{"id":110458,"date":"2024-10-04T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110458"},"modified":"2024-10-04T22:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:58:02","slug":"as-mets-phillies-nlds-awaits-here-are-the-10-most-memorable-moments-in-their-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110458","title":{"rendered":"As Mets-Phillies NLDS awaits, here are the 10 most memorable moments in their rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/SLN\/SLN196204110.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">very first batter<\/a> in the history of the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"110\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/mets\/\">New York Mets<\/a> was much better known as a Philadelphia Phillie.<\/p>\n<p>Richie Ashburn, the future Hall of Famer, played one season with the Mets and hit .306. He was only 35, but retired to spend the second half of his life in the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"113\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/phillies\/\">Phillies\u2019<\/a> broadcast booth. When Ashburn died, in 1997, he had just called a Phillies game at Shea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>These franchises, relative neighbors in the National League for 63 seasons, are meeting in the playoffs for the first time Saturday in the opener of a best-of-five Division Series in Philadelphia. Soon we will know who wins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iv6TL00y-VA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cthe damn thing\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 \u2014 as an exasperated Bob Murphy once said, after the Mets nearly blew a nine-run lead in Philly \u2014 and who must cope with the shame of defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Utley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsRadioWIP\/status\/1138793159448825857\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">hates the Mets<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u_WcaXG30XM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mets hate Chase Utley<\/a>. The Phillie Phanatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1qDwBbyeqg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">smashes Mets bating helmets<\/a>. Mr. Met thinks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@edev429\/video\/7132179046821154091\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the Phanatic smells<\/a>. Zack Wheeler got his start with the Mets, but became an ace with the Phillies. Mike Piazza grew up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/philly\/sports\/phillies\/20160725_Piazza_s_career_should_have_been_a_Philadelphia_story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">rooting for the Phillies<\/a>, but went to Cooperstown as a Met.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies hold the edge in their head-to-head matchups, but it\u2019s close: 555 wins for the Phillies, 525 for the Mets. The next few games will matter most of all, as both teams chase their third World Series title.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 10 most memorable moments in the history of their rivalry:<\/p>\n<h2>The Perfect Game, 1964<\/h2>\n<p>It was the final day of the Phillies\u2019 first-ever series at Shea Stadium, a Father\u2019s Day matinee with their new ace, Jim Bunning, on the mound. Bunning, a future Hall of Famer and U.S. Senator, defied tradition as the 1-2-3 innings rolled by.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe talked about it on the bench, starting about the sixth inning,\u201d said catcher Gus Triandos, who had been traded with Bunning from Detroit the previous winter. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen him so gabby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bunning struck out 10 but needed only 90 pitches to spin the NL\u2019s first perfect game since John Montgomery Ward did it for Providence in 1880.<\/p>\n<h2>The Tug Trade, 1974<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cYa Gotta Believe\u201d was a Mets thing, a rallying cry from 1973. Leaping off the mound at the end of the World Series? That was a Phillies thing, the enduring image from their first title in 1980. Both groups of fans claim Tug McGraw, who was dealt to the Phillies as part of a six-player trade that brought John Stearns to the Mets in December 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies did not know that McGraw needed shoulder surgery at the time \u2014 but wisely, they held onto the flaky lefty, who became one of the most beloved and fan-friendly athletes in the history of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<h2>The Homecoming, 1983<\/h2>\n<p>Five and a half seasons after trading Tom Seaver to Cincinnati, the Mets brought him back in 1983, theoretically to finish his career where it started. Seaver\u2019s return to Shea went splendidly on opening day, when he spun six shutout innings to outduel the Phillies\u2019 Steve Carlton and help the Mets to a 2-0 victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took me a couple of innings to calm down,\u201d Seaver said later, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OgKcJuBBRi0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kiner\u2019s Corner postgame show<\/a>. \u201cIt was very touching, and it couldn\u2019t have turned out to be a better day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the sunshine didn\u2019t last: the Mets finished in the division cellar, the Phillies went to the World Series \u2013 and Seaver (who finished with a hard-luck 9-14 record) went to the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"98\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/whitesox\/\">White Sox<\/a>, when the Mets somehow left him unprotected that offseason.