* Mets Walk-Off Win #354 is the Mets 6th walk-off win of the season, their first since June 11.
* That is the first walk-off home run for David Wright in his baseball career, at any level (thanks to Ethan in the Mets PR office for procuring this note for us earlier in the season).
* That was Wright's seventh career walk-off RBI, tied for second in Mets history with Rusty Staub. Kevin McReynolds is the all-time Mets leader with 8. It was Wright's second walk-off RBI this season, with both coming in games in which the bullpen blew a win for Johan Santana.
* It was the 8th time that the Mets have beaten the Padres with a walk-off home run, the last being by Chris Woodward on July 19, 2005. That one was also a 2-run home run.
* 5-3 is an extraordinarily unusual walk-off final score for the Mets. They've had 3 walk-off wins end with a 5-3 score, and all have occurred since the beginnings of this blog.
They beat the Angels 5-3 on Cliff Floyd's walk-off home run on June 11, 2005
They beat the Diamondbacks 5-3 on Carlos Beltran's walk-off home run on June 11, 2008
and now they've beaten the Padres 5-3 on David Wright's walk-off home run on August 7, 2008
* Wright was closing in on Edgardo Alfonzo's team record of 120 home runs, no walk-off home runs. Here are your top guys in that stat.
Most HR For Mets
Without Hitting a Walk-Off HR
120- Edgardo Alfonzo
67- Jeff Kent
57- Jose Reyes
* Of the 7 games in which Wright has had a walk-off RBI, this is the third in which he's had 3 hits, and the first in which he homered at any point.
* It was Wright's 7th career home run in the ninth inning. That's the fewest home runs for him in a regulation inning. His biggest innings are the 1st and 4th, in which he's hit 17 home runs.
* Heath Bell has now given up walk-off home runs for the Mets (Derrek Lee, May 11, 2005) and against them (Wright).
The Mets fan not in need of a day off knows...Dan Murphy has a 4-game hitting streak since joining the Mets (the game in which he went 0-0 with a walk doesn't count by hit-streak rules). That's not a huge deal...yet. It puts him in the company of the likes of Angel Pagan, Shawn Hare, and Bobby Pfeil, who also had 4-game hit-streaks to start their Mets career. Getting hits in the Mets weekend games with the Marlins will put him in better company.
Longest Hit Streak
To Start Mets Career
11- Johnny Lewis, 1965
7- Keith Miller, 1987
6- Todd Pratt, 1997
6- Dave Schneck, 1972
5- Ryan Church, 2008
5- Jose Vizcaino, 1994
5- Jeff Gardner, 1991
(10 players tied with 4)
Showing posts with label David Wright. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Everything is All Wright After All
So apparently the Mike Myers film festival did David Wright some good, eh?
* David Wright's 11th career multi-homer game was the 306th multi-homer game in Mets history. Wright is now halfway to Darryl Strawberry's club record for multi-homer games.
Most Multi-HR Games
Mets History
22-Darryl Strawberry
17-Mike Piazza
16-Dave Kingman
11-David Wright
11-Carlos Beltran
10-Kevin McReynolds
10-Bobby Bonilla
* It was also the 9th time that David Wright had a multi-homer game at Shea Stadium. He's closing in on Darryl Strawberry's Shea record
Most Multi-HR Games
For Mets at Shea Stadium
11-Darryl Strawberry
9-David Wright
6-Gary Carter
5-Mike Piazza
5-Todd Hundley
5-Dave Kingman
5-Bobby Bonilla
Truly Multimet fans know... Willie McCovey has the mark for most multi-homer games against the Mets, with 8.
Most Multi-HR Games vs Mets
8-Willie McCovey
6-Willie Mays
5-Dave Kingman
5-Chipper Jones
5-Dick Allen
* David Wright's 11th career multi-homer game was the 306th multi-homer game in Mets history. Wright is now halfway to Darryl Strawberry's club record for multi-homer games.
Most Multi-HR Games
Mets History
22-Darryl Strawberry
17-Mike Piazza
16-Dave Kingman
11-David Wright
11-Carlos Beltran
10-Kevin McReynolds
10-Bobby Bonilla
* It was also the 9th time that David Wright had a multi-homer game at Shea Stadium. He's closing in on Darryl Strawberry's Shea record
Most Multi-HR Games
For Mets at Shea Stadium
11-Darryl Strawberry
9-David Wright
6-Gary Carter
5-Mike Piazza
5-Todd Hundley
5-Dave Kingman
5-Bobby Bonilla
Truly Multimet fans know... Willie McCovey has the mark for most multi-homer games against the Mets, with 8.
Most Multi-HR Games vs Mets
8-Willie McCovey
6-Willie Mays
5-Dave Kingman
5-Chipper Jones
5-Dick Allen
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Maybe Some Laughter Will Make Everything All Wright
So David Wright is scheduled to get the evening off, for the first time all season.
Hopefully David had a little fun today. My hope is that he went to see The Love Guru and yes, I'm aware that it's the most critically ripped movie, perhaps of this decade. But there's a reason David should be at the cinema today.
He loves Mike Myers.
David Wright is 2-for-2 in his career against Mike Myers and both of his hits were home runs.
After watching that movie (perhaps he should rent Wayne's World or Austin Powers instead), perhaps Wright should go to the Shea film room and pull out some video, maybe even consult with his favorite guru, Howard Johnson, who went through plenty of funks in his Mets career. Maybe he'll see that he's pressing, that he's trying to hit his first career walk-off home run, every time he's at-bat.
Wright started off the season like gangbusters, hitting .359 with 10 doubles and 19 RBI in the Mets first 17 games. Since then, he's hitting just .248, with 9 doubles, and slugging a meager .391. That's very unWright-like. It's the kind of production a team would get from a guy like Marco Scutaro (2005: BA. 247, slugging percentage .391). It's almost a horror show akin to that featuring the other Mike Myers (I'll admit to never having seen Friday the 13th).
I thought for sure that the game-tying hit against the Angels in the 9th inning last week would fix things for him, but since then, Wright is just 2-for-13. It hasn't helped.
So perhaps a day off, and a day at the movies would do the trick. If anything, perhaps it will give Wright the chance to realize that he doesn't want his season to flounder away like Mike Myers' has.
True Metgurus know...David Wright has homered against 3 pitchers every time he has faced them in the regular season: Mike Myers (twice), Danny Graves (once), and Josias Manzanillo (once).
Hopefully David had a little fun today. My hope is that he went to see The Love Guru and yes, I'm aware that it's the most critically ripped movie, perhaps of this decade. But there's a reason David should be at the cinema today.
He loves Mike Myers.
David Wright is 2-for-2 in his career against Mike Myers and both of his hits were home runs.
After watching that movie (perhaps he should rent Wayne's World or Austin Powers instead), perhaps Wright should go to the Shea film room and pull out some video, maybe even consult with his favorite guru, Howard Johnson, who went through plenty of funks in his Mets career. Maybe he'll see that he's pressing, that he's trying to hit his first career walk-off home run, every time he's at-bat.
Wright started off the season like gangbusters, hitting .359 with 10 doubles and 19 RBI in the Mets first 17 games. Since then, he's hitting just .248, with 9 doubles, and slugging a meager .391. That's very unWright-like. It's the kind of production a team would get from a guy like Marco Scutaro (2005: BA. 247, slugging percentage .391). It's almost a horror show akin to that featuring the other Mike Myers (I'll admit to never having seen Friday the 13th).
I thought for sure that the game-tying hit against the Angels in the 9th inning last week would fix things for him, but since then, Wright is just 2-for-13. It hasn't helped.
So perhaps a day off, and a day at the movies would do the trick. If anything, perhaps it will give Wright the chance to realize that he doesn't want his season to flounder away like Mike Myers' has.
True Metgurus know...David Wright has homered against 3 pitchers every time he has faced them in the regular season: Mike Myers (twice), Danny Graves (once), and Josias Manzanillo (once).
Thursday, May 01, 2008
We'll Get It Wright This Time
Let's just pretend Thursday's game didn't happen...
Things I Learned While Trying to Put David Wright's .465 batting average with the bases loaded into proper perspective
He's Positively Tablerian
Pat Tabler hit .282 in a major league career that spanned 12 seasons and more than 1,200 games. But his biggest value was what he did when the bases were loaded. He was 43-for-88, and even if you factor in his nine sacrifice flies (which batting average doesn't), his numbers are still off-the-charts good. David Wright's .465 is in the Tabler stratosphere (Tabler-Rosa?) and that's pretty impressive. Of course, Wright will never be able to match Tabler's 2-for-2 performance with the bases loaded as a 17-game Met. That's perfection.
He's Not The Best In The Majors, But He's Close Enough
So Taguchi is a .500 hitter with the bases loaded (20-for-40).
Jose Lopez is a .484 hitter with the bases-loaded (15-for-31)
Ichiro is a .473 hitter with the bases loaded (35-for-74)
Ed Kranepool never hit a grand slam
Ed Kranepool is Mr. Met to a lot of people, as he's been a part of the franchise since its first year of existence, and still can regularly be found hanging out in Shea Stadium's luxury suites. Kranepool had 118 home runs among his club record 1,418 hits, yet never, in 1,853 games and 120 bases-loaded plate appearances, hit a grand slam. Not that he was a bad hitter with the bases loaded (33-for-98 with 10 sacrifice flies). He just never hit the ball out of the ballpark in those spots. Of the Mets 120 regular season slams, none belong to Kranepool.
