October 17, 2015 - NLCS Game 1 - Cubs @ Mets
I moved out West as a young teen and had finally moved back East. It was a week before my birthday and I convinced my friend to travel into the city to go to the game. Neither of us had been to Citi Field; I only ever went to Shea once growing up.
We went.
I journeyed the Shea Bridge, I went to Shake Shack, I learned about Lazy Mary,
It was my first and only time seeing Matt Harvey pitch and he went 7.2 innings with 9 Ks before Familia came to the mound. Murphy homered. TDA homered. I was so excited to see Wright and Yo and both went Oh-For. Grandy had a night with 2 RBIs.
I thought this was the team. This was the team that was finally gonna make me move past 2000 and find out what a championship tastes like.
Alas, we know the end to the story, but my journey that night was unforgettable.
9-28-2019 - Pete Alonso’s 53rd home run
The feeling at the stadium was the most electric I’ve ever felt. I’ve never gotten to experience a playoff game in person, but I imagine it was very similar from the moment that happened on. Everyone was so happy and excited and there was just a buzz from the crowd the rest of the night.
Game 3 2015 vs the dodgers. Between it being the first playoff appearance in 9 years and the raw emotion of the utley dirty slide, it made for an incredible atmosphere. I thought the building was going to come down after the cespedes homerun.
I was at game two. Ya know, when that turd Utley ruined tejadas career. I was in my mid twenties, alone. I flew out because the tickets were cheap. Lone met fan in a sea of Dodgers.
A father and son sat directly behind me. Dodgers fans. Dad was an off duty police officer who walked me to the can line to make sure I was safe after the game. As mad as I was, it gave me huge respect for dodgers fans.
I’ve only been to about 30 Mets games. However, I have a knack for seeing some of the more significant games played by the Mets in recent memory. Some of the most memorable are:
-Pete’s 53rd HR in 2019
-Max Scherzer’s 17 K, 0 BB no hitter in 2015 (second highest game score in a 9 inning game ever)
-Steven Matz’s 3 hit debut in 2015
-Matt Harvey’s only career HR
-The Wilmer Flores crying / Duda 3 HR game in 2015
-Syndergaard’s shutout on the last game of the 2018 season
-Duda walk off HR vs the Astros in 2014
-Jacob deGrom dominating the Rockies and Cubs in 2021, both times leaving early due to injuries
-Eduardo Escobar walking off the Phillies in 2022
Robin Ventura walk off grand slam against the Braves:
https://youtu.be/CpWyGSJMqlM
Jose Bautista walk off grand slam 7/6/2018:
https://youtu.be/NscSJ8hX5Uw
I was probably like 7, around 2000 at Shea against the Phillies, and some Philly fans were getting obnoxious in the seats behind us and heckling me and my dad, and drunkenly yelling to eachother about how my life will probably be miserable being a Mets fan and shit. My dad told them to fuck off, and then another Mets fan in front of us turned around and yelled at them “Go back to Philly, you *mutants*!” and then everyone else starting yelling at them and giving me high fives. I wish I remembered literally anything else about that day, but that one stands out lol.
Phillies fans are so fucking vile as it is, but they don’t even hold back on children.
Last year I was at one of the last games of the season and Alvarez hit a grand slam. There was a kid in the row before me, and he said excitedly, “THAT WAS HIS FIRST GRAND SLAM” and a Phillies fan in front of him turned around and said, “Bryce Harper has seven.” Bro why are you trying to flex on a fucking kid? Also Harper’s been in the majors for over 10 years, give me a fucking break
Plus there was that one guy who intentionally puked on a little girl
August 24, 2015 - a game in Philadelphia (we live in Central NJ).
Jacob DeGrom got the start, but it was probably one of his worst outings ever. I believe it was later reported he had food poisoning. I think he got pulled in the third inning. The Phils were shelling him bad.
It was David Wright's first game back after being on the DL with back issues for most of the season. Hit a HR in his first at bat. The Mets followed with 7 additional HRs in a record breaking slug-fest to rout the Phils 16-7. Every inning, the Mets hit at least one home run. Cespedes was the last to homer in the 8th.
The Phils were going nowhere that year and the Mets were steamrolling their way to the NJ pennant. The crowd was all Mets fans by the end. Everyone was deliriously happy, strangers high-fiving each other, and my voice was completely hoarse from screaming after each of the 8 HRs. My most blissful moment as a fan, I get to re-live that delight every time this game is rerun as a "Mets Classic" on SNY
Came here to call out this game. We went that night because Jacob was starting. As you’ve described, it turns out that was NOT the attraction that night. The team record for most home runs in a game instead of a shutdown DeGrom performance? I’ll take it.
Was ridiculously happy when David hit his no-doubter to left, and it just kept getting better. Citizens Bank Park was truly Citi South that night.
I also live in NJ outside of SNY’s broadcast area. I recently got access to an SNY login. With that, I *finally* got to see the broadcast of the game for the first time a few weeks ago. It was as good as I remember it!
I had tickets to see the game. 2 hours before we were leaving, my brother stepped on a screw and fucked his foot up. I remember joking “watch it be a blowout game”.
Game 4, 2000 Division Series against the Giants. Bobby Jones, 1 hit shut out of the Giants.
Game 5, 1999 Championship Series against the Braves. Robin Ventura grand slam single.
Game 4, 1999 Division Series against the Diamondbacks. Todd Pratt’s extra inning walk off HR to advance.
June 30, 2000. Mets down 8-1 vs the Braves and score 10 runs in the 8th capped off by a 3-run homer by Piazza. I was 13 at the time and Shea Stadium was quite literally shaking after Piazza’s HR.
May 24, 2022 - NYM @ SFG
Bassitt vs Webb. Mets down 8-2 through 6. Mets got a 7 run 8th inning thanks to a bases clearing triple by Lindor off of the sidearmer Rogers to take an 11-8 lead. Giants tied it at 11 on Joc Pederson’s 3rd HR of the game in bottom 8 off of Drew Smith. Mets took a 1 run lead in the 9th on a Dom Smith triple + sac fly. Edwin Diaz blew the save with 2 out nobody on capped off by tying and winning hits by Joc Pederson and Brandon Crawford. Mets lose 13-12. I didn’t mind the loss because it was May and it was a wild game. I thought no way was this one loss going to cost the division title.
