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G-Fafif May 10 2008 11:54 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 05 2008 06:39 PM

Not definitive, not painstakingly ranked, but some memorable visits by Cincy to Shea: • Pennant! 10/10/73 • Rose v. Buddy, 10/8/73 • Rose's Revenge, 10/9/73 • Tom's Return, 8/21/77 • Pete Streaks On, 7/25/78 • Darryl Debuts, 5/6/83 • The First Ten-Run Inning, 6/12/79 • Armando Short-Circuits Junior ('Frequency' Night), 4/25/00 --Ken Griffey's first game at Shea; he's booed for not being a Met; both teams wear faux-'69 unis; last out on a very cold night is Benitez striking out the interloper; no sign of Dennis Quaid • Juan Samuel Goes Out Kicking, 7/9/89 --Melee; Samuel's only contribution; it was supposed to get the Mets going; it didn't • The Jose Cycle, 6/21/06 --Ruined by Wagner minutes after Keith said it was the loudest he'd ever heard Shea • HoJo Calls It A Night, 5/4/89 --Walkoff blast • Bobby Bo Divests Dibble, 8/30/92 --Sunday night game; '62 throwbacks; Bonilla homers to end it; Dibble flings his vest on the mound and never looks back • Seaver Wins, Go On Strike, 6/11/81 --Zachry loses; poetic justice? • Sweeping Into Serious Contention, 7/21/97 --Mets made Reds miserable all weekend; got Ray Knight fired; got Deion Sanders praying for Mets fans who harassed him; sent Mets soaring toward West Coast trip with Wild Card lead oh-so-close • First A Bobble, Then A Retirement, 7/27/03 --Bob and Ralph bobbleheads given out; Murph announces retirement mid-game; and I, like an idiot, left just before he did • Two Wins, Empty Feeling, 5/19/98 --A fine doubleheader sweep by a gritty ballclub; it's memorable because nobody was in the park and it was this lack of attendance that contributed (contemporary legend had it) to ownership's determination to nab Piazza days later • Rose Takes Bloom Off Doc, 5/11/86 --First loss of '86 for Gooden when Rose singles in three runs; off Teufel's glove; seemed to break the spell once and for all Dwight held over N.L. • Pete Has Power, 4/29/78 --Three home runs for first time in Hit King's career (gawd, he was annoying) • Ralph's Night, 7/14/07 --Lovely ceremony, lovely win • Pedro's Punctuation, 6/22/06 --Last really good start before the DL became part of Pedro's Met life • June Surge, 6/30/90 --Mets had wallowed; Buddy took over; Mets took off; they reached first place by end of month; too bad it didn't last

AG/DC May 10 2008 12:11 PM

Wow. Great work. For some reason, Jose Rijo seemed to be on the mound half of those 1980-88 moments.

Benjamin Grimm May 10 2008 01:44 PM

UMDB visitors vote with their mouses. These are, in order, the 20 most clicked on UMDB box scores for games that the Cincinnati Reds played at Shea Stadium. I haven't cross-checked it with Fafif's list, but I'm sure there's some overlap: October 08, 1973 Mets 9, Reds 2 October 10, 1973 Mets 7, Reds 2 August 20, 1973 Mets 3, Reds 8 October 09, 1973 Mets 1, Reds 2 June 07, 1977 Mets 8, Reds 0 May 06, 1983 Mets 7, Reds 4 May 06, 1980 Mets 10, Reds 12 April 11, 1971 Mets 1, Reds 0 May 02, 1973 Mets 1, Reds 6 July 07, 1984 Mets 14, Reds 4 August 18, 1973 Mets 12, Reds 1 April 14, 1985 Mets 4, Reds 0 July 21, 1997 Mets 5, Reds 3 August 15, 1976 Mets 1, Reds 0 July 08, 1984 Mets 7, Reds 3 July 08, 1989 Mets 8, Reds 3 July 09, 1986 Mets 1, Reds 11 July 20, 1997 Mets 10, Reds 1 July 22, 1985 Mets 1, Reds 5 May 05, 1976 Mets 0, Reds 2

HahnSolo May 10 2008 02:05 PM

The Aug. 20, 1973 game was my first ever at Shea. Left in the 11th, got home to see the Reds score 5 in the top of the 16th.

Benjamin Grimm May 10 2008 02:10 PM

My first game ever at Shea was also a Reds game. It was in 1971, Gary Gentry starting, Cleon Jones celebrating a birthday. Mets lost 1-0.

