth, it pulled the Mets to within 4-3. For just a few minutes, David Newhan seemed like a viable option off the bench for the rest of 2007.
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| bmfc1 Oct 19 2007 01:06 PM |
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Mike Pelfrey's BD came on September 1st against the Braves. He followed John Maine's Friday gem with one almost as good as the Mets defeated the Braves 5-1. Beltran, Delgado and Milledge all homered. Pelfrey pitched six innings, gave up only one ER, one hit and walked three. Hope for '08?
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| G-Fafif Oct 19 2007 01:20 PM |
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Ollie Perez shares his Best Day with Ramon Castro, the man he threw to on September 22: eight very solid innings (six hits, one earned run, eight strikeouts, zero walks) in a must situation, leading his team to a 7-2 win. It was all the must-ier given the Mets' recent use and abuse of their bullpen (not that the pen didn't abuse them right back).
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 19 2007 01:34 PM |
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How about when he tripled with the bases loaded off Smoltz at Shea, providing the tying and go-ahead runs? I know, we didn't win that game: Typical 2007 Mets. But Reyes was f-ing GOD back then.
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| SI Metman Oct 20 2007 10:37 PM |
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June 15th vs Klemens and the MFY - 3-3, HR 2 RBI, BB 3 SB. Drove in both runs in a 2-0 victory to take the first game in the Bronx.
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| bmfc1 Oct 21 2007 09:24 AM |
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Scott Schoeneweis' BD of '07 came on September 21st. It was a clutch performance that made you wonder where it came from and why he hadn't pitched like that all season long. On the night after a long, crushing loss, Schoeneweis relieved Joe Smith with 2 out in bottom of the 8th and the Mets clinging to a 9-6 lead (by then, 3 run leads meant that the team had to cling). Two were on and Jeremy Hermedia was up but SS "struck him out!" He stayed in for the 9th and retired the side in order, including two by strikeout to earn his first save of the season as the Mets defeated the Marlins 9-6.
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| G-Fafif Oct 21 2007 01:57 PM |
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For as many Best Days yielded by the Mets-Marlins series of the penultimate weekend, it's hard to believe the Mets didn't march to ultimate victory thereafter. But anyway, Aaron Sele's Best Day had to be Sunday, September 23 when, stripped of all other choices, Willie Randolph inserted the forgotten (and deservedly so) long man to attempt to preserve a one-run lead in the eleventh inning of yet another must game for the desperate New Yorkers.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 21 2007 08:25 PM |
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On a July 7th game in Houston, Smith enters a tie game in the bottom of the 12th with 2 out and 2 on. After hitting Craig Biggio with a pitch (hell, everyone does that) Smith K'd Hunter Pence with the sacks loaded. He then went on to pitch scoreless/hitless innings in the 13th & 14th (1 BB + 1 more HBP) in a game the Mets eventually won in the 17th.
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| Edgy DC Oct 21 2007 09:03 PM |
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On May 6, the Mets ability to score in double digits at Bank One Ballpark came to a hault just when an adequate-enough Mike Pelfrey could have used some runs. Pelfrey went 5.33, giving up three runs, and Pedro Feliciano finishes up the sixth, allowing that third run score after he inherited two baserunners.
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| G-Fafif Oct 21 2007 11:43 PM |
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Back when the world was young, when the Rockies were nobody in particular and the Mets were THE METS, Jose Valentin had his Best Day: April 23. Following a Moises Alou walk and a Shawn Green single, Jose Valentin walloped a three-run homer to right off Taylor Buccholz, putting the Mets up 3-0 and powering John Maine to an eventual 6-1 victory. Valentin, who added a fourth RBI on a fourth-inning sac fly, refreshed not terribly dorman memories of the previous September 18 when his two dingers and three ribbies clinched the most recent Eastern Division title. We 32,154 on hand thought it was a continuous ride.
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| Mendoza Line Oct 22 2007 04:41 AM |
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Jason Vargas had a few days, and one of them must have been the best. However, there's a middle reliever sitting right there between Joe Smith and Lino Urdaneta who's currently saying (through a translator), "Hey, what about me???"
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| bmfc1 Oct 22 2007 05:59 AM |
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Jason Vargas only made two appearances for the '07 Mets. In the second, he gave up 9 ER in 3 1/3 against the future NL champion Rockies. In the first, he didn't pitch much better but he was part of a great day for the Mets so that qualifies as his BD.
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| G-Fafif Oct 22 2007 01:03 PM |
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The fort had only recently been secured when Billy Wagner held it expertly. The Mets grabbed a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the eighth against the Reds on July 14 when Billy was brought into save what had been an excellent night of pitching from Tom Glavine, hitting from Lastings Milledge and being from Ralph Kiner. With no margin for error and no way the Mets could afford to lose this kind of low-scoring game (havng lost too many of them in June), Billy went to work: Strikes out David Ross; grounds out Jeff Keppinger; pops out Ryan Freel. A 1-2-3 ninth to truly preserve a 2-1 lead. It's Billy's 19th save of the year and his Best Day.
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| Edgy DC Oct 22 2007 01:07 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 22 2007 01:09 PM |
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Guillermo Wagner had two wins and 34 saves in 2007, but his best day was perhaps neither. His best day, I think, came on June 25th, as the defending champion St. Louis Cardinals came to Shea looking to avenge the thorough bashing the Mets gave them to open the season and ruin their flag-raising ceremonies. (Yes, I'd rather they ruined them by winning the pennant the previous October, but that's another tale.) One-at-bat-Met Gary Bennett pops to short. Sit down.Tenth inning Aaron Miles flies out gingerly to left. Eat it.A thoroughly dominating performance facing nothing but righthanded hitters up there for a manager who likes to set his matchups up carefully. Dave Williams, do that.
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| G-Fafif Oct 22 2007 01:08 PM |
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Dave Williams made some small but significant contributions to the 2006 division title drive. His absence, necessitated by injury, may have been one of the hidden factors that prevented a repeat for the Mets in 2007.
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| Edgy DC Oct 22 2007 01:09 PM |
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We have a conflict.
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| G-Fafif Oct 22 2007 01:12 PM |
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Very good choice. I bump my Billy Best Day to Billy Second Best Day (or Billy Best Day With a Stat to Show For It).
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| bmfc1 Oct 22 2007 05:39 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 23 2007 05:44 AM |
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There are a plethora of choices for David Wright's BD but I will go with May 19th against the MFYs. In a 10-7 win at Shea, Mr. Wright went 2 for 2, with 2 homeruns, 4 RBI, 3 walks. After homering in the 1st and 3d, Wright was walked the next three times up.
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| Edgy DC Oct 22 2007 10:05 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 22 2007 11:01 PM |
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| G-Fafif Oct 22 2007 10:37 PM |
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Nice chart action, Edgy. Puts the whole weird season into an interesting perspective.
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| sharpie Oct 23 2007 08:09 AM |
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Urdaneta, Adkins, Newhan and Humber have the dubious honor of being the only players whose Best Day was part of a loss (Newhan's in a 12-3 game).
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