Ultimate Mets Database: Game of August 11, 1994

Brooklyn 539er
September 4, 2003
I went down to Philly that night thinking that it would be the last game of the year. By the 12th inning everyone in the stadium, both Mets and Phils fans were saying that if the negotiators tried this hard to save the season the strike would've been averted. We were also hoping that if this game went long enough it would be the last game of the year. Turns out a game in Seattle ended about 45 minutes after this one did. This was also the last time I saw Fernando Valenzuela pitch.

Bob P
September 11, 2003
One more bit of trivia about this game...it was the final major league game for Kevin McReynolds, Jeff McKnight, Jim Lindeman, Mauro Gozzo, and Roger Mason. All of those players got into tonight's game for the Mets.

Also, former Mets Daryl Boston (Yanks), Bill Pecota (Braves), and Randy Milligan (Expos) played their final games on this date.

Shickhaus Franks
November 25, 2007
After the game, this is where Bobby Bum told Ch. 7's Art McFarland (I always felt sorry for Art) to "Make His Move". Yet another "feel good" moment in Mets Misery er I mean History.

sportsfan8690
June 16, 2009
This game was the last game before the players turned their backs on the fans and went on strike and wiped out the rest of the season as well as all of the postseason. It was on my 23rd birthday as well. Nice birthday present to go on strike. Since I now live in South Florida, I did go to the Marlins-Cardinals game that night knowing it might be the last of baseball for 1994 and it was.

Also the Mets did finish at 55-58 which to me was not too bad of a record considering how disastrous it was the last year in 1993.

Dave VW
April 7, 2023
The Mets go out with a whimper, able to scratch out just one run against the Phillies in a 15-inning loss. I love reading these comments, everyone had such great anecdotes. I didn't even realize so many Mets were playing in their last games, thanks for sharing Bob. And who can forget Bonilla's epic rant. Couldn't blame Bonilla for being grumpy -- after all, he just played 14 innings in a stinker of a loss (he was lifted in the 15th for Luis Rivera), had a bum shoulder he needed to get surgery on, and Art certainly hit a nerve with the question. But he should have just walked away or kept quiet. That just wasn't the Bobby Bo way.

This was the first time the Mets faced Valenzuela since 1990, and their unfamiliarity sure showed, as he tallied his highest strikeout total (7) in a game since also 1990. Lindeman touched him for his only run, a solo homer in the 4th. The Mets had a couple other chances, like in the 7th when Kent's double put runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out, but Segui popped out and then Ryan Thompson was intentionally walked to bring up Brogna for the lefty/lefty matchup, and he flew out to left to end the inning. They also put 2 runners on base in the 9th and 11th but couldn't get the big hit.

Getting the start in RF, Lindeman helped cut down a runner at the plate in the 2nd, but his misjudge of a line drive in the 5th allowed the Phillies to put runners on 2nd and 3rd with no one out. Jason Jacome, who continued his great pitching since getting called up, induced Billy Hatcher to ground out to 2nd, but that allowed Randy Ready to score for the Phils' only run until the 15th. That's when the Mets intentionally walked the bases loaded, not wanting Mauro Gozzo to face either John Kruk or Lenny Dykstra and instead go after Kim Batiste and Ricky Jordan. Batiste, who developed a bit of a reputation as a Met killer and just missed a game-winning hit that went foul in the 13th, struck out, but Jordan came through with a first-pitch single to end the game and the season for both teams.

Former Met Tom Edens got the win and Gozzo wound up taking the loss in his last ever ML game. I was surprised in such a long game Dallas Green never turned to Jose Vizcaino, Fernando Vina or Jeromy Burnitz, who all stayed on the bench until the very end. Finally, there's Tim Bogar, who ended his awful season going 0-for-7. I looked up to see who the last Met was to go hitless in at least 7 ABs in a game: Todd Frazier, 0-for-7 with 4 strikeouts in a 16-inning loss at San Francisco in 2019.

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