1988 NLCS, Game 4: Dodgers @ Mets
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- Los Angeles Dodgers 5 at New York Mets 4, F/12 -- Backed by homers from Darryl Strawberry and Kevin McReynolds, Dwight Gooden and the Mets enjoyed a 4-2 lead in the 9th, and seem poised to take a 3-1 series lead. But Mike Scioscia, who had only three home runs all season, had other ideas, and his two-run homer forced extra frames. Then in the 12th, Kirk Gibson foreshadowed his forthcoming World Series dramatics with a solo, go-ahead dinger off Roger McDowell. But it wasn't over yet. In the bottom half of the inning it looked as though Gibson's heroics might go to waste, as the Mets put two men on against Tim Leary. So Manager Tommy Lasorda called on his "bulldog," Orel Hershiser, to close it out. Despite having pitched into the ninth in Game 1, not to mention seven innings pitched in Game 3 the night before, Hershiser recorded the final out to tie the series at two games apiece.
That home run Mike Scioscia hit in the 9th off Gooden flipped the entire series over.. never gets the credit for just how huge that was.. Dodgers were about to go down 3 games to 1… what a season that was
Unsung hero John Shelby: knocks in 2 runs in the 1st, works a walk in the 9th (the reason Scioscia's HR tied it, otherwise they still lose by 1), then makes a great play to record the final out.
Michaels: "When you write the story of this game, where in the world do you begin?" Perfect.
Lasorda saved the game when he ran out in the bottom of the 12th to tell Orosco to challenge Strawberry and throw strikes. Not many managers today will do that in the middle of an at-bat. I really hate the new rules limiting mound visits. They are part of the game. Who cares if baseball is too slow? It’s supposed to be a slow game. No clocks in baseball, only innings. It’s a timeless sport.
Definitely. Lasorda knew how to manage his players and game situations. "What's the matter with you? Throw f*ckin strikes... " Exit Lasorda, and Orosco gets Strawberry on a pop up.
Exactly right. People want to change it because it's not fast paced enough, like everything else is becoming these days. I'll miss the old rules
So much for no clocks in baseball…
A curtain call in the 4th inning. 100% STUPID.
Will always be my favorite Dodger game of all time. It will never get old. Never been more exci
Right on, this game is amazing. Scocias homer gives me chills. I listen to it at work once a month or so lol
This could be the greatest MLB game ever considering all the circumstances and how it ended
Give credit to Alejandro Pena-3 shut out innings in extra innings to keep the game tied⚾️💯
Thank you for uploading this classic. What a joy watching this entire game tonight!
Fell in love with the Dodgers in "74" when they signed Jimmy Wynn after losing the division to the Reds every year. There is hands down my favorite Dodger game of all time. Closet thing to a heart attack watching Orosco pitch to Hernandez and Strawberry.
Makes me respect how dominant Alejandro Peña was for the previous three innings all the more.
Gibby belongs in the hall of fame for being CLUTCH at all times!
Hershiser too. john smoltz is a first ballot HOF, and Hershiser is shunned? What a joke. smoltz could never stand in the Bulldog's shoes from 1984 to 1989. Even beyond after Bulldog recovered from injury.
While he was a great leader. He had no business winning the 88 MVP over Strawberry
@@Rayburn58 1q++
@@dwedge914 LOL. Okay
Clutch at all times? …..did you happen to see the 87 ALCS?
Never thought much of Lasorda, but in this amazing game the guy showed LEADERSHIP. That chew-out of Orosco! Masterful handling of his pitchers here, but most of all, he seemed to convey calm and confidence to his players. The little Dodgers here never seemed to panic even though they seemed doomed. How did the Mets lose this game and series? 1988 proved (L.A. went on to easily slay the 'roided A's as well) there is much to say about sunniness in a leader.
Lasorda used Hershiser like a mule through this Series and the next. Lasorda played to win. Probably trashed Hershiser's arm, but pulled it off. It took 32 more years and Covid for the Dodgers to win a World Series - with several better teams.
@@mike6845 and two cheated out World Series astros and the ‘sox
@@robertleyve6150 huh?