Robin Ventura was an Ace
Robin Ventura hit 5 grand slams for the Mets. Well, actually he hit 6, if you include balls in the postseason that cleared the fence, but didn't count as home runs. So instead, he's one shy of the Mets record for most grand slams, held by Mike Piazza (6), who was a pretty good bases-loaded hitter in his own right (.371 BA, 33-for-89, 3 sacrifice flies for the Mets).
Most Grand Slams
Mets History
Mike Piazza 6
Howard Johnson 5
Kevin McReynolds 5
Robin Ventura 5
John Milner 5
John Olerud was rightfully beloved
John Olrerud was 14-for-27 in his Mets career with the bases loaded. The only better Met in bases-loaded situations (minimum 20 plate appearances) that I could find was Eddie Murray (11-for-20, including an amazing 10-for-15 in the disaster that was 1992), but his hits were not of anywhere the significance of those of Olerud.
Let's just look at Olerud's bases-loaded hits in 1999:
May 23- Two-run walk-off single vs Phillies starter Curt Schilling with two outs in the ninth.
August 1- Two-run game-tying double vs Felix Heredia in sixth inning. Mets win over Cubs in 13 innings.
August 11- Two-run, two-out single vs Carlos Reyes turns 3-run lead into safe 5-run cushion, Mets beat Padres, 12-5
August 22- Grand slam vs Cardinals pitcher Rich Croushore cuts 6-1 eighth-inning deficit to 6-5. Mike Piazza ties game with subsequent homer. Mets win, 8-7 scoring twice in bottom ninth.
September 29- Grand slam vs Braves starter Greg Maddux in fourth-inning extends Mets lead from 4-2 to 8-2. Mets stop malaise with gargantuanly-needed 9-2 win.
That's pretty good.
Bobby Bonilla and Dave Kingman were rightfully despised
Bobby Bonilla was 8-for-40 with 2 sacrifice flies with the bases loaded as a Met.
Dave Kingman was 7-for-45 with 5 sacrifice flies with the bases loaded as a Met.
You would have been better off with Dwight Gooden at the plate (6-for-21, 3 sacrifice flies), or for that matter, with Carlton Willey or Jack Hamilton, the two Mets pitchers to hit grand slams.
Keith Hernandez and Edgardo Alfonzo weren't as good as you'd think
Keith Hernandez hit .278 (15-for-54, 5 sacrifice flies) with the bases loaded for the Mets.
Edgardo Alfonzo hit .260 (19-for-73, 4 sacrifice flies) with the bases loaded for the Mets.
The lesson: One big postseason hit with the bases loaded can trick the memory a bit.
Sacrifice flies should count in batting average
Why does a sacrifice fly not count in batting average? It should. The guy made an out. He wasn't trying to make an out. It was a legitimate at-bat and a hitter should not be rewarded just because it drove in a run.
Not counting sac flies skewers bases-loaded batting averages. For example: Major-league hitters batted .291 with the bases loaded last season. If you counted sacrifice flies at at-bats, that would drop to .261. Not counting sac flies makes hitters look a lot better than they are.
The effect, however, is minimal on David Wright. His 5 sacrifice flies drop his batting average with the bases loaded to .417. I'll still take that any day of the week.
Leaving The Bases Loaded to End a 1-Run Game Sucks
When I was doing that series of stories on Mets frustration, I actually went through Baseball Reference's play index tool, and did a year-by-year check to find how many times the last out(s) of a Mets 1-run loss came with the bases loaded. By my count, it has happened 35 times in the regular season. We'll spare you the details
Leaving The Bases Loaded To End Game 7 of a Postseason Sucks (even when you lose by 2 runs)
No further comment needed.
Things I Learned While Trying to Put David Wright's .465 batting average with the bases loaded into proper perspective
He's Positively Tablerian
Pat Tabler hit .282 in a major league career that spanned 12 seasons and more than 1,200 games. But his biggest value was what he did when the bases were loaded. He was 43-for-88, and even if you factor in his nine sacrifice flies (which batting average doesn't), his numbers are still off-the-charts good. David Wright's .465 is in the Tabler stratosphere (Tabler-Rosa?) and that's pretty impressive. Of course, Wright will never be able to match Tabler's 2-for-2 performance with the bases loaded as a 17-game Met. That's perfection.
He's Not The Best In The Majors, But He's Close Enough
So Taguchi is a .500 hitter with the bases loaded (20-for-40).
Jose Lopez is a .484 hitter with the bases-loaded (15-for-31)
Ichiro is a .473 hitter with the bases loaded (35-for-74)
Ed Kranepool never hit a grand slam
Ed Kranepool is Mr. Met to a lot of people, as he's been a part of the franchise since its first year of existence, and still can regularly be found hanging out in Shea Stadium's luxury suites. Kranepool had 118 home runs among his club record 1,418 hits, yet never, in 1,853 games and 120 bases-loaded plate appearances, hit a grand slam. Not that he was a bad hitter with the bases loaded (33-for-98 with 10 sacrifice flies). He just never hit the ball out of the ballpark in those spots. Of the Mets 120 regular season slams, none belong to Kranepool.
Robin Ventura was an Ace
Robin Ventura hit 5 grand slams for the Mets. Well, actually he hit 6, if you include balls in the postseason that cleared the fence, but didn't count as home runs. So instead, he's one shy of the Mets record for most grand slams, held by Mike Piazza (6), who was a pretty good bases-loaded hitter in his own right (.371 BA, 33-for-89, 3 sacrifice flies for the Mets).
Most Grand Slams
Mets History
Mike Piazza 6
Howard Johnson 5
Kevin McReynolds 5
Robin Ventura 5
John Milner 5
John Olerud was rightfully beloved
John Olrerud was 14-for-27 in his Mets career with the bases loaded. The only better Met in bases-loaded situations (minimum 20 plate appearances) that I could find was Eddie Murray (11-for-20, including an amazing 10-for-15 in the disaster that was 1992), but his hits were not of anywhere the significance of those of Olerud.
Let's just look at Olerud's bases-loaded hits in 1999:
May 23- Two-run walk-off single vs Phillies starter Curt Schilling with two outs in the ninth.
August 1- Two-run game-tying double vs Felix Heredia in sixth inning. Mets win over Cubs in 13 innings.
August 11- Two-run, two-out single vs Carlos Reyes turns 3-run lead into safe 5-run cushion, Mets beat Padres, 12-5
August 22- Grand slam vs Cardinals pitcher Rich Croushore cuts 6-1 eighth-inning deficit to 6-5. Mike Piazza ties game with subsequent homer. Mets win, 8-7 scoring twice in bottom ninth.
September 29- Grand slam vs Braves starter Greg Maddux in fourth-inning extends Mets lead from 4-2 to 8-2. Mets stop malaise with gargantuanly-needed 9-2 win.
That's pretty good.
Bobby Bonilla and Dave Kingman were rightfully despised
Bobby Bonilla was 8-for-40 with 2 sacrifice flies with the bases loaded as a Met.
Dave Kingman was 7-for-45 with 5 sacrifice flies with the bases loaded as a Met.
You would have been better off with Dwight Gooden at the plate (6-for-21, 3 sacrifice flies), or for that matter, with Carlton Willey or Jack Hamilton, the two Mets pitchers to hit grand slams.
Keith Hernandez and Edgardo Alfonzo weren't as good as you'd think
Keith Hernandez hit .278 (15-for-54, 5 sacrifice flies) with the bases loaded for the Mets.
Edgardo Alfonzo hit .260 (19-for-73, 4 sacrifice flies) with the bases loaded for the Mets.
The lesson: One big postseason hit with the bases loaded can trick the memory a bit.
Sacrifice flies should count in batting average
Why does a sacrifice fly not count in batting average? It should. The guy made an out. He wasn't trying to make an out. It was a legitimate at-bat and a hitter should not be rewarded just because it drove in a run.
Not counting sac flies skewers bases-loaded batting averages. For example: Major-league hitters batted .291 with the bases loaded last season. If you counted sacrifice flies at at-bats, that would drop to .261. Not counting sac flies makes hitters look a lot better than they are.
The effect, however, is minimal on David Wright. His 5 sacrifice flies drop his batting average with the bases loaded to .417. I'll still take that any day of the week.
Leaving The Bases Loaded to End a 1-Run Game Sucks
When I was doing that series of stories on Mets frustration, I actually went through Baseball Reference's play index tool, and did a year-by-year check to find how many times the last out(s) of a Mets 1-run loss came with the bases loaded. By my count, it has happened 35 times in the regular season. We'll spare you the details
Leaving The Bases Loaded To End Game 7 of a Postseason Sucks (even when you lose by 2 runs)
No further comment needed.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
All Is Wright With The World
I really thought, off the swing, that David Wright had hit his first career walk-off home run.
It wouldn't have been the first walk-off home run of Wright's major league career. It wouldn't have been the first walk-off home run of Wright's professional career.
It would have been the first walk-off home run that David Wright had ever hit in his life.
I know this because, in the bizarrest of coincidences, my quest to find out whether David Wright had ever hit a walk-off home run ended about 10 hours earlier when a Mets PR person replied to a request I had made a few days before. I'm told that Wright pondered the query for a couple minutes before answering that he had never hit one. Never as in never ever.
My reply to the Mets official was: "Thank you. I look forward to his first."
