Remembering Mets History (1984): Jesse Orosco Saves Both Ends of a Double Header As Straw Belts Two HRs

-
Saturday September 2nd, 1984: Davey Johnson's New York Mets were battling for first place, in a time where there were no wild cards.

The Mets (79-59) were five games out of first place behind the rival Chicago Cubs.

On this Saturday, the Mets hosted the first place San Diego Padres (78-58) who would go on the be that years NL Champions.


Starting Lineups


In the first game Dwight Gooden went up against Andy Hawkins. In the home 1st, the Mets scored first as Keith Hernandez singled & scored on Hubie Brooks base hit. In the 2nd, Ray Knight & catcher Mike Fitzgerald both singled to start out the inning. Wally Backman & Keith Hernandez would also single bringing in two more runs, giving the Mets a 3-0 lead.

 In the top of the 3rd, Alan Wiggins singled & Tony Gwynn walked. They both stole a base as well. Steve Garvey then singled bringing in two Padres runs.

 In the 4th, Backman doubled & then Keith Hernandez singled driving in his second run of the game. George Foster then singled, scoring Hernandez. The Mets blew it open as Darryl Strawberry connected for his 18th HR of the year, making it 7-2 Mets, on their way to a 7-4 win.

 Gooden would strike out ten along the way, pitching eight innings allowing four runs on six hits. Jesse Orosco came on in the 9th earning his 28th save of the year, his first of the day!

 In the night cap,Calvin Schiraldi went up against the Padres Eric Show, a 14 game winner up to that point. Schiraldi was knocked out by the 4th inning, allowing five runs on eight hits, with Kevin McRaynolds, Steve Garvey & Craig Nettles all driving in runs.

In the home 3rd, after Wally Backman singled & Keith Hernandez walked, Darryl Strawberry singled making a 3-1 game. The Pads got two more runs on Terry Kennedy's HR & Eric Shows double. 

In the bottom of the 4th Mets veteran John Stearns walked, Backman singles & rookie Herm Winningham doubled, bringing in Stearns with one of his last runs as a Met. Show then filled the bases walking Hernandez. He then walked Strawberry & served up a bases clearing double to Hubie Brooks. The Mets went ahead 6-5 as Brooks was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple.

Later in the 7th, Mets pinch hitting expert, Rusty Staub continued being the leagues best pinch hitter driving in Ray Knight with a base hit. The Mets topped off the scoring with Strawberry's 19th HR of the year a two run shot in the 8th inning. Straw now had six RBI's in the twin bill.

Jesse Orosco had come on in the 8th inning, relieving Tom Gorman who would earn the victory. Orosco did serve up a HR to future Met Kevin McReynolds, buy nailed down the save with his 29th of the year. Orosco had now saved both ends of the Mets double header sweep.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Remembering Bobby Ojeda's Tragic Boating Accident (1993)

-
Image
Steve Olin, Tim Crews & Bob Ojeda March 22 nd 1993: was an off day from Spring Training, for three Cleveland Indians pitchers; Former Mets 1986 World Champion pitcher; Bobby Ojeda, Tim Crews & Steve Olin. The three friends, took out an 18-foot open-air bass boat & went out fishing & gator hunting in the darkness of the evening on Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida. Tragedy struck, when the boat rammed into a private dock that jutted out some 250 feet into the still waters. Two other Cleveland Indians personnel had arrived to meet the fishing party just as the horror took place. They heard Bob Ojeda saying they needed help. The two men jumped into the water and called out for someone to call 911. 27 year old pitcher; Steve Olin was killed instantly. 31 year old pitcher; Tim Crews was alive but was struggling to breathe suffering from massive head wounds. Bobby Ojeda was in & out of shock, he was suffering from head lace...
Read more

The History of Yogi Berra & the Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink

-
Image
Yogi Berra & Yoo-Hoo's  history go back to the 1950's. Yogi had met the Oliveri Family, the owners of the Yoo-Hoo company at a Country Club function near his home in New Jersey. Natale Olivieri started bottling the chocolate drink in 1928 in Garfield, w Jersey. By the late 1950's he Yoo-Hoo product wasn't selling all that well. Mr. Olivieri asked for Yogi's opinion at the new Jersey function. Berra said he actually liked the soft drink & started promoting it along with his teammates. Soon Yogi put Yoo-Hoo on the map, appearing in commercials, advertisements and supermarkets promotions.  Berra would show up at the factory in Carlstadt, New Jersey & became a hero to the factory workers. He soon became a Vice President of the company owning a large amount of Yoo-Hoo stock. In his auto biography Yogi wrote "One time I was in the office and the phone rang, I always answer a ringing phone, the woman on the other end asked if Yoo-Hoo was hyphenate...
Read more

Remembering Mets History (1979) SNL's Chico Escuela Visits Mets Spring Training & Attempts a Career Comeback

-
Image
Bill Murray interviews (Garrett Morris) Chico Escuela In March 1979, original Saturday Night Live cast member; Garrett Morris joined the Mets at Miller Huggins Field for Spring Training. At the time the Mets were still holding Spring Training in St. Petersburg Florida.  Garrett Morris was posing as  the fictional Mets player, Chico Escuela who wore uniform #5 (cinque).  Escuela was doing his famous spoof of the Latin players of the time, posing as a popular infielder from the Dominican Republic that didn't speak much English. His legendary catch phrase was "baseball been berry- berry good to me". "baseball been berry-berry good... to me" The Chico Escuela character appeared nine times during on SNL's fourth & fifth seasons. He debuted on December 9th, 1978, in a Knight of Columbus sketch as a guest speaker. He then became the Weekend Update Sports reporter, where after being introduced by Jane Curtain, he would reply "tank you Hane". Chico woul...
Read more

Remembering Vixen Founder / Guitarist; Jan Kuehnemund (1961-2013)

-
Image
centerfieldmaz was shocked to learn of the sudden passing of Jan Kuehnemund, the founding member of the all female metal band Vixen. Jan was a fantastic guitarist, song writer & women pioneer in Heavy Metal. I am a huge fan of hard rock all girl bands & Vixen were one my long time favorites. Janice Lynn Kuehnemund was born November 18th, 1961 in St. Paul Minnesota. The female guitarist formed one of the first all female Metal bands in Minnesota with singer Janet Gardner while in high school in 1980. By 1985 they moved the band to Los Angles California, to be part of the Heavy Metal scene. In 1987 the classic Vixen line up of Jan Kuehnemund (lead guitar) Janet Gardner (vocals/ guitar) Share Pederson (bass) & Roxy Petrucci (drums) formed & released their debut album the following year. Vixen 1988 In a world of all male Heavy Metal bands during its heyday, Vixen were groundbreaking in being an all female metal band. The Runaways, with Joan Jett & Lita Ford...
Read more

Remembering Batgirl: Yvonne Craig (1937-2015)

-
Image
centerfieldmaz interrupts baseball with a sad note on one of his favorite actresses. Being a huge Batman (TV series) fan Yvonne Craig has been someone I adored since I was a child.  As a boy I always hoped the Batgirl cycle would wiz by on the opening credits, meaning it would be a Batgirl episode. I didn't realize why until I got older & liked girls. For myself & millions of young boys of the 60's / 70's Batgirl was one of our first crushes. But her character also she added so much more than that to the final season of Batman. She was special in so many ways ... rest in peace Batgirl! Yvonne Joyce Craig was born May 16th 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois. As a young girl she was a talented ballet dancer, getting accepted to the prestigious Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She eventually moved to Los Angeles & began an acting career. She landed a part in Gidget (1959) as one of Gidget's beach...
Read more