Ultimate Mets Database: Game of June 15, 2002

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June 14, 2002
Yankees 4, Mets 2 2002 Regular Season Game 67
June 15, 2002
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Mets 3, Yankees 2

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JUNE 15, 2002 GAME:

Joanna Semsey
January 28, 2003
This was a great game. Even though Shawn Estes didn't actually hit Clemens with a pitch, he hit him harder with the home run he hit off him. Then even Mike Piazza got in on the fun and hit one off Clemens.

a mets fan
January 5, 2004
Boy this was a great game. Finally the little guys from Queens beat the Bronx Booers. Estes shows Clemens that this is payback time while Piazza also kills a pitch, and it was a day when Mets fans and players could have sang the Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It!"

Lee
July 2, 2004
This was the afternoon of revenge. Roger Clemens was coming back to Shea and Estes hit a homer off him and, of course, so did Piazza and the Mets won 8-0.

Lee
April 29, 2005
In my entry last summer I neglected to mention many important things about this game. First of all, it was the craziest crowd I've ever been with (and I've been to an Eagles game) and everyone was talking about one thing: retaliation. Did Estes have the guts to throw at Clemens?

In the third inning, our question was answered as Estes threw behind the back of Clemens. The response to it was a chorus of boos from both Mets and Yankees fans and the fans got so insane that things started to happen.

After Estes hit the homer off Clemens and we all laughed at him, a fan holding a Bud fell out of the Loge level and landed on the screen. He then proceeded to stand on it and wave to the fans before climbing back up into his seats. Then Piazza hit a bomb off Clemens, as we all knew he would and we knew the Mets were gonna win this game.

In the eighth, however, a fan ran onto the field and ran all the way to Bernie Williams in center before he was tackled by security. If I could go to the game one more time I'd do it.

TJ
October 27, 2008
Awesome game. This was my friend Jay's first Mets game, and this turned him into a Mets fan to this day. I love getting a random ticket and it turning out to be a great game. You had Clemens, Yankees, and all of the hoopla. Estes didn't REALLY hit him, but he did hit a homer, and magically Clemens came out with a leg injury... cough cough. Great game all the way!

Nick
April 23, 2012
Best Mets-Yankees game I have seen to date. I was watching the game on Fox on my new tv. Piazza hit a home run and Estes hit one off the evil Clemens. 8-0. Too bad all Mets-Yankees games can't be like that.

Mr. Met
September 9, 2020
Besides the Estes home run what sticks out in my mind was Frank Sinatra Jr. singing the national anthem.

NYB Buff
August 6, 2023
This game started out as the Mets' chance for revenge of Roger Clemens after his broken bat toss at Mike Piazza in the World Series two years earlier. Without the DH in effect, the plan was to throw a pitch at Clemens' head when he came up to bat. Shawn Estes didn't quite do that, but he provided a better payback with eleven strikeouts and a home run of his own against Clemens. Piazza also homered off old Roger to help the Mets' cause even more in their blowout victory. Mission accomplished.

Even with so much focus on getting even with Clemens, the real hero of the day was Rey Ordonez. On Estes's sacrifice bunt, Ordonez moved from second to third base and then scored on the play when he saw nobody covering home. Rey also hit a bases-loaded triple in the bottom of the eighth inning to drive home the Mets' last three runs. It was the first of two triples he would have during the year.

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