Mets Game Highlights (2024)

FAQs

Have the Mets ever thrown a perfect game? ›

No perfect games, a special subcategory of no-hitter, have been thrown in Mets history. As defined by Major League Baseball, "in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game."

The New York Mets put up their most runs in a game versus the Phillies on August 16, 2018, with 24 runs.

The Mets also qualified for the postseason as the National League Wild Card team in 1999, 2000, and 2016. The Mets have appeared in more World Series—five—than any other expansion team in Major League Baseball history.

The Mets have won two World Series championships (1969 and 1986) and five National League (NL) pennants. The Mets trace their roots to the proposed Continental League, whose formation was announced in 1959 by New York attorney Bill Shea; a New York-based team was to be a charter member of the league.

After six more years in which their best league finish was ninth, the Mets won the World Series in 1969, defeating the Baltimore Orioles in five games to earn what is widely considered one of the biggest upsets in baseball history.

In 1962, when the National League added a franchise to replace the departed Giants and Dodgers, the owners and the fans of New York selected "Mets" as the nickname for the new club, in part to suggest continuity with the Metropolitans; its original formal name was the "New York Metropolitan Baseball Club." These 20th- ...

Living Large in Manhattan

Over the years, many New York Mets players and personnel have lived at Sterling Plaza, a residential building developed at 255 East 49th Street in Turtle Bay by Wilpon's company in 1986.

The Yankees were New York City's only Major League Baseball team until 1962, when the expansion Mets joined the National League.

What was the nickname of the 1986 Mets? ›

The Mets Machine – A reference to the 1969 Mets. The Magical Mystery Mets – A reference to the 1969 Mets. The Bad Guys – A reference to the 1986 Mets, who were known for their high level of performance, hard-living lifestyles, and conflicts with each other and other teams on and off the field.

Mets owner and hedge fund manager Steve Cohen is a minority investor in Range through his Point72 Ventures fund. A+E Networks, John Malone's Liberty Global, and private equity billionaire David Bonderman of TPG are also investors.

Exercise experts measure activity in metabolic equivalents, or METs.

Halladay a perfect addition to Phillies history

Roy Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in major league history on May 29, 2010.

Ryan also pitched 18 two-hitters. Despite this, he never pitched a perfect game, nor did he ever win a Cy Young Award; both were largely attributed to his high walk rate. Ryan is one of only 31 players in baseball history to have appeared in MLB games in four different decades.

Throughout the 60-year history of the franchise, the Mets have won two World Series championships in total.

Faut is the only professional baseball player, male or female, to have pitched two perfect games. In Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), the first perfect game was thrown by Hideo Fujimoto of the Giants on June 28, 1950, against the Nishi Nippon Pirates.