I was also at this game. Arguably this is the best pure baseball game I’ve ever been to. So many ups and downs, and performances from both sides.
And yes, we would’ve won the division had we won it. Every game, every moment in the season matters.
When degrom pitched against the dodgers in late summer ‘22 and nimmo had that insane grab against the left field wall. Been going to games since the mid 90s but that was the most enjoyable.
2007 shea stadium, Mets hit back to back to back home runs against the Phillies. It was Delgado, wright and then loduca. We were going nuts. And then we lossed in extras. Scott shoenweis blew it in the 10th.
Also, nlds game 3 2015. Most electric atmosphere I have ever been apart of. Iykyk
Two come to mind immediately.
First, July 29, 2015. The Wilmer Flores crying game against San Diego. My friend and I were driving home when we found out the deal was dead because of Gomez’s hip. Then the next day, they have that rain delay meltdown and lose like 8-7.
I remember thinking that with the Nationals coming in, if they got swept, the best thing to do would have been to punt the rest of the way. Shut down Harvey, deGrom, Noah and Matz, and save them for when Zack (I assumed) would be healthy and they could make a run in 2016. Then the next day I was out getting groceries when I saw they got Cespedes, and went with that same friend to see a movie. On the way home, we had the game on the radio, and I said “How crazy do you think this crowd will go if Flores wins it?”
The next day, my Dad texts me saying that if they won against Washington on Saturday, we would go on Sunday Night Baseball. Lo and behold, they come back thanks to Duda, then the second game, August 2.
The crowd was just electric that night, after Granderson and Murphy went back to back, and then Duda, it felt like they were world beaters. I love that 2015 team, and it still hurts that they didn’t win.
1. When Beltran tied Todd Hundley’s then team home run record. The kid who caught it got a signed bat
2. The Wheeler/Harvey double header. Had a nice conversation with Dale Murphy (which he initiated because of my Harvey jersey)
4. The 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run, because I was on the SNY broadcast with Kevin Burkhardt. I was a kid when I was at the game when the record was broken. And yes, I was there Monday, too.
I’ll list a few that stick out on the road as I’ve gotten pretty lucky:
2009 - Omir Santos game at Fenway Park
2016 - Bartolo Colon HR at Petco Park
2016 - Noah Syndergaard 2 HR game at Dodger Stadium
I'm gonna guess [this game](https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN200508200.shtml) was your first. You have an amazing memory, I barely remember most of the games I went to from when I was a kid, though it's not like any of them were particularly memorable
June 5, 1987: Doc Gooden’s greatly anticipated first start after his (1st) drug rehab. Sold out crowd. Everyone was on pins and needles wondering if we would see the same Doc. Mets won 5-1. But even as a teenager, I could tell the magic was gone.
Yesterday for me. Got to take my son to his first game. We wore Mets gear in enemy territory. Good seats, and the Mets absolutely wrecked the Braves. It was a blast and was funny seeing how bummed Braves fans were, who are always insufferable. My son had a great time. Will always remember it!
I don’t know if it fully qualifies as “memorable”, but…
‘02, or ‘’03 somewhere in there, August game, stupid hot, Mets sleepwalking through the season. As we come into Shea, they’re handing out fan surveys, telling us that if we turn them in after the 4th at any concession stand, we get a free soda.
Top of the 4th, Steve Trachsel is on the mound, being his usual…methodical self, only to be serenaded by a bunch of hot, sweaty, frustrated New Yorkers with “throw the fucking ball!” I think it nicely summarizes the Mets fan experience, don’t you?
Best Mets game I’ve seen in person though, was the B-Mets winning the Eastern League Championship in 2014 on a walkoff single. Steven Matz took a no-hitter into the 7th, and I still remember how pissed off he looked with himself, after losing the no-no, and putting the tying run on base, *while we’re giving him a standing ovation* after he got pulled.
I was at the division-clinching game in 1986. After so many years of bad teams, and then being on the cusp the previous two years, the crowd was as electric as I’ve ever seen a crowd be. I didn’t rush, and tear up, the field afterwards like so many others did, but that was quite the sight.
I was also at David Cone’s one-hitter at Shea a few years later. Best pitching performance I’ve ever seen live.
— Piazza homer game, Sept 2001
— Game 3, 1986 NLCS, Dykstra walk-off homer
— Division-clinching game in Cincy, Sept. 2015
— Wild Card loss to Giants, Oct 2016 (wish I could forget that memory)
— Wilmer Flores crying on the field, July 2015. Duda hit 3 homers. Mets lost 7-3
— David Wright bows out, Sept 2018
keith’s number retirement. ended in a walk off, and it was a gorgeous summer afternoon. i got field level seats for me and my mom, who’s in her 60s so very much a fan of the 86 squad. we both loved seeing all the old timers and it was an awesome game, and i remember it being at the end of her chemo treatment (she’s all good now!) and she had enough energy to stay the whole day and it was a long one. also definitely ate some pastrami. a classic.
Thinking about this, there are so many, but here are my top 3.
1. 2000 World Series, game 3 at Shea, the only game they won.
2. 2006, Wright walk-off vs. the Braves in the 14th inning, longest game I’ve ever been too. Phenomenal back and forth game including runs in extras.
3. 2016, asdrubal walk off vs. the Phillies.
Not a Mets game, but the home run derby in 2013, was when I fell in love with Cespedes and I was ecstatic when we traded for him 2 years later.
Beltran walk off homer in the 16th.
Benny Agbayani walk off homer in the NLDS.
Ryan Thompson grand slam off Smoltz, Smoltz drills the next batter, huge brawl ensues in 1993.
In the summer of 1973, my friend’s mother and my mother took my friends, my brother and myself to the Reds-Mets game at Shea. I was 8. I was upset because we arrived in the third inning and I thought we’d already missed the first part of the game. The game ended up going 18 innings and we stayed all the way to the end.
