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Shea Memories – May 19, 2001
August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
This one’s going to be a quickie because, frankly, there’s not much to say about this one. In fact, I forgot I even went to this game until I perused the game logs for 2001 and the painful memory was jogged.
Anyway, this was just another painful game in the middle of what was turning out to be a pretty painful season. It was Kevin Appier toeing the rubber for the Mets against the Dodgers, and he didn’t have his best stuff. The hitting star for the Dodgers would be Sean Green – at a time when he was still a good major league baseball player, obviously. Green homered in the fourth to get the scoring started, and wound up with four RBI on the day. A four run seventh put the game away, and we got to enjoy yet another Mets defeat as they dipped to ten games below .500.
Sadly this stinker wound up being the last game I would ever attend at Shea as a resident of New York.
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One of Green’s last great years. He’d hit 49 HRs in 2001 and 42 the next year. Then a shoulder injury sapped his power and he was never the same hitter again.