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For completion's sake; part II from [url=http://cranepoolforum.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=9835]last week[/url]:
• NICE AIM, 5/17/87
--It's not in the boxscore, but I believe this was the night Roger McDowell got disgusted, went to pound the ball into his mitt and missed
• U CAN'T TOUCH HIM, 8/30/88
--Bobby Ojeda throws yet another nine-inning shutout, 1-0, in what was too often a hard-luck if comeback season
• KEVIN MUST HAVE SENT YOU, 8/15/89
--McReynolds homer, Elster double wins it in the ninth, 3-2
• DAVEY WE HARDLY KNEW YE, 5/26/90
--Davey Johnson's final Mets managerial win, 11-0
• INNOVATIVE IF UNFORTUNATE, 7/14/91
--Buddy Harrelson sticks Mackey Sasser's bat in right field; glove follows; Sasser makes some nice grabs; but Mets see ten-game winning streak snapped
• FIGHT! FIGHT! 4/25/93
--Sheffield and Hundley both ejected in first inning when Gary decides he doesn't like whatever it is Gary doesn't like; Mets lose 9-8
• THERE USED TO BE A BALLCLUB HERE, 7/17/94
--Mets celebrate 25th anniversary of 1969 with poorly executed Old Timers Day that starts before noon in front of nobody; and the current uniform wearers get their asses kicked 10-1
• WHO NEEDS SLEEP? 8/23/97
--Amid Bobby Valentine's celebrated allegations that Todd Hundley "doesn't get enough sleep," Hundley rocks the night with a grand slam in 9-5 win
• THERE ARE NO WINNERS, NOT REALLY, 7/29/98
--Mets beat Padres 7-6; Rojas is WP; Wall is LP; Gene Walter is somehow AWOL
• MIKE MAGIC, 4/28/99
--You know that shot of Piazza taking Hoffman deep in 1999 to win it from behind? That's from this game.
• MET LAG NOT IN EVIDENCE, 4/3/00
--Groggy from Japan, Derek Bell with long sleeves whacks eighth-inning homer to win Home Opener 2-1, get Shea millennium off to good start
• DIDN'T YOU USED TO BE? 5/15/01
--To barely perceptible reaction, Bobby Jones returns to Shea and loses 1-0 to Rick Reed
• LET'S GO PADRES, 5/9/03
--First and third, two out, Mets up by a run, top of the ninth and San Diego brings in...JESSE OROSCO? to face Roberto Alomar. I can't help myself and cheer when the ghost of 1986 past strikes out my least favorite Met of modern times
• MORE MIKE MAGIC, 5/10/03
--Another Piazza walkoff, this time in the tenth off Jaret Wright
• YOU AGAIN? 8/8/06
--Piazza returns; is adored; Mets win
• MOOD KILLER, 8/23/08
--Down 6-1, Mets storm back with a six-run sixth capped by three-run homer off the pinch bat of Marlon Anderson; Mets can't hold lead and lose 9-8
• JUST WALK AWAY DAVID, 8/7/08
--David Wright's first walkoff homer buries Heath Bell in 5-3 regulation win that ends San Diego's visits to Shea; my final midweek afternoon game in the building, spent in the company of my three oldest friends in the world
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