Mets History: Jose Reyes hits three home runs in 11-4 loss

Three home runs from one player should lead a team to victory. Unfortunately, on August 15, 2006, Jose Reyes smacked three in an 11-4 New York Mets loss.

Weird things seem to happen to the New York Mets in years where they actually make a deep playoff run. For instance, the 2015 Mets were no-hit twice. Nearly a full decade earlier in 2006, another strange occurrence took place on August 15.

Against the Philadelphia Phillies down in the City of Brotherly Love, the boys from Queens matched up against a far inferior rival. The game seemed to get off to a good start. Leadoff hitter Jose Reyes smacked a leadoff home run to begin the game against Philadelphia pitcher Randy Wolf.

This was a sign of things to come. The ball flew out of Citizen’s Bank Ballpark plenty in this game, but it was only Reyes and the Phillies who took advantage.

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Philadelphia added four runs of their own in the bottom of the first inning then two more in the second. In the third inning, Reyes came up to bat again. He repeated his earlier performance and hit yet another home run.

The game continued like this for all nine innings. The Phillies ended up knocking Mets starter Orlando Hernandez around for 11 earned runs in four innings. El Duque took his beating while Reyes did something you don’t often see.

A walk in the fifth inning took away Reyes’ chance at hitting a third dinger. Down 11-2 in the eighth, he came up to bat one final time. Instead of Wolf on the mound, it was reliever Brian Sanches. The result was the same except this time Reyes got to knock in teammate Endy Chavez.

Reyes smacked his third home run of the day, barely causing a dent in the score. The Mets were still down 11-4. The score would hold with Reyes’ bat as the only one to wake up in this game.

The Flushing 25 have had several players hit three home runs in a game. Reyes accomplished the feat in a historically bad game for the team’s starting pitcher.

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Aside from the three home runs from Reyes, the team had four other hits. All of them were singles with a pair coming from guys who weren’t in the starting lineup. Yet another oddity, Mets players struck out only two times. They were making the wrong kind of contact in this one.