Lol no. It was Johnson making one of the dumbest decisions ever by not having Meyers close out the ninth. It’s 3-1 NY and the series is over.
@@mike6845 I watched an interview with Hershiser where he told the story of the NCLS Game 4. He was sitting in the dugout watching the game. The bullpen was spent. He took it upon himself to head down to the bullpen. He told the bullpen coach to warm him up. The coach thought that Lasorda sent him down there. When Orosco was having problems Lasorda called down and asked "Who do we have left?" The bullpen coach said "Hershiser". There was silence on the other end then Lasorda said "Who?" The bullpen coach said "Orel Hershiser" Lasorda sighed into the phone and said "Well send him in."
Great ballgame, the dodgers the team of destiny in 1988!
3:37:14 -- Been a Dodger fan since 1980, and this moment was, to me, maybe Lasorda's most impressive managerial moment. Got into Orozco's face and essentially challenged his manhood, to go after Strawberry
Agreed. As basically, that was Lasorda in a nutshell. Goes without saying that It just gets me every time that by the time Dempsey makes it to the mound, Tommy is done making his point. Cheers.
Two quick points: The unsung heroes of this game were John Shelby (drawing a walk from Gooden after falling behind 0-2 in the ninth) and Alejandro Peña, who pitched three scoreless innings leading up to Gibson's home run.
@@dimbulb1178 That was part of the improbable 9th inning comeback -- a player, Shelby, who was never a selective hitter and rarely walked draws a walk; a non-power hitter hitting a homer; all off of Dwight Gooden.
In today's game the manager would be fired!
Yes 'cowboy' because Millenials suck, right? They're less than human in your eyes now, aren't they?
One day fans of today’s game will be enjoying replays today’s playoffs as much as people in their 50s and beyond are enjoying replays of these games.
There’s just something beautiful about that.
Rob Manfred needs to watch the bottom of the 12th inning. Under his dumb rule change of pitching to 3 batters min this classic will never happen again.
Me and my brother were at this game and when it was over the whole crowd of Met fans emptied the stadium in total silence, nobody said a word.It was a painful loss to a team we beat up on all through the regular season.
AWWW
Thanks RUclips, one of the nightmares of my childhood !
I didn't even realize that the Mets adopted their colors from the Dodgers and Giants. Love em or hate em you have to admire the Met franchise for filling the void in NY.
And the pinstripes are also a nod to the Yankees, believe it or not. So the Mets have incorporated all 3 NY teams into their uniform. Kinda neat.
Never truly filled that void, but I get it.
"How about that" , "Oh boy", "Wow". I miss that type of baseball. I know things must change but boy do I miss it.
baseball is so cool...huge crowd is silent with tension, then suddenly erupts in a massive cheer for a swinging strike.
One of the greatest games in baseball playoff history and not recognized enough for being so,in my opinion. ALCS game 5 1986 is the greatest playoff game in baseball history,from my standpoint.
Agreed. ALCS game 5 is one of the top baseball games ever. I could watch it over and over again and I'm not a Red Sox fan. Amazing game.
If that's the Donnie Moore game, it has a sad conclusion. I believe Moore ended up committing suicide some years later. I always wondered if he would still be alive if he had closed out that game.
The Dodgers won with that line-up because you win the game on the field NOT on paper!!!
Yessir, and I still have my ticket stubs from game 1 of the 1988 world series in LA. Paid $250 each for box seats 5 rows up from the Dodger Dugout. But this game here, this is the one people forget about, and its unfortunate.. Mike Scioscia was the lifesaver here.
Met fan here.Was at this game. Bringing in Hershiser, the best managerial move in post season history!
@Ludvig Borga In 1999?
Lasorda out managed Davey Jhonson
Was the crowd really as quiet as Al Michaels described when Gibson hit the HR?
The irony was that Lasorda did NOT want Hershiser to even pitch. Orel pulled a fast one by trotting out to the bullpen and telling the bullpen coach Tommy wanted him to warm up. Absolute lie but it worked!