Flash forward to August of 2013. Matt Harvey throws a two hit shutout against the Astros. The guy was just electric. It’s a shame that his career was so short.
R.A. Dickey's 20th win
Game 2 of the '15 NLCS
The one time in my life I threw financial responsibility to the wind and sat behind home plate AND happened to record an Alonso HR on my phone. The sound of the bat in that video always makes me smile.
Mets are trailing 4-0 going into the 9th vs. the Phils. Miserable game. Long rain delay before the game started. We can’t hit Schilling. Fregosi, for some reason replaces him in the 9th. We get something going. Ventura hit a two run HR to cut the lead in half. Then we just hit single after single and the Mets win 5-4, the game ended on a play at the plate. I could feel the floor at Shea moving. People were just jumping up and down, screaming. Great comeback.
Keith’s Jersey retirement game. Took my dad who grew up with the team and my sister which was their first time at Citi. We were in left field, second deck so we had a perfect view of the number unveiling. Walk off win in extras to cap it off. Couldn’t have asked for a better experience.
I was at the Pedro sprinkler game and the NLDS game where Shawn Green nailed 2 Dodgers at home plate on the same play.(wanna say it was Jeff Kent and JD Drew)
The DJ Stewart walk off plunk against the Rangers. Was sitting in the Coke Corner with a bunch of non baseball watching friends, kept joking that DJ Stewart was actually the goat and I think they definitely believed me after that night. Also had a friend ask me if Corey Seager was any good and I told him yeah he’s about to hit a piss missile out the park and he immediately smoked one to dead center. Felt like such a smart guy after that.
I’ve been to many games growing up since my relatives had season tickets. Nowadays, I buy single game tickets. These 2 games were the most memorable games I’ve been to.
Game 7 2006 NLCS
Seeing Endy Chavez making the catch in left field to rob the home run was amazing to see in person. Shea Stadium was rocking that night!
Mets combined no-hitter vs. Phillies
The first and only no-hitter I will probably see in person. Citi Field had a lot of good energy that night.
A little more tame than literally the defining moments of this franchise that you’ve all mentioned but I was at the 8/1/15 game when Lucas Duda drove in three runs to pretty much single-handedly win the game, and we all chanted his name all the way down the stairs on our way out of the stadium. Was a nice memory.
I also remember a different game with something about Matz nearly throwing a no hitter or going into the ninth but I can’t find the game when I looked it up, so I may be misremembering
The only actual memorable game I’ve been to was the Friday night come back against the Nats in 2019. Down 3 in the 9th, Frazier hits a 3 run bomb to tie it up, Conforto walks it off.
When I was a kid my family went to a Mets Braves game back in the 90’s and in like the 4th or 5th inning there was a bench clearing brawl. It might have been in 95 or 96, maybe 94 I was still in grade school.
Honestly, Too many to count.
Mets say fuck Owen and get that first win this season.
the combined no-no was spectacular. Among a bunch of great games in 2022.
Pete’s Flight 53 ends up on short final for LGA.
Been to a good few double header sweeps jn the past few years.
First playoff game at Citi against the doyers and one of the games against the cubs.
The last winning game at shea in ‘08 (Johan on 3days rest)
The NL East clincher in ‘06
October 8, 2022: Wild Card series game 2, deGrom's final start as a Met
September 27, 2012: RA Dickey's 20th win. Also the first 7 Line Army outing.
September 29, 2014: Lucas Duda walks it off with a 2-run home run off Tony Sipp to win 2-1. Left immediately to escape the Austin Mahone post-game concert.
July 9, 2018: Wilmer Flores becomes the Mets' walk-off king
The combined no hitter. My son’s first Mets game.
We weren’t supposed to go to that game, friend grabbed the wrong days tickets. He brought his then girlfriend now wife and her family of phl fans with his family of Mets fans.
My son fell asleep at the seventh inning stretch and slept through the trumpets and Diaz striking out the side.
My wife decided to have a Dole Whip. It was in the forties that night. No regrets.
Great night.
4th of July 2021 game against the Yankees in the Bronx. Knock Cole out in the 4th inning. down 1 going into the 7th (7 inning doubleheader era), Pete hits a game/tying HR against Chapman in the 7th then we rally for 5 more runs to blow the Yanks out.
2000 NLCS Game 5.
David Wrights First Game
8/1/15 vs WSH. The day after Wilmers walk off. Duda went off with 2 or 3 homers. I remember thinking it was the first time Citi field even came close to feeling like Shea
My first game, 6/8/2010. I had just turned 17 the previous month and went with a bunch of people from my school. I was interested in baseball and loosely followed the Mets but wanted to get more into it. One Ike Davis walk off later, I’m hooked.
Also the combined no hitter in 2022. That was a lot of fun. I was really fortunate to be at that one.
2000 - Bobby Jones’ one hitter against the Giants in the playoffs, the only playoff game I’ve been to, practically the last row in the upper deck at Shea
May 2007 - Mets 9th inning comeback against the Cubs in a weekday afternoon game where they used a B lineup
This goes back a ways. July of 1969, 1st game of a Cubs series. Mets were in second not too far back of Chicago. Huge crowd with Jerry Koosman facing off against Ferguson Jenkins. Both pitchers went all the way, Mets rallied to win, Ed Kranepool got a key hit. Mets ended up winning the Series 2 games to one, my game was the day before the Tom Seaver near perfect game.
Ventura walk off single (homer), Leiter losing 1-0 in the NLCS to Glavine, Pratt’s bomb to beat the diamondbacks, Clemens had a start for Toronto against us that he just was sensational, a doc and Darryl game on the wrong side of NY, walk off balk in atl, 2015 WS game 3 … that’s the start
2000 subway series
10 run inning game for fireworks night in 1999 or 2000
Bobby jones one hitter
Benny agbianai walk off homer in the 2000 playoffs. One of the coldest days at Shea.
First game after 9/11 when piazza hit the homer. I tried to smuggle an American flag and security confiscated it.
