{"id":1294,"date":"2009-10-12T17:56:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2013-12-08T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:59:06","slug":"the-3000-hit-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"The 3,000 Hit Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who said the Mets didn\u2019t accomplish something this year?<\/p>\n<p>While fans licked their wounds, Jeff Wilpon slandered other teams\u2019 medical staffs and the writers commissioned sculptures of Derek Jeter, not one but two round-number milestones in Met history were toppled in the same week, and nobody even noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/wright-beltran.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" \/>Congratulations to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/beltran-carlos\">Carlos Beltran<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/wright-david\">David Wright<\/a>. Your acts of tepid batsmanship as the season ground to a forgettable close resulted in the 3,000th all-time Mets hit for each of your respective uniform numbers. And your pursuit of this glory in the season\u2019s final week made for a thrilling down-to-the-wire chase that went similarly unremarked upon.<\/p>\n<p>Beltran reached the magic number Sept. 25 in Florida, when his single off Ricky Nolasco marked the 3,000<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0all-time safety for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/15\">No. 15<\/a>\u00a0jersey. Three nights later in Washington, Wright rapped a double to right field off Ross Detwiler, marking hit No. 3000 for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/5\">No. 5<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>Wright then proceeded to out-hit his teammate 6-to-5 over the final four games, leaving No. 5 ahead of 15 by a single hit, 3,006-3,005.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, who already is the Mets\u2019 all-time leading No. 5, made good strides to tighten the overall race while Beltran was limited to 100 hits and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/reyes-jose\">Jose Reyes<\/a>, representing the leader,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/7\">No. 7<\/a>, added only 41 hits the total in \u201909. Also notable:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\">Luis Castillo<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/1\">No. 1<\/a>\u00a0outhits the combination of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castro-ramon\">Ramon Castro<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/reyes-argenis\">Argenis Reyes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hernandez-anderson\">Anderson Hernandez<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/11\">No. 11<\/a>\u00a0to overtake fourth place.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Top Numbers by Hits, through 2009:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hits\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03,441\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kranepool (1,252)<\/p>\n<p>5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03,006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wright (983)<\/p>\n<p>15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03,005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Grote (994)<\/p>\n<p>1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,743\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wilson (1,112)<\/p>\n<p>11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,739\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Garrett (667)<\/p>\n<p>4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,587\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dykstra (469)<\/p>\n<p>12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,542\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stearns (636)<\/p>\n<p>9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,519\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hundley (590)<\/p>\n<p>17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,509\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hernandez (939)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who said the Mets didn\u2019t accomplish something this year? While fans licked their wounds, Jeff Wilpon slandered other teams\u2019 medical staffs and the writers commissioned sculptures of Derek Jeter, not one but two round-number milestones in Met history were toppled in the same week, and nobody even noticed. Until now. Congratulations to\u00a0Carlos Beltran\u00a0and\u00a0David Wright. Your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 3,000 Hit Club&#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":[170,257],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-david-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}