@@craigmckenzie5466 Exactly. That is how Hershiser has related it over the years. He knew that given the circumstances with no other right hander available to pitch to the right handed hitter McReynolds, Lasorda would have no other choice but to use him after Orosco got the left handed Strawberry to pop out . In the end, who else would Lasorda have wanted in there with the game on the line anyway! Yes, the Bulldog!
Loved Kirk Gibson on the ‘84 Tigers, hated him on the ‘88 Dodgers. This game still kills the 7th grade Mets fan in me.
James France. Loved Gibby in both circumstances but as a Tiger fan we sure missed Gibby in the summer of 88 after winning the AL East in 87. We finished one game back of Boston in 1988, second place and without Gibson in the lineup, definitely not a coincidence! He was a dominant catalyst when healthy and in his prime
We still have bad memories of that Dodger team in Oakland. We had the best team in baseball that year but Hershiser, Gibson, and Lasorda did everything right in the World Series
Big Met fan here this was the worst loss in met history in my lifetime. We should of easily won this series I wanted so bad for us to play you guys Straw Big Mac bs Canseco Mcguire 2 best closers in Eck and meyers Doc Cone u guys had Dave Stewart and a great rotation. Series would of been epic but we both failed
And for many of us Dodgers fans, both series combined for the greatest moments of our baseball fandom. Even all these decades later, I still get goosebumps thinking about October of '88.
3:45:38 "Not only that, he's going to be back to start Game Seven, if it's necessary."
Yup. And he pitched the pennant-clinching shutout!
Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO HR BFP
Hershiser W(1-0) 9 5 0 0 2 5 0 35
Dodgers were 1 out away from being down 3-1 and on the brink of elimination. Gooden was being his dominant self against the Dodgers. He had dominated them all year long that season. But just like that, a walk to Shelby and Scioscia hits an unexpected homer to tie it. The rest of the NLCS and World Series is history. Give credit to Lasorda (RIP) for pushing all the right buttons in the playoffs and WS, and most importantly instilling confidence and a never say die attitude in his players. This took them all the way in '88. Gotta love baseball!
Shelby strikes out at 2:05:44 with no appeal to 3B Ump. Mets win the series if they get the call right.
@@tallguy1963 Nah! play in slow mo...didn't go around. Not really even that close which probably why Carter didn't appeal.
gooden was a loser.pure and simple.a LOSER
If there was an unsung hero in this game, it was Alejandro Peña. Everyone talks about Hershiser, Scoiscia, and Gibson. But what if they didn't have Peña piling up goose eggs (three scoreless innings against the best offensive lineup in baseball that year).
Agreed. I'd also add Shelby.
Thx for video 😊,I remember that while watching on TV in '88, manager ran to, swinging his belly while he's celebrating.😂🤣😂😁
This game is the most classic interaction between one of the greatest broadcast crews in all of baseball history. And yes, I know people rag on Tim McCarver, especially when he was teamed up with Joe Buck and felt like he had to do it all. But as part of a team with Michaels and Palmer, this was a thing of beauty. It really was a team with those three, and you could tell how much they loved what they were doing, and really enjoyed each other's company. They play off each other so well.
+Alexander Adams-Leytes That's because Palmer knew what he was talking about. This balances out McCarver's stupidity.
Again though, it's a lot more than that. McCarver was an absolutely integral part of this team. I think the bigger issue was when he was with Joe Buck he had no one to balance him out or to play off of, so he started feeling the need to do everything, and that's how the overkill started. I still found him quite informative even then, though yes, he would sometimes overanalyze. But with this team with Michaels and Palmer it was just the right balance and oh, the chemistry between these three. They were like a comedy trio!
+Alexander Adams-Leytes I think McCarver started losing the plot when he went to CBS, where it was in the executives' heads and consequently McCarver's that he was to be baseball's version of John Madden. That's not him, or at least it shouldn't have been.
Alexander Adams-Leytes They Were a Very Good Trio
Gosh this game is epic.