<\/p>\n<h2>The Rout, 1985<\/h2>\n<p>It was the most runs ever scored by the Phillies and the most ever allowed by the Mets, a fleeting, frenzied flurry of offense from a lineup of mostly nondescript Phils. If you were scoring at home \u2014 like I was \u2014 you might have run out of ink filling in all those boxes in your scorebook, which had never before tracked a 26-7 baseball game.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies, who batted around four times, scored nine runs in the first inning as Von Hayes homered twice. They pounded out 25 other hits, including five by second baseman Juan Samuel and four hits by third baseman Rick Schu (yes, kids, Rick Schu bumped Mike Schmidt to first that season). Mets starter Tom Gorman gave up six runs in one-third of an inning, and two relievers served up 10 runs apiece: Calvin Schiraldi and Joe Sambito, who probably assumed it would be their worst day in the major leagues. Alas, with the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"96\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/redsox\/\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> the next October, the duo combined for a 14.54 ERA in a bitter World Series loss to their former team.<\/p>\n<h2>The Lost Weekend, 1986<\/h2>\n<p>The 1986 Mets swaggered into The Vet on Sept. 12 for a three-game weekend series, needing one win to eliminate the Phillies and clinch the NL East. Thousands of fans \u2014 rowdy and ready to party \u2014 made the short trip into enemy territory, piling into the upper deck. The weekend drew 128,830 fans (\u201cWe\u2019re boosting Philadelphia\u2019s economy,\u201d Gary Carter said), making for the most electric atmosphere at the Vet during the Phillies\u2019 entire nine-season playoff drought (1984 through 1992).<\/p>\n<p>Mike Schmidt, en route to his third MVP award, homered off Dwight Gooden in the opener, the 493rd blast of his career, tying Lou Gehrig on the career list and propelling the Phillies to a stunning sweep, capped by a Kevin Gross shutout.<\/p>\n<p>Did the Phillies still finish a distant second? They sure did, by 21 1\/2 games. But, like the Mets this season, they kept their rivals from clinching on their turf \u2014 and that sure counted for something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis weekend,\u201d Schmidt said, \u201cwe played each and every game like it was the last game of the World Series.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Fight, 1989<\/h2>\n<p>The Mets ended the 1980s in New York with a pile on the pitcher\u2019s mound \u2014 but it wasn\u2019t to celebrate a championship. The Mets\u2019 Gregg Jefferies grounded out to second to end the home finale in 1989. It looked routine, until Jefferies tagged first base and spun around to confront the Phillies\u2019 pitcher, Roger McDowell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B1PNt5iktGE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">lifting him in the air and driving him to the dirt, sparking a wild brawl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferies, a young player who was meticulous with his bats, had broken one against McDowell earlier in the series. McDowell, who had been part of a hard-edged Mets core that never accepted Jefferies, mocked his former teammate on his way to first. When they met again in the home finale, Jefferies jawed back at McDowell after the final out \u2014 and an awkward kind of fight was on, with a less-popular current Met challenging a very popular ex-Met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would imagine there were 30 guys on our side rooting for Roger,\u201d Phillies manager Nick Leyva said, \u201cand about 20 guys on their side rooting for Roger, too.\u201d Years later, McDowell and Jefferies <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/23\/gregg-jefferies-complicated-mets-failure-looks-different-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">told the New York Post<\/a> that they both regretted the incident, which marred the final Mets home game for Gary Carter and Keith Hernandez.<\/p>\n<h2>The Comeback, 2007<\/h2>\n<p>The Mets had won the division handily in 2006, but that didn\u2019t stop Jimmy Rollins from proclaiming publicly, the next January, that the Phillies were \u201cthe team to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that the franchise hadn\u2019t reached the playoffs since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>To Rollins, it was a message his teammates needed to hear. Down seven games to the Mets with 17 to play, the Phillies seemed unlikely to fulfill his prophecy \u2014 until they went 13-4 and the Mets went 5-12. On the season\u2019s final day, the Mets\u2019 game at Shea started earlier than the Phillies\u2019 game at Citizens Bank Park, and because of the out-of-town scoreboard, the fans knew the good news before the players: the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"107\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/marlins\/\">Marlins<\/a> had thrashed the Mets for seven runs in the top of the first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInside the clubhouse, you can hear something happening outside,\u201d Rollins said recently on a podcast with Ryan Howard. