Mets 2024 Season

Currently 79-65 with 18 to play. What’s the record that gets them in the dance?

I’d always use 90 as a benchmark which would be 11-7 down the stretch, but hoping 88 or 89 wins is enough. There’s gotta be some attrition amongst these 4 teams battling for 3 spots.
 
sirvoo said:
Currently 79-65 with 18 to play. What’s the record that gets them in the dance?

I’d always use 90 as a benchmark which would be 11-7 down the stretch, but hoping 88 or 89 wins is enough. There’s gotta be some attrition amongst these 4 teams battling for 3 spots.
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I'm thinking 90 too
 
In the last week the Mets have squeezed out two late wins, on 8th inning based loaded walks, and tonight on 2 runs scored on pitches that got bybtge catcher.

In 1969 there were unlikely wins. Steve Carlton strikes out 19 Mets but loses 4-2 as Ron Swoboda smacks two 2 run Home runs.

In 73 Dan Augustinebof the Pirates hits one out of the park at Shea with runners on base to put the Pirates ahead of the Mets late in the game. Only the ball hits the top of the fence, and instead of bouncing over as it might 1000 out of 1000 times bounces back into the park straight to Cleon Jones who fires a perfect relay to Bud Harrelson who throws the lead runner out at the plate.

Yesterday, Gil welcomed another of his boys of summer into the gates. In 69 Eddie Kranepool got a huge hit against Fergie Jenkins in a come from behind win as a signature of a more unlikely charge up an August 9.5 game August Cubs lead in the new NL East. Their newest team member, joining recent additions Harrelson, Grote and McAndrew (from Lost Nation Iowa) must have been reminding Seaver, Agee, Clendenon, Tug, and the others that it was his biggest hit of his career.

Tom Seaver had a bunch of nicknames, Tom terrific, the Franchise, Tom Tom, and lesser used Boy Wonder. I was struck looking at those 69 photos flashed on the TV during last night's telecast as to just how young they all were in 69. Ed Kranepool just 24 was in his 9th season.

As a new fan in 65 and 66 and 67 I poured over stats. Swiboda 19 hrs in 65, kranepool 16 in 66, seaver 16 wins in 67. All gave what should have been false hope that the franchise had turned the corner and headed out of hopeless losing. Instead, the baseball gods gave us 1969 and 1973 - both improbable years to savor.

RIP Ed Kranepool, sure handed and slow footed. The slowest kids who m played asphalt schoolyard softball would be compared to Ed. Shamsky, Boswell, Ed Charles, Koos - my boys of summer along with the rest, are now mostly gone. With them and now with Kranepool the last vestiges of my boy hood.

But maybe, just maybe, they are all conspiring another Miracle Mets in Flushing. Maybe not, but as Tug said, Yahoo Gotta Believe!!
 
MainMan said:
There will never be another MLB career like Ed Kranepool.

18 YEARS with one team as (mostly) a bench player.

An amazin' career. An amazin' life. RIP to a great guy.
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His career ended before I was even born, but I've always heard his name mentioned several times every season. I just looked up his stats yesterday for the first time and was surprised they were so low for how often he is mentioned. This explains it.
 
Beasts of the East said:
In the last week the Mets have squeezed out two late wins, on 8th inning based loaded walks, and tonight on 2 runs scored on pitches that got bybtge catcher.

In 1969 there were unlikely wins. Steve Carlton strikes out 19 Mets but loses 4-2 as Ron Swoboda smacks two 2 run Home runs.

In 73 Dan Augustinebof the Pirates hits one out of the park at Shea with runners on base to put the Pirates ahead of the Mets late in the game. Only the ball hits the top of the fence, and instead of bouncing over as it might 1000 out of 1000 times bounces back into the park straight to Cleon Jones who fires a perfect relay to Bud Harrelson who throws the lead runner out at the plate.

Yesterday, Gil welcomed another of his boys of summer into the gates. In 69 Eddie Kranepool got a huge hit against Fergie Jenkins in a come from behind win as a signature of a more unlikely charge up an August 9.5 game August Cubs lead in the new NL East. Their newest team member, joining recent additions Harrelson, Grote and McAndrew (from Lost Nation Iowa) must have been reminding Seaver, Agee, Clendenon, Tug, and the others that it was his biggest hit of his career.

Tom Seaver had a bunch of nicknames, Tom terrific, the Franchise, Tom Tom, and lesser used Boy Wonder. I was struck looking at those 69 photos flashed on the TV during last night's telecast as to just how young they all were in 69. Ed Kranepool just 24 was in his 9th season.

As a new fan in 65 and 66 and 67 I poured over stats. Swiboda 19 hrs in 65, kranepool 16 in 66, seaver 16 wins in 67. All gave what should have been false hope that the franchise had turned the corner and headed out of hopeless losing. Instead, the baseball gods gave us 1969 and 1973 - both improbable years to savor.

RIP Ed Kranepool, sure handed and slow footed. The slowest kids who m played asphalt schoolyard softball would be compared to Ed. Shamsky, Boswell, Ed Charles, Koos - my boys of summer along with the rest, are now mostly gone. With them and now with Kranepool the last vestiges of my boy hood.

But maybe, just maybe, they are all conspiring another Miracle Mets in Flushing. Maybe not, but as Tug said, Yahoo Gotta Believe!!
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We all looked a lot younger in 1969:)

PS--Tug's famous "Ya Gotts Believe" is from the 1973 when they were in last place in NL until 8/31; in September after a MEH season, Tug and the team came alive going 20-8; Tug was 3-0 with an ERA of 0.57 and 10 saves as the team through and won the east on the last day of the season.
 
BrooklynRed said:
We all looked a lot younger in 1969:)

PS--Tug's famous "Ya Gotts Believe" is from the 1973 when they were in last place in NL until 8/31; in September after a MEH season, Tug and the team came alive going 20-8; Tug was 3-0 with an ERA of 0.57 and 10 saves as the team through and won the east on the last day of the season.
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And he said it to piss off M. Donald Grant, who was given such free reign by Joan Payson's daughter Linda DeRoulet that he had the audacity to give a clubhouse pep talk to the floundering Mets. The players were annoyed, and Tug burst out patronizing Grant, "Ya Gotta Believe, Mr. Grant, Ya Gotta Believe!" It of course became the rallying cry of a team that played into contention by McGraw, a healthy Jones who delivered big hits every night, a healthy Seaver (sciatic nerve limited him to 11-10). I think they were 83-78.

The trio of Seaver, Koosman, and Matlack vanquished the Big Red Machine. Harrelson took on Rose, and the mighty mites silenced a team compared to the 27 and 61 Yankees.

We came within one shitty weekend in Oakland to beating a terrific A's team.

M. Donald Grant banished Seaver in 76 instead of banning Dick Young, and for that deserves the same NY hate that O'Malley gets for heading west with Da Bums.
 
Jack Williams said:
Mets have 0 hits through 5 innings. Down 1-0.... hopefully they can find a way to steal another one
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In 24 innings in Toronto, the Mets have scored 5 runs; 2 on passed balls, one on a wild pitch. No hit through 7 now.
 
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