October 6th, 1991 – Mets vs Phillies

It’ll be Chamberlain Castillo and Murphy in the Outfield Holland batist Batista Mor andini and Jordan in the infield the catcher will be Doug Lindsay both sides playing some different type players here with this final game coming your way the Mets have won five of the eight games here in vet

Stadium and in this ball game the umpires will be Ed rapuano behind the home plate Dana deou will be at first base Bruce fman will be the Umpire at second and Greg Bon the Umpire at third uh Ralph there were some last changes in the Mets lineup and you see here that

Daryl Boston is going to lead off and he’s going to hit it out of the he’s going to hit it against the [Applause] fence funny Daryl was going around those faces like he thought the ball was out of here and and it ends up as a three base

Hit as Boston hits the first pitch of the ball game and you’re right Frank he ran the bases like he thought it was out of the ball park for a home run he’s hit just three this year he hadn’t had a whole lot of practice he he certainly

Turned it off instead of turning it on batting in second slot here is Keith Miller to be followed by Hojo Johnson then Kevin MC reyolds Greg Jeff Chris donals Jeff Gardner will be at Short Stop Charlie O’Brien will be the catcher and David C the pitcher and nby with the

Curveball on his second Pitch of the ball game after the fast ball was hit against the fence for the three base hit and Miller takes for ball oneill one of the few Mets that’s really having a very good year this year he’s hitting 270 has come on strongly in the end of the

Season Miller hitting at that 270 Mark with three home runs 21 runs batted in and he takes in the count one ball and one strike as you look at Keith Miller playing a lot of second base here in the last part of the season does he fit into

Your plans for next year as a second baseman we have plans for Keith Miller every year a couple of times we’ve given him positions injuries have been the real bu and right there he singles in a run as he now makes the turn and goes for

The double and gets the two base hits standing up so Ashby has given up a triple and a double and going for the cycle here m Andy Ashby is really a young pitcher he’s 6’5 180 lbs he pitched mostly at scanton last year or this year earlier

This year where he was 11 and 11 and had a 3.46 ER and another words he was a successful pitcher at the AAA level he came up late it looks like the rain is starting to fall here in the stadium although I talked to the weather people

Just shortly and a short time ago and they assured there would be no rain today sort of that kind of a year is it it’s that kind of a year and now the batter is Howard Johnson and Howard with a big personal goal there he’s going to

Lead the league in home runs that’s a four gone conclusion but he has a chance to lead the league in runs batted in he has 116 he side for Will Clark at 116 if he does lead the leag in RB’s he will be the first switcher to ever lead the

League and runs batted in in as a national league player and he takes that pitch and they count at one ball and one strike he’s had a tough series he’s left 11 men on base in this series so he’s had every opportunity in the world to really bust open the RBI that’s right

Friday night alone he could have won the the batting the RBI title he left nine Runners stranded two in yesterday’s ball game he has driven in one in this series and he’s hitting at 259 so he’s got a big RBI sitting out there at second base if can get it and he swings

And misses he’s had a tough series as he has struck out a total of six times make that seven times in this series in the first two games of the series seven strikeouts and he’s had two base hits in 10 Advance wonder what kind of competitor he is you can see he’s

Pressing he really wants to so badly and he pops up the fast ball it’s back out of play so he’ll get another shot one and two the count just want to tell you Ralph you’re in charge of foul balls you we an outfielder and I’m sure you can handle

Them so that one came preciously close I forgot to bring my glove Howard Johnson will be our postgame ghost guest on Ker’s Corner he’ll be a ghost all right after this season’s over he’s on his way this whole season was one of ghosts and goblins but Howard Johnson really having

An outstanding year for the Mets he has dominated the power positions in hitting in the National League he leads in extra base hits with 76 he’ll win that he leads in slugging at 538 he’ll win that and in total bases he’s in second position two bases back of Pendleton is

Also having an outstanding year and of course he’ll lead in home runs with 38 and he can lead all by himself and RBI but he swings and misses so another attempt by Howard Johnson to get that RBI and now he has left 12 men on base in this series it’s been a

Struggle here’s that pitch again it’s a breaking ball right down Broadway too sinky looks like almost like a um split finger his eighth strike out in this three- game series and that’ll bring up Kevin Kevin mcrunels who’s featured this series with a three-run home run they put the Mets