So you can imagine my reaction when the ball left the bat, and of course, I'm at work and sitting in a part of our offices in which ones rooting interest should not get in the way of ones employment. So when the ball landed (though those watching on TV never quite saw where), the look on my face was of, to use a phrase previously referenced to describe another walk-off against the Pirates. Restrained jubilation.
However, I take consolation in knowing the following pieces of information, and hopefully David will too.
* Mets walk-off win #351 (by our tally) was their 3rd of the 2008 season. It was the first since the 3-2 14-inning win over the Nationals on April 17. It is the second consecutive walk-off win that Willie Randolph described as "ugly."
* It is the 40th Mets walk-off win against the Pirates, the first since Carlos Delgado homered in the 12th inning to beat the Pirates on May 3, 2006. I don't know (and don't really care) if Delgado took a curtain call for that. Coincidentally, the walk-off win of May 3, 2006 also featured Ian Snell in a starting role, a Jose Reyes triple, and a Billy Wagner blown save.
* It is the 2nd Mets walk-off win to take place on Met broadcaster Gary Cohen's birthday (kudos to Ultimate Mets Database for noting that birthday on Tuesday). Coincidentally, the other was also a 5-4 11-inning win, this one against the Cardinals, on Joe Orsulak's walk-off single.
* It is the 6th career walk-off RBI for David Wright, the first since a double to beat the Athletics on June 23, 2007. He's got 3 singles, 2 doubles, a sacrifice fly, and again, no walk-off home runs.
Most Walk-Off RBI
Mets History
Kevin McReynolds 8
Rusty Staub 7
David Wright 6
George Foster 6
Cleon Jones 6
Ed Kranepool 6
>> All but Wright have hit a walk-off home run
* It's the first time that the Mets have 3 walk-off wins in April since 1998. The third of the walk-off wins that season was April 22, 1998, and the game ended with a Jim Tatum walk-off home run.
Career Comparison
Jim Tatum
35 games for the Mets
173 career MLB games
201 career MLB at-bats
1 walk-off home run
David Wright
568 games for the Mets
2,118 career MLB at-bats
0 walk-off home runs
* Jorge Sosa has all 3 Mets walk-off wins this season.
* Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez hit 1 career walk-off home run: August 3, 1987 against the Phillies and reliever Kent Tekulve. In an ideal situation, David Wright would be facing someone who pitches underhand, like Tekulve. Where's Mike Myers (against whom Wright is 2-for-2 with 2 HR) when you really need him?
* Mets pre/post-game analyst Darryl Strawberry hit 3 walk-off home runs for the Mets-- 2 off John Franco and one against Lee Smith.
* Jose Reyes reached base 6 times, tying a Mets record, previously done 18 times. The last Mets to do it: Jose Reyes and David Wright in a walk-off win against the Braves on May 5, 2006. Wright had the walk-off hit in that game...against Jorge Sosa!
* Among active players, your leader in most home runs without a walk-off home run is Lance Berkman with 267. The all-time leader is Norm Cash with 377. Thanks to HR guru David Vincent (find his book on the history of the HR, coming soon in paperback, here)
Most Home Runs
No Walk-Off Home Runs
Norm Cash 377
Hank Sauer 288
Lance Berkman 267
Danny Tartabull 262
Goose Goslin 248
Ken Caminiti 239
Jim Bottomley 219
Jason Thompson 208
Rico Carty 204
* David Wright is one of 2 David Wrights to play in the major leagues. Dave Wright (real first name: David) probably didn't hit any walk-off home runs in his lifetime either. Of course, he was a pitcher who appeared in 1 game in 1895 and 1 more in 1897, so I don't suspect he had too many opportunities.
* I do want to say something nice about David Wright, so...Wright is now 21-for-44 with the bases loaded, a .477 batting average. Even if you throw in his 5 sacrifice flies, his numbers would still, by my guess, make him the best bases-loaded hitter in Mets history.
Those doing truly Wright by the Mets know... Willie Randolph never hit a walk-off home run in the major leagues (no idea on whether he did elsewhere). However, Randolph can one-up Wright by pointing to his numbers against recently DL'd John Smoltz: 3-for-8 with 4 walks and NO strikeouts
For those who missed it, we wrote about Wright vs Smoltz prior to Sunday's game, here:
http://metswalkoffs.blogspot.com/2008/04/smoltzs-wright-hand-man.html
It wouldn't have been the first walk-off home run of Wright's major league career. It wouldn't have been the first walk-off home run of Wright's professional career.
It would have been the first walk-off home run that David Wright had ever hit in his life.
I know this because, in the bizarrest of coincidences, my quest to find out whether David Wright had ever hit a walk-off home run ended about 10 hours earlier when a Mets PR person replied to a request I had made a few days before. I'm told that Wright pondered the query for a couple minutes before answering that he had never hit one. Never as in never ever.
My reply to the Mets official was: "Thank you. I look forward to his first."
So you can imagine my reaction when the ball left the bat, and of course, I'm at work and sitting in a part of our offices in which ones rooting interest should not get in the way of ones employment. So when the ball landed (though those watching on TV never quite saw where), the look on my face was of, to use a phrase previously referenced to describe another walk-off against the Pirates. Restrained jubilation.
However, I take consolation in knowing the following pieces of information, and hopefully David will too.
* Mets walk-off win #351 (by our tally) was their 3rd of the 2008 season. It was the first since the 3-2 14-inning win over the Nationals on April 17. It is the second consecutive walk-off win that Willie Randolph described as "ugly."
* It is the 40th Mets walk-off win against the Pirates, the first since Carlos Delgado homered in the 12th inning to beat the Pirates on May 3, 2006. I don't know (and don't really care) if Delgado took a curtain call for that. Coincidentally, the walk-off win of May 3, 2006 also featured Ian Snell in a starting role, a Jose Reyes triple, and a Billy Wagner blown save.
* It is the 2nd Mets walk-off win to take place on Met broadcaster Gary Cohen's birthday (kudos to Ultimate Mets Database for noting that birthday on Tuesday). Coincidentally, the other was also a 5-4 11-inning win, this one against the Cardinals, on Joe Orsulak's walk-off single.
* It is the 6th career walk-off RBI for David Wright, the first since a double to beat the Athletics on June 23, 2007. He's got 3 singles, 2 doubles, a sacrifice fly, and again, no walk-off home runs.
Most Walk-Off RBI
Mets History
Kevin McReynolds 8
Rusty Staub 7
David Wright 6
George Foster 6
Cleon Jones 6
Ed Kranepool 6
>> All but Wright have hit a walk-off home run
* It's the first time that the Mets have 3 walk-off wins in April since 1998. The third of the walk-off wins that season was April 22, 1998, and the game ended with a Jim Tatum walk-off home run.
Career Comparison
Jim Tatum
35 games for the Mets
173 career MLB games
201 career MLB at-bats
1 walk-off home run
David Wright
568 games for the Mets
2,118 career MLB at-bats
0 walk-off home runs
* Jorge Sosa has all 3 Mets walk-off wins this season.
* Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez hit 1 career walk-off home run: August 3, 1987 against the Phillies and reliever Kent Tekulve. In an ideal situation, David Wright would be facing someone who pitches underhand, like Tekulve. Where's Mike Myers (against whom Wright is 2-for-2 with 2 HR) when you really need him?
* Mets pre/post-game analyst Darryl Strawberry hit 3 walk-off home runs for the Mets-- 2 off John Franco and one against Lee Smith.
* Jose Reyes reached base 6 times, tying a Mets record, previously done 18 times. The last Mets to do it: Jose Reyes and David Wright in a walk-off win against the Braves on May 5, 2006. Wright had the walk-off hit in that game...against Jorge Sosa!
* Among active players, your leader in most home runs without a walk-off home run is Lance Berkman with 267. The all-time leader is Norm Cash with 377. Thanks to HR guru David Vincent (find his book on the history of the HR, coming soon in paperback, here)
Most Home Runs
No Walk-Off Home Runs
Norm Cash 377
Hank Sauer 288
Lance Berkman 267
Danny Tartabull 262
Goose Goslin 248
Ken Caminiti 239
Jim Bottomley 219
Jason Thompson 208
Rico Carty 204
* David Wright is one of 2 David Wrights to play in the major leagues. Dave Wright (real first name: David) probably didn't hit any walk-off home runs in his lifetime either. Of course, he was a pitcher who appeared in 1 game in 1895 and 1 more in 1897, so I don't suspect he had too many opportunities.
* I do want to say something nice about David Wright, so...Wright is now 21-for-44 with the bases loaded, a .477 batting average. Even if you throw in his 5 sacrifice flies, his numbers would still, by my guess, make him the best bases-loaded hitter in Mets history.
Those doing truly Wright by the Mets know... Willie Randolph never hit a walk-off home run in the major leagues (no idea on whether he did elsewhere). However, Randolph can one-up Wright by pointing to his numbers against recently DL'd John Smoltz: 3-for-8 with 4 walks and NO strikeouts
For those who missed it, we wrote about Wright vs Smoltz prior to Sunday's game, here:
http://metswalkoffs.blogspot.com/2008/04/smoltzs-wright-hand-man.html
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Smoltz's Wright Hand Man
I'm glad that David Wright broke his career worst 0-for string on Saturday, because the matchup on Sunday, while fascinating, is a bit troubling.
John Smoltz pitches for the Braves on Sunday and he's essentially the kryptonite to David Wright's Superman status.
Smoltz has struck Wright out 19 times in 52 meetings (plate appearances) in holding him to a .233 batting average.
Why is that significant? Take a look at this list.
