Thankfully today marks the last Thursday of the season we must endure a Mets game. After tonight’s finale with the Braves in Atlanta, the Mets complete games played on the day named for the Greek god Thor.

On Thursdays, the Mets have compiled an unimpressive 7-12 record, a microcosm of the season.  Eight of the nineteen Thursday games were played during the day. One was a makeup game and on another Thursday, the Mets played a day night doubleheader, also the result of a makeup.

The Mets lost the first Thursday of the regular season. They were attempting to sweep the Cincinnati Reds in the season’s opening series. Unfortunately that did not happen as the Reds defeated the Mets 8-6 at Great American Ballpark. That was the first game Oliver Perez started. He gave up all eight runs in 4.1 innings and things never got much better for the left handed enigma.

The Mets did not win on a single Thursday is April. Finally on Thursday, May 7th, that wonderful month of May when the Mets went 19-9, the Mets defeated the World Champion Phillies 7-5, sweeping a brief two game series at Citi Field. Ah, we had so much hope back then.  The following Thursday, the Mets defeated the Giants 7-4 at AT&T Park sweeping the only two Thursday games of the month.  The game in San Francisco was the first of many without one Jose Reyes. He made a brief comeback but then in Los Angeles, he left for good and hasn’t been seen since.

The Mets went 1-3 on Thursdays in June. The first Thursday, June 4th, the Mets lost the final game of a series at Pittsburgh. The dreadful Bucs swept the rain shortened series. They lost the game 11-6 but that wasn’t the worst loss on a Thursday. That honor was achieved in July when the Mets lost 11-2 to the Dodgers at Citi Field on the 9th, the anniversary of Tom Seaver’s near perfecto 40 years prior.

Perhaps one of the more exciting wins of the season occurred one week before on Thursday, July 2nd when the Mets made up the rained out game earlier in the season at Pittsburgh. The Mets led 9-7 heading into the 9th but Francisco Rodriguez blew the lead as the Pirates tied the game.  But the Mets scored a run in the top of the 10th on an RBI single by the since traded Ryan Church to take a 10-9 lead. K-Rod stayed in and got the Pirates out 1-2-3 for the win.

The cleanest win on a Thursday was a 7-0 shutout of the Colorado Rockies on Thursday, July 30th. Johan Santana pitched seven strong innings for his 12th win of the season. That evening however, the Rockies defeated the Mets 4-2 in what became the night end of a day-night doubleheader necessitated due to a rainout the day before. The Mets were shooting for a four game sweep of Colorado but fell short.

In August, the Mets went 1-2 on Thursdays. The only win saw the Mets produce their highest run total on a Thursday. They defeated the Marlins 10-3 in a rare afternoon game in Florida on July 27th. In that game, Fernando Tatis and Angel Pagan homered.  

This month, the Mets have split the two Thursday games so far winning on September 3rd, 8-3 in Colorado. A week ago the Mets were crushed 13-4 as the Marlins completed the three game sweep stifling any hopes of the Mets becoming a spoiler.

Tonight, the 2009 Mets bid a fond farewell to Thursday action with the final game in Atlanta. The Mets will send Nelson Figueroa to the hill with the Braves countering with Jair Jurrjens. The Mets will hope to close out Thursdays with a win. Don’t bet on it.