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1995 Regular Season Game 15
May 12, 1995
Expos 9, Mets 6
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Dave VW
May 1, 2023
Jason Jacome and Jeff Fassero match up against each other for the second time in 10 days and this game ends the exact same way as the first -- with the Expos winning, 9-6. Jacome was holding his own through 5 innings, allowing 2 runs on just 3 hits, but Montreal was hitting the ball hard against him and it felt like just a matter of time before the wheels fell off. Sure enough, Jacome got rocked in the 6th, allowing doubles to Sean Berry, Wil Cordero and Moises Alou before Mark Lansing hit a 3-run homer to finally chase Jacome and give Montreal a 7-3 lead. Jacome had Lansing 0-2 but threw a meatball on pitch #3 that Lansing creamed over the left field wall. Ultra scrub Kevin Lomon gave up a run each in the 7th and 8th -- a shame because the Mets wound up plating 3 more runs, so the score would have been much closer if Lomon had held Montreal scoreless.

The Expos tied a season high with 8 extra-base hits as manager Felipe Alou celebrated his 60th birthday. They also had 8 in their previous game, a 13-1 win at Philadelphia. Safe to say, they were hitting the ball pretty well around this time of the season.

For the Mets, Bobby Bo had his second to last 2-homer game as a member of the team. Oddly enough, the Mets went 4-6 in the 10 games Bonilla hit 2 homers in a game for them. The Mets had a ton of other chances to score but stranded runners on base all game long, including in the 7th when Jose Vizcaino led off by reaching on an error and Jeff Kent singled, but then Jeff Shaw relieved Fassero and went on to strike out Bonilla, Rico Brogna (pinch-hitting for Edgardo Alfonzo) and David Segui to end the threat. The Mets also hit 3 straight singles to begin the 8th, but then Tim Scott came in for Montreal and got Ricky Otero, Vizcaino and Kent all to ground out to limit the damage. Otero's groundout scored a run, accounting for the only RBI he ever collected in 35 games as a Met. Kent's out left him 0-for-20 with runners in scoring position to start the season, and he slammed his helmet to the ground after getting called out in obvious disgust with himself. Also, Brook Fordyce hit a double in his last at-bat for the Mets; he'd be waived when rosters were cut down a few days later and would get claimed by the Indians.

I know it seems like I complain a lot about McCarver and Kiner, but in retrospect I can't help but notice how annoying they were when calling a game. When the broadcast posed that night's trivia question (Who is the only player to have played for the Mets, Astros, Angels and Rangers?), McCarver selfishly blurted out the answer in 20 seconds, as if the question was only for him and not the audience. Hey jerk, give the people at home a chance to think about it before giving out the answer! If you didn't know, the answer is Nolan Ryan. Kiner than asked "Do you think he has a chance of making the Hall of Fame?" I was like, are you serious? But then again, Kiner may have been kidding. Sometimes you weren't sure where his ignorance ended and his joking began.



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