Most K By David Wright
vs Pitchers
John Smoltz 19
Brett Myers 7
Dontrelle Willis 7
Jason Bergmann 6
Randy Johnson 6
Mike Mussina 6 (in 8 plate appearances, 7 AB!)
Among active players, there's no one who Smoltz, who just passed 3,000 career strikeouts, has whiffed more than David Wright. That's particularly amazin' considering that Wright has only played the equivalent of 3.5 major league seasons.
Not only has Wright struck out 19 times. He's gone to a 2-strike count against Smoltz 34 times (well more than half their meetings), going 4-for-30 with 4 walks in those instances. In one span of 14 plate appearances last season, Smoltz got to 2 strikes on Wright 13 times! That's insane.
David Wright is a good 2-strike hitter, dare we say among the best 2-strike hitters in baseball, but not against Smoltz.
I remember watching the first Smoltz strikeout of Wright. It was a walk-off, a series-sweep-ender that basically ended the Mets season on August 1, 2004 (they fell 9 games back of the Braves). Wright, than a young pup, batting in the eighth hole, in his 11th major-league game, took to a 2-0 count, watched two called strikes, than battled through three foul balls. On the eighth pitch, Smoltz froze Wright (believe it was fastball, outside corner) to close things out.
That at-bat seemed to fuel Wright in their next few meetings, as he went 5 for his next 11 against Smoltz, but after that, Smoltz figured things out. He's held Wright to 4-for-29, with 15 strikeouts, starting with a pair of whiffs in late 2005.
I don't pretend to know what approach Wright takes against Smoltz, but whatever it is, he might want to adjust it slightly, because right now it's Smoltz who is walking off the mound from those confrontations as a major winner.
Those Mets fans in the Wright know...The pitcher whom David Wright has faced the most WITHOUT striking out is Brandon Webb. Wright is hitting .455 with no strikeouts and one walk in 16 career plate appearances (15 AB) against Webb.
John Smoltz pitches for the Braves on Sunday and he's essentially the kryptonite to David Wright's Superman status.
Smoltz has struck Wright out 19 times in 52 meetings (plate appearances) in holding him to a .233 batting average.
Why is that significant? Take a look at this list.
Most K By David Wright
vs Pitchers
John Smoltz 19
Brett Myers 7
Dontrelle Willis 7
Jason Bergmann 6
Randy Johnson 6
Mike Mussina 6 (in 8 plate appearances, 7 AB!)
Among active players, there's no one who Smoltz, who just passed 3,000 career strikeouts, has whiffed more than David Wright. That's particularly amazin' considering that Wright has only played the equivalent of 3.5 major league seasons.
Not only has Wright struck out 19 times. He's gone to a 2-strike count against Smoltz 34 times (well more than half their meetings), going 4-for-30 with 4 walks in those instances. In one span of 14 plate appearances last season, Smoltz got to 2 strikes on Wright 13 times! That's insane.
David Wright is a good 2-strike hitter, dare we say among the best 2-strike hitters in baseball, but not against Smoltz.
I remember watching the first Smoltz strikeout of Wright. It was a walk-off, a series-sweep-ender that basically ended the Mets season on August 1, 2004 (they fell 9 games back of the Braves). Wright, than a young pup, batting in the eighth hole, in his 11th major-league game, took to a 2-0 count, watched two called strikes, than battled through three foul balls. On the eighth pitch, Smoltz froze Wright (believe it was fastball, outside corner) to close things out.
That at-bat seemed to fuel Wright in their next few meetings, as he went 5 for his next 11 against Smoltz, but after that, Smoltz figured things out. He's held Wright to 4-for-29, with 15 strikeouts, starting with a pair of whiffs in late 2005.
I don't pretend to know what approach Wright takes against Smoltz, but whatever it is, he might want to adjust it slightly, because right now it's Smoltz who is walking off the mound from those confrontations as a major winner.
Those Mets fans in the Wright know...The pitcher whom David Wright has faced the most WITHOUT striking out is Brandon Webb. Wright is hitting .455 with no strikeouts and one walk in 16 career plate appearances (15 AB) against Webb.
Monday, September 24, 2007
The Minutiae Number is 5
"You don't even know what a Wright-off is, do you?"
-- Jerry Seinfeld to Kramer in an episode discussing some bit of minutiae
I do!! I do!! It's what we'll call Sunday's game-winning hit against the Marlins by the man with the Magic Number.
I've provided advertisements for David Wright's MVP candidacy in this space before, but after Sunday's victory, I feel the need to supplement some of that information.
I think the appropriate definition of an MVP is someone who raises his game to another level when it matters most. How has David Wright done that?
* From Opening Day through August 31, David Wright hit .319, with a .413 on-base percentage and a .534 slugging percentage. In September, he's increased himself across the board by hitting at a rate of .333/.424/.654.
* From Opening Day through August 31, David Wright had 87 RBI, a pace that would have given him approximately 106 for the season. In September, Wright has 18 RBI in 20 games, a pace that if maintained for a full season, would give a hitter 146 RBI.
* From Opening Day through August 31, David Wright struck out a lot- 105 times, or about once every 4.7 at-bats. In September, he's struck out just 8 times, or once every 9.8 at-bats
* That gets me to my last point. One of the areas in which David Wright struggled earlier this season was his 2-strike hitting. It was the primary problem in a miserable April and something that he'd previously been good at, so you had to figure the necessary skill sets would return.
They dribbled in slowly, and by August 31, David Wright was hitting .188 this season with 2 strikes. In September, things changed, and perhaps the credit should go to Howard Johnson for reverting David Wright back to his old tactics. In the final month of the season, David Wright is 12-for-40 with a 2-strike count. That's a .300 batting average, and he should get bonus points for his hit in Sunday's victory. Perhaps, with the MVP voters, he will.
The truly Metvaluable know... That 3 of the Mets 7 walk-off RBI this season have come with 2-strike counts: Carlos Delgado's 3-2 walk against the Cubs on May 14, Delgado's 2-2 HR against the Giants on May 29, and Shawn Green's 3-2 HR against the Cardinals on June 25.
Please vote in my poll, located in upper right portion of the page!
-- Jerry Seinfeld to Kramer in an episode discussing some bit of minutiae
I do!! I do!! It's what we'll call Sunday's game-winning hit against the Marlins by the man with the Magic Number.
I've provided advertisements for David Wright's MVP candidacy in this space before, but after Sunday's victory, I feel the need to supplement some of that information.
I think the appropriate definition of an MVP is someone who raises his game to another level when it matters most. How has David Wright done that?
* From Opening Day through August 31, David Wright hit .319, with a .413 on-base percentage and a .534 slugging percentage. In September, he's increased himself across the board by hitting at a rate of .333/.424/.654.
* From Opening Day through August 31, David Wright had 87 RBI, a pace that would have given him approximately 106 for the season. In September, Wright has 18 RBI in 20 games, a pace that if maintained for a full season, would give a hitter 146 RBI.
* From Opening Day through August 31, David Wright struck out a lot- 105 times, or about once every 4.7 at-bats. In September, he's struck out just 8 times, or once every 9.8 at-bats
* That gets me to my last point. One of the areas in which David Wright struggled earlier this season was his 2-strike hitting. It was the primary problem in a miserable April and something that he'd previously been good at, so you had to figure the necessary skill sets would return.
They dribbled in slowly, and by August 31, David Wright was hitting .188 this season with 2 strikes. In September, things changed, and perhaps the credit should go to Howard Johnson for reverting David Wright back to his old tactics. In the final month of the season, David Wright is 12-for-40 with a 2-strike count. That's a .300 batting average, and he should get bonus points for his hit in Sunday's victory. Perhaps, with the MVP voters, he will.
The truly Metvaluable know... That 3 of the Mets 7 walk-off RBI this season have come with 2-strike counts: Carlos Delgado's 3-2 walk against the Cubs on May 14, Delgado's 2-2 HR against the Giants on May 29, and Shawn Green's 3-2 HR against the Cardinals on June 25.
Please vote in my poll, located in upper right portion of the page!
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Wright Man For The Job
Yes, I know that everyone may be talking about the Most Valuable Pedro today and that's fine, as I'm sure I'll have something to say about that in the near future. Today I'd rather talk about the Mets best chance at winning Most Valuable Player.
I hadn't really bought into the David Wright for MVP talk until the last week or so, but a few things (victories) have happened to change my mind. I took a closer look at the numbers and it got me to thinking that the Mets have a really good chance to have their first MVP winner.
The last two days, David Wright has hit go-ahead home runs and that prompted me to take a closer look at his 26 homers this season. What I found is that all 26 could be considered meaningful.
11 of the 26 snapped ties. Add the one he hit on Monday against Aaron Harang and you have 12 home runs that have given the Mets the lead. The other New York third baseman doesn't have that many go-ahead dingers and he's got a lot more to work with. Wright also has three other home runs that tied games, so that accounts for 15. But what of the other 11.
Seven of those increased a lead, but it wasn't like they increased a 6-run lead to 7 runs or anything like that. Each of these lucky 7 were hit with the Mets ahead by one or two runs, so Wright was the significant factor in trying to salt a game away.
That leaves us with four. Of those four.
One cut a 3-0 lead to 3-1, but it was only the 4th inning, so the Mets were very much in the game.
One cut a 4-0 lead to 4-2, in a game in which the Mets eventually beat the Cubs (see Carlos Delgado's walk-off walk).
