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New York Mets traded Chris DeWitt to the Chicago Cubs for Matt Franco on April 8, 1996.

Cleveland Indians claimed Jason Anderson of the New York Mets on waivers on April 8, 2004.

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Cubs Top Mets in 2 Games; Brock HR Hits Bleachers
New York Daily News, June 18, 1962
On the surface, it looks like just another pair of losses for the 1962 Mets, but one of these games has become the stuff of Mets lore: It's when Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit a triple but was called out for failing to touch first base.
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Raul Gonzalez
Born: December 27, 1973
at Santurce, P.R.
Gonzalez
Years with Mets: 2002, 2003

137 games. 5 hr, 32 rbi, 0.238
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Mets vs. San Diego Padres
1988 Game Results
05/16 Mets 7, Padres 4 Gooden (W, 7-0)
05/17 Mets 1, Padres 0 Cone (W, 5-0)
05/18 Mets 5, Padres 2 Ojeda (W, 4-2)
05/19 Mets 9, Padres 4 Darling (W, 4-3)
05/27 Padres 2, Mets 0 Fernandez (L, 2-4)
05/28 Mets 5, Padres 1 Cone (W, 7-0)
05/29 Padres 6, Mets 3 Ojeda (L, 4-4)
08/19 Padres 3, Mets 2 Myers (L, 5-3)
08/21 Padres 1, Mets 0 Darling (L, 12-9)
08/29 Mets 6, Padres 0 Cone (W, 14-3)
08/30 Mets 1, Padres 0 Ojeda (W, 9-12)
08/31 Padres 6, Mets 3 Leach (L, 6-2)
1988 totals: 7 wins, 5 losses



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