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Starting with their 42nd game, the Mets went 82–39 (a .678 winning percentage), including an astonishing 38–11 in their last 49 games. [ 8 ] Despite that performance, the Mets suffered two mid-season three-game series sweeps at the hands of the Houston Astros , who manhandled the Mets all season, taking 10 of the 12 games the teams played.
The Mets went on to play in the World Series in 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 and 2015, and won the 1969 and 1986 World Series championship games. Tom Seaver (1969 and 1973), Dwight Gooden (1986), Mike Hampton (2000) and Bartolo Colón (2015) were the Opening Day starting pitchers when the Mets played in the World Series, and they had a combined ...
Below is an alphabetical list of every player that has played for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball since the franchise's inception in 1962. Included are the seasons in which they played for the Mets and their primary position(s).
The 1969 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1969 season.The 66th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
Grote was a first-time All-Star in 1968, starting for the NL in the All-Star Game at Houston's Astrodome and batting .282. He hit .252 with six homers and 40 RBIs in 1969, starting 100 games behind the plate. On the night the Mets moved into the division lead, he caught all 21 innings in a doubleheader sweep of Montreal.
There from the inaugural season and part of the 1969 World Series team, Ed Kranepool represented the history of the New York Mets.
If you thought it took a miracle for the 1969 Mets to become world champions, imagine what it will take for the 2019 Mets just to achieve mediocrity. On Saturday the Mets commemorated the 50th ...
Art Shamsky, a part of the 1969 World Series champion New York Mets, joins "The *State* of Florida Sports Podcast" to discuss spring training, more."