One cut an 8-6 lead to 8-7 against the Tigers, in the 8th inning no less, so Wright increased the Mets chances of coming back significantly. They didn't, but that's besides the point.
And the other, cut a 7-4 Braves lead to 7-6 in the 9th inning, and would be a lot better remembered had Willie Harris not immediately robbed Carlos Delgado of a home run thereafter.
That's a pretty good register and we've still got a month to go.
Consider this as well. In August, we witnessed one of the great individual months in Mets history. In 28 games, David Wright had 39 hits and 26 walks. He scored 28 runs and drove in 21. His on-base percentage was a Bonds-esque .516.
In April, I wouldn't have thought we'd be having this discussion, not when he hit .244 with no home runs and six RBIs. I said to a Phillies fan at the end of the month that I was sure that Wright would come around.
"But what if he doesn't?" was the obnoxious reply. I like to think that moment (and not the head-shaving, after which MetsBlog notes he's hitting .340) turned Wright's karma around.
There are a couple of things that need to happen for Wright to win the MVP. Staying hot goes without saying, but some of the other factors are beyond his control.
* Silly as it sounds, he needs Jose Reyes to stay in the .290's. If Reyes cranks it up, and I have no objections to him doing so, back to .300, he's going to steal some of Wright's MVP votes.
* Those he doesn't steal will probably go to Prince Fielder or Jimmy Rollins, so it would help Wright immensely if the Brewers and Phillies don't make the playoffs.
* Lastly, Wright needs a knockout punch kind of moment, the kind Chipper had in that series against the Mets a few years back. There's one thing missing from Wright's statistical inventory, not just this season, but for his career. A walk-off home run would do wonders, particularly if it could come in one of those six meaningful games next week.
I hadn't really bought into the David Wright for MVP talk until the last week or so, but a few things (victories) have happened to change my mind. I took a closer look at the numbers and it got me to thinking that the Mets have a really good chance to have their first MVP winner.
The last two days, David Wright has hit go-ahead home runs and that prompted me to take a closer look at his 26 homers this season. What I found is that all 26 could be considered meaningful.
11 of the 26 snapped ties. Add the one he hit on Monday against Aaron Harang and you have 12 home runs that have given the Mets the lead. The other New York third baseman doesn't have that many go-ahead dingers and he's got a lot more to work with. Wright also has three other home runs that tied games, so that accounts for 15. But what of the other 11.
Seven of those increased a lead, but it wasn't like they increased a 6-run lead to 7 runs or anything like that. Each of these lucky 7 were hit with the Mets ahead by one or two runs, so Wright was the significant factor in trying to salt a game away.
That leaves us with four. Of those four.
One cut a 3-0 lead to 3-1, but it was only the 4th inning, so the Mets were very much in the game.
One cut a 4-0 lead to 4-2, in a game in which the Mets eventually beat the Cubs (see Carlos Delgado's walk-off walk).
One cut an 8-6 lead to 8-7 against the Tigers, in the 8th inning no less, so Wright increased the Mets chances of coming back significantly. They didn't, but that's besides the point.
And the other, cut a 7-4 Braves lead to 7-6 in the 9th inning, and would be a lot better remembered had Willie Harris not immediately robbed Carlos Delgado of a home run thereafter.
That's a pretty good register and we've still got a month to go.
Consider this as well. In August, we witnessed one of the great individual months in Mets history. In 28 games, David Wright had 39 hits and 26 walks. He scored 28 runs and drove in 21. His on-base percentage was a Bonds-esque .516.
In April, I wouldn't have thought we'd be having this discussion, not when he hit .244 with no home runs and six RBIs. I said to a Phillies fan at the end of the month that I was sure that Wright would come around.
"But what if he doesn't?" was the obnoxious reply. I like to think that moment (and not the head-shaving, after which MetsBlog notes he's hitting .340) turned Wright's karma around.
There are a couple of things that need to happen for Wright to win the MVP. Staying hot goes without saying, but some of the other factors are beyond his control.
* Silly as it sounds, he needs Jose Reyes to stay in the .290's. If Reyes cranks it up, and I have no objections to him doing so, back to .300, he's going to steal some of Wright's MVP votes.
* Those he doesn't steal will probably go to Prince Fielder or Jimmy Rollins, so it would help Wright immensely if the Brewers and Phillies don't make the playoffs.
* Lastly, Wright needs a knockout punch kind of moment, the kind Chipper had in that series against the Mets a few years back. There's one thing missing from Wright's statistical inventory, not just this season, but for his career. A walk-off home run would do wonders, particularly if it could come in one of those six meaningful games next week.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
You May Be Wright, I May Be Crazy
Listened to a little Billy Joel on the drive home, which explains the title of this entry. It's late and I'm tired, so for now we just simply present the facts.
* Walk-off # 346 is the Mets fifth walk-off win of the season (against no walk-off defeats). This is the fourth time in club history and the first time since 1988 that the Mets started a season reaching the five walk-off win mark before suffering their first walk-off defeat. The others are 1966 and 1985. They've never gotten to six walk-off wins before their first walk-off defeat.
* It is the 4th walk-off hit and 5th walk-off RBI of David Wright's career, his first since last May 29, when he beat the Diamondbacks with a walk-off single. It is his 2nd career walk-off double
Editorial comment: If Wright gets credit for a double on that hit, Jose Reyes should have been credited for a triple on the ball on which Glavine failed to score on Friday night. Reyes was at third when Glavine was tagged out. Wright, was not yet at second when Castro crossed the plate, at least not from our view in Mezzanine section 3.
* It is the first time that the Mets have ever won via walk-off against the Athletics. The Mets now have walk-off wins against 23 of the current 29 other major-league franchises. The six whom they have never beaten via walk-off are: Devil Rays Indians, Mariners, Rangers, Twins, and White Sox. A fun challenge is to name the franchises against whom the Mets have exactly one walk-off win.
One Walk-Off Win Against
Mets history vs opponents
Angels
Athletics
Blue Jays
Red Sox
Royals
* The Mets now have 14 walk-off wins against AL opponents (including postseason). The three teams against whom they have more than one: Yankees (4), Orioles (3), Tigers (2).
* It is the 24th Mets walk-off win by a 1-0 final score, BUT only 7 of those games have ended in the regulation nine innings. The last prior to Saturday came on April 24, 2000, when Matt Franco beat the Dodgers with a walk-off single. Minutiae lovers will appreciate this nugget: David Wright is only the 2nd player in Mets history to end a 1-0 nine-inning walk-off win with a double. The other is Joe Christopher (July 12, 1964 vs Reds). Wright, Christopher and Jeff Kent (September 29, 1993 vs Cardinals) are the only Mets to win a 1-0 game with a walk-off double.
* As a lifelong Mets fan, David Wright will be happy to know that he has the same number of Mets walk-off RBI (5) as both broadcaster Keith Hernandez and first base coach Howard Johnson. He also has the same number of Mets walk-off RBI as the soon-to-be-activated Oakland catcher, Mike Piazza. As we've mentioned many times, your all-time leader in Mets walk-off RBI is Kevin McReynolds with 8.
* Billy Wagner went more than a year between walk-off wins. His last prior to Saturday (which was his 4th as a Met) was on May 19, 2006 when David Wright beat the Yankees with a walk-off single. The Mets had 10 walk-off wins in between that game and this one, with Wagner winning none.
* This was only the 2nd Mets walk-off win to occur on a June 23. The other was in 1978 when Tim Foli beat the Pirates, 3-2, with a walk-off single.
* Not that this blog has anything to do with this, but the Mets are 22-10 in walk-off affairs since this blog debuted in June, 2005. The Mets walk-off record since the start of 2006 is 16-5.
* On the to-do list: Walk-offs and ejections (particularly those whose replacements scored/drove in the winning run) and a check on whether there's ever been another day with a Mets walk-off win and a Yankees walk-off loss against teams from the same general geographic area (Chicago/Chicago, LA/LA, San Francisco/Oakland). If anyone wants to offer assistance or suggestions for either of those, feel free to share.
* Walk-off # 346 is the Mets fifth walk-off win of the season (against no walk-off defeats). This is the fourth time in club history and the first time since 1988 that the Mets started a season reaching the five walk-off win mark before suffering their first walk-off defeat. The others are 1966 and 1985. They've never gotten to six walk-off wins before their first walk-off defeat.
* It is the 4th walk-off hit and 5th walk-off RBI of David Wright's career, his first since last May 29, when he beat the Diamondbacks with a walk-off single. It is his 2nd career walk-off double
Editorial comment: If Wright gets credit for a double on that hit, Jose Reyes should have been credited for a triple on the ball on which Glavine failed to score on Friday night. Reyes was at third when Glavine was tagged out. Wright, was not yet at second when Castro crossed the plate, at least not from our view in Mezzanine section 3.
* It is the first time that the Mets have ever won via walk-off against the Athletics. The Mets now have walk-off wins against 23 of the current 29 other major-league franchises. The six whom they have never beaten via walk-off are: Devil Rays Indians, Mariners, Rangers, Twins, and White Sox. A fun challenge is to name the franchises against whom the Mets have exactly one walk-off win.
One Walk-Off Win Against
Mets history vs opponents
Angels
Athletics
Blue Jays
Red Sox
Royals
* The Mets now have 14 walk-off wins against AL opponents (including postseason). The three teams against whom they have more than one: Yankees (4), Orioles (3), Tigers (2).
