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Thursday July 26th 2012: On this day in Mets History, pitcher Matt Harvey made his much anticipated MLB debut. That season at AAA he was 7-5 with 112 strike outs & 48 walks in 110 innings, posting a 3.68 ERA. He was ranked as the 54th top prospect entering the 2012 season.  Terry Collins' New York Mets (48-51) were on the road visiting Arizona to face Kirk Gibson's third place D-backs (49-50) in front of 22,010 at Chase Field. In the top of the 1st, the Mets gave their highly touted pitcher, Harvey some support as Ruben Tejada & Daniel Murphy started the game with base hits. Scott Hariston then doubled home both runners, giving Harvey a 2-0 lead. Matt Harvey began his career striking out Gerado Parra for strike out number one. After a fly out & a hit by Jason Kubel, he closed out the inning striking out Paul Goldschmidt. In the top of the 2nd inning, Harvey came to bat & in his MLB debut he doubled off the wall to deep left center field. Harvey

  Monday July 25th, 1983: The 1983 season was the last losing season in a seven year stretch for the Mets. For the rest of the 1980's the Mets would put some of the best teams in baseball on the field.  In an era with no wild cards, they would win 90 or more games six times in seven years, win two divisional titles & a World Championship. 1983 saw the start of that turnaround, as players like Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry & Ron Darling joined the club. The Mets even brought back their "Franchise" pitcher, Tom Seaver that season for a one-year return. The Mets had just returned losing seven often on a road trip that took them through Houston, Atlanta & Cincinnati. Tonight, they opened up a three-game set at Shea, hosting Joe Torre's first place Atlanta Braves (61-37).  The Braves held a 4.5 game lead over the L.A. Dodgers, who would eventually take over & win the division in 1983. The Braves had won the NL west the previous year but got swept in t

Sunday July 26th 2015: Terry Collins New York Mets (51-48) had just come off a much needed victory after a week of losing five of eight games. They were in second place two games behind the Washington Nationals. The Mets had gotten a shot in the arm this week as they had just acquired veterans, Kelly Johnson & Juan Uribe. On this matinee at Citi, the Mets hosted Don Mattingly's first place Los Angeles Dodgers (56-44) in front of 36,093 fans. Jacob deGrom went up against Zack Greinke in a much anticipated pitching match. In the home 3rd, Kirk Nieuwenhuis was hit by a pitch, advanced to third base on Kevin Plawecki's base hit. Nieuwenhuis then scored on Jacob deGroms fielders choice. deGrom sailed along blanking the Dodgers as did Greinke. But in the home 6th, Curtis Granderson led off with a base hit, stole second & was sacrificed over to third. Daniel Murphy was walked intentionally and Kelly Johnson bounced one to first base. Adrian Gonzales threw home &

Wednesday July 24th, 2024: The Mets entered the night looking to sweep the four game 2024 subway series. Last month the Mets took both games at Citi Field & were looking to do the same in the Bronx. Carlos Mendoza sent Sean Manaea (6-4) to the mound to face Gerit Cole (3-1). The Mets had roughed up Cole last month at Citi Field for six runs on seven hits in just four innings of work. A big crowd of 48,760 settled in on a humid night as the Mets went out trying to continue their dominance of the AL New York team as well as their winning. Since June 1st they have one of baseball best teams, going 28-14. In the top of the 3rd, The Mets got their first HR of the night, as Tyrone Taylor hit his sixth of the year to tie up the game. Francisco Lindor then singled for his first hit of the night, as he was just getting started. In the bottom of the 3rd, Juan Soto hit a solo shot to put the Mets behind for the last time. In the top of the 4th, J.D. Martinez led off with a base hit to left

William Edward Wagner was born on July 25, 1971, in Tannersville, Virginia. The farmer from the South, was originally a right hander but after breaking his arm, he learned to throw left-handed off the door of his barn. He developed that arm into one that was known to throw a fastball at 100 mph.  Wagner set N.C.A.A. records in the small school of Ferrum College getting himself drafted number one by the Astros in 1993.  In the minor leagues, he was a starting pitcher. In 1994 Billy led all pitchers with 204 Ks while pitching at A-ball Quad Cities. In 1995 he jumped from AA Jackson to AAA Tuscon going 7-5 with 157 strikeouts. MLB Debut: On September 13th he made his MLB debut pitching to one batter in the 6th inning of a 10-5 loss to the Mets at Shea. Wagner would spend nine years with the Astros going 26-29 with a 2.53 ERA becoming the teams All Time save leader collecting 225 saves.  In 1997 he became the Astros full time closer replacing Todd Jones.  Over the next seven seasons