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September 27th, 2012: The 2012 Mets (74-88) finished fourth in Terry Collins second season as manager. The highlight of the year was veteran R.A. Dickey who turned his career around when he developed his forkball into a knuckleball. That season went on to be the first knuckleballer to win a Cy Young Award having his career year. R.A. Dickey has finished the first half of the season 12-1 with a 2.40 ERA having thrown back to back complete game one hitters as well. But NL manager Tony LaRussa decided not to give him the start because the erratic knuckleball would be a problem in a game that meant home field advantage in the World Series, as well as a possible cause of injury for catcher Buster Posey. LaRussa was criticized for his decision.  Dickey went 7-5 with a 3.20 ERA leading up to this game, after back-to-back losses for the first time & only time of the season, he beat the Marlins on September 22nd for his 19th win.  On this afternoon matinee at Shea 31,506 fans came...

In 2015, the Mets pitching led the way in the early part of the year, as the team had problems scoring runs. Early in the season they had brought up Noah Syndergaard & later in the year Steven Matz. It was like the Mets were pulling rabbits out of a hat!  Then came July, the Mets brought up Michael Conforto who was tearing up the minor leagues, he solidified the left field position almost immediately. At the trade deadline they brought in veterans Kelly Johnson & Juan Uribe. They helped solve the infield troubles & gave the bench more depth.  They also added Tyler Clippard & Addison Reed to the bullpen who solidified late inning relief leading to Jeurys Familia.  Then there was the best trade they never made, not sending off Wilmer Flores for Carlos Gomez. Wilmer showed everyone how much he wanted to be a part of what was happening with the Mets. Then GM Sandy Alderson landed the big bat adding one the game's best all-around players in Y...

Sunday September 26th, 1971: Gil Hodges third place Mets (82-77) were closing out the regular season, with just four more games to play. Although there would be no post season  they were still going to give the fans some last thrills.  That season the Mets brought up some exciting young players that would have great futures, pitcher Jon Matlack made his debut & Buzz Capra began to see regular action. Slugger John Milner debuted & Ken Singleton played his first full season. Also, fine players like Mike Jorgensen, Tim Foli & Leroy Stanton were up for good.  It was to be a busy off season at a time with no free agency as the Mets traded some of these talented young players to get some much-needed offense. In the last four games of the year the Met's pitching star, "The Franchise" Tom Seaver (18-10) would make his last two starts.  From August 6th to September 11th Seaver went 6-0 with a 0.67 ERA allowing four earned runs in 54 innings pitched wi...