Oh I remember this game well because I was driving home from a wedding reception and it was the ninth inning and Doc was on the mound. Yes he gave up that homer to tie the game, then we lost it to Gibson's homer but the thing that got me very angry is that it was later revealed that Doc would go into the clubhouse between innings and snort some of that white power. You could see him sweating bullets when on the mound in the ninth inning. Yes he did not care bout the fans or his team mates and only himself. THANKS DOC, we would have had a commanding lead in the series!
why didnt they bring the closer in. Up 4-2 in the ninth isnt that the closer time to shine?
Without a doubt the greatest game in the history of the Dodgers including all the years in Brooklyn. You could write a book on this game alone. In my eyes the last great NLCS the way baseball was meant to be played.
Kirk Gibson, the home plate umpire motioning to both players
That 4th inning was the key inning, they should have rocked Tudor out of the game, they win the series in 6 games.
I wish the dodgers can bring those grey road throwback jerseys for 2019 like it when it’s double stitched on the jerseys ! go dodgers :)
Lol, Lasorda sprints out to the mound to scream at Jesse Orosco for not throwing strikes 3:37:00 Lasorda also takes out Orosco and puts in Hershiser to close the game, the same Hershiser who threw 111 pitches the DAY before with no other pitcher available other than the starter for the next game 11 hours later.
Today, managers don't even let a pitcher try to complete a perfect game after 89 pitches. I'm sorry I didn't appreciate Tommy back enough in the day
A different era for sure.
If you watch video "Battle Lines '88 WS" Hershiser went down to the bullpen on his own sometime after Gibson's HR and told Mark Cresse that Lasorda sent him, which was not true. Cresse calls Lasorda and Lasorda says to warm him up. Perranoski tells Lasorda that he's sticking his head into a guillotine. What happens if they tie the game. Win or lose you burn up Hershiser because he's all there is. Lasorda says, 'I don't care. I'm putting it all on the Bulldog.' Gibson was amazing. He hit just .290 (low for an MVP) didn't even lead the team in RBI (76) but he had 18 go ahead hits and won some other games with his glove and a few on the base paths. He would find a way to get on, steal second and somehow score. One night he scored the game winner coming all the way from 2nd base on a WP. Whatever it took to win he did it over and over that year. Sparky Anderson said it best: 'People say he's not a hall of famer and I won't argue with that. But everyone wishes they wanted to win as much as he does.'
It just happened last night. Kershaw gets the last 2 outs in NLDS clincher against the Nationals!!!
I mean...Lasorda was really out of options, because he had a 9-man staff to begin with and then his closer got suspended for having pine tar in his glove.
This was the end of Jesse Orosco in LA. He pitched I think 1 more game in the entire postseason and got shipped off to Cleveland, which at that time was the baseball equivalent of being sent to a Siberian gulag.
"It wasn't the home run, it was the walk!"
Shelby walked after going down 0-2 with no outs in the ninth, down 4-2. He helped make this comeback possible, just as Mike Davis did in game one of the World Series. Great at-bat for Shelby to set up the Scoiscia home run.
Strawberry pop up was a killer.
He also made a great catch in this game and Game 5. This HR by Gibson was more important than the one he hit in the World Series. The Dodgers' season probably dies if he doesn't hit it out in Game 4.
Davey Johnson should have put in Randy Myers for the ninth!
randy myers should of pitched to sciosa not gooden
The epitomy of a momentum change was exemplified in this series by the fact that starting with Scioscia's home run, the Dodgers in games 4 , 5, and 7 (not counting the game 6 loss to David Cone) outscored the Mets 16-4 . So itt's not just that the Dodgers came back on the Mets, but rather the Dodgers became the Mets in the latter half of the series!
For the Mets, this series very much mirrors the '06 NLCS against the Cardinals as the start of a decline. Both featured key homeruns from catchers not known for their power (Scioscia and Molina) and both times the Mets were heavily favored. The Mets still have not recovered from the NLCS loss to the Cardinals.
Also, in both instances, in their last at-bat, the Mets loaded the bases with two outs.
What decline starting in 2006? They didn't do anything leading up to 06
This game should have been in the MLB's Networks 20 Greatest Game (of the past ~40 years) series.
@ 3:32:47 back in the days when catchers didn't wear helmets. And hitters wore helmets without ear flaps. My favorite era of baseball.