Up four to2 in a game that they eventually lost that’s losing five to four in the first game of the series and one to nothing in the second Phillies have dominated one-run ball games in the National League this year they’ve had 63 and that pitch is in for a called

Strike they have 136 and lost 271 run ball games they also have been involved in Extra Inning ball games they have been in 25 Extra Inning games winning 16 and losing nine the will finish third in the National League and they turned it around under Jim fosi who took over his manager early

In the season that pitch fouled off a fast ball for strike two for GOI with a record of 74 and 74 it says it all for the Philadelphia Phillies right there MCR hits it in the air to Center Castillo the center fielder and he has an easy play back up at second his

Miller he goes to Third and the throw a good one but not quite in time throw by Castillo as Miller takes a chance and goes over to third can’t make that first or last out at third base one of the AXS of this game young Outfitter gets rid of the ball very quickly

Uh seen him with the Phillies he came over here in the trade for Roger McDow reminds me that we tried to trade for his contract some years ago and Jesse arasco was going to go to La and uh they they refused to put him in the deal they

Thought he was one of their outstanding young prospects eventually came over here as I said in the Roger mcdal here bruo Castillo the center fielder in this ball game as Greg Jeff takes his first pits for ball one Miller the runner at third base that’s leading one nothing

And the pitch high for a ball and it’s ball two Jeff is hitting 270 on the year nine home runs 60 runs batted in he is really had a disappointing season in spite of the 270 average and this one up the middle the base hit

And the Mets will take the lead by a score of two nothing as Jeff gets the 64th 61st RBI there’s that play again balls inside Jeffrey goes with the ball it’s right up the middle I’d say that’s an astro turf base hit on grass uh second baseman may have fielded that

Then may or may not have thrown him out and that’ll bring up Chris D is one of the promising young players the Mets have brought up from Tidewater hitting 224 but showing some ability and that pitch in the dirt but Lindsay blocking the ball and keeping the runner at first I do believe

This is Lindsay’s first major league game I he shows up with a z00 batting average I don’t know whether he’s been used for an inning or so I couldn’t find it that’s his first at bat when he comes up in the uh second inning or first

Inning whenever it will be so it is his first ball game and this one gets by him and moving down to second on the pitch is Greg Jeff we’ll see how that scored I was just going to mention that uh Lindsay was voted the outstanding defensive catcher

In the uh eastern league this year we had a team in the eastern league it’s being scored a wild pitch and ball bounces by the catcher didn’t do a good job of Shifting in front of that as he tried to backand the play and now the pitch to Donalds is

Swung on and missed two and one Don’s a good Prospect but being played at first base there no future there for him and I can see I don’t think so he is by trade a third baseman we played him some at second down in Tidewater he also played Short Stop in

Spring training I’m not going to suggest that he’s a major leag short stop but he can fill in there and it’s up the middle for another base hit ref will score the ball is bobbled by Castillo and the Mets have taken a three to nothing lead as Donalds gets

The RBI is fifth for the Mets is’s That Swing again Ralph and a good swing this young man hit 300 at tide order this year he has a good swing there’s no doubt about that he comes right up the middle he fought off those tough leanders in Pittsburgh I was

Impressed by the way he went against those left-handers of course when he had 300 at Tide Water he played every day he played against left and right-handed pitching no reason why he shouldn’t do it in the major leags now the batter Jeff Gardner another newcomer for the Mets Gardner hitting

182 has no power at all he’s got no home runs one run batted in uh he does put the bat on the ball he can I he’ll get a runner across he’ll get the we’ll see how he does here but usually he can get the runner move the

Runner uh he is probably the best defensive second baseman in our system brilliant defensive player been in the system for six years played at every level done a good job at every level talking about Jeff Gardner the short stop in today’s Final ball game that a very short leaded first

Base o almost hit him and asby with the count now one ball and two strikes earlier this year asby was brought up to pitch and he struck out the side of nine pitches very unusual thing and Jim fosi said he’s going places next day they send him back to the miners well let’s

Where he was go he’s going back to just Grant and that pitch is away from the catcher and Lindsay having some problems B’s holding that first base there’s that catch again it is inside but he should that ball should have been caught might be having a