* It is the 24th Mets walk-off win by a 1-0 final score, BUT only 7 of those games have ended in the regulation nine innings. The last prior to Saturday came on April 24, 2000, when Matt Franco beat the Dodgers with a walk-off single. Minutiae lovers will appreciate this nugget: David Wright is only the 2nd player in Mets history to end a 1-0 nine-inning walk-off win with a double. The other is Joe Christopher (July 12, 1964 vs Reds). Wright, Christopher and Jeff Kent (September 29, 1993 vs Cardinals) are the only Mets to win a 1-0 game with a walk-off double.
* As a lifelong Mets fan, David Wright will be happy to know that he has the same number of Mets walk-off RBI (5) as both broadcaster Keith Hernandez and first base coach Howard Johnson. He also has the same number of Mets walk-off RBI as the soon-to-be-activated Oakland catcher, Mike Piazza. As we've mentioned many times, your all-time leader in Mets walk-off RBI is Kevin McReynolds with 8.
* Billy Wagner went more than a year between walk-off wins. His last prior to Saturday (which was his 4th as a Met) was on May 19, 2006 when David Wright beat the Yankees with a walk-off single. The Mets had 10 walk-off wins in between that game and this one, with Wagner winning none.
* This was only the 2nd Mets walk-off win to occur on a June 23. The other was in 1978 when Tim Foli beat the Pirates, 3-2, with a walk-off single.
* Not that this blog has anything to do with this, but the Mets are 22-10 in walk-off affairs since this blog debuted in June, 2005. The Mets walk-off record since the start of 2006 is 16-5.
* On the to-do list: Walk-offs and ejections (particularly those whose replacements scored/drove in the winning run) and a check on whether there's ever been another day with a Mets walk-off win and a Yankees walk-off loss against teams from the same general geographic area (Chicago/Chicago, LA/LA, San Francisco/Oakland). If anyone wants to offer assistance or suggestions for either of those, feel free to share.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Reyes/Wright Minutiae
Though still seething over the events of Wednesday evening, there was a rather pleasant recover on Thursday afternoon, and the train ride/drive home from Shea allowed me to gather my thoughts and convey them here.
* On Wednesday, Jose Reyes became the 9th Met to hit for the cycle. He became the first to do so in a Mets loss.
* Reyes is the first Met to hit for the cycle at home since John Olerud (September 11, 1997 vs Expos). He is the 4th Met to hit for the cycle at home (Jim Hickman, Tommie Agee and John Olerud). The Mets have never had a walk-off win and cycle in the same game. Interesting to note that the only visitor to hit for the cycle at Shea is Wes Parker (May 7, vs Dodgers) and he drove in the go-ahead runs that day with a 10th inning triple.
* Reyes became the 2nd Mets shortstop to hit for the cycle, joining Mike Phillips (June 25, 1976 at Cubs). He became the 4th leadoff Met to hit for the cycle (Jim Hickman, August 7, 1963 vs Cardinals, Tommie Agee, July 6, 1970 vs Cardinals, and Phillips).
* Reyes became the 3rd Met to finish his cycle with a single, joining Phillips and Keith Hernandez (July 4, 1985 at Atlanta in 19 innings). Hernandez is the only Met to need more than 5 AB to hit for the cycle (he got the single in his 7th AB).
* Reyes became the first Met to hit for the cycle since Eric Valent (July 29, 2004 at Expos). This bring me to my favorite note. Valent batted 7th in the Mets lineup that day. The No. 8 hitter was 8 games into his major-league career that day. His name was David Wright.
With that we segue (and I don't want to dwell on cycles, because they're overrated) to the "Star of David" portion of Minutiae. David Wright is a good road trip away from becoming the first Met to win NL Player of the Month honors since Howard Johnson did it in September, 1991.
Wright is hitting .378 (31 for 82) with 9 HR and 25 RBI in June. He leads the majors in June HR and RBI. He has 9 multi-hit games, 2 multi-HR games and 6 multi-RBI games in that span. He had a string of 3 straight games with a HR, on the road against a second-place team. He saved one of those wins with a Gold Glove-caliber play to start a double play at third base. On back-to-back days, he's been the unsung hero (2-strike hit preceding Jose Valentin's HR) and the outsung hero (2 HR, 4 RBI in nice recovery-game win).
Some brief Minutiae history on the Player of the Month award...
* A Met has won NL Player of the Month on 9 occasions.
June, 1970- Tommie Agee .364 BA, 11 HR, 30 RBI
April, 1973- Jerry Koosman 4-0, 1.06 ERA
July, 1975- Dave Kingman .322 BA, 13 HR, 31 RBI
July, 1985- Keith Hernandez .392 BA, 4 HR, 29 RBI
September, 1985- Gary Carter .343 BA, 13 HR, 34 RBI
September, 1987- Darryl Strawberry .317 BA, 8 HR, 27 RBI
September, 1988- Kevin McReynolds .345 BA, 7 HR, 22 RBI
June, 1989- Howard Johnson .340 BA, 11 HR, 24 RBI, 6 SB
September, 1991- Howard Johnson .296 BA, 10 HR, 28 RBI, 10 SB
* Amazingly, Mike Piazza was never an NL Player of the Month as a Met, despite posting the following numbers in a Mets uniform
September, 1998- .378 BA, 6 HR, 22 RBI
May, 1999- .340 BA, 6 HR, 20 RBI
August, 1999- .323 BA, 11 HR, 33 RBI
May, 2000- .375 BA, 9 HR, 20 RBI
June 2000- .349 BA, 8 HR, 32 RBI
July, 2002- .329 BA, 7 HR, 24 RBI
* There have been 84 recipients of the NL Player of the Month award since the last Met won it. Barry Bonds has been NL Player of the Month 11 times since a Met last won it. Others include
Felix Jose (May, 1992)
Cory Snyder (June, 1992)
Brett Butler (July, 1992, what a trifecta in 1992!)
Jeff Conine (June, 1995)
Ken Caminiti (August and September, 1996)
Jeromy Burnitz (June, 1999)
Richard Hidalgo (September, 2000)
Randy Winn (September, 2005)
* On Wednesday, Jose Reyes became the 9th Met to hit for the cycle. He became the first to do so in a Mets loss.
* Reyes is the first Met to hit for the cycle at home since John Olerud (September 11, 1997 vs Expos). He is the 4th Met to hit for the cycle at home (Jim Hickman, Tommie Agee and John Olerud). The Mets have never had a walk-off win and cycle in the same game. Interesting to note that the only visitor to hit for the cycle at Shea is Wes Parker (May 7, vs Dodgers) and he drove in the go-ahead runs that day with a 10th inning triple.
* Reyes became the 2nd Mets shortstop to hit for the cycle, joining Mike Phillips (June 25, 1976 at Cubs). He became the 4th leadoff Met to hit for the cycle (Jim Hickman, August 7, 1963 vs Cardinals, Tommie Agee, July 6, 1970 vs Cardinals, and Phillips).
* Reyes became the 3rd Met to finish his cycle with a single, joining Phillips and Keith Hernandez (July 4, 1985 at Atlanta in 19 innings). Hernandez is the only Met to need more than 5 AB to hit for the cycle (he got the single in his 7th AB).
* Reyes became the first Met to hit for the cycle since Eric Valent (July 29, 2004 at Expos). This bring me to my favorite note. Valent batted 7th in the Mets lineup that day. The No. 8 hitter was 8 games into his major-league career that day. His name was David Wright.
With that we segue (and I don't want to dwell on cycles, because they're overrated) to the "Star of David" portion of Minutiae. David Wright is a good road trip away from becoming the first Met to win NL Player of the Month honors since Howard Johnson did it in September, 1991.
Wright is hitting .378 (31 for 82) with 9 HR and 25 RBI in June. He leads the majors in June HR and RBI. He has 9 multi-hit games, 2 multi-HR games and 6 multi-RBI games in that span. He had a string of 3 straight games with a HR, on the road against a second-place team. He saved one of those wins with a Gold Glove-caliber play to start a double play at third base. On back-to-back days, he's been the unsung hero (2-strike hit preceding Jose Valentin's HR) and the outsung hero (2 HR, 4 RBI in nice recovery-game win).
Some brief Minutiae history on the Player of the Month award...
* A Met has won NL Player of the Month on 9 occasions.
June, 1970- Tommie Agee .364 BA, 11 HR, 30 RBI
April, 1973- Jerry Koosman 4-0, 1.06 ERA
July, 1975- Dave Kingman .322 BA, 13 HR, 31 RBI
July, 1985- Keith Hernandez .392 BA, 4 HR, 29 RBI
September, 1985- Gary Carter .343 BA, 13 HR, 34 RBI
September, 1987- Darryl Strawberry .317 BA, 8 HR, 27 RBI
September, 1988- Kevin McReynolds .345 BA, 7 HR, 22 RBI
June, 1989- Howard Johnson .340 BA, 11 HR, 24 RBI, 6 SB
September, 1991- Howard Johnson .296 BA, 10 HR, 28 RBI, 10 SB
* Amazingly, Mike Piazza was never an NL Player of the Month as a Met, despite posting the following numbers in a Mets uniform
September, 1998- .378 BA, 6 HR, 22 RBI
May, 1999- .340 BA, 6 HR, 20 RBI
August, 1999- .323 BA, 11 HR, 33 RBI
May, 2000- .375 BA, 9 HR, 20 RBI
June 2000- .349 BA, 8 HR, 32 RBI
July, 2002- .329 BA, 7 HR, 24 RBI
* There have been 84 recipients of the NL Player of the Month award since the last Met won it. Barry Bonds has been NL Player of the Month 11 times since a Met last won it. Others include
Felix Jose (May, 1992)
Cory Snyder (June, 1992)
Brett Butler (July, 1992, what a trifecta in 1992!)
