METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF GAMES FROM THE 2016 SEASON
April 5, 2016 Kauffman Stadium
Mets 2, Kansas City Royals 0
Edgy DC
April 6, 2016
I remember this game. Noah Syndergaard gave up a leadoff triple,
and then struck out the side.
All the talk beforehand was about payback, but the game was
decided with baseball, not violencia.
Neil Walker hit his first Met homer while the guys in the booth were
busy talking to Commissioner Rob Manfred, and that was all the
scoring there was. Three Met relievers gave the mighty
Syndergaard three perfect innings of relief, and the Mets get out of
town with a split against the World Champs.
April 29, 2016 Citi Field
Mets 13, San Francisco Giants 1
Sidney Swan
October 9, 2017
What a great bottom of the third inning! The Mets
scored twelve runs to set a new team record and
whipped the Giants. Yoenis Cespedes provided half
the scoring with a two-run single and a grand
slam as the Mets collected eight hits and sent a
total of fifteen batters to the plate. I tuned in
to the whole thing and didn’t want to see it end.
The Big H
April 22, 2020
In the third inning the Mets score 12 runs in one turn at bat for the first time in about 73,000 innings! Cespedis crushed a grand slam to cap it off.
May 7, 2016 PETCO Park
Mets 6, San Diego Padres 3
Metmax
July 27, 2017
Bartolo Colon connects for his first major league home run at age forty-two! When he got back to the dugout, the other Mets players hid in the tunnel before charging out to greet him. Colon wouldn't have had to wait this long to hit one out if he hadn’t pitched so many years in the American League. The designated hitter just doesn’t allow moments like this.
May 11, 2016 Dodger Stadium
Mets 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
NYB Buff
June 23, 2016
There are a few interesting connections in regard to Syndergaard’s
slugging in this game. One of them in that Noah – just as his
namesake from the Bible did with each of the animals – provided
two of them. Another is that the round-trippers came right on the
birthday of Walt Terrell, who was the only previous Mets pitcher to
hit two home runs in a game. Furthermore, both Terrell’s and
Syndergaard’s homers drove in all four runs the Mets scored in a
victory on the road. History played a key role in several ways on this
night.
May 21, 2016 Citi Field
Mets 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Dave
May 11, 2021
This would turn out to be David Wrights last walk off hit!
May 30, 2016 Citi Field
Mets 1, Chicago White Sox 0
Ryan James Dwyer
May 7, 2021
Went with my dad. He went to the bathroom and missed the home run. Looking back on that lineup, ouch who are those guys, oh yeah now I remember. It felt like a very quick game, everyone was in a good mood.
June 19, 2016 Citi Field
Atlanta Braves 6, Mets 0
Jim Snedeker
March 21, 2019
My dad and I were at this game. It was pretty boring. Still, it was fun to see a one-hitter, all things considered.
July 8, 2016 Citi Field
Washington Nationals 3, Mets 1
Isaac
December 28, 2017
This game was such a disappointment. Not only did
the Mets lose and score only one run, on a dinger
by Cabrera, but both Syndergaard and Cespedes got
injured, which meant both of them had to miss the
all-star game.
July 17, 2016 Citizens Bank Park
Mets 5, Philadelphia Phillies 0
NYB Buff
July 27, 2017
Jacob deGrom faced only 28 batters and turned in a complete one-hit shutout in this game. The Phillies’ lone hit was a third-inning single by deGrom's mound opponent, Zach Eflin. The one-hitter was the 39th in Mets history, 30th of which was a complete game for the starter. It was also the fifth of these thirty-nine games that had a pitcher getting the only hit.
July 30, 2016 Citi Field
Colorado Rockies 7, Mets 2
Mike O
May 18, 2020
This was the game Mike Piazza's #31 was being retired. It was a rainy day, the Mets had recently been playing like garbage, and yet Citi Field managed to be about three-quarters full, a little more than a normal game. Mike made a very nice speech, they revealed his number up on the roof, and he rode around in a bullpen car afterward.
As soon as the festivities ended, Citi started to thin out, because nobody wanted to see this struggling mess of current Mets. I stayed for a while, but the Rockies' bats were relentless and it was clear there was no reason to be there. Left in the fifth or sixth, but at least the tickets were cheap. Not every day you see a number retirement.