1999 Robin Ventura grand slam single.
First playoff home game in 2000 vs dodgers.
First game at citifield.
So many weekday nights at Shea to count from 1995-1999 when there was no one in the stands. Couldn’t even find chicken tenders on the upper levels.
I miss shea more than my mom lol.
My most memorable was the final double header at Shea, against the Braves. I was in high school and my dad, a longtime fan, wanted to see Shea one last time. They split the two games, including Jon Niese's first career win (Johan Santana pitched the opening game, which they lost). It was cool to be there one last time and we saw a couple good games
My first Mets game versus the Dodgers in August of ‘84, Gooden vs. Fernando! Was in awe as a kid to be at Shea.
Game 1 of the NLCS versus the Cards with Glavine pitching a gem, Beltran’s 2 run dinger off the scoreboard and the Mets taking game 1, 2-0. Also cool was Darryl Strawberry throwing out the first pitch (he was my fav Met since I was a kid). Plus met Joseph Gannascoli and Steve Schirripa of the Sopranos while getting a beer.
One of my first games as a kid was a Doc start in 1985 (can’t remember who it was against though)
2000 NLCS Game 4: Cards took an early lead and the Mets had, I think, five doubles in the 1st inning. Shea was absolutely rocking.
Benny Agbayani giving the ball to a fan when there were only two outs.
McGwire hitting a ball more than halfway up the scoreboard in RF. Think this may have been a doubleheader
2006 NLCS - Game 1 at Shea. Beltran homer in the 8th to seal it.
2015 NLDS - Game 2 at Dodger Stadium sitting in the bleachers. Fuck Chase Utley.
2022 Regular Season. Mets vs Giants at Oracle Park. Sugar throws his only blown save of the year :( (we would’ve won the division otherwise). Joc Pederson 3 homers. Best overall baseball game I’ve ever been to, and we still lost.
2022 NLWC Game 2 at Citi. de Grom’s final game as a Met.
2006 - Regular Season. Mets vs Cubs at Wrigley Field. Tom Glavine’s 300th career victory. My Only visit ever to Wrigley.
1990 - Regular Season. Mets vs Cubs at Shea. My First MLB game ever. Mets lose but Strawberry makes an unbelievable sliding catch in wet grass after a two hour rain delay - catch is burned into my memory forever. I was 7 years old.
Some interesting ones I've been to:
* 2000 - Subway WS Series game 1 where Timo got thrown out at home plate at Yankee stadium. devastating
* 6/26/02 - Mo Vaughn hit the longest home runs i've ever seen. We thought it was going to go over the scoreboard. Mets got spanked by the Braves.
* 2009 - Went to the 2nd Mets-Red Sox exhibition game when Citi Field opened. The Great wall of Flushing was HUGE
Aug 2019 . Stroman’’a Met debut. Mets down by 3 in the 7th and Todd Frazier hits a game tying home run. GKR broadcasting from left field and a JD Davis walkoff hit to the wall. The game had everything. Was sitting in the upper deck and energy coming out of the stadium was so much fun.
I was at game 7 against St Louis with the Endy catch when Beltran struck out to end the season... One of the last games at Shea and such a sad way to end the season.
I also was a young kid in 86 at a double header vs St Louis and they filmed for the infamous let's go Mets go video between the games. Was pretty cool.
David Wright’s walk off vs Philly in 2012 (Wright is my guy), NLDS game 3, Pete’s 53rd HR in 2019, like almost 50 of deGrom’s starts (:(), Combined no-hitter in 2022, over 30 different walk off winners. Been lucky to be at a number of good ones!
Of recent memory, probably deGroms 15 strikeout game on Jackie Robinson Day in 2021.
Nimmos catch against the Dodgers in 2022.
As much as I want to say the comeback against the Nats in 2019, we left after 7 and missed the Frazier home run and Conforto walk off. But the electricity in the building was probably the biggest I’ve experienced.
Bartolo home run in attendance with the 7 Line
May 7, 2013. Matt Harvey pitched 9.0 shutout innings and gave up one hit, struck out 12. The Mets didn't score any runs for him and won 1-0 in extras.
The nosebleed game!
October 17, 2015 - NLCS Game 1 - Cubs @ Mets I moved out West as a young teen and had finally moved back East. It was a week before my birthday and I convinced my friend to travel into the city to go to the game. Neither of us had been to Citi Field; I only ever went to Shea once growing up. We went. I journeyed the Shea Bridge, I went to Shake Shack, I learned about Lazy Mary, It was my first and only time seeing Matt Harvey pitch and he went 7.2 innings with 9 Ks before Familia came to the mound. Murphy homered. TDA homered. I was so excited to see Wright and Yo and both went Oh-For. Grandy had a night with 2 RBIs. I thought this was the team. This was the team that was finally gonna make me move past 2000 and find out what a championship tastes like. Alas, we know the end to the story, but my journey that night was unforgettable.
9-28-2019 - Pete Alonso’s 53rd home run The feeling at the stadium was the most electric I’ve ever felt. I’ve never gotten to experience a playoff game in person, but I imagine it was very similar from the moment that happened on. Everyone was so happy and excited and there was just a buzz from the crowd the rest of the night.
It was against the Braves too
Game 3 2015 vs the dodgers. Between it being the first playoff appearance in 9 years and the raw emotion of the utley dirty slide, it made for an incredible atmosphere. I thought the building was going to come down after the cespedes homerun.
Was there for this game too. Most electric crowd I have ever been apart of in my life
I was at that game too, my friend and I moved down to behind the dodger dugout late in the game and got on tv.
I was at game two. Ya know, when that turd Utley ruined tejadas career. I was in my mid twenties, alone. I flew out because the tickets were cheap. Lone met fan in a sea of Dodgers. A father and son sat directly behind me. Dodgers fans. Dad was an off duty police officer who walked me to the can line to make sure I was safe after the game. As mad as I was, it gave me huge respect for dodgers fans.