G-Fafif May 10 2008 03:06 PM

Those July '84 wins rate a mention to be sure. The Mets barreled into first place at the break and showed their love to the crowd by tossing their caps to the orange seats. I'm almost certain that the first time I saw Shea Stadium, from the Grand Central, the Mets were playing the Reds. It was a Sunday and we were driving a family friend to LaGuardia, 1970. I remember mentioning to our passenger that Tom Seaver was pitching against Jim McGlothlin that day (which the record indicates would have made it [url=http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=1431]August 23[/url]). He insisted that he himself was pitching. I protested that he was mistaken. I may have been seven, but I wasn't an idiot.

soupcan May 12 2008 07:34 AM

I could've been in attendance at some others but I know I was there for these three... G-Fafif wrote: • Pete Streaks On, 7/25/78 • The First Ten-Run Inning, 6/12/79 • Armando Short-Circuits Junior ('Frequency' Night), 4/25/00 --Ken Griffey's first game at Shea; he's booed for not being a Met; both teams wear faux-'69 unis; last out on a very cold night is Benitez striking out the interloper; no sign of Dennis Quaid IIRC Tommy Holmes was at the Pete Rose game and went on the field before the game to congratulate Pete on breaking Holmes' NL hitting streak record. 10-run inning game happened on 'Fireworks Night'. Doug Flynn topped off the inning with an inside-the-parker giving cause to the powers that be to ignite a 'Let's Go Mets' fireworks display beyond left field. Saying it now, that doesn't seem like they would have done that but I'm 90% sure they did! Benitez/Griffey game was cool because of the retro unis. The Mets togs looked off-white actually which I thought was just groovy. Robin Ventura ripped his pants from the ass down on a slide (maybe into home?).

AG/DC May 12 2008 07:40 AM

A ten-run inning by the Mets of that era, featuring a homer of any stripe by Doug Flynn, was the equivelant of Urkel scoring with a chick, and fireworks were insanely appropriate. If you had them already cued up, and didn't set them off, it would be miserly.

HahnSolo May 12 2008 08:08 AM

Another Reds game I just thought of that at least deserves some mention, and not just 'cuz I was there: 7/12/07: Mets win 3-2; Reyes and Gotay go yard back-to-back to start the game. I believe that's the only time that's happened in Met history.

Benjamin Grimm May 12 2008 08:10 AM

I was at this game: ]• Tom's Return, 8/21/77 Seaver vs. Koosman; I so badly wanted Jerry to win that game. Oh well. I don't recall being at any of the other games G listed.

themetfairy May 12 2008 08:30 AM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was at this game: ]• Tom's Return, 8/21/77 Seaver vs. Koosman; I so badly wanted Jerry to win that game. Oh well. I don't recall being at any of the other games G listed. I was there. It was an incredibly emotional game. I even scored the game, which is rare for me. I didn't know the proper abbreviations, but you can definitely tell the story of the game from my scorecard.

Benjamin Grimm May 12 2008 08:36 AM

That was the first game I ever attended without a grownup. My dad worked in Jackson Heights, and my friend and I drove in to work with him from Long Island. He dropped us off at Shea and then we took a bus back to his shop after the game.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 12 2008 08:37 AM

The one I remember best was May 3 1985: Dykstra debuts with a home run and a steal in his first game ever. I watched that game at a party in Albany NY. I had hitch-hiked all the way there from Newark DE that afternoon. [url]http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=3705&tabno=A[/url]

Frayed Knot May 12 2008 08:53 AM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was at this game: ]• Tom's Return, 8/21/77 Seaver vs. Koosman; I so badly wanted Jerry to win that game. Oh well I was at that one too. I remember being pissed off at fans rooting for Seaver rather than Koos and the Mets.

Gwreck May 12 2008 09:26 AM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I watched that game at a party in Albany NY. I had hitch-hiked all the way there from Newark DE that afternoon. I'm thinking this needs a little more explanation.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 12 2008 10:00 AM

No money, freshman year. A few of us from high school hitchhiked around to one another's campuses (Syracuse, Lehigh, Albany) a few times that spring. The Albany visit was a big deal because there was a big concert that weekend by Utopia and the Tubes, and my friend there had a bunch of older, insane brothers that made it a weekend of extraordinary magnitude. I got up to Albany without a "hitch" so to speak.. one ride after another, boom boom boom. I got stuck outside of Stroudsberg PA for hours on the way home -- until a miraculous pickup took me all the way home.

HahnSolo May 12 2008 10:30 AM

I remember that Dykstra game. I was getting ready to head out to a kegger celebrating the (almost) end of senior year of high school. Wasnt that game in Cincy, though?

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 12 2008 10:50 AM

yeah maybe. I didn't realize we were talking only at Shea.

soupcan May 12 2008 10:51 AM

="AG/DC"]A ten-run inning by the Mets of that era, featuring a homer of any stripe by Doug Flynn, was the equivelant of Urkel scoring with a chick, and fireworks were insanely appropriate. If you had them already cued up, and didn't set them off, it would be miserly. Absolutely 100% correct, however my memory is that the fireworks were set off just after Flynn crossed the plate. Sort of like instead of raising the apple - the non-existent apple at that time in Mets history. Looking back it just seems odd that they would set off fireworks during play. But I'm pretty certain they did.

TheOldMole May 12 2008 10:54 AM

This is great.

AG/DC May 12 2008 11:39 AM

I remember some kid writing a poem called "Dougie at the Bat" and getting it published in Kidsday.

SteveJRogers May 12 2008 05:33 PM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: My first game ever at Shea was also a Reds game. Heh mine too. It was the summer 1985, and I've lost all memory of what happened, and what date it was. Hey I was 8, cut me some slack!