Pinch Hit Grand Slams

Its nice that on a day where the Mets’ dysfunction as a franchise reached a new low, they put together a nice, practically inspiring, victory over the Rockies, capped by Fernando Tatis’ go-ahead pinch hit grand slam in the 8th inning.

Here’s a list of  the Mets’ 7 other pinch hit grand slams in their history.  Its interesting to see how rare these are and how memorable some of them were:

• Hank Taylor - 8/17/66 (In the 4th inning pinch hitting for Ed Kranepool)
• Steve Henderson – 4/9/78
• Tim Tuefel – 6/10/86 (the Mets only walk-off pinch hit grand slam)
• Joe Orsulak – 5/3/94 (gave the Mets the lead in the 7th, Franco blew it in the 9th – here’s the New York Times article on the game)
• Todd Hundley – 5/4/95 (hit in the top of the 10th in Montreal, here’s the Times article on the game)
• Benny Agbayani – 3/30/00 (won game #2 of that season, played in Japan, here’s the Times’ article)
• Todd Pratt – 5/30/00 (last one before tonight)