| July 26 2002 - The Mets and Reds hooked up for a big time series at shea. In the first inning Alomar got his 2,500 hit of his career. The game was close and went to the last at bat. With two outs, bases loaded, Mo Vuahgn singled in the winning run from thrid as the Mets won 3 - 2. |
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| July 27 2002 - Mets - Reds go to extra inning. Reds win in eleven innings. Another extra inning lose for the Mets. |
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| July 30 2002 - The Mets lose 16 - 3. Mets History - 1969 Mets lost 16 - 3 against the Astros at Shea on July 30. Hopefull some Met Magic will emerge. |
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| *** Mets trade Bobby M. Jones and a minor league player for Jason Middlebrook and Steve Reed. Advantage: Mets. Steve Reed is a top arm and will help the Mets in the bullpen a lot. Mets Trade Jay Payton and Mark Corey minor league outfeilder for John Thomson and Mark Little. Advantage: Rockies. The Rockies added a very good feildin outfeilder in Jay Payton to cover a lot of ground in Coors. In Coors Feild Jay Payton can up his stats and could make an all star team if he stays healthy. The Mets obtain really one player, Little before becoming a Met is hitting .203 and will be sent down soon. Thomson will become the Mets fourth or fifth starter. He can be a great pitcher but it's doubtful. Now the Mets are forced to play three left handed outfeilders everyday. *** |
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| August 3 2002 - Game 1 - The Mets and D'backs hooked up for an exciting game. The Mets and Diamonbacks exchanged leads but in the Mets eigth inning Alfonzo hit a cluch homerun. Armando Benetiz blew his third game of the year by allowing a homerun to Craig Counsell. In the top of then tenth inning Scott Strickland lost his seventh game of the year. Scott Strickland became the second player this year i "booed" off the field this year. |
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| August 3 2002 - Game 1 - The second game of the double header was even worse than the first game. Errors by Thomson and Burnitz cost the Mets four runs. A tony torasco homerun kept the Mets in the game but Jay Bell, who had one hit all season, hit a three run homerun and the D'backs never looked back as they swept the double dip at Shea. |
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| August 17 2002 - The Amazins vs. The Bums at Shea on the same night as the New York Mets celibrated their 40th Aniiversity by announcing their All Amazin Team but the game was anything but amazin. The Dodgers hit Pedro Astacio from the first pich. The Mets had no chance and the Met fans were sick of it, chanting "Strike." Met fans even became creative chanting "MVP" when Jeremy Burnitz stepped up tp the plate. The Mets were embaressed at Shea with a score of 10-4. To the right is the Mets all Amazin Team. |
| September 3 2002 - Coming into Shea Staduim the Mets were eighteen games out of the wild card and twenty-two games out of first place and had lost fourteen games in a row at home. The halg empty Shea wached the Mets take a one run lead in the ninth inning thanks to a Timo Perez solo homerun. In the ninth Armando Benetiz would blow his fourth save of the year allowing a single run to allow the Marlins to tie the game. In the eleventh inning Scott Strickland lost his tenth game of the year and his fourth lose in extra innings at Shea Staduim as the Mets lose again. |
| Manager: Gil Hodges First Base: Keith Hernandez Second Base: Edgardo Alfonzo Third Base: Howard Johnson Shortstop: Bud Harrelson Outfeilders: Mookie Wilson, Lenny Dykstra, Darryl Strawberry Catcher: Mike Piazza Pinch Hitters: Rusty Staub, Ed Kranepool RHP: Tom Seaver LHP: Jerry Koosman RH Releiver: Roger McDowell LH Releiver: John Franco |
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| September 17 2002 - A meaningless game at Shea between the Mets and the Cubs would become an exciting one. The Mets and Cubs traded runs but in the bottem of the ninth New York Met's Right Feilder Jeremy Burnitz launched a walk off homerun giving the Cubs and Jose Cruz another lose and finally giving the Mets a win. |
| September 21 2002 - The final game for me at Shea in 2002 would be a fun one. Witht no surprise the Mets were losing to the Montreal Expos. Down by on run in the bottem of the 9th with two outs the Mets put on a comeback. After two bloop hits the Mets got the tieing run home on an Andre Galarraga error. IN the bottem on the 13th inning Esix Sneed hit a walk off game winning solo homerun, his first homerun ever which concluded my season at Shea. |
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