This is so cool. I told y’all the other day about Mets Walk-Offs.
This piece is too cool to not share with the world.
Thanks to the help of David Smith of Retrosheet, I can tell you that it was the 8th “Caught-Off” win in Mets history. A Caught-Off is hereby defined as a Mets win that ends with a runner caught stealing. Here’s his list of dates, and a few details…
07-06-1968 NYN at PHI CS2(26)
I’m not sure why Phillies slugger Dick Allen was trying to steal second base with his team down 11-6 with two outs in the 9th, but Jerry Grote threw him out for a rather odd ending to a game in which the Mets managed their biggest offensive output of the season. Second baseman Phil Linz was the offensive star, raising his batting average from .188 to .231 with a 5-hit game.
Now it wouldn’t be cool to share the entire list here, but don’t you want to know? More importantly, how the heck does Walkoffs figure this stuff out? He always gets back to me quickly too! He must be HAL 9000 or something. Go give them some hits and get the rest of the list.
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