Heading into play on June 26, 2002, Mo Vaughn, whom the Mets had acquired the previous offseason for Kevin Appier, was hitting just .230/.327/.327. None of that mattered as Vaughn stood at the plate against Braves reliever Kevin Gryboski.
Mo Vaughn signs fat deal to play at Shea. Declining slugger fails to pull his weight, however.
BREAKING NEWS: MO VAUGHN BELCHED nine miles south of Mineral, Va. at 1:51 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS initially recorded the belch at 5.8 magnitude but later upgraded it to a 5.9 after 3 more orders of buffalo wings and an embiggened mountain dew.
