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| 1969 |
The Mets are at .500 at the latest point of the season in team history. Tom Seaver throws a three-hitter, blanking the Braves at Atlanta Stadium, 5-0, improving the team's win-loss record to 18-18.
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| 2005 |
When Dae-Sung Koo bats against Randy Johnson, Mike Piazza confides to David Wright in the dugout, "If he gets a hit, I'll donate a million dollars to charity." The Korean reliever, who was afraid to stand in the batter's box in a previous game, promptly hits a 91-mph fastball to the wall in center for a double, causing the Mets catcher to remark that he'll be making a significant donation to a charity over the next 20 years.
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| 2008 |
"It's been a lot of negative stuff going on around here and I've been feeling some of that and I was just expressing how I felt at the time, but it wasn't anything to do with race. I wasn't trying to bring race into it. I probably should have thought more about what I was going to say." - WILLIE RANDOLPH, former Mets manager. Willie Randolph apologizes for his negative remarks concerning SNY's coverage of him as the Mets skipper. The first black major league manager hired in New York brought up race when asked the team's TV network portrayed him. |
| 2022 | In the Rockies' 11-3 nightcap victory over the Mets at Coors Field, Brian Serven becomes the first major leaguer to have multi-run home runs in the same game for his first two career hits. With his second and sixth-inning two-run round-trippers, the 27-year-old Colorado catcher also joins Trevor Story as the second player in franchise history to homer for each of his first two MLB hits. |
4 Fact(s) Found