Let's take a quick trip back to 7 pm on the 23rd of June, 2010. When Jason and I met just outside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, the Mets were a surprising 10 games over .500 and sniffing first place. Even though the 2010 squad seemed patched together with the tin man Jason Bay in left field and the scarecrow "Frenchy" Francoeur starting in right, along with "Send Me An Angel" Pagan manning center for good measure, this patched up Mets roster somehow started winning, helped along by their phenom at first base.

Ike was the first real hot prospect that seemed capable of delivering since David Wright in 2004. After Wright, all the Mets got from their draft picks was heartache for the most part; I'm referring to #1 picks Lasting Milledge and Mike Pelfrey in particular. Besides those two, I made a list of the Mets prospects who debuted from 2005 to 2009, and it also includes Mike Jacobs in '05, John Maine (not a homegrown Met but still a prospect) in 2006, Joe Smith in '07, and Daniel Murphy in '08.

Needless to say, by 2010, Jason and I (and all Mets fans) had been starved of bonafide prospects for going on six years. So when Ike Davis came up in April, he was like the second coming of John Olerud.

When I bought the tickets to this game, I couldn't wait to see him in person. There was a guy with a sign at this game that said I LIKE IKE and I nudged Jason and said, "I like Ike," and he said, "I like Ike." Everyone liked Ike in June 2010. It was almost like Woodstock at Citibank Field that night.

Jason and I sat along the right field line somewhere in the middle (I still have no idea how Citibank field is oriented) and talked about Ike Davis a lot. Besides watching him play first like two old scouts, we looked at his stats at the start of the game (57 games, 209 AB, 56 hits, 8 HRs, 29 RBI, and a .268 BA) and then tried to calculate what kind of streak Ike would need to go on to reach a .400 batting average. We actually tried to do the math in our heads (no smartphones in 2010, only flip phones) for about three innings while RA Dickey was tossing a gem right before our eyes.

By the 7th inning or so, Jason and I had stopped talking about Ike Davis and were talking about how good Dickey was pitching and how the Mets got him for nothing, and how he was going to be 6-0 for the year.

I was surprised that Jerry Manuel brought in a reliever (the guy we gave up Mike Trout for) to pitch the 9th, as it seemed Dickey had a shutout in the bag. He was dealing that night.

Ike went 2-4 in this game, so in order to reach .400, we decided he would have needed to get at least two hits in his next 100 games or so. I just did the math 12 years later, and at that clip, Ike would have ended 2010 with 265 hits and a .420 batting average.

After this win, the Mets were 41-30 and .5 games out of first. As it was, they never did reach first place (after May) in 2010, and after going 18-8 in June, they went 9-17 in July followed by two more losing months. Therefore, this game was basically the high point of the season.