I know I've been to more than those listed here but these are the ones that I can identify based on a ticket stub, or
have attended since I started maintaining the table in around 2006.
For most games prior to 1997, I may still have the ticket stub but it's buried in a box deep in my closet. All of the games since 1997
I have scanned the ticket stub where I could find it, or linked the PDF of a printable ticket. For a couple of the games I have
no ticket since I used my phone for entry to the game and either I forgot to get a screenshot, or, as in recent years, the app prohibits capturing screenshots of the ticket.
I started using JSON from MLB.com in 2019 when I accidentally deleted the file where I was manually storing all of the game scores. Getting the JSON
and caching it for subsequent formatting saved a lot of hassle in rebuilding the file.
They appear to now host JSON for every MLB game ever played. I thought it only went back to 1995 but, silly me, I forgot about the strike in 1994 and there were no games played in September of that year, which is
where the dates I was testing were. I didn't bother looking earlier, thinking they only went to 1995 (they had previously gone just to 1997). So, time for me to hunt for those old stubs.
I'm pretty certain I was at the game on 07/13/1989
because I was on a customer visit near Toronto the following day, and at GUIDE in Toronto the following week
and I remember for sure that McGwire and Canseco both homered in that game for the A's. It was a big deal because it was the first season for the SkyDome.
I'm 99% certain I saw Mets beat the Dodgers on
05/22/1987, homers by Darryl Strawberry and Kevin McReynolds, and the Dodgers
jumping out to a 3-0 first-inning lead on a homer by Roberto Guerrero before I even got to my seat.
I'm also 99% certain I was at the game on
07/03/1986 - Two homers by Strawberry, and 9 full innings
by Ron Darling, with the Mets winning in 10, seems very familiar to me. Also would have been fireworks night at Shea, and I have been to a few of these.
I also seem to recall being at a game where Strawberry hit 2 and McReynolds also hit one, which may nave been
07/03/1990.
Again, this would have been a fireworks night, so this one is also very likely.
I also know one of the games was a weekend game where Kevin McReynolds hit 2 home runs, I think it had to be
06/12/1994 since this is the only
time I can find that he did this at Shea stadium, on a day I would have been there (Saturday or Sunday), and the Mets win.
There are additional, less memorable games that I've been to, but I can't guess the dates without the ticket stub in hand. I know I went to at least a half a dozen Mets games
in '86, and several more since but I don't remember the details of the games and the ticket stubs are still squirrelled away.
From '97 on I have saved the tickets (at least until I could scan them).
Scorigami
Winning Score
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XX
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Losing Score
0
1
4
2
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
7
6
2
1
2
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
0
0
2
13
4
5
3
3
1
2
0
1
0
0
0
0
3
3
8
1
3
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
4
3
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
5
3
2
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
6
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
7
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
8
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
9
0
0
0
0
0
1
10
1
0
0
0
0
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