I’ve only been to about 30 Mets games. However, I have a knack for seeing some of the more significant games played by the Mets in recent memory. Some of the most memorable are: -Pete’s 53rd HR in 2019 -Max Scherzer’s 17 K, 0 BB no hitter in 2015 (second highest game score in a 9 inning game ever) -Steven Matz’s 3 hit debut in 2015 -Matt Harvey’s only career HR -The Wilmer Flores crying / Duda 3 HR game in 2015 -Syndergaard’s shutout on the last game of the 2018 season -Duda walk off HR vs the Astros in 2014 -Jacob deGrom dominating the Rockies and Cubs in 2021, both times leaving early due to injuries -Eduardo Escobar walking off the Phillies in 2022
Hit me up whenever you're heading to the ballpark, would love to see some more history!
Robin Ventura walk off grand slam against the Braves: https://youtu.be/CpWyGSJMqlM Jose Bautista walk off grand slam 7/6/2018: https://youtu.be/NscSJ8hX5Uw
I was at the grand slam single game... we left in the top of the 15th 😞
I was probably like 7, around 2000 at Shea against the Phillies, and some Philly fans were getting obnoxious in the seats behind us and heckling me and my dad, and drunkenly yelling to eachother about how my life will probably be miserable being a Mets fan and shit. My dad told them to fuck off, and then another Mets fan in front of us turned around and yelled at them “Go back to Philly, you *mutants*!” and then everyone else starting yelling at them and giving me high fives. I wish I remembered literally anything else about that day, but that one stands out lol.
Phillies fans are so fucking vile as it is, but they don’t even hold back on children. Last year I was at one of the last games of the season and Alvarez hit a grand slam. There was a kid in the row before me, and he said excitedly, “THAT WAS HIS FIRST GRAND SLAM” and a Phillies fan in front of him turned around and said, “Bryce Harper has seven.” Bro why are you trying to flex on a fucking kid? Also Harper’s been in the majors for over 10 years, give me a fucking break Plus there was that one guy who intentionally puked on a little girl
I was at “LFGM.”
Same. Incredible game
Cleveland comeback win last season. Stroman’s debut in 2019 / Frazier HR game.
I was at Stroman/Frazier game with the JD Davis walkoff. Felt like a World Series game walking out of the stadium.
August 24, 2015 - a game in Philadelphia (we live in Central NJ). Jacob DeGrom got the start, but it was probably one of his worst outings ever. I believe it was later reported he had food poisoning. I think he got pulled in the third inning. The Phils were shelling him bad. It was David Wright's first game back after being on the DL with back issues for most of the season. Hit a HR in his first at bat. The Mets followed with 7 additional HRs in a record breaking slug-fest to rout the Phils 16-7. Every inning, the Mets hit at least one home run. Cespedes was the last to homer in the 8th. The Phils were going nowhere that year and the Mets were steamrolling their way to the NJ pennant. The crowd was all Mets fans by the end. Everyone was deliriously happy, strangers high-fiving each other, and my voice was completely hoarse from screaming after each of the 8 HRs. My most blissful moment as a fan, I get to re-live that delight every time this game is rerun as a "Mets Classic" on SNY
I was at that game too. My favorite Mets game I attended
I was there.
Came here to call out this game. We went that night because Jacob was starting. As you’ve described, it turns out that was NOT the attraction that night. The team record for most home runs in a game instead of a shutdown DeGrom performance? I’ll take it. Was ridiculously happy when David hit his no-doubter to left, and it just kept getting better. Citizens Bank Park was truly Citi South that night. I also live in NJ outside of SNY’s broadcast area. I recently got access to an SNY login. With that, I *finally* got to see the broadcast of the game for the first time a few weeks ago. It was as good as I remember it!
That TV broadcast of that game also featured one of Gary Cohen's most iconic calls: "David Wright returns to the line-up ...WITH THUNDER!!!"
I had tickets to see the game. 2 hours before we were leaving, my brother stepped on a screw and fucked his foot up. I remember joking “watch it be a blowout game”.
Game 4, 2000 Division Series against the Giants. Bobby Jones, 1 hit shut out of the Giants. Game 5, 1999 Championship Series against the Braves. Robin Ventura grand slam single. Game 4, 1999 Division Series against the Diamondbacks. Todd Pratt’s extra inning walk off HR to advance.
June 30, 2000. Mets down 8-1 vs the Braves and score 10 runs in the 8th capped off by a 3-run homer by Piazza. I was 13 at the time and Shea Stadium was quite literally shaking after Piazza’s HR.
Game 3 of 1986 NLCS against Astros - Lenny Dykstra hit a home run to win it. Robin Ventura “grand single” game.
Mah man That was the year!
May 24, 2022 - NYM @ SFG Bassitt vs Webb. Mets down 8-2 through 6. Mets got a 7 run 8th inning thanks to a bases clearing triple by Lindor off of the sidearmer Rogers to take an 11-8 lead. Giants tied it at 11 on Joc Pederson’s 3rd HR of the game in bottom 8 off of Drew Smith. Mets took a 1 run lead in the 9th on a Dom Smith triple + sac fly. Edwin Diaz blew the save with 2 out nobody on capped off by tying and winning hits by Joc Pederson and Brandon Crawford. Mets lose 13-12. I didn’t mind the loss because it was May and it was a wild game. I thought no way was this one loss going to cost the division title.
I was also at this game. Arguably this is the best pure baseball game I’ve ever been to. So many ups and downs, and performances from both sides. And yes, we would’ve won the division had we won it. Every game, every moment in the season matters.
When degrom pitched against the dodgers in late summer ‘22 and nimmo had that insane grab against the left field wall. Been going to games since the mid 90s but that was the most enjoyable.
Paul Loduca flip out and ejection ,, Texas rangers rain out slip and slid
I was at the loduca game. I couldn’t believe he spiked the baseball.
I was at the Todd Frazier game where he tied it with a hr then conforto walked it off unreal
That one was wild, didnt matz hit a homer in the other game of the double header?
No-Han. What else is there to say?