Two lefty hitters due up to start the ninth (three out of 4 counting Alfredo Griffin) and Davey doesn’t even have Myers warming up in the pen. That was the series right there.
This game went against the law of averages for sure. Everything pointed to the Mets pounding the Dodgers as the game went on and the Dodgers just hung on in the bottom of the 6th after Carter got to 3rd on the triple and didn't score. Then the Mets didn't score after having runners on in the 9th, 10th, and 11th innings. The Dodgers really only threatened in the top of the 9th when 2 runners got on after the very unlikely Sciossia home run against Gooden. The Dodgers didn't look like they could score in extra innings until there were 2 outs and no one on and Gibson gets a fat 0-1 pitch. The Dodgers were very fortunate to win starting a hittable Tudor vs. Gooden.
Greatest game I have ever seen. Best managerial job by Lasorda as well
Probably my favorite game of all time.
Best one in the postseason for '88. Game 1 of the WS had a great ending but this one made it happen.
While the Mets on paper were prohibitive favorites, the reality was that the Dodgers were an extremely tough opponent. The Dodgers pitching was every bit as good as the Mets, and the Mets offense relied too much on the home run, certainly far more than in 1986. Playoff baseball demands small ball because the pitching you are facing is top notch and you got to scratch and claw for every run. The Mets, unlike 1986, were not that type of team anymore.
Losing Kevin Mitchell, then Dykstra, and Hernandez, and Knight and Carter hastened that decline. That window for titles was a very small one.you're right tho. Station to station teams usually don' t win World Series
That's why Kashen should have resigned Ray Knight to the 2-year deal he wanted, and he shouldn't have traded Kevin Mitchell after 86. The Mets were more resourceful and their pitching was more reliable. Remember, they won the NLCS against the Astros with a combined .189 BA, which meant they had to be very resourceful and rely on small ball instead of the long ball. Losing Mitchell and Knight changed the chemistry drastically.
Ironic you say that, as it was not one but TWO Dodgers home runs that killed the Mets in this Game 4.
Late 80s baseball was the best
I always thought Davey Johnson was a buffoon of a manager and this series proved it as he was totally outmanaged and outclassed by a one of the greats in Tommy Lasorda and many others in the upcoming years.
The Boys in Blue baby
Love Ya Blue! Love Ya Lasorda!
Fat fuck Lasorda can kiss my ass. I was so happy he got to witness the Dodgers CHOKE away the World Series last year. Now he can go drop dead.
Nice Short compact swing by Scioscia got that homer out of here⚾️
My father & I were at the game and left to go home after the bottom of the 8th to beat the crowd out of Shea and we made it to the parking lot behind the left field fen ce and he heard a loud groan come from inside the stadium sure enough it was Scoscia's game tying home run
All Davey had to do was what he did in every other similar situation the whole season up until that point..bring in Randy Myers against that AAA lineup and everyone goes to bed early
AAA lineup did pretty well against both the Mets and the A’s.
This was almost as stressful as the first time I watched it (live). I swear ... when McReynold's hit that ball, I was 100% sure it was a GW single. I still can't believe it stayed in the air long enough to be caught.
This was when baseball was baseball. No DH. Pitchers going 9. Managers (well, Lasorda) managing from their gut rather than being enslaved to analytics. Baseball was so good back then. I loved this.
When the commentator said you can hear Dutch in Montauk 😂
This was everything any fan could ever want. Two teams fighting their asses off. You can tell everyone on the Mets and the Dodgers was all the way in, personally. Someone was going home hurt after this.
When it came time for Gooden (9th inning) and Strawberry (12th inning) to shine in this game, they both laid an egg. The story of their Mets' careers. Partying definitely took its toll on this team very fast.
Lol. Must be the coke
That's because THE DOC pitched 8 strong innings and randy Myers should have closed out the 9th inning putting the mets up 3 games to 1 going into game 5 again at shea stadium but Davey Johnson gave game 4 away and the series along with it
In fact going into the 9th inning Davey Johnson didn't even have randy Myers warming up in the bullpen. Davey Johnson sucks BIG TIME
I would have had randy Myers and rick AGUILERA warming up in the bullpen by the top of the 7th inning
I always wondered who the PA guy at Shea Stadium was from 88 till the early 2000's.
