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Mets News and Morning Links - 7/4/2022

 



Good Morning.  Happy July 4th!  Happy Birthday to Jose Oquendo, and Binghamton Shortstop Manny Rodriguez. Mets beat Texas Rangers 4-1. Syracuse, Binghamton, St. Lucie win, Brooklyn falls and Jacob deGrom K's 5 in rehab start.

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Box Score: Mets. 4 Texas Rangers 1;






Mets: Won their 18th series of the season...Are 10-3 in rubber games.
Move to 26-13 at home this season, the most wins at home by a National
League club this season.

Eduardo Escobar (1-4, HR, 2 RBI, R): Has homered in three consecutive games, the longest home run streak by a Met this season...Is the third time he has homered in at least three straight games in his career.
  • The last time a Met homered in at least four consecutive games was Jeff McNeil who did so in four straight games from 9/6/20 - 9/9/20.
Carlos Carrasco (5.2 IP, 6 H, ER, BB, 8 K): Earned his ninth win of the season, tied for third most in the majors...Is two wins away from 100 career wins.
  • Allowed one run...Had a 9.68 ERA (19 earned runs/17.2 innings) in his previous four starts.
Edwin Díaz (1.0 IP, H, BB, 2 K): Has allowed one earned run in his last 14
games.

Jeff McNeil (1-4, 2B, RBI, R): Ripped an RBI double in the fourth...Was his 100th career double.

Starling Marte (1-2, HR, RBI, R, BB): Homered in the first inning in consecutive games.

Buck Showalter: Earned his 1,600th career managerial win...Passed Tommy Lasorda for 22nd all-time...Fred Clarke is next with 1,602 wins.

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Mets (49-30) @ Reds (27-51), 6:40 pm

CIN: Hunter Greene (#21, 22, RHP, 3-9, 5.72)
NYM: Taijuan Walker (#99, 29, RHP, 6-2, 2.72)

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New York Mets sold Butch Metzger to the Philadelphia Phillies on July 4, 1978.

New York Mets signed free agent Miguel Batista on July 4, 2011.

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1972

In front of a large holiday crowd gathered at Shea Stadium for a doubleheader against San Diego, Tom Seaver takes a no-hitter into the ninth inning for the second time in his career. After getting Dave Roberts to ground out to second base, Leron Lee singles up the middle to spoil the no-hit bid of the 27 year-old Mets right-hander, who has to settle for his fourth one-hitter when he induces the next batter to hit into a game-ending double play.

1985

With a double in the first, a triple in the fourth, a homer in the eighth inning, Keith Hernandez completes the cycle with a single in the twelfth frame of a 19-inning contest with the Braves. The Mets first baseman's four hits, all off different pitchers, contribute to New York's 16-13 early morning victory at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. You Tube Link.


 

 

1985

"If he hits a home run to tie this game, this game will be certified as absolutely the nuttiest in the history of baseball." - JOHN STERLING, TBS broadcaster commenting to his partner Ernie Johnson about Rick Camp’s at-bat.

The Mets outlast the Braves, finally winning the game 16-13 in 19 innings, after Rick Camp, a weak-hitting hurler with a .060 average and 83 strikeouts in 167 at-bats, hit an improbable two-strike, two-out homer off Tom Gorman to tie the game in the bottom of the last frame. Shortly after the game ends at 3:55 in the morning, the approximately thousand fans left in Atlanta Fulton County Stadium stay to see the pre-dawn fireworks which awaken and frighten many of the ballpark's neighbors. You Tube Link.

 



 

2006

Billy Wagner becomes the 20th pitcher baseball history to record 300 career saves. The significant save for the Mets' southpaw, who has also played for the Astros and Phillies, is his sixteenth of the season.

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1967: The Mets end a 19-game losing streak to Juan Marichal with their first win against the Dominican Dandy, 8 - 7. Marichal's win streak started in 1962. Jack Fisher is the winning pitcher.

1972: Leron Lee singles in the 9th to break up Tom Seaver's no-hitter, but the Mets shut out the Padres, 2 - 0, in the opener. Seaver strikes out 11. The Pads take the nitecap, 4 - 2, as Nate Colbert hits his 16th homer.

1979 - The Phillies' Steve Carlton shuts out the Mets, 1 - 0, on a one-hitter, but the Phils manage to lose three other hurlers on the same day: Larry Christenson pulls a groin muscle, Dick Ruthven goes on the disabled list, and Randy Lerch fractures his thumb in a brawl.

1985 - In a marathon game that borders on the surreal, the Mets endure two rain delays and 6:10 of playing time to beat the Braves, 16 - 13, in 19 innings on Fireworks Night in Atlanta. The Mets take a 10 - 8 lead in the top of the 13th inning, only to watch the Braves tie it up. The Mets score again in the 18th, but relief hurler Rick Camp (a .060 hitter who is batting because Atlanta has no more position players available to pinch-hit) ties the score with his first major league home run on a two-out, two-strike pitch in the bottom of the inning. No pitcher had ever homered that late in a game before. Finally, the Mets erupt for five runs in the 19th off Camp and Atlanta can respond only with 2. Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle for the Mets, and the game ends at 3:55 A.M. on July 5th, the latest finish in major league history. At 4:01 A.M., the post-game fireworks display begins, causing local residents to think the city is under attack.

2012: The Phillies' Cliff Lee finally earns his first win of the year in beating the Mets, 9 - 2. He is now 1-5 in 14 starts, and his lack of production has been one of the reasons the Phils have fallen behind the pace in the NL East.

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