The Happiest 163

Could ya use an extraordinary Met season right about now? Try this one, courtesy of The Happiest Recap, the Faith and Fear series that ran from April to November, capturing the “best” wins from across the first fifty years of New York Mets baseball, numbered from 001 to 163 to correspond to where they fell into the schedules from whence they came. Click on the links and enjoy the entire essay for any game number as well as an alternate choice (since “best” can’t help but be subjective). Below you’ll find one sentence apiece from each of the “best” games, all of them offered here medley-style to make the remainder of the old year feel a little more Happy, and provide a little reassurance that the new year will surely include its own Recaps worth recalling. 001-003 Gary Carter loomed as a game changer. (April 9, 1985) And in what would become known as the Year of the Pitcher, Jerry Koosman stepping up and joining Tom Seaver atop the Mets’ rotation assured us we’d be able to use the pl...