You could say that about both of them. Both had each won a ROY, CY, & WS before the age of 22.

Never forgot that game. Knight struck out 4 times that night!

Gosh. That was my first baseball game. Abs we left early but heard the rest on the radio driving home.

That was the game one Tim McCarver said they were the dominant team in the game in either league

it'd be great if anyone had it or any of the other ones from 1986 from wor-tv and sportschannel

Good to hear from you again Rusty!!

Macarver always a dick

I don't remember that.

McCarver was off a lot

and the 1988 team was very good but the dodgers had the mojo in october

I still hate Mike Scoscia for that game tying HR off Gooden in Game 4. Changed everything. the Mets were an out away from going up 3-1. Randy Myers was up and ready in the bullpen, Gooden was clearly tired, Davey Johnson should have made that move

If Strawberry didn't break his thumb the Mets would have won the NL east in 1985.

That was a forerunner of his home run off Gooden in the 1988 playoff game at Shea -- Scioscia had his number unfortunately.

similar location of fastball, this one hit more to right center. talk about foreshadowing

@@toddkarlin9455 how davey didnt bring in meyers in the 9 th is beyond me

Yea he really was "amazed" with his sudden power jump. Who knows, maybe he was eating his Wheaties that year.

From 5 HR to 13: McCarver was 🤔

Mr. Balaban was one of my professors in high school in Central New Jersey in the eighties. Never paid much attention to security since I didn't attend my first game in person until I was an adult (my father was European and hated baseball lol). He told me that he worked security at both Shea and Yankee Stadiums. Regardless, the mustache, the glasses I would recognize him anywhere!!

Agree 100%

Yup. And it went back to Doc’s minor league days. Imagine an 18-year-old being allowed to throw nearly 200 innings in A-ball nowadays (although a lot of big-time college programs still abuse their star pitchers). For all the moaning and groaning people do about how everyone threw complete games back in the day (understandable and somewhat justified), and how modern pitchers seem to be getting injured more frequently despite throwing fewer innings, they forget or ignore how many catastrophic shoulder injuries from overuse there used to be that ended careers and/or significantly diminished performance. We only remember the outlier survivors. At least guys can come back from Tommy John surgery and remain just as effective; a torn rotator cuff is an entirely different story.

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@@stevep8445 You may not like it, but it’s true. There are other aspects too, like increased velocity, more attention to the third time through the order penalty, larger bullpens with more dominant relievers, fewer black holes in modern lineups, etc.