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have any TVs on, because we had to focus on what we needed to do; we have to go win a ballgame. (But) you could hear the energy, you could hear the crowd just stomping and screaming and yelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies beat the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"122\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/nationals\/\">Nationals<\/a> to complete their comeback, Rollins was named NL Most Valuable Player, and a year later \u2014 after another September comeback over the Mets \u2014 the Phillies won the World Series.<\/p>\n<h2>The Unassisted Triple Play, 2009<\/h2>\n<p>Not satisfied with just one extremely rare feat \u2014 a perfect game \u2014 this rivalry served up another: an unassisted triple play, the most recent of the 15 in major-league history. The Phillies\u2019 Eric Bruntlett turned this one, with two on and two out in the ninth, to seal a 9-7 victory at Citi Field. Bruntlett, the second baseman, was breaking to cover the bag when he snared a Jeff Francoeur liner for the first out, stepped on second for another out, and tagged the incoming runner, Daniel Murphy, for the third. It was the first game-ending triple play in NL history.<\/p>\n<h2>The Captain Returns, 2015<\/h2>\n<p>When the Mets checked into their Philadelphia hotel for a road trip in August 2015, they were greeted by their team captain, in uniform, serving them cookies on a platter.<\/p>\n<p>David Wright had missed more than four months with the spinal injury that would shorten his career, and he\u2019d fought hard to join in on the fun. \u201cThis team seems to be on a mission,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/25\/sports\/baseball\/mets-captain-david-wright-returns-and-has-a-blast.html\">observed Wright<\/a>, who belted a homer in his first at-bat the next night at Citizens Bank Park in a 16-7 thrashing of the Phillies. The Mets kept on surging to a pennant, and Wright again punctuated the moment, slugging the first-ever World Series homer at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<h2>The Slow Trot, 2019<\/h2>\n<p>In the first five seasons that Statcast tracked the speed of home run trots, the longest trip around the bases came from <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"oo0aBA1OVAg0wJ9j\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/rhys-hoskins-oo0aBA1OVAg0wJ9j\/\">Rhys Hoskins<\/a>, then with the Phillies, at Citi Field in 2019. Hoskins \u2014 who now plays for the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"108\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/brewers\/\">Brewers<\/a> team the Mets just beat \u2014 had been brushed back twice the night before by Mets reliever Jacob Rhame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed the moment,\u201d Hoskins said later, and the clock showed that he enjoyed it for 34.23 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a record anymore; the <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"111\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/yankees\/\">Yankees\u2019<\/a> <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"NxTzrhe2HdUzjr6T\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/juan-soto-NxTzrhe2HdUzjr6T\/\">Juan Soto<\/a> took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/rays-yankees-players-trade-slow-home-run-trots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">37.7-second stroll<\/a> on a homer against <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"119\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/team\/rays\/\">Tampa Bay<\/a> this June, mocking the Rays\u2019 <a class=\"ath_autolink\" data-id=\"ady6T5d05lwfug9o\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/mlb\/player\/jose-siri-ady6T5d05lwfug9o\/\">Jose Siri<\/a> for his own slow trot. But expect fans of the winning team in this NLDS to do their own Hoskins impression: they\u2019ll savor the humiliation of the other side.<\/p>\n<h2>Bonus: The Second Spitter, 1987<\/h2>\n<p>OK, so it didn\u2019t <em>really<\/em> happen. Given the enduring popularity of \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d more people have surely seen the aftermath of a fictitious Mets\/Phillies game than any actual Mets\/Phillies game. That\u2019s right, in the \u201cSeinfeld\u201d canon, the famous \u201cNice game, pretty boy\u201d incident \u2014 involving Kramer, Newman, Keith Hernandez and Roger McDowell, from \u201cThe Boyfriend\u201d in Season 3 \u2014 followed a game between the Mets and the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>(Top photo of the September 1989 brawl between the Phillies\u2019 Roger McDowell and Mets\u2019 Gregg Jefferies: AP Photo\/Susan Ragan)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5817453\/2024\/10\/04\/mets-phillies-rivalry-memorable-moments\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first batter in the history of the New York Mets was much better known as a Philadelphia Phillie. 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