This game was the most lopsided shutout loss in Mets history to this point.

The Tigers had more home runs (6) than the Mets had hits (5). Detroit's Bobby Higginson had three home runs...two two-run homers and a three-run homer...plus two walks in five plate appearances. It was the first time Mets pitchers had allowed six home runs in a game since April, 1978. Mark Clark gave up three, Joe Crawford two (both by Higginson), and Takashi Kashiwada allowed one.

Though Bobby Jones had his best season of his career in 1997, earning his only trip to the All-Star Game, he was still prone to getting beat up quite often. After getting annihilated by the Braves his previous start, now Jones gets rocked by the Tigers, surrendering a career-high-tying 4 home runs while allowing 7 runs over 4 innings. It's his 3rd loss in his last 4 starts. This came on the heels of a 14-0 loss to Detroit, as the Tigers blasted 11 home runs over the first 2 games of the series. They said during the Tigers' broadcast that Bobby Higginson had homered in 4 straight at-bats with his 1st inning longball, but that wasn't exactly true, as he had also walked twice in between home runs the previous day. I know walks don't officially count as at-bats, but it wasn't truly 4 straight plate appearances.

It was a laugher up until the 8th inning when the Mets decided they'd finally show up. After looking like chumps over the last 16 innings, they then scored 4 in the 8th and 2 in the 9th, actually bringing the go-ahead run up twice with 2 outs. Carl Everett walked to load the bases, but Bernard Gilkey flew out to RF to end the game. The Mets stranded 10 runners on base, the Tigers just 1. The Tigers also scored all of their runs on homers, making old-time Tiger Stadium look like a little league park.

I keep waiting for this team to look as good as their 45-36 record indicated, but I've yet to really see it.

The Mets ended their only ever trip to the old Tiger Stadium by getting swept. The pitching had their worst series of the season, giving up 31 runs in the 3 games along with 14 homers....as the Mets hit zero. A pretty incredible feat, looking back. A real low point and one of the most forgettable series in Mets history for a team that played really well for the most part that season.

I was at this game and it was great! It was Mike Piazza night and they were celebrating Mike Piazza and all the famous catchers were there like Johnny Bench, Yogi Berra, Carlton Fisk, and, of course, they were playing the Tigers so Lance Parrish was a coach and Pudge Rodriguez is their catcher so they were there too. It was 2-0 Tigers because of a base hit and a home run by Dmitri Young but then it was second and third for Tom Glavine and he got a 2-run base hit. Then it was another Mike who ended it in the bottom of the ninth: Mike Cameron, who drove one into the seats in left and the Mets won.

I was at that game with my dad my uncle and my cousin and it was great throughout the game. Mike Cameron hit the game winning home run and that's when he started to do the Sammy Sosa trot when he hits home runs. Also all the great catchers were there due to Mike Piazza night. It was so cool. Also I caught a foul ball by the Tigers' Omar Infante.

Mike Cameron did it again. Another game-winning hit! Bottom of the 10th, Cameron steps up and hits it into left and it ends like that again.

This was Jose Reyes' first appearance of 2004. He tripled in the 10th but was forced out at home after the Tigers walked the bases loaded. But Mike Cameron saved the day with a walkoff single.

Also Jose Parra's Mets debut, my scorecard says.

6-1 Mets! A clearly smooth game. Hidalgo earned his $12 million with a homer today!

I have one question for my fellow Mets fans. What is Willie Randolph doing lately with this bullpen? Using Mota too much, not using Sele at all, and Schoeneweis should get that severed tendon fixed. There is no reason we should have lost this game today. First time in, it's been so long I can't remember when we scored 7 runs and LOST!!! Bullpen needs to be managed a little bit better. Very disappointing loss, this one is hard to swallow considering what happened last week at Shea against the Phillies.

Terrible loss for the Mets. Got out front early but Glavine never had a chance against these guys. Mets are 2-7 in their last 9 games, hopefully things turn around in LA

My daddy took me to Comerica Park for my 7th birthday, and my first ever big league game. I told him I waited for this my whole life. My dad is a Mets fan from when he was a boy, but his dad got transferred to Michigan. We sat right behind the Mets dugout. In the first, the Mets got a 3- run homer, but the Tigers won 15-7.