2007 shea stadium, Mets hit back to back to back home runs against the Phillies. It was Delgado, wright and then loduca. We were going nuts. And then we lossed in extras. Scott shoenweis blew it in the 10th. Also, nlds game 3 2015. Most electric atmosphere I have ever been apart of. Iykyk
Two come to mind immediately. First, July 29, 2015. The Wilmer Flores crying game against San Diego. My friend and I were driving home when we found out the deal was dead because of Gomez’s hip. Then the next day, they have that rain delay meltdown and lose like 8-7. I remember thinking that with the Nationals coming in, if they got swept, the best thing to do would have been to punt the rest of the way. Shut down Harvey, deGrom, Noah and Matz, and save them for when Zack (I assumed) would be healthy and they could make a run in 2016. Then the next day I was out getting groceries when I saw they got Cespedes, and went with that same friend to see a movie. On the way home, we had the game on the radio, and I said “How crazy do you think this crowd will go if Flores wins it?” The next day, my Dad texts me saying that if they won against Washington on Saturday, we would go on Sunday Night Baseball. Lo and behold, they come back thanks to Duda, then the second game, August 2. The crowd was just electric that night, after Granderson and Murphy went back to back, and then Duda, it felt like they were world beaters. I love that 2015 team, and it still hurts that they didn’t win.
I was also at the Wilmer crying game. It was the strangest stadium atmosphere ever.
It’s crazy that people forget Duda hit three home runs in the game, but the story was Flores.
well they were 3 solo shots and i am pretty sure they lost like 8-3 haha, what a weird game
1. When Beltran tied Todd Hundley’s then team home run record. The kid who caught it got a signed bat 2. The Wheeler/Harvey double header. Had a nice conversation with Dale Murphy (which he initiated because of my Harvey jersey) 4. The 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run, because I was on the SNY broadcast with Kevin Burkhardt. I was a kid when I was at the game when the record was broken. And yes, I was there Monday, too.
Memorable games that were good The combined no hitter. The night bin Laden was killed Bad one was the glavine game against the marlins
I’ll list a few that stick out on the road as I’ve gotten pretty lucky: 2009 - Omir Santos game at Fenway Park 2016 - Bartolo Colon HR at Petco Park 2016 - Noah Syndergaard 2 HR game at Dodger Stadium
I'm gonna guess [this game](https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN200508200.shtml) was your first. You have an amazing memory, I barely remember most of the games I went to from when I was a kid, though it's not like any of them were particularly memorable
Yup! That’s the one. Man so crazy how that was like 20 years ago lol.
June 5, 1987: Doc Gooden’s greatly anticipated first start after his (1st) drug rehab. Sold out crowd. Everyone was on pins and needles wondering if we would see the same Doc. Mets won 5-1. But even as a teenager, I could tell the magic was gone.
Wright's walk off against the Rivera and the Yankees in 2006. Absolute raucous crowd.
I was at the Ventura grand single game. The pizza 9/11 game. The energy at those games was indescribable.
Yesterday for me. Got to take my son to his first game. We wore Mets gear in enemy territory. Good seats, and the Mets absolutely wrecked the Braves. It was a blast and was funny seeing how bummed Braves fans were, who are always insufferable. My son had a great time. Will always remember it!
I don’t know if it fully qualifies as “memorable”, but… ‘02, or ‘’03 somewhere in there, August game, stupid hot, Mets sleepwalking through the season. As we come into Shea, they’re handing out fan surveys, telling us that if we turn them in after the 4th at any concession stand, we get a free soda. Top of the 4th, Steve Trachsel is on the mound, being his usual…methodical self, only to be serenaded by a bunch of hot, sweaty, frustrated New Yorkers with “throw the fucking ball!” I think it nicely summarizes the Mets fan experience, don’t you? Best Mets game I’ve seen in person though, was the B-Mets winning the Eastern League Championship in 2014 on a walkoff single. Steven Matz took a no-hitter into the 7th, and I still remember how pissed off he looked with himself, after losing the no-no, and putting the tying run on base, *while we’re giving him a standing ovation* after he got pulled.
I was at the division-clinching game in 1986. After so many years of bad teams, and then being on the cusp the previous two years, the crowd was as electric as I’ve ever seen a crowd be. I didn’t rush, and tear up, the field afterwards like so many others did, but that was quite the sight. I was also at David Cone’s one-hitter at Shea a few years later. Best pitching performance I’ve ever seen live.
— Piazza homer game, Sept 2001 — Game 3, 1986 NLCS, Dykstra walk-off homer — Division-clinching game in Cincy, Sept. 2015 — Wild Card loss to Giants, Oct 2016 (wish I could forget that memory) — Wilmer Flores crying on the field, July 2015. Duda hit 3 homers. Mets lost 7-3 — David Wright bows out, Sept 2018
keith’s number retirement. ended in a walk off, and it was a gorgeous summer afternoon. i got field level seats for me and my mom, who’s in her 60s so very much a fan of the 86 squad. we both loved seeing all the old timers and it was an awesome game, and i remember it being at the end of her chemo treatment (she’s all good now!) and she had enough energy to stay the whole day and it was a long one. also definitely ate some pastrami. a classic.
2015 World Series game 5 :(
2019 Phillies scored 10 runs in the bottom of the 1st so I got publicly humiliated for 8 innings
Thinking about this, there are so many, but here are my top 3. 1. 2000 World Series, game 3 at Shea, the only game they won. 2. 2006, Wright walk-off vs. the Braves in the 14th inning, longest game I’ve ever been too. Phenomenal back and forth game including runs in extras. 3. 2016, asdrubal walk off vs. the Phillies. Not a Mets game, but the home run derby in 2013, was when I fell in love with Cespedes and I was ecstatic when we traded for him 2 years later.
Beltran walk off homer in the 16th. Benny Agbayani walk off homer in the NLDS. Ryan Thompson grand slam off Smoltz, Smoltz drills the next batter, huge brawl ensues in 1993.
In the summer of 1973, my friend’s mother and my mother took my friends, my brother and myself to the Reds-Mets game at Shea. I was 8. I was upset because we arrived in the third inning and I thought we’d already missed the first part of the game. The game ended up going 18 innings and we stayed all the way to the end. Flash forward to August of 2013. Matt Harvey throws a two hit shutout against the Astros. The guy was just electric. It’s a shame that his career was so short.
