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Remembering Mets History (1986) World Series Game Four: Gary Carter's Two HRs & Ron Darling Help Mets Even Series

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Wednesday October 22nd, 1986 -World Series Game #4:   The Mets were excited going into Game Four as their bats had woken up & they were alive & well in the World Series. A Fenway Park sellout of 33,920 came out on this cool New England night. Natalie Cole did a stunning rendition of the National Anthem to start things off. Red Sox Manager John McNamara sent Al Nipper (10-12 / 5.38 ERA) to the mound for the Red Sox. It was Nippers first post season start, dating back to August 18th he had lost five of his last seven decisions with a 6.75 ERA. Davey Johnson had Ron Darling (15-6 / 2.81 ERA / 184 Ks) going for New York. Ron had pitched seven innings in Game #1 at Shea Stadium, allowing one unearned run taking a heart breaking 1-0 loss. Darling Trivia:   Ron had grown up in Massachusetts & was a Red Sox fan with Carl Yastrzemski being his favorite player. He was sitting in the centerfield bleachers the for Game Six when Bernie Carbo tied the game with a HR that landed...
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Remembering Mets History (1986) World Series Game #3: Bobby O's Pitching- The Kid's Multi-RBI Night & Nail's Multi-Four Hit Game Give Mets First Series Win

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  Tuesday October 21st, 1986 World Series Game #3: After losing the first two games of the World Series at Shea Stadium, the heavily favored Mets were shocked being down two games to none. The Mets bats had fallen sleep in the first two games they scored just four runs with 12 twelve hits. They had been to Boston earlier that year for an exhibition game so it wasn't their first time at Fenway Park. They had surveyed & took batting practice at the Green Monster then. So on Monday manager Davey Johnson told them to stay the hotel. & he'd go at the Ballpark & face the media. Davey also decided to rearrange his pitching rotation & use Sid Fernandez, an All Star that year as well as a 16 game winner, out of the bullpen. It was not a popular decision at first with Sid or anyone for that matter but it would certainly come to fruition as the series went on. 33,595 fans filled Fenway Park for Game Three, excited that the home town Sox were up 2-0. At that time there wa...
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Keith Hernandez: The Mets Years- Part One (1983 - 1985)

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Fresh off the St. Louis Cardinals 1982 Championship season, Keith Hernandez continued to have disagreements with St. Louis management. Hernandez & his already stormy relationship with Manager Whitey Herzog got even worse. Turmoil With Whitey Herzog: The old school manager, Herzog didn't like things about Hernandez style of play. He felt Hernandez talked too much & was a chatterbox. He felt that at times his play was too casual & he lacked hustle because of that attitude. He felt Keith didn't run out easy ground ball outs & was too rebellious when told what to do. Herzog felt Hernandez was a bad influence on the teams' younger players. When there were rumors of drug use, Herzog wanted no part of that.  Drug Use: Hernanez eventually confirmed he did once play a game under the influence of cocaine. In the late 1970's & 1980's cocaine was everywhere in MLB, it couldn't be ignored. Hernandez later testified that he believed 40% of players we...
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