This game highlighted the skills of RA Dickey and Jose Reyes as Dickey pitched eight strong knuckley innings and Reyes fell a double short of the cycle on the way to a 5 to nothing victory over the Tigers.

I went to this game with my friend Jason. I had been living in NYC for two weeks and this was my first trip to Citibank Field as a denizen of New York. We were really excited to see the Mets hot new rookie, Ike Davis.

Let's take a quick trip back to 7 pm on the 23rd of June, 2010. When Jason and I met just outside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, the Mets were a surprising 10 games over .500 and sniffing first place. Even though the 2010 squad seemed patched together with the tin man Jason Bay in left field and the scarecrow "Frenchy" Francoeur starting in right, along with "Send Me An Angel" Pagan manning center for good measure, this patched up Mets roster somehow started winning, helped along by their phenom at first base.

Ike was the first real hot prospect that seemed capable of delivering since David Wright in 2004. After Wright, all the Mets got from their draft picks was heartache for the most part; I'm referring to #1 picks Lasting Milledge and Mike Pelfrey in particular. Besides those two, I made a list of the Mets prospects who debuted from 2005 to 2009, and it also includes Mike Jacobs in '05, John Maine (not a homegrown Met but still a prospect) in 2006, Joe Smith in '07, and Daniel Murphy in '08.

Needless to say, by 2010, Jason and I (and all Mets fans) had been starved of bonafide prospects for going on six years. So when Ike Davis came up in April, he was like the second coming of John Olerud.

When I bought the tickets to this game, I couldn't wait to see him in person. There was a guy with a sign at this game that said I LIKE IKE and I nudged Jason and said, "I like Ike," and he said, "I like Ike." Everyone liked Ike in June 2010. It was almost like Woodstock at Citibank Field that night.

Jason and I sat along the right field line somewhere in the middle (I still have no idea how Citibank field is oriented) and talked about Ike Davis a lot. Besides watching him play first like two old scouts, we looked at his stats at the start of the game (57 games, 209 AB, 56 hits, 8 HRs, 29 RBI, and a .268 BA) and then tried to calculate what kind of streak Ike would need to go on to reach a .400 batting average. We actually tried to do the math in our heads (no smartphones in 2010, only flip phones) for about three innings while RA Dickey was tossing a gem right before our eyes.

By the 7th inning or so, Jason and I had stopped talking about Ike Davis and were talking about how good Dickey was pitching and how the Mets got him for nothing, and how he was going to be 6-0 for the year.

I was surprised that Jerry Manuel brought in a reliever (the guy we gave up Mike Trout for) to pitch the 9th, as it seemed Dickey had a shutout in the bag. He was dealing that night.

Ike went 2-4 in this game, so in order to reach .400, we decided he would have needed to get at least two hits in his next 100 games or so. I just did the math 12 years later, and at that clip, Ike would have ended 2010 with 265 hits and a .420 batting average.

After this win, the Mets were 41-30 and .5 games out of first. As it was, they never did reach first place (after May) in 2010, and after going 18-8 in June, they went 9-17 in July followed by two more losing months. Therefore, this game was basically the high point of the season.

The starting pitcher for the Tigers was Armando Gallaraga, the one who lost the perfect game in early June due to the blunderous call of SAFE from umpire Jim Joyce. Armando wasn't perfect this night but he did get the win and in 2011 he will be pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks. By the way, the D-Backs will be visiting Citi Field on Easter weekend (April 22-24,2011).

Jason Bay and Carlos Beltran hit grand slams in consecutive innings of this Mets rout over the Tigers in Detroit. They were the Mets' first bases-loaded homers since Angel Pagan had one against the Diamondbacks nearly two years earlier.

Before this game, I was able to get autographs from pitcher R. A. Dickey and manager Terry Collins. When Jose Reyes came out for warmups, I loudly chanted, “Jose, Jose, Jose, Jose”! He turned around and pointed at me in appreciation. That was so cool! As for the game, Mike Pelfrey struggled mightily. It took him about 90 pitches to get through 3 innings. I give him credit for even getting into the fifth inning at that rate. As for his mound opponent, Justin Verlander, he worked quickly and was only touched up for home runs by Carlos Beltran and Daniel Murphy. If it wasn’t for his efficient performance, they would have never finished the game in under three hours.