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- Updated: September 17, 2016
NEW YORK — As a player, coach and manager, Paul Molitor had been in uniform for well over 3,000 Major League games before Friday.
Not one of them had been against the Mets.
You wouldn’t think that’s possible, but it is. Molitor has been an American Leaguer throughout his career, and he played almost entirely in the era before Interleague Play. In his five previous seasons as a Major League coach or manager, his teams never had the Mets on the schedule.
“That’s the second time this year I’ve had a first,” Molitor said. “When we went to Atlanta, it was the first time I’d been there.”
Unless baseball expands or a team moves, there won’t be any more …
