Carlos Delgado went 5-for-5, including a game-ending single in the bottom of the ninth inning, in the Mets' 5-4 win over the Braves on Thursday night. In the ten-season span from 1997 through 2006 no major-league player was 5-for-5 (or better) in a game with a walkoff hit; but that's now been done five times over the last two seasons. Chone Figgins (6-for-6), Josh Willingham and Mark DeRosa did it in 2007 and Johnny Damon (6-for-6) did it earlier this season. Four of Delgado's hits came off left-handed pitching.
He had four (or more) hits off lefties in only one other game of his major-league career -- on May 10, 2002 for the Blue Jays (at Oakland). The last Mets' left-handed batter to have four hits in one game off left-handed pitching was John Olerud, on September 16, 1998.
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He had four (or more) hits off lefties in only one other game of his major-league career -- on May 10, 2002 for the Blue Jays (at Oakland). The last Mets' left-handed batter to have four hits in one game off left-handed pitching was John Olerud, on September 16, 1998.
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