{"id":1201,"date":"2009-05-20T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2013-12-07T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T15:10:39","slug":"almost-as-strange-as-batting-him-6th-but-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Almost as Strange as Batting Him 6th, but Not Quite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t notice this until his last turn at bat, but\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/martinez-ramon\">Ramon Martinez<\/a>\u00a0yesterday was wearing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/6\">No. 6<\/a>, and not the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/26\">No. 26<\/a>\u00a0he wore in his hasty &#8217;09 debut on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88\" alt=\"6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/6.gif\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>I remember thinking that the 26 jersey looked baggy on him, so that may be one reason, but interesting all the same since it&#8217;s yet another issuance of No. 6 &#8212; the most frequently dealt in Mets history now with\u00a0<strong>38 different players<\/strong>. I&#8217;m convinced No. 6 is one of those jerseys they carry around on the road for just this situation.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately went to write this up on the site when I saw it &#8212; noting then that a few visitors had already pointed it out &#8212; when Martinez hit into a double play that ruined my mood and made me want to murder\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/manuel-jerry\">Jerry Manuel<\/a>\u00a0for having not pulled one of those sudden late-inning pinch-hit calls he&#8217;s becoming famous for screwing up.<\/p>\n<p>Really, Jerry. And batting him sixth?<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, that now makes three numbers already for Martinez (<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/22\">22<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/nmumber\/26\">26<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/6\">6<\/a>). I can&#8217;t remember off-hand which was the last Met to switch numbers in his second game (and the database is a few jigowatts short of querying for that fact) but it&#8217;s happened before several times.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hall-tom\">Tom Hall<\/a>\u00a0in<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/year\/1975\">1975\u00a0<\/a>in debuted in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/42\">42<\/a>\u00a0and had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/19\">19<\/a>\u00a0the next night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t notice this until his last turn at bat, but\u00a0Ramon Martinez\u00a0yesterday was wearing\u00a0No. 6, and not the\u00a0No. 26\u00a0he wore in his hasty &#8217;09 debut on Monday. I remember thinking that the 26 jersey looked baggy on him, so that may be one reason, but interesting all the same since it&#8217;s yet another issuance of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almost as Strange as Batting Him 6th, but Not Quite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227,392],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jerry-manuel","tag-ramon-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}