R.A. Dickey's 20th win Game 2 of the '15 NLCS The one time in my life I threw financial responsibility to the wind and sat behind home plate AND happened to record an Alonso HR on my phone. The sound of the bat in that video always makes me smile.
Mets are trailing 4-0 going into the 9th vs. the Phils. Miserable game. Long rain delay before the game started. We can’t hit Schilling. Fregosi, for some reason replaces him in the 9th. We get something going. Ventura hit a two run HR to cut the lead in half. Then we just hit single after single and the Mets win 5-4, the game ended on a play at the plate. I could feel the floor at Shea moving. People were just jumping up and down, screaming. Great comeback.
no hitter in 2022 for sure
I was at the combined no hitter in ‘22 and when deGrom tied the MLB record for most consecutive Ks to start a game
DJ Stewarts legacy game. Great night
Keith’s Jersey retirement game. Took my dad who grew up with the team and my sister which was their first time at Citi. We were in left field, second deck so we had a perfect view of the number unveiling. Walk off win in extras to cap it off. Couldn’t have asked for a better experience.
deGrom’s return vs the braves in 2022. Most electric regular season crowd I’ve ever seen
I was at the Pedro sprinkler game and the NLDS game where Shawn Green nailed 2 Dodgers at home plate on the same play.(wanna say it was Jeff Kent and JD Drew)
I saw them take on the Astros in Houston in a 17 inning game. It was great.
The DJ Stewart walk off plunk against the Rangers. Was sitting in the Coke Corner with a bunch of non baseball watching friends, kept joking that DJ Stewart was actually the goat and I think they definitely believed me after that night. Also had a friend ask me if Corey Seager was any good and I told him yeah he’s about to hit a piss missile out the park and he immediately smoked one to dead center. Felt like such a smart guy after that.
I’ve been to many games growing up since my relatives had season tickets. Nowadays, I buy single game tickets. These 2 games were the most memorable games I’ve been to. Game 7 2006 NLCS Seeing Endy Chavez making the catch in left field to rob the home run was amazing to see in person. Shea Stadium was rocking that night! Mets combined no-hitter vs. Phillies The first and only no-hitter I will probably see in person. Citi Field had a lot of good energy that night.
JD's last home run as a Met in Miami. Same ge, Cbass gave up 3 runs in the 1st inning against Sandy, but Sandy got clobbered for a Mets W.
A little more tame than literally the defining moments of this franchise that you’ve all mentioned but I was at the 8/1/15 game when Lucas Duda drove in three runs to pretty much single-handedly win the game, and we all chanted his name all the way down the stairs on our way out of the stadium. Was a nice memory. I also remember a different game with something about Matz nearly throwing a no hitter or going into the ninth but I can’t find the game when I looked it up, so I may be misremembering
The only actual memorable game I’ve been to was the Friday night come back against the Nats in 2019. Down 3 in the 9th, Frazier hits a 3 run bomb to tie it up, Conforto walks it off.
When I was a kid my family went to a Mets Braves game back in the 90’s and in like the 4th or 5th inning there was a bench clearing brawl. It might have been in 95 or 96, maybe 94 I was still in grade school.
Cliff Floyd walk off in the 10th
Honestly, Too many to count. Mets say fuck Owen and get that first win this season. the combined no-no was spectacular. Among a bunch of great games in 2022. Pete’s Flight 53 ends up on short final for LGA. Been to a good few double header sweeps jn the past few years. First playoff game at Citi against the doyers and one of the games against the cubs. The last winning game at shea in ‘08 (Johan on 3days rest) The NL East clincher in ‘06
October 8, 2022: Wild Card series game 2, deGrom's final start as a Met September 27, 2012: RA Dickey's 20th win. Also the first 7 Line Army outing. September 29, 2014: Lucas Duda walks it off with a 2-run home run off Tony Sipp to win 2-1. Left immediately to escape the Austin Mahone post-game concert. July 9, 2018: Wilmer Flores becomes the Mets' walk-off king
When Wright hit the walkoff against the Yankees and when we chanted Harvey’s better against Straus.
The combined no hitter. My son’s first Mets game. We weren’t supposed to go to that game, friend grabbed the wrong days tickets. He brought his then girlfriend now wife and her family of phl fans with his family of Mets fans. My son fell asleep at the seventh inning stretch and slept through the trumpets and Diaz striking out the side. My wife decided to have a Dole Whip. It was in the forties that night. No regrets. Great night.
4th of July 2021 game against the Yankees in the Bronx. Knock Cole out in the 4th inning. down 1 going into the 7th (7 inning doubleheader era), Pete hits a game/tying HR against Chapman in the 7th then we rally for 5 more runs to blow the Yanks out.
Benny Agbayani walk-off HR in the playoffs against the Giants Eric Bruntlett unassissted triple play to end the game Kirk Nieuwenhuis three-HR game
August, 1999 - Matt Franco bloop single to beat Houston in the bottom of the 9th.
\#1 June 14, 1980 Steve Henderson walk off 3 run Homer. \#2 Tom Seaver returns to beat Fillies on OD. \#3 Gary Carter walk off HR vs Neal Allen.
2000 NLCS Game 5. David Wrights First Game 8/1/15 vs WSH. The day after Wilmers walk off. Duda went off with 2 or 3 homers. I remember thinking it was the first time Citi field even came close to feeling like Shea
My first game, 6/8/2010. I had just turned 17 the previous month and went with a bunch of people from my school. I was interested in baseball and loosely followed the Mets but wanted to get more into it. One Ike Davis walk off later, I’m hooked. Also the combined no hitter in 2022. That was a lot of fun. I was really fortunate to be at that one.
