MMO Roundtable: Our Favorite Mets Home Opener Memory
It’s here! It’s here! The Mets home opener is upon us. It’s a day filled with excitement, and one filled with lots of nostalgia too. We all have some great memories from previous home openers, whether we were actually at the or not. We here at Metsmerized are getting a little nostalgic as we celebrate the 2025 home opener. Here are our favorite Mets home opener memories.
Christian De Block
2020 was a difficult year for everyone. When baseball returned in July, it gave us something to take our mind off everything else. While the atmosphere was certainly much different, getting together with friends to watch Yoenis Céspedes hit a go-ahead home run on Opening Day, against the Braves, was pretty cool.
Jack Markowski
This is going way back, but I remember coming home early from school in 2013 to watch the Mets play the San Diego Padres on Opening Day. My presiding memory from that game and really one of the more prominent moments from the earlier stages of the Mets fandom was when Collin Cowgill hit a grand slam off Brad Brach in the seventh inning. They won 11-2, and while Cowgill didn’t do much else in New York, that’ll always stick with me.
Mathias Altman-Kurosaki
The home opener in 2007 was the first one I attended. Shea was rocking all afternoon. The Mets trailed 5-4 entering the eighth inning, then exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the inning. The crowd chanted Jimmy Rollins’ name after he made an error that allowed the tying run to score. That game is still one of my favorites that I’ve attended.
Johnluke Chaparro
The 2022 home opener! It was my first Opening Day in person! Home openers were always out of my price range but I was finally able to make it that year! It had been something I had wanted to do since I was a kid, itching to go to Shea. And although it happened later in life, they always say better late than never.
Stomping all over the Diamondbacks was such a treat to see and even better that we finally had baseball to watch after the lockout was finally resolved.
While other home openers were more eventful, 2022 really was a special one for me being my first after being a fan for 20 plus years. Hopefully the next one I can cross off my list will be a World Series game!
David Melendi
My dad took me to the 1983 home opener. It was the return of Tom Seaver. I was 8 and I don’t remember if they won but I remember being mesmerized (metsmerized? ha) at the size and enthusiasm of the crowd. I’d been to a few games before that but those late ‘70s/early 80s teams did not draw. This was a new experience. (According to my research, the Mets won 2-0.)
Michelle Ioannou
My favorite Mets home opener memory doesn’t involve me – it involves my late brother, Christopher. Most of you who have been reading my articles for a while know about Christopher, who unfortunately lost his battle with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy back in 2019. He was at the Mets first game at Citi Field in 2009, and seeing the excitement leading up to the game was one that words just couldn’t describe. The Mets unfortunately lost that game, but he did get to see Tom Seaver throw out the first pitch to Mike Piazza. I wasn’t at the game with him, but you bet he came home and told me all about it! Every home opener I am reminded of this, and cherish it every year.
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