Ultimate Mets Database: Game of July 10, 1999

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July 9, 1999
Mets 5, Yankees 2 1999 Regular Season Game 88
July 10, 1999
Mets 9, Yankees 8 Next Game:
July 11, 1999
Yankees 6, Mets 3

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National League Standings, July 10, 1999

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JULY 10, 1999 GAME:

MetMan
July 1, 2003
By far the best Met-Yankee game in the history of these teams playing each other. Yanks bombed away with 6 HR's: 2 by Posada, 2 by O'Neill. Knoblauch hit one and someone else for them. The big blow of the game came to Mike Piazza, with the Mets down 6-4 Mike Piazza hit a 3-run, 482-foot HR off Ramiro Mendoza to give the Mets the lead, but Posada hit his 2nd of the game to make it 8-7 Yanks. Then Matt Franco, "Now Rivera brings the hands together, the 0-2 to Franco, and a line drive base hit into right field, Henderson scores, here comes Alfonzo... here comes O'Neill's throw to the plate... he slides, the Mets win the ball game."

Lee
June 23, 2004
The greatest Met-Yankee game up to this point (Game 1 of the World Series may have been ever better). I had to go shopping for stuff on this day and I taped it so, that night, I popped in the tape. The Yankees hit 6 home runs 2 by Posada, 2 by O'Neill, one by Ledee, and one by someone else. However, the Mets were down 6-4 when Mike Piazza stepped up and it hit one of the longest home runs I've ever seen hit at Shea, a 3- run, 482 foot bomb off Ramiro Mendoza that gave the Mets a 7-6 lead. That was a great homer to watch because, when Piazza hit the ball, he just flung the bat forward and trotted towards first because he knew it was gone and it landed in the picnic area and then Matt Franco steps up while the Yankees have an 8-7 lead and lines one into right, Henderson scores, a great throw by Paul O'Neill to try to nail Alfonzo but Alfonzo makes an incredible slide and is safe and the Mets win!

Jim from Connecticut
October 6, 2006
I went to this game with my brother in law who is a die hard Yankee fan. The thing I remember most about this game aside from Alfonzo's 2B in the 9th, Franco's game winning hit, Alfonzo sliding home with the winning run, Piazza's mammoth bomb, was the tension in the stands as both teams were fighting this one out back and forth. I can't ever recall being so tense in the stands hearing all the Yankee BS and hoping the Mets could hang on and win. I recall that Matt Franco took a really, really close pitch with 2 strikes right before his game winning hit in the 9th. Man this was one hell of a game. After the game I dragged my brother in law to JFK airport to watch the British Airways Concorde land on runway 22L.

D.C.
May 30, 2014
My favorite Subway Series game to date for so many reasons.

I still think that ball Piazza hit off Mendoza is in orbit.

Vinson Massif
May 10, 2023
What a great moment of triumph! Matt Franco singled with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning to drive home the tying and winning runs against the hated Yankees. It was one of the biggest thrills I've ever had in my life.

The joy of this game was far greater than the result of another from later in the day. In one of the top sports stories of the year, the United States defeated China in the Women's World Cup soccer final. That boring match was scoreless and had to be decided by a bunch of penalty kicks. The shootout is not the right way to determine the outcome of any game (the NHL should get rid of its own.) Franco's clutch hit gave the Mets an exciting victory with real baseball being played.

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