Ultimate Mets Database: Game of June 26, 1998

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June 25, 1998
Mets 3, Orioles 2 1998 Regular Season Game 75
June 26, 1998
Yankees 8, Mets 4 Next Game:
June 27, 1998
Yankees 7, Mets 2

National League Standings, June 26, 1998

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JUNE 26, 1998 GAME:
Mets2Moon
April 28, 2004
Mel's Massacre.
The First ever Mets/Yankees game at Shea brought, shockingly, a sellout crowd (me in attendance), and saw Irabu and Leiter duke it out. Yanks scored their runs by running on CF McRae and his awful throwing arm. They must have scored 3 runs on singles with runners on second.
Rey Ordonez made an amazing grab of a Chad Curtis liner in the 2nd with the bases loaded and nearly turned it into a triple play. Posada just barely beat the relay to 1st.
Alfonzo and McRae homered off Hideki in the 5th, and the Mets led 4-3 into the 7th.
Then it happened.
Jeter dragged a bunt to the right side with a man on. Leiter, as best he could, pounced off the mound and got it, fell awkwardly, and couldn't get the throw off.
Leiter ended up injuring his knee and had to come out of the game (and on the DL with a strained patella tendon).
In comes the great, amazing Mel Rojas to pitch to O'Neill.
We all know what happened next.
1st pitch - BOOM. 6-4 Yanks.
Goodnight.

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