The Giants were allowed to play their home games at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut in 1973 – 74, and at at Shea Stadium ( home of the Mets ) in 1975, due to the renovation of Yankee Stadium.

Since 1997, the term Subway Series has also been applied to interleague play during the regular season between the Yankees and National League New York Mets.

However, this would have required the Yankees to play their home games at Shea Stadium in Queens, the regular home of the New York Mets.

During the fifth inning of game three of the series, Joe Morgan hit a double play ball to Mets first baseman John Milner with Rose on first.

Rose's slide into second attempting to break up the double play incited a fight with Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson, resulting in a bench-clearing brawl.

He became the first player to play for all four MLB original expansion teams: the Mets, Angels, Houston Colt. 45s / Astros and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers.

Since the only legal way to keep the Raiders out of the Coliseum was to get an NHL team to play there, William Shea, who had helped bring the New York Mets to the area a decade earlier, was pressed into service once again.

The infamous first-year Mets club won only a quarter of its games, and Ashburn decided to retire from active play.

120th loss, when Ashburn was one of the three Mets victims in a triple play pulled off by his former teammates, the 9th-place Cubs.

The Kingsport Mets of the Appalachian League, a rookie-level baseball league, play in the city.

The New York Mets and New York Jets both began play at the Polo Grounds, while Shea Stadium in Queens was under construction.

Clemens was widely criticized by Mets fans for the incident, but Clemens maintained that the play was not intentional.

Despite his successes, Buckner is best remembered for a fielding error during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets, a play that since became prominently entrenched into American sports lore.

* April 17 – The New York Mets play their first game at brand-new Shea Stadium and lose 4 – 3 to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Conquistadores de Guaynabo, or Guaynabo Conquistadores, are the Guaynabo Mets replacement and still play in the Mario Morales Coliseum.

The Mets de Guaynabo are the local women's volleyball team that play in the LVSF, or The Liga de Voliebol Superior Femenino.

The Colt. 45s ( renamed the Houston Astros in 1965 ) were to begin play in 1962, along with their expansion brethren New York Mets.

On May 27, 2011, the AA New Britain Rock Cats had a double play against the Binghamton Mets involving seven defenders.

The New York Mets, who began play in 1962, went without a no-hitter until Johan Santana pitched one on the night of June 1, 2012, against the St. Louis Cardinals at home at Citi Field.

The unsettled deal almost caused National Telefilm Associates to reconsider its decision to sell the station altogether, and NTA made plans to go forward: WNTA-TV made a play to acquire broadcast rights for the New York Mets baseball team for its inaugural 1962 season.

The Mets were puzzled by Alomar's mediocre play, which some attributed to his lack of comfort with being under the greater scrutiny of the New York fans and media.

This will happen again in 2012 as the New York Yankees play both the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves for 6 games.

In 2003, Glavine left Atlanta to play for the rival New York Mets, signing a four-year, $ 42. 5 million deal.

In the scene, Oscar Madison was distracted from witnessing the play by an annoying phone call from Felix Ungar ( immediately after sarcastically predicting to fellow sportswriter Heywood Hale Broun that the Mets still had a chance to win if Mazeroski hit into a triple play ).

Once housed at a local high school, Dobyns-Bennett High School, the Kingsport Mets now play their home games at Hunter Wright Stadium.

Hunter Wright is the home field of the Kingsport Mets, an affiliate of the New York Mets, in the Appalachian League.

Afterwards, the Marlins offered Willis to the rival New York Mets for Major-league ready third baseman David Wright but they declined and then opted to keep Willis who represented nearly a third of their 2006 payroll of $ 15 million.

The Mets turnaround was complete in the 2006 season as they won 97 games and the NL East crown behind new acquisitions Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado, as well as young superstars Jose Reyes and David Wright.

Some players, including Mets third baseman David Wright, did decide to use the helmet while batting.

* Wake Forest University's mascot, the Demon Deacon, appears in a commercial featuring David Wright of the New York Mets, wherein Wright, John Anderson, and Neil Everett lampoon the baseball practice of covering the mouth with the glove while speaking on the field so that the opposing team cannot read the speaker's lips — they discuss where they are to meet for a party later that evening while covering their mouths, Wright with his glove, the anchors with folders.

A number of former St. Lucie Mets player are currently on the New York Mets roster including David Wright, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Mike Pelfrey, Lucas Duda, Josh Thole, Josh Satin, and Rubén Tejada.

David Allen Wright ( born December 20, 1982 ) is an American baseball player, who plays third base for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.

After high school, Wright was signed by the New York Mets after being taken 38th overall during the 2001 MLB Draft.

Yet prior to his signing with the Mets, Wright planned to attend Georgia Tech and major in engineering.

Wright was chosen by the Mets in the 2001 amateur draft during the supplemental round as compensation for the Mets ' loss of Mike Hampton to the Colorado Rockies in free agency.

Wright progressed steadily in his first three years of minor league play, winning the Sterling award for best player on the class A St. Lucie Mets in 2003.

Since then, Wright has been the Mets regular starting third baseman.

Wright also made a game-saving stop at third base of a would-be game-tying single by Mike Lieberthal for the final out of a 4 – 3 Mets victory over Philadelphia on August 5.

During the 2006 season, Wright collected 74 RBIs before the All-Star Break, breaking the Mets record previously held by Mike Piazza, who had 72 RBIs in 2000.

Wright ranked among the club's top three hitters in all offensive categories for the 2006 Mets, who were the second most run-scoring team in the National League.

On August 6, 2006, Wright signed a 6-year contract extension with the Mets worth $ 55 million, as well as a $ 1. 5 million signing bonus.

Wright has already announced that he will donate $ 1. 5 million to the Mets Foundation throughout the course of this contract.

Wright struggled in his first and only postseason, going 4 – 25 (. 160 ) in the Mets ' NLCS loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, and batting a mere. 216 in 10 postseason games.

Wright began the year with two doubles, including a bases-clearing double, in finishing 2 – 4 with three RBIs in the Mets ' Opening Day victory over the Marlins, 7 – 2.

Wright hit the first Mets home run in Citi Field history on Monday, April 13, 2009, Citi Field's Opening Day.