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Remembering Mets History (1988) Mets Hit Record Six Opening Day HRs

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Monday April 4th,  Opening Day 1988:  An exciting Opening Day in Montreal brought 55,413 Canadians out to Olympic Stadium (Stade Olympique) to see Buck Rogers' Expos host Davey Johnson's New York Mets. The previous year the Expos had won 91 games (91-71) finishing in third place four games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets (92-70) had finished second just one game ahead of  Montreal. Todays starting pitchers were Dwight Gooden for the Mets &  Dennis Martinez for the  Expos,   Gooden had started the 1987 season in rehab which was the only year he missed being the teams Opening Day starter from 1985-1991 seasons. In the Mets 1988 NL Eastern Champion season, Gooden would be an 18-game winner going 18-9 with a 3.19 ERA & 175 strike outs. Montreal's Dennis Martinez would go on to win 15 games that year, then & win 14 games or more in six of the next seven seasons. After a scoreless top of the 1st inning, ...

Ronny Mauricio: Mets Infielder (2023 - 2026)

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Ronny Mauricio was born April 4th, 2001, in the Dominican Republic. The six foot three infielder was signed by the New York Mets as an international free agent in 2017. He began his career with the Gulf Coast & Kingsport Mets. In 2021 he was with the A ball Brooklyn Cyclones getting promoted to AA Binghamton where he hit 20 HRs with 60 RBIs in 108 games.  He showed good athletic abilities in the Mets farm system; his name was being talked about as a possible future Mets star infielder. In 2022 he hit 26 HRs with 89 RBIs in a full season at Binghamton.  In 2023 he was promoted to AAA Syracuse, where he hit .292 with 23 HRs 30 doubles & 71 RBIs while stealing 24 bases in 116 games before getting the big league call up. Mauricio showed power as well as speed but also has trouble hitting breaking balls & needs to be more patient at the plate. MLB Debut: On September 1st, 2023, Mauricio made his MLB debut & doubled off the Mariners Logan Gilbert in his first career...

Al Weis: 1969 Mets World Series Hero (1968 - 1971)

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Albert John Weis was born April 2, 1938 in Franklin Square, New York on Long Island. He grew up in the town of Bethpage & attended Farmingdale high School. The Long Island boy then joined the Navy & while playing baseball there got signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent. The speedy six-foot switch-hitting speedy  infielder stole 42 bases in 1960 at the low level of the minor leagues. Al spent four years in the minor leagues peaking in 1962 at AAA Indianapolis batting .296 with 13 triples, 15 doubles & 31 stolen bases.   MLB Career: In September 1962 Weis got a call up playing behind the double play combo of Hall of Famers, Luis Aparicio & Nellie Fox. Weis debuted in Washington drawing a walk in his first game in a 3-1 loss to the Senators. He went just 1-12 during the month (.083). At the end of the season the White Sox traded away Luis Aparicio, Weis played his rookie year as a utility infielder behind Nellie Fox & Ron Hanse...

Remembering Mets History (2019): Mets Win Epic Tying Club Record For Citi Field HRs

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Saturday April 6th 2019: After losing the home opener two days earlier, the rested Mets were ready for their eighth game of the year.  On this Saturday afternoon 35,156 fans came out to Citi Field for the second home game of the season. Mickey Callaway's Mets (6-2) hosted Dave Martinez's Washington Nationals (3-4).  Todays starters were Steven Matz taking on Partick Corbin. Trivia: That year the Nationals would go on to win the first World Series in franchise history which included the Montreal Expos before relocating.                                          The first three innings went scoreless. In the bottom of the 4th, the struggling J.D. Davis led off with a HR, the hardest HR yet hit in 2019 as per statcast. Davis had been put into the line up, batting clean up. A line up which had everyone wondering where the hot hitting Jeff McNeil was?  In Steven Matz...

Daniel Murphy (Part Two) 2015 Post Season Record Setter

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2015: In the 2015 off season Daniel Murphy's name kept coming up in trade talks again, as the Mets continued to shop him.  They did not find a suitable buyer & it was back to Spring Training once again in a Mets uniform.  He continued to dodge the questions that came his way & went about his business as usual, like the true professional he was. No one expected the year that was ahead of Daniel Murphy.  Religious Views: During Spring Training Billy Bean was going around to baseball teams to promote Inclusion to MLB. Murphy a Religious man stated "I do disagree with the fact that Billy is a homosexual. That doesn’t mean I can’t still invest in him & get to know him. You can still accept him, but I do disagree with the lifestyle, 100%."   Due to the fact that some people didn't respect Murphy's beliefs they twisted it to make his comments controversial. Murph said he'll stick with baseball & not tell reporters about his religious beliefs anymo...