A great classic game, the reverse of1986 getting all the breaks, here they didn't wirh almost the same cast of players
It was the MVP hitting of Kirk Gibson and Cy Young pitching of Orel Hershiser that carried the team.
I envy those that actually witness Doc at his prime!!!
he never was in a prime...he was a one trick pony...
He was unhittable in '85 and would never come close to matching that season.
Diss Info not many had or have come close to that season.
TheLaughingMan712 I’ve seen him in his prime. Shea would literally be rocking when there was strike 2.
His prime lol. He had like four good years, and that's all she wrote.
Que recuerdo Innolvidables yo la ví en vivo esa gran serie
What a great game!
1988 was a charmed year for the Dodgers. They might have been the biggest over-achieving team in MLB history.
MAGIC INDEED... that's what makes baseball and Sports in general so special!!!
True. The Mets should have beat the Dodgers along with the A's.
@@mike6845 The better team won.
The Dodgers beat two great teams with grit and tenacity. Lasorda wanted the wins and he played it right.
It was either them or the 87 Twins
I saw Strawberry hit many hard homers in his time with the Mets, but I don't think he ever hit a ball that left the park faster than that one.
And he really didn't get that one that good, marginal for him
The facial expressions from Tudor after Strawberry and McReynolds home runs are hilarious!
Jefferies not getting that bunt down in the bottom of the 12th one of many turning points, but that was huge
Great series , proof the biggest better team DOSEN'T ALWAYS win!!! 1988 WAS DESTINY for the Dodgers, Hersisher had a better year in 88 than any other pitcher in history!!! the dude was a fucking beast on the mound..
He was NO BEAST IN THESE PLAYOFFS!! He came up SMALL & WEAK AGAINST THE METS!! HE REALLY SUCKED!!!
The best game I saw live
If the Dodgers lost this game, never would have made it to the World Series. Scioscia's home run was unbelievable. I saw this game live. Never forget it.
Best teams don't always win. Team that plays the best does.
no, the LUCKIEST team wins. Mets were lucky in 1986 (and good, winning 108 games) but in 1988 luck was on the Dodgers side. Along with bonehead decisions from Davey Johnson.
Lasorda pushed all of his chips to the middle of the table! Nerves of steel bringing in Hershiser.
At least McCarver had a competent, strong play-by-play man in Al Michaels (unlike Joe Buck) and Jim Palmer (whose calmer, more mellow persona I guess, balanced things out from an analysts stand-point) back in the ABC days.
Yeah this is the most tolerable I’ve ever heard McCarver be. He’s still a kook.
Great 3 man team they had in the booth then.
Al Michaels is great. He called a great game in '86 ALCS game 5 too.
@@hannasolo7005 McCarver didn't really become insufferable until CBS got the TV contract and signed him, pushing him as the star of the broadcast team with the intent of making him MLB's version of John Madden.
As a Yankee fan..I LOVED this series..the Yanks were terrible and I was sick and tired of hearing about the Mets..the Dodgers shut them up...i wasn't aware that Orosco had become a Dodger...the Mets blew it big time...I also HATED the A's..so Hershiser made me very happy beating those ass hats too..
+David Meyer Hershiser pitched 67 consecutive scoreless innings in 1988.
+Lprochees trump Hershiser was just as good in 1989 but his arm gave out at the beginning of the 1990 season. Then Ramon Martinez became the ace but he started having problems in the second half of the 1991 season. Then Pedro Martinez came along and they traded him (boo!). Pedro started having injury probs after the 1999 All Star Game. Not many pitchers don't have significant injuries in their careers. Greg Maddux was one of the very few.
So he's okay with his career being cut short?
Nobody cared about the Yankees in the 80's. Mets ruled New York. I can see why you hated them.
Orosco,in my estimation,is a borderline Hall of Famer!
