Jose Vizcaino
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Jose Vizcaino was a shortstop for the Mets from 1994 to 1996. He played in 334 games and batted .282 as a member of the team. Jose had 7 home runs and 121 runs batted in with the Mets.
Vizcaino was acquired by the Mets in a trade with the Chicago Cubs just prior to the 1994 season. In '94, he had a team-leading 86 singles among his 105 hits. Jose had two singles and two doubles in the Mets' 4-1 win at San Francisco on July 6. He also drove in the winning run with a ninth inning single for a 3-2 triumph over the Braves at Shea Stadium on August 3. Vizcaino had 13 doubles, 3 triples and 3 home runs while batting .256 in the strike-shortened season.
Jose led the Mets with 146 hits in 1995. He was also the team leader in games played (135), at bats (509) and singles (117) for the year. Vizcaino drove in three runs with a double and a single in a 5-2 Mets win over the Braves at Shea on May 10. In the Mets' 12-10 win at Philadelphia on August 8, he had three singles and a double with two RBIs. Jose's single in the 11th inning on August 21 gave the Mets a 5-4 victory over the Giants at Shea. He also went 5-for-5 in the Mets' 4-3 loss at Florida on September 23.
In 1996, Vizcaino hit .303 and scored 47 runs in 96 games with the Mets. He got a run-scoring single in the 10th inning to defeat the Rockies, 4-3, on April 20 at Shea. Jose set a Mets record with hits in 9 consecutive at bats from April 23 to April 25. He had 5 singles, 3 doubles and a triple in this incredible feat that came in the middle of a 9-game hitting streak, during which he batted .444 (16-for-36.) Vizcaino also singled to drive in the only run of a 1-0 Mets win over the Giants at Shea on May 30.
Vizcaino hit safely in five straight games from July 23 to July 28, 1996. He went 9-for-22 (.409) during the streak. These were Jose's last games with the Mets as he was traded with Jeff Kent to the Cleveland Indians for Carlos Baerga and Alvaro Espinoza on July 29. Vizcaino played in the major leagues for ten more seasons before retiring in 2006.
