Ultimate Mets Database: Game of June 7, 1998

Tim Stahlman
November 15, 2010
This was my first trip to Fenway park. I felt like I stepped through a portal into the past. I remember seeing dripping pipes in the concourse and being amazed by the lack of modern aesthetics in the ball park. I loved it for that very reason. My steak hoagie that I bought was far better than the Mets' bats. They were as rusty as the stains on the bare concrete walls. Mo Vaughn took a ball opposite field over the monster. You could C-it-go. Bad night for the Mets. Nice night for baseball.

Dave VW
December 18, 2023
It's nice you had a good time despite the final outcome and dreary, drizzly weather, Tim.

Second straight game with no Mike Piazza, and a second straight game with hardly any offense for the Mets. The team is quite Jekyl and Hyde depending on his presence in the lineup. They even made Steve Avery, who started the year relegated to bullpen duty as he was clearly washed up at this point in his career, look like a Cy Young candidate, despite not being able to break 85 MPH on the radar gun. I'm also totally over seeing Jim Tatum and Rich Becker continue to eat up roster spots. Benny Agbayani, Jay Payton and Todd Haney were all tearing it up at AAA, so it was clearly time to inject some new blood into this stale roster.

The offense wasn't the only thing to stink on this night, as Masato Yoshii had his worst start as a Met so far. I'm not expecting things to improve from here, either. Though he held a 2.33 ERA over his first 9 starts, he'd then go winless over his next 14, with a 5.03 ERA.

Even the ESPN broadcast team of John Miller and Joe Morgan stunk. During the game, Miller noted how both teams still have players wearing #42 (Butch Huskey and Mo Vaughn), even though the number had been retired throughout baseball to honor Jackie Robinson. He also said that they were the only 2 players still wearing #42, which was WAY WAY off. Later in the game, he sort-of corrected himself by saying Lenny Webster of the Orioles was also still wearing the number, but I was like, I'm pretty sure there's another really noteworthy player still wearing number #42: Mariano Rivera! And by the way, there were still 3 others on top of that: Scott Karl on Milwaukee, Jose Lima on Houston and Michael Jackson on Cleveland. Worldwide leader in sports by butt.

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