{"id":1379,"date":"2010-04-08T00:33:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2013-12-11T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:35:14","slug":"sons-of-bruce-boisclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Sons of Bruce Boisclair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Invaluable longtime MBTN contributor Jason E. this morning noted that in making his (losing) Mets debut last night,\u00a0Hisanori Takahashi<\/a>\u00a0became the 30th Met in team history to have made his debut in an extra inning game. Here’s his list, arranged by year and inning, ending of course with the immortal\u00a0Bruce Boisclair<\/a>\u00a0whose debut appearance came during the 23rd inning of a marathon played between the Mets and Cardinals on Sept. 11, 1974 (Bruce pinch ran for Duffy Dyer in a game the Mets would lose 4-3 in the 25th inning as a result of a bad pickoff throw by\u00a0Jerry Cram<\/span>Hank Webb).<\/p>\n

I like that this list includes a mix of younguns making their first arrivals on the way to a long career (Rick Aguilera<\/a>,\u00a0Edgardo Alfonzo<\/a>) and guys I’d already forgotten were ever Mets\u00a0(Ben Johnson<\/a>). It knocked loose memories of that exciting trade deadline when Steve Phillips went out and traded for a half-dozen relievers (including\u00a0Billy Taylor<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chuck McElroy<\/a>) and when\u00a0Jorge Julio<\/a>\u00a0was more trusted than\u00a0Chad Bradford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What memories does this stir in you? (And take it away, Jason):<\/p>\n

10TH INNING DEBUTS (12):
\n9\/20\/70- Dean Chance
\n9\/13\/74- Rich Puig
\n6\/11\/80- Claudell Washington
\n4\/11\/85- Terry Blocker
\n6\/12\/85- Rick Aguilera
\n4\/26\/95- Edgardo Alfonzo
\n4\/26\/95- Blas Minor
\n8\/1\/99- Billy Taylor
\n4\/5\/06- Jorge Julio
\n4\/5\/06- Chad Bradford
\n5\/29\/07- Ben Johnson
\n4\/7\/10- Hisanori Takahashi<\/p>\n

11TH INNING DEBUTS (8):
\n4\/14\/65- Dan Napoleon
\n9\/1\/70- Ron Herbel
\n5\/20\/78- Kevin Kobel
\n6\/1\/79-Ed Glynn
\n4\/11\/85- Roger McDowell
\n4\/26\/95- Ricky Otero
\n4\/29\/95- Dave Mlicki
\n8\/1\/99- Chuck McElroy<\/p>\n

12TH INNING DEBUTS (5):
\n7\/24\/62- Bob G. Miller
\n4\/23\/72- Jim Beauchamp
\n9\/12\/81- Brian Giles
\n6\/27\/89- Phil Lombardi
\n3\/31\/98- Jim Tatum<\/p>\n

13TH INNING DEBUT (1):
\n9\/10\/70- Leroy Stanton<\/p>\n

14TH INNING DEBUT (1):
\n9\/6\/87- Gregg Jefferies<\/p>\n

15TH INNING DEBUT (1):
\n4\/7\/97- Joe Crawford<\/p>\n

16TH INNING DEBUT (0):
\n(NONE)<\/p>\n

17TH INNING DEBUT (1):
\n9\/29\/93- Kenny Greer<\/p>\n

18TH INNING DEBUT (0):
\n(NONE)<\/p>\n

19TH INNING DEBUT (0):
\n(NONE)<\/p>\n

20TH INNING DEBUT (0):
\n(NONE)<\/p>\n

21ST INNING DEBUT (0):
\n(NONE)<\/p>\n

22ND INNING DEBUT (0):
\n(NONE)<\/p>\n

23RD INNING DEBUT (1):
\n9\/11\/74- Bruce Boisclair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Invaluable longtime MBTN contributor Jason E. this morning noted that in making his (losing) Mets debut last night,\u00a0Hisanori Takahashi\u00a0became the 30th Met in team history to have made his debut in an extra inning game. Here’s his list, arranged by year and inning, ending of course with the immortal\u00a0Bruce Boisclair\u00a0whose debut appearance came during the … Continue reading “Sons of Bruce Boisclair”<\/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":[481],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-boisclair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}