Jeff Conine (June, 1995)
Ken Caminiti (August and September, 1996)
Jeromy Burnitz (June, 1999)
Richard Hidalgo (September, 2000)
Randy Winn (September, 2005)
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Save the Last Dance
In the interest of preventing guilt feelings, apparently I'm not the only Mets blogger to title his post in this way. See Metstradamus for another such perspective.
So we substitute die-hard Mets fan Julia Stiles (it says so in her IMDB.com bio) and her eephus-ball first-pitch for another Hollywood actress, Alyssa Milano and we get another walk-off win. Here's hoping Julia stuck around through the rain drops as my sister did to witness walk-off win #337.
* It was the 4th walk-off RBI for David Wright this season (2 singles, a double and a sac fly). He's one shy of the Mets record of 5, set by George Foster in 1983 (CORRECTED VIA METS TELECAST ON 5/30). We can call him Mr. Walk-Off (or perhaps NY Post writer, Phil Mushnick, not a fan of the term, would prefer "Mr. Game-Ender). We can also call Paul Lo Duca "Mr. Memorial Day" as he's 13-for-18 for his career on that holiday.
* Wright is now halfway to Kevin McReynolds Mets record of 8 career walk-off "somethings."
* It was the 7th walk-off win this season and the 6th this month (6 in a month is a Mets first). The seven this season have taken place in five different ways (1B, 2B, HR, SF, E1) against seven different opponents
* It's the 3rd walk-off win against the Diamondbacks, including the postseason, and the first since May 21, 2000 (Derek Bell game-ending single).
* It's the first to take place on a May 29th. May 30th only has one (1986 vs Giants) as well.
* Duaner Sanchez is the 5th Mets pitcher with a walk-off win this season. Billy Wagner has 3. Sanchez, Darren Oliver, Chad Bradford and Jorge Julio each have 1.
* It's the 10th to end with an 8-7 final score and the second walk-off to end with such a score this season (May 5 vs Braves). It's the third 8-7 walk-off that was decided in the 9th inning.
* Jose Valverde is the 4th pitcher whose last name starts with "V" to lose a walk-off game to the Mets. Valverde joins Bob Veale, David Veres and most recently, Brad Voyles (June 21, 2002 vs Royals).
* There are other notes and more comprehensive research I plan to pursue on this game (such as Memorial Day walk-off wins), but I have some things going on that preclude further research, for the moment. Perhaps in the near-future.
True Metiles know...That we could write about Mets walk-off wins using the titles of movies in which Julia Stiles has appeared.
Such as
"Right before his line drive double, Endy Chavez hit a Wicked line drive foul."
"I felt that Jose Reyes getting a hit after failing to bunt twice was The Omen that this was gonna be a good night."
"Many managers are making lists regarding David Wright. They call them Ten Things I Hate About You."
"If the Mets make it to the Promised Land, this will be a well-remembered triumph."
"My sister was fast asleep when Carlos Beltran hit his 16th inning home run the other day, having bailed after the 15th. She was Wide Awake for this one."
"A Mets walk off-win is like A Little Trip to Heaven."
"What's the fascination with these walk-offs? It's A Guy Thing."
So we substitute die-hard Mets fan Julia Stiles (it says so in her IMDB.com bio) and her eephus-ball first-pitch for another Hollywood actress, Alyssa Milano and we get another walk-off win. Here's hoping Julia stuck around through the rain drops as my sister did to witness walk-off win #337.
* It was the 4th walk-off RBI for David Wright this season (2 singles, a double and a sac fly). He's one shy of the Mets record of 5, set by George Foster in 1983 (CORRECTED VIA METS TELECAST ON 5/30). We can call him Mr. Walk-Off (or perhaps NY Post writer, Phil Mushnick, not a fan of the term, would prefer "Mr. Game-Ender). We can also call Paul Lo Duca "Mr. Memorial Day" as he's 13-for-18 for his career on that holiday.
* Wright is now halfway to Kevin McReynolds Mets record of 8 career walk-off "somethings."
* It was the 7th walk-off win this season and the 6th this month (6 in a month is a Mets first). The seven this season have taken place in five different ways (1B, 2B, HR, SF, E1) against seven different opponents
* It's the 3rd walk-off win against the Diamondbacks, including the postseason, and the first since May 21, 2000 (Derek Bell game-ending single).
* It's the first to take place on a May 29th. May 30th only has one (1986 vs Giants) as well.
* Duaner Sanchez is the 5th Mets pitcher with a walk-off win this season. Billy Wagner has 3. Sanchez, Darren Oliver, Chad Bradford and Jorge Julio each have 1.
* It's the 10th to end with an 8-7 final score and the second walk-off to end with such a score this season (May 5 vs Braves). It's the third 8-7 walk-off that was decided in the 9th inning.
* Jose Valverde is the 4th pitcher whose last name starts with "V" to lose a walk-off game to the Mets. Valverde joins Bob Veale, David Veres and most recently, Brad Voyles (June 21, 2002 vs Royals).
* There are other notes and more comprehensive research I plan to pursue on this game (such as Memorial Day walk-off wins), but I have some things going on that preclude further research, for the moment. Perhaps in the near-future.
True Metiles know...That we could write about Mets walk-off wins using the titles of movies in which Julia Stiles has appeared.
Such as
"Right before his line drive double, Endy Chavez hit a Wicked line drive foul."
"I felt that Jose Reyes getting a hit after failing to bunt twice was The Omen that this was gonna be a good night."
"Many managers are making lists regarding David Wright. They call them Ten Things I Hate About You."
"If the Mets make it to the Promised Land, this will be a well-remembered triumph."
"My sister was fast asleep when Carlos Beltran hit his 16th inning home run the other day, having bailed after the 15th. She was Wide Awake for this one."
"A Mets walk off-win is like A Little Trip to Heaven."
"What's the fascination with these walk-offs? It's A Guy Thing."
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Friday's Leftovers
"There's never a better feeling than to get a game-winning hit and be able to round the bases and see those guys walking off while our team is running on. No better feeling."
-- David Wright to media, sometime after midnight on what was technically, May 6, 2006.
While you're contemplating whether the Victor Zambrano injury is a devastating loss or a blessing in disguise, ponder these tidbits as well.
* Friday's 14-inning win over the Braves was only the second in which a Mets player had 5 hits and the team had a walk-off win. The only other such occurrence took place in an 11-inning win over the Phillies on September 20, 1975. Rusty Staub went 5-for-6 and the Mets won 9-7 on a 2-run home run by Ron Hodges.
* This was the 27th Mets walk-off win lasting at least 14 innings. The last Mets walk-off win in a game lasting at least 14 innings was Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS. The last regular season game was a 4-3, 14 inning win over the Blue Jays on June 9, 1999, in which the Mets won on a base hit by Rey Ordonez.
* This was the third-longest walk-off win over the Braves, in terms of innings. The previously mentioned Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS ranks second. The longest is a 6-4, 16 inning triumph on September 1, 1963. Tim Harkness had the game-winning hit, a two-run home run.
*It was the 9th walk-off win with a final score of 8-7 and the first since June 8, 2000 (Kurt Abbott HR). Amazingly, four of those 8-7 wins came against the Braves. This was the longest 8-7 walk-off win, surpassing the 12-inning such victory over the Dodgers on August 1, 1977.
* Jorge Sosa is the second Sosa to be a losing pitcher in a Mets walk-off win. Elias Sosa, with two such losses, is the other.
* It was the 26th walk-off double in Mets history (though one gets an *, since it came in conjunction with an E8). The last was by Kaz Matsui against the Brewers on May 9, 2004. It was the 17th tie-snapping walk-off double (i.e. the score was even when it took place). Checking ground rule doubles is going to take me awhile, so don't necessarily expect an answer on when the last one was any time soon.
True Methropologists know...The 3 walk-offs in a 5-day span is the most since since the Mets had 3 in 5 days from September 17-21, 2002. Did you know? The Mets first four walk-offs in team history came within a 5-day span (May 12-16, 1962), aided by the inclusion of a doubleheader.
-- David Wright to media, sometime after midnight on what was technically, May 6, 2006.
While you're contemplating whether the Victor Zambrano injury is a devastating loss or a blessing in disguise, ponder these tidbits as well.
* Friday's 14-inning win over the Braves was only the second in which a Mets player had 5 hits and the team had a walk-off win. The only other such occurrence took place in an 11-inning win over the Phillies on September 20, 1975. Rusty Staub went 5-for-6 and the Mets won 9-7 on a 2-run home run by Ron Hodges.
* This was the 27th Mets walk-off win lasting at least 14 innings. The last Mets walk-off win in a game lasting at least 14 innings was Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS. The last regular season game was a 4-3, 14 inning win over the Blue Jays on June 9, 1999, in which the Mets won on a base hit by Rey Ordonez.
* This was the third-longest walk-off win over the Braves, in terms of innings. The previously mentioned Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS ranks second. The longest is a 6-4, 16 inning triumph on September 1, 1963. Tim Harkness had the game-winning hit, a two-run home run.
