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Remembering Mets History (1985) Darryl Strawberry Hits Three HRs Leading the Mets Into First Place

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Monday August 5th, 1985: Entering today's game, Davey Johnson's New York Mets (62-42) were one half game out of first place behind the St. Louis Cardinals. At the same time a baseball strike was looming as the Players Union & the owners were in contract negotiations. Back on May 11th Darryl Strawberry had torn a ligament in his thumb missing seven weeks of action. In that time the Mets fell into third place. Straw returned at the end of June & the Mets went on to win 23 of 34 games getting back into first place. Today the Mets were in Chicago going up against Jim Frey's fourth place Chicago Cubs (54-50). In 1984 the Cubs won the NL East losing the NLCS to the San Diego Padres.  The Mets had dropped the first game of the series, ending a three-game win streak. They took the next two games of this four-game series & had won six of their last eight games.  Mets Trivia: On Sunday, Dwight Gooden had won his franchise record 11th straight game, passing Mets legend T...
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Remembering Mets History: (2007) Tom Glavine Wins 300th Career Game

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Sunday August 5th, 2007: The sellout crowd at Wrigley Field in Chicago was host to the first place New York Mets (63-48) & second place hometown Cubs (58-52) on ESPN's Sunday Night baseball. There was plenty of hype & excitement as Mets pitcher Tom Glavine was going for his 300th career win.  Just a few nights earlier in Milwaukee Glavine had left the mound with a 2-1 lead, but the Mets bullpen blew the lead & lost the game in extra innings.  Tom Glavine Trivia: Glavine had spent 1987-2002 with the Braves usually an archrival of the Mets. In that time, he was a five time twenty-game winner collecting 242 wins.  Kristine Glavine In 2003 he joined the Mets & struggled to 9-14 on a poor team. In 2004 he won 11 games, then as the team improved, he won 13 or more games over the next three seasons.  In the 2006 post season in his first two starts, he was 2-0 not allowing an earned run in the first 13 innings before giving uo three runs in the ...
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Cleon Jones: All Time Mets Left Fielder (Part Two) The Seventies & Beyond

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Cleon Jones (Part Two):   After the Championship-   1970:  Cleon started the season with a pair of hits & an RBI in the 5-3 Opening Day win in Pittsburgh.  Multi- Three RBI Game: On April 16th he had his first multi-RBI game of the year, driving in three runs in a 7-4 loss to the Pirates. Thru the first ten games he hit well to bat over .300 but then slumped & was batting at the .200 mark by the end of May, although he did have twenty RBIs. On May 27th, Jones hit a two-run single off the Cardinals Steve Carlton, bringing two of the three runs in Gary Gentry's three hit shut out at Shea. In that game Tommie Agee stole home for the third run.  On May 30th, Jones helped the Mets come from behind 2-0 with a 6th inning RBI single off Houston's Larry Dieker. In the 8th inning his RBI triple off Dieker tied the game. Cleon then scored what was the games winning run-on Ken Boswell's base hit.  Jones was still struggling at the plate as he was only...
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