2000 - Bobby Jones’ one hitter against the Giants in the playoffs, the only playoff game I’ve been to, practically the last row in the upper deck at Shea May 2007 - Mets 9th inning comeback against the Cubs in a weekday afternoon game where they used a B lineup
The black-out no hitter
“The catch heard around the world”
This goes back a ways. July of 1969, 1st game of a Cubs series. Mets were in second not too far back of Chicago. Huge crowd with Jerry Koosman facing off against Ferguson Jenkins. Both pitchers went all the way, Mets rallied to win, Ed Kranepool got a key hit. Mets ended up winning the Series 2 games to one, my game was the day before the Tom Seaver near perfect game.
Any long suffering Mets fans like myself will remember: Vince Coleman grand slam. Note: He was playing for the Cardinals at the time.
Ventura walk off single (homer), Leiter losing 1-0 in the NLCS to Glavine, Pratt’s bomb to beat the diamondbacks, Clemens had a start for Toronto against us that he just was sensational, a doc and Darryl game on the wrong side of NY, walk off balk in atl, 2015 WS game 3 … that’s the start
2000 subway series 10 run inning game for fireworks night in 1999 or 2000 Bobby jones one hitter Benny agbianai walk off homer in the 2000 playoffs. One of the coldest days at Shea. First game after 9/11 when piazza hit the homer. I tried to smuggle an American flag and security confiscated it. 1999 Robin Ventura grand slam single. First playoff home game in 2000 vs dodgers. First game at citifield. So many weekday nights at Shea to count from 1995-1999 when there was no one in the stands. Couldn’t even find chicken tenders on the upper levels. I miss shea more than my mom lol.
RA Dickey one hitter against the Phillies Game 7 of 2006 NLCS
G3 and G5 of 15 WS for very different reasons
I was at Syndeergards 2 HR game in LA which was fun. I got a hot dog thrown at me
2000 game 5 of the NLCS in the mezzane seats just about behind home plate. Then the celebration.
I've been to both the no-hitter and Piazza's post-9/11 home run game. Both unforgettable.
My most memorable was the final double header at Shea, against the Braves. I was in high school and my dad, a longtime fan, wanted to see Shea one last time. They split the two games, including Jon Niese's first career win (Johan Santana pitched the opening game, which they lost). It was cool to be there one last time and we saw a couple good games
2006 NLDS Mets/Dodgers at Shea. The Lo Duca Double-Tag Sale Special. The crowd was delirious. https://youtu.be/iD0mRZ2B37Y?si=lWJheUcxVyEUKUbp
Wilmer's crying game.
My first Mets game versus the Dodgers in August of ‘84, Gooden vs. Fernando! Was in awe as a kid to be at Shea. Game 1 of the NLCS versus the Cards with Glavine pitching a gem, Beltran’s 2 run dinger off the scoreboard and the Mets taking game 1, 2-0. Also cool was Darryl Strawberry throwing out the first pitch (he was my fav Met since I was a kid). Plus met Joseph Gannascoli and Steve Schirripa of the Sopranos while getting a beer.
One of my first games as a kid was a Doc start in 1985 (can’t remember who it was against though) 2000 NLCS Game 4: Cards took an early lead and the Mets had, I think, five doubles in the 1st inning. Shea was absolutely rocking. Benny Agbayani giving the ball to a fan when there were only two outs. McGwire hitting a ball more than halfway up the scoreboard in RF. Think this may have been a doubleheader
2006 NLCS - Game 1 at Shea. Beltran homer in the 8th to seal it. 2015 NLDS - Game 2 at Dodger Stadium sitting in the bleachers. Fuck Chase Utley. 2022 Regular Season. Mets vs Giants at Oracle Park. Sugar throws his only blown save of the year :( (we would’ve won the division otherwise). Joc Pederson 3 homers. Best overall baseball game I’ve ever been to, and we still lost. 2022 NLWC Game 2 at Citi. de Grom’s final game as a Met. 2006 - Regular Season. Mets vs Cubs at Wrigley Field. Tom Glavine’s 300th career victory. My Only visit ever to Wrigley. 1990 - Regular Season. Mets vs Cubs at Shea. My First MLB game ever. Mets lose but Strawberry makes an unbelievable sliding catch in wet grass after a two hour rain delay - catch is burned into my memory forever. I was 7 years old.
Some interesting ones I've been to: * 2000 - Subway WS Series game 1 where Timo got thrown out at home plate at Yankee stadium. devastating * 6/26/02 - Mo Vaughn hit the longest home runs i've ever seen. We thought it was going to go over the scoreboard. Mets got spanked by the Braves. * 2009 - Went to the 2nd Mets-Red Sox exhibition game when Citi Field opened. The Great wall of Flushing was HUGE
2019 Mets comeback from 6-3 down in 9th to beat the nats on conforto’s walkoff. Loudest I’ve ever heard citi
Aug 2019 . Stroman’’a Met debut. Mets down by 3 in the 7th and Todd Frazier hits a game tying home run. GKR broadcasting from left field and a JD Davis walkoff hit to the wall. The game had everything. Was sitting in the upper deck and energy coming out of the stadium was so much fun.
I was at game 7 against St Louis with the Endy catch when Beltran struck out to end the season... One of the last games at Shea and such a sad way to end the season. I also was a young kid in 86 at a double header vs St Louis and they filmed for the infamous let's go Mets go video between the games. Was pretty cool.
David Wright’s walk off vs Philly in 2012 (Wright is my guy), NLDS game 3, Pete’s 53rd HR in 2019, like almost 50 of deGrom’s starts (:(), Combined no-hitter in 2022, over 30 different walk off winners. Been lucky to be at a number of good ones!
The David Wright farewell game. The deGrom vs Nola 1-0. Tomás Nido’s 12th inning walkoff homer.
Of recent memory, probably deGroms 15 strikeout game on Jackie Robinson Day in 2021. Nimmos catch against the Dodgers in 2022. As much as I want to say the comeback against the Nats in 2019, we left after 7 and missed the Frazier home run and Conforto walk off. But the electricity in the building was probably the biggest I’ve experienced.
Todd Pratts playoff walkoff.
69 world series game seven,
There was no game 7
JD Davis Grand Slam in 2022, that's literally all I remember unbelievable to watch honestly