*It was the 9th walk-off win with a final score of 8-7 and the first since June 8, 2000 (Kurt Abbott HR). Amazingly, four of those 8-7 wins came against the Braves. This was the longest 8-7 walk-off win, surpassing the 12-inning such victory over the Dodgers on August 1, 1977.
* Jorge Sosa is the second Sosa to be a losing pitcher in a Mets walk-off win. Elias Sosa, with two such losses, is the other.
* It was the 26th walk-off double in Mets history (though one gets an *, since it came in conjunction with an E8). The last was by Kaz Matsui against the Brewers on May 9, 2004. It was the 17th tie-snapping walk-off double (i.e. the score was even when it took place). Checking ground rule doubles is going to take me awhile, so don't necessarily expect an answer on when the last one was any time soon.
True Methropologists know...The 3 walk-offs in a 5-day span is the most since since the Mets had 3 in 5 days from September 17-21, 2002. Did you know? The Mets first four walk-offs in team history came within a 5-day span (May 12-16, 1962), aided by the inclusion of a doubleheader.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Well, What Do You Know?
"When you know something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say that you don't know. That is knowledge."
-- Confucius (used as a Stuyvesant High School yearbook quote by my friend, David Cooper)
By my count (using Baseball-Reference.com at this late hour), the Mets have played 3,537 regular season and postseason home games to a decision (ties not included).
Friday's 14-inning victory, for which I was in attendance, gave them an unofficial count of 334 walk-off wins.
That equates to 9.44 percent of all home games being walk-off victories.
I don't know how many of them included a Met getting 5 hits.
I don't know how many of them included the Mets tying the game in an extra-inning, than winning the game in another extra inning.
I don't know if 19 is a Mets walk-off record for men left on base.
I do know that David Wright has two walk-off RBI this season
I do know that getting three walk-off wins in a week is a pretty impressive feat.
I do know that I'm pretty tired right now, and I have another game to attend approximately 11 hours from posting time.
And I do know that I wish I backed up my database on CD and brought it with me, because I'm not at my usual residence on Friday and Saturday and don't have access to all my wonderful nuggets and tidbits.
True Metsomniacs know...That by Monday morning, I'll have a much more comprehensive analysis available regarding Friday night's game. In the meantime, check out the Table of Contents link on the right hand side, or click here to read Friday's posting of a memorable walk-off story from 40 years ago
http://metswalkoffs.blogspot.com/2006/05/delayed-attribution.html
-- Confucius (used as a Stuyvesant High School yearbook quote by my friend, David Cooper)
By my count (using Baseball-Reference.com at this late hour), the Mets have played 3,537 regular season and postseason home games to a decision (ties not included).
Friday's 14-inning victory, for which I was in attendance, gave them an unofficial count of 334 walk-off wins.
That equates to 9.44 percent of all home games being walk-off victories.
I don't know how many of them included a Met getting 5 hits.
I don't know how many of them included the Mets tying the game in an extra-inning, than winning the game in another extra inning.
I don't know if 19 is a Mets walk-off record for men left on base.
I do know that David Wright has two walk-off RBI this season
I do know that getting three walk-off wins in a week is a pretty impressive feat.
I do know that I'm pretty tired right now, and I have another game to attend approximately 11 hours from posting time.
And I do know that I wish I backed up my database on CD and brought it with me, because I'm not at my usual residence on Friday and Saturday and don't have access to all my wonderful nuggets and tidbits.
True Metsomniacs know...That by Monday morning, I'll have a much more comprehensive analysis available regarding Friday night's game. In the meantime, check out the Table of Contents link on the right hand side, or click here to read Friday's posting of a memorable walk-off story from 40 years ago
http://metswalkoffs.blogspot.com/2006/05/delayed-attribution.html
Monday, April 10, 2006
Are You Going to Finish That?
Combing the internet for nuggets about prior David Wright walk-offs proved to be an unsuccessful journey through the information superhighway, but I did make a nice detour on the information Subway.
I think the reason that Willie Randolph likes Wright so much is not because of Wright's penchant for superb play, but rather his affinity for a certain deli treat. Years ago, Wright was asked for his pre-game meal preference and he indicated his choice would be a turkey sandwich from his favorite fast-food chain, Subway. Move over Jared the weight-loss wiz and Joe Torre. I think it's time for someone to sign an endorsement deal. That restaurant would be wise to sign Wright while the price is still affordable. They're already in tight with the Mets, as evidenced by the advertisements on the back of this years ticket stubs.
It seems likely that Sunday's win provided the first of many walk-off moments for Wright, who in the opening week of the season lived up to the billing of every magazine cover and television feature that included him this winter. Wright could do no wrong all week. His hitting stroke was impeccable. His glovework was much improved. He seems to have a hearty baseball appetite from the get-go and that's a good sign.
One week does not make a perfect season, just as one meal does not make for a perfect dining day. Wright would do well to remember that lesson, one imparted to him on May 22, 2004 as a member of the Binghamton Mets. Scott Lauber's fine game story in the Press & Sun Bulletin details how Wright enjoyed one Subway sandwich a little too much. As a result, he had to leave the game against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats after just four innings.
Wright got to see the exciting conclusion, one in which the B-Mets trailed 6-4 in the last of the ninth. With one run in, two on and one out, it fell to Wright's lineup replacement to come through in a big spot. David Bacani laced a drive into the left center gap that fell in for extra bases. The tying and winning runs scored and Bacani was credited with a walk-off triple, prompting teammates to refer to Wright as "Wally Pipp" for his bailout.
On Sunday, Wright was able to finish off his baseball meal in grand style. Hopefully one of his teammates, or the manager. took him out afterwards for a little four-course meal in the city as reward for his effort on Sunday.
True Metvids know...The following minutiae related to David Wright's sacrifice fly, which gave the Mets their first walk-off win of the season
* The Mets last 3 walk-off wins have all come against the Marlins. That's the first time in their 331 walk-off wins (unofficial count, including postseason) that the Mets have had a string of walk-off wins go that long against the same foe.
* It is the 11th walk-off sacrifice fly in Mets history and the first since Luis Lopez had one in a 2-1 win over the Yankees on June 28, 1998 (better known as the game where Brian McRae wandered aimlessly off first base and nearly cost the Mets the win). Of those 11, this is the fourth to end with the final score of 3-2.
* Wright joined Cleon Jones and Duke Snider as the only Mets to drive in all 3 runs in a walk-off win that ended with a 3-2 score. The only player to drive in more than three runs, and account for RBI on all the Mets runs in a walk-off win is Darryl Strawberry, who had 4 (including a walk-off two-run home run) in a 4-3 win against the Reds on May 6, 1988.
* Wright becomes the third Dave or David to win a game via walk-off for the Mets, joining Msrs. Magadan and Kingman
I think the reason that Willie Randolph likes Wright so much is not because of Wright's penchant for superb play, but rather his affinity for a certain deli treat. Years ago, Wright was asked for his pre-game meal preference and he indicated his choice would be a turkey sandwich from his favorite fast-food chain, Subway. Move over Jared the weight-loss wiz and Joe Torre. I think it's time for someone to sign an endorsement deal. That restaurant would be wise to sign Wright while the price is still affordable. They're already in tight with the Mets, as evidenced by the advertisements on the back of this years ticket stubs.
It seems likely that Sunday's win provided the first of many walk-off moments for Wright, who in the opening week of the season lived up to the billing of every magazine cover and television feature that included him this winter. Wright could do no wrong all week. His hitting stroke was impeccable. His glovework was much improved. He seems to have a hearty baseball appetite from the get-go and that's a good sign.
One week does not make a perfect season, just as one meal does not make for a perfect dining day. Wright would do well to remember that lesson, one imparted to him on May 22, 2004 as a member of the Binghamton Mets. Scott Lauber's fine game story in the Press & Sun Bulletin details how Wright enjoyed one Subway sandwich a little too much. As a result, he had to leave the game against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats after just four innings.
Wright got to see the exciting conclusion, one in which the B-Mets trailed 6-4 in the last of the ninth. With one run in, two on and one out, it fell to Wright's lineup replacement to come through in a big spot. David Bacani laced a drive into the left center gap that fell in for extra bases. The tying and winning runs scored and Bacani was credited with a walk-off triple, prompting teammates to refer to Wright as "Wally Pipp" for his bailout.
On Sunday, Wright was able to finish off his baseball meal in grand style. Hopefully one of his teammates, or the manager. took him out afterwards for a little four-course meal in the city as reward for his effort on Sunday.
True Metvids know...The following minutiae related to David Wright's sacrifice fly, which gave the Mets their first walk-off win of the season
* The Mets last 3 walk-off wins have all come against the Marlins. That's the first time in their 331 walk-off wins (unofficial count, including postseason) that the Mets have had a string of walk-off wins go that long against the same foe.
* It is the 11th walk-off sacrifice fly in Mets history and the first since Luis Lopez had one in a 2-1 win over the Yankees on June 28, 1998 (better known as the game where Brian McRae wandered aimlessly off first base and nearly cost the Mets the win). Of those 11, this is the fourth to end with the final score of 3-2.
* Wright joined Cleon Jones and Duke Snider as the only Mets to drive in all 3 runs in a walk-off win that ended with a 3-2 score. The only player to drive in more than three runs, and account for RBI on all the Mets runs in a walk-off win is Darryl Strawberry, who had 4 (including a walk-off two-run home run) in a 4-3 win against the Reds on May 6, 1988.
* Wright becomes the third Dave or David to win a game via walk-off for the Mets, joining Msrs. Magadan and Kingman
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