Little bit of a nervous problem in his first game in the major leagues Robby never has seen this many people in the ballpark in his career this ball hit foul down the left side side two and two the C and asby struck out the side of nine

Pitches it was the first time that ever happened Philadelphia Philly pitcher they Dat Back a lot long long time and this pitch swung on and missed and that will end the inning two strikeouts but the Mets pick up three runs on four hits and they leave one in

The score at the end of one half inning the Mets three and the Philadelphia Phillies coming up David Conan the mount for the BS trying to even his record at 14 and 14 and ear run average of 3.42 he has wored 2 23.2 Innings and he leads the Nast strikeouts with his 222

Here’s the offensive lineup for the Phillies they’ll lead off their young shortstop Kim batist he will be followed by the young second baseman Mickey Morino then West Chamberlain Dale Murphy will be in the cleanup spot followed by Dave Holland who has played so well against the Mets in this series then

Ricky Jordan Rio Castillo will be the center fielder in Bat E Doug Lindsay the second base of the the catcher will B in the eighth spot and of course Ashby the pitcher will be in the ninth spot and the defense for the Philadelphia for the New York Mets it’s

Mgr’s Boston and Johnson in the Outfield Jeff Gardner Miller and Donalds in the infield third to First and o’ban will be doing the catching little story about O’Brien catching instead of Todd Hundley trying to keep Todd huntley’s rookie status open and so he is not playing as

As batist goes after his first pitch at strike one this a very interesting young man and really the Philly shortstop of the future he’s what baseball used to be all about he was drafted by them in the third round uh of the draft he’s out of New Orleans he’s played at every level

Within their system uh he uh the scouting report on him incidentally is that he’s a solid hitter he’s got some pop in his b he should improve has been improving each year he’s above has above average arm he’s got great range he’s got good speed he is a threat to steal a

Base uh Back in 88 one of his early years in there he stole the 100 bases in organized baseball uh he will be the everyday Short Stop of the Phillies uh certainly next year and in the years to come white for scraton wesbury and hit

292 with one home run 41 RBI and 18 Solen bases in 122 games one ball two strikes the count and batist goes after it and is struck out so David come with his 223rd strike out this [Applause] year there’s that pitch again and it’s high and out of the strike zone he chases

It another strike out must come and now the batter will be Mickey Mor andini and he takes the first pitch for ball one Mor and hitting 248 one home run 20 runs batted in and the fast ball foul back out of play one ball one strike another reason why you should

Have bought your glove though I think they’re honing in on us here got to get by this game make it through the the year you know amazingly this is my 30th year as a broadcasting and I’ve been hit only by one foul ball in the broadcast

Booth that was by George Foster is that right got me right in the arm wasn’t looking in the old ballpark t ma Stadium we used to broadcast right down about where the top of the back stop is and it was really lethal as you take a look at

Our broadcast area right back to home and this ball low back over our heads it’s coming our way again they going for you Frank I know we were talking about batist being the Philadelphia shortstop of the future here is their second basement of the future Micky Marino uh

He broke in this year and did a very credible job as you mentioned he’s hitting 248 and the appeal for the strike by O’Brien the Mets catcher and Greg Bonet the third base umpire said he did not swing so it goes to a Full Count three and

Two and the fast ball ball four close pitch but B does not get the call and he walks his first batter that’ll bring up West Chamberlain the left fielder and his acquisition was through a general manager’s mistake with the Pittsburgh Pirates I hate to say

That but that’s the truth he put him on a list where people could claim him he think I tell no Tales school when I tell you that the men’s claiming uh but Philadelphia was beneath us in the standings last year and their claim U was given first consideration other than

Ours he was claimed by a whole host of teams so and I’m not sure that he would have gotten down even if Philadelphia hadn’t claimed him that he would have got down as far as where we were in the race at that time he were second at that

Time yeah he’s a ball player with a lot of Promise uh you know he’s a good hitter he’s got uh shown some power in the miners uh he looks like he’s got alley power up here in the majors but he’s a solid ball player giv 240 for the

Year he does have 13 home runs and 50 runs batted in and he has been up 379 times and that fast ball handcuffs him he’s behind it and he fouls it off two and one Adam inside outing the Ball West Chamberlain in the Pittsburgh Pirate organization there’s that pitch once again goes inside on him and as I said he inside out the ball for a foul ball and it goes to three and one so con behind after walking Mor and Dei 3 and one to West