This Mets team never was the same after this game. If Sciocia doesn’t it that game tying HR off Gooden the Mets are up 3-1 in the series and likely win the pennant. Everything changed that night w this franchise. Gooden was obviously tired and done and w lefty Randy Myers the closer ready in the bullpen there was no reason Davey Johnson shouldn’t have made that move.
@Kingdom of the Son of God …….nah…..the real reason is their coke dealer got busted
great game, one of best i've ever seen.
Do love this channel glade it's free on RUclips
just hit me that that is the voice of Starting Lineup Talking Baseball
OREL-SAX !!
I really watch these games like they are brand new. Thumbnail ruined it for me but we are checking in anyway lol
How the Hell did the Dodgers win anything with that line-up?
They hit the ball.
We took them for granted dont forget Keith and Gary were done at this point. And Davey should of put Myers to start the 9th.
Because baseball games aren't played on paper.
what manager in there right mind would have there starting pitcher pitch to the tying run at the plate in the 9th inning especially when they have one of the best closers in baseball in the bullpen
You saw the plus side and the downside of the WHEN MEN WERE MEN era of guys pitching until their arms fall off, all in the same game. Orel Hershiser comes in to get the last out after throwing 111 pitches the night before...Dwight Gooden surrenders a game-tying HR with not one but two viable closers (Myers and McDowell) sitting on their butts in the bullpen. In the modern game there's no way Gooden even starts the inning, and certainly doesn't face the tying run. Maybe the closer blows the game anyway but you at least have the fresh man in the game.
The Dodgers had the hot streak going. Both the Mets and Oakland were teams that some thought destined to be dynasties. They both fell short of expectations, with only one championship each respectively. So it would have been interesting to see the two meet in the '88 series.
Biggest surprise in this series is the lack of runs from the Mets the Dodgers pitching shut them down
Off the bat, the ball looked like it would drop and the Mets would score 2 runs and win the game in dramatic fashion.
Shelby just barely got to that ball from the look of the replay but in real time he didn't look that worried.
Probably the most important catch in Dodger playoff history.
I was at this game. This is the absolute truth....in the bottom of the ninth, a guy behind me says "Gooden better be careful, Scioscia may hit one out". I turn around and say "What? Scioscia can't hit his way out of a paper bag". Next pitch, tie game. 32 years later I am apologizing to every Mets fan for opening my Big mouth.
That is what made the home run amazing. Scoiscia wasn't a great hitter and almost never hit home runs. The Mets dominated the Dodgers in the regular season and pulled off this series win.
The curve Tudor threw Strawberry to strike him out and end the fifth took balls to throw.
Yes it was and was a borderline call.
uh, why are they playing 'New York, New York' after the Dodgers won? Where's my I LOVE LAAAA! lol
Then the Yankees started doing that. Lol
Gibson is so soft spoken and mellow a tiger's game works better than any sleeping pill
Was a team effort, timely an lucky hitting and DOMINANT pitching.
How did we ever watch games without the score bug in the corner. Never know what's happening in the game.
2:06:16 Mike Scioscia 9th inning HR
Damn Mike Scioscia
Everybody talks about Gibson's HR in game 1 of the WS. Wouldn't of happened without Scioscia's in this one.
2:06:34 Mike Scioscia....still haunts me to this day........-Mets fan
Que bueno con estos juegos nos traen muchos recuer dos para motivar otros prospectos
Montiga
What a big money AB by Shelby leading off the 9th at 2:23:08. The Scioscia HR either doesn't happen or is just a footnote without the BB. Might be one of the bigger turning-point ABs in the history of the game.
So many aspects make this one of the classics in the modern era: it was the swing game in the series, the Howell suspension, that Belcher was at the hotel for a short turnaround to Game5 making Hershiser the last option in the pen.
"Lasorda's worst nightmare is a tie after 12. Well, second worst, but you know what I mean."
It could of been Mets second WS in 3 years.
Kirk Gibson, with one bad leg for 4.5 games then two bad legs for the little he played after his Game Five injury, hit three game-winning home runs in the 1988 postseason.
These days, when there is a conference on the mound amongst the players they're covering their mouths with their gloves. They didn't do that back then.