August 20, 2016 Pacific Bell Park
Mets 9, San Francisco Giants 5
Ed K
September 6, 2016
This may have been the turn around game of the season.
Before this game, the Mets were 6-12 in August and dipped
under .500 for the season. But starting this game they won 9
of 11 to eke out a winning month and set up their playing
meaningful games in September.
August 27, 2016 Citi Field
Mets 12, Philadelphia Phillies 1
NYB Buff
September 2, 2016
The Mets hit for a Home Run Cycle (solo, two-run, three-run and
grand slam) in a game for the fourth time in team history. The three
previous ones came in 1985, 1999 and 2012.
August 29, 2016 Citi Field
Mets 2, Miami Marlins 1
Ed K
January 2, 2020
A big come-from-behind win in the Mets drive for the 2nd wild card spot. Cespy’s walk-off homer won it.
September 17, 2016 Citi Field
Mets 3, Minnesota Twins 2
NYB Buff
January 30, 2024
On the 30th anniversary of the 1986 division clincher, the Mets came up with an exciting extra-inning win over Minnesota. To begin the top of the eleventh, Byron Buxton slugged a homer to put the Twins ahead by a run. Curtis Granderson responded with a leadoff home run in the bottom half that retied the game. With two outs in the twelfth, Granderson homered again for a New York victory. The win lifted the Mets into a tie with the Giants at the top of the National League Wild Card race.
September 22, 2016 Citi Field
Mets 9, Philadelphia Phillies 8
John F.
September 27, 2016
What a game this was. After Maikel Franco hit what
appeared to be a devastating three-run jack off
Addison Reed, the ghosts of the 2007 and 2008
collapses grew, but then Reyes tied in the 9th off
a struggling Jeanmar Gomez, whose ERA was over 10
in September. The Phillies scored twice in the
11th, including one on a bases-loaded walk. Then,
in the bottom of the 11th, Conforto and Reyes both
walked, then Asdrubal Cabrera hit a walk off
three-run homer with an emphatic bat-flip. People
said this was a game that if the Mets made the
playoffs, would be a season-saver.
Mets fans should ring a bell from the 1998 pennant
race in the game Mike Piazza hit the two-out, two-
strike HR off Billy Wagner in Houston
Markyt38
September 29, 2016
WOW UNREAL! I attended this game last week. Almost
left! Was at the top step in Centerfield, by the
Shake Shack going into the bottom of the 11th, when
I decided to stay! Jose, Asdrubal, come up big!
Gharian
August 16, 2021
I'll never forget this game. The only walk off I've ever seen in person.
D. Hughes
July 24, 2023
Was at this game but left in the 9th at the behest of my late grandfather. We were at the Hess in Howard Beach when the Phillies took the lead in the 11th and I remember wanted them to bring Jim Henderson into the game for damage control (which they did). We were driving through the parkland in Broad Channel when Cabrera hit the home run. I didn't even see it until the next day, but just hearing the call on 710 gave me chills. One of the greatest moments of the year.
September 26, 2016 Marlins Park
Miami Marlins 7, Mets 3
Hot Foot
May 3, 2023
This is one of the only games I remember from 2016.
In this one, Dee Strange Gordon hit Bartolo Colon's third pitch of the game to honor his late teammate Jose Fernandez. It was a touching moment. I remember feeling that Jose's playful spirit somehow helped the weak-hitting Strange-Gordon to jack the ball out of the park. Maybe Bartolo helped as well by grooving one.
Even though not a Marlins fan (except when they were playing the Yankees in the World Series), I was affected by Jose's passing more than I thought I would be.
October 1, 2016 Citizens Bank Park
Mets 5, Philadelphia Phillies 3
NYB Buff
October 12, 2016
An overlooked fact about this wild card clincher is that Jeurys
Familia got his 100th career save to end it.
October 5, 2016 Citi Field
2016 National League Wild Card Series Game 1
San Francisco Giants 3, Mets 0
Sidney Swan
July 27, 2017
In a do-or-die situation at Citi Field, Noah Syndergaard and Madison Bumgarner matched zeroes with each other for seven innings. The Giants stuck with Bumgarner the rest of the way while the Mets took out Noah and depended on relief pitching. A three-run homer in the top of the ninth was the result and the Mets were done for the year. This can put a lot of doubt into the minds of people on the real value of a bullpen.
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