So I was thinking about tonight's visit to Williamsport, where the red-hot Metsies (3-11 in August!) will try and prove that they should not be mistaken for a Little League team.
And then I thought about that glorious 24-4 beatdown we laid on the Phoolies there in 2018, taking some of the sting out of having to wear those ridiculous "Players' Weekend" uniforms with the forced and moronic "nicknames" on the back.
But it turns out that I was wrong…the 24-4 victory was the opening game of the series on Thursday…the Mets won the Williamsport game by a standard score of 8-2.
BTW, here are the Metsies who thrashed those Phillies so:
Amed Rosario, ss
Austin Jackson, cf
Wilmer Flores, 1b
Michael Conforto, lf
Todd Frazier, 3b
Brandon Nimmo, rf
Jose Reyes, 2b
Kevin Plawecki, c
Corey Oswalt, p
Doesn't exactly look like Murderer's Row, does it? Btw, this was the first game of a double-header…the Mets lost the 2nd game, 9-6.
Anyway, I was mucking around BB-ref's Callaway-era seasons, and I came up the box score for Callaway's finale, the Last Real Mets Game Ever, which is really the Last Real Baseball Game, since it's the final time a regular season game was tied after nine innings and no "ghost runners" sprouted from the dirt. We all remember Dom Smith winning the game with his walk-off pinch-hit HR…but who was the winning pitcher?
This guy:
He came on after the immortal Walker Lockett had given up two runs to the Braves in the top of the 11th, got the final two outs to get out of the inning and then was given the win when the Mets put up three runs in the bottom half, ending his Mets career with a bang.
Who is he? (I could probably not have gotten this in 100 guesses.)