Chamberlain David with a record of 13 and 14 this year disappointing year for David Co so many people say he has the best stuff in the National League and you expect 20 wins out of someone with that kind of ability there goes the runner and the pitch is again fouled off

First David had that one great year Frank 20 and three yeah and it’s you know it’s not it’s really unfair to keep judging him by that standard because nobody or very very seldom even in the annals of baseball do you see those kind of years I couldn’t had one one year for

Us but what a brilliant year that was and the young does have brilliant stuff and I have to agree with the the majority that you just alluded to when you said that a lot of people think that he has the best stuff in the major leagues and he proves it there as he

Picks up a strike out runner was going on the pitch Charlie had trouble getting the ball out of his glove the runners Advance Runner advances here’s that pitch again so oldfashioned fast ball over match David in 1988 was 20 and3 the six best winning percentage in baseball

History for 20 game winners so that was his baned year and as you pointed that Frank you don’t look for him ever do that again only five other pitchers have had better winning percentages than he as you look at Dale Murphy Murphy hitting 25

Four 18 home runs 81 runs bed in and a swing and a miss Nerf’s obviously coming near the end of the line he’s got another year here on a contract with Philadelphia uh I don’t know whether they would play him every day next year I suppose that they would but what a

Wonderful ball player he has been down through the last couple of decades Murphy with 396 Major League home runs he’s 26 in the all all time list he’s hit 32 of those home runs against the New York Mets one ball one strike the count he’s changed his batting stance

Considerably there he goes fishing on that one on the good curveball he’s moved up on the plate considerably used to be way away right now he’s got that front foot right on the plate you see him move away from the plate when he makes that stride he’s got

Those long arms and that’s a problem onew pitch and the curve ball for a ball two and two I would think he’d be vulnerable inside to the fast ball out I wouldn’t want to throwing the ball in the outside corner where he can extend those arms because he still has

The power ability to get the ball out of this Ballpark and get it out quickly two balls two strikes to count and ball three so it goes to a Full Count you had in my mind one of the great hitters of all time who stood right on top of that plate Frank

Robinson when you were the general manager of the Baltimore oriles that’s true and I I I think the best year I’ve ever seen a single ball player have was in 1966 when Frank won the Triple Crown he was on his way to his second Triple Crown the next year and he got

Hurt he did get hurt and we had said you know there’ve been years since there was a triple crown winner particularly in the American League and he won it in 66 and everybody said it won’t happen for another 20 years 1967 Carol yky for Boston and won the

Triple Crown the very next year with two marvelous ball players three balls two strikes that’s leading in the game three to nothing and again the foul ball so it stays at three and two Frank Robinson probably be one of the greatest trades that ever was made

And it was your trade right well lfil had really set up the trade and uh when we got to take over he called in Harry Dalton he was going to be my baseball person and he told us that uh we could make this trade if we wanted to and

Harry and I talked about it Harry very much wanted to make it and we went ahead and made it but and uh mil papis for mil papis and at that time while in retrospect it seems like an easy decision to make it was never very easy to give up your

Absolute best pitcher which we had to do at that time so it did take some some thought before making the trade but it was a wonderfully uh uh good trade for the Baltimore Orioles hope swinging the Miss A strikes out the side as he gives up one more and

On his way to the National Le strike Out Crown the Mets leading after one by a score of three to nothing back here at veteran stadium in a football game played here last night Frank yeah Tempo played Penn State Temple gave him a little bit of scare early on but Penn

State come back to win it the remarkable thing about that is that we finished a baseball game here at 4:00 yesterday afternoon or so they had a football game here at 9:00 last night we now are back uh playing baseball here today you can see the football configuration from this

High camera that they’re showing you and it’s Charlie O’Brien the lead it off of the Mets Mets leading three to nothing with three quick runs and O’Brien batting at 189 the lead it off here in the second O’Brien with two home runs 14 RB Andy asby is on the mom for

Philadelphia and the youngster with a fast ball for a strike that’s one and one Ashby looks to me like a pitcher that could get better uh with a few more years experience he’s been a successful pitcher in the in the minor league particularly the last two

Years of reading and at Scranton in the in the Philadelphia chain has be 11 and 11 in his minor league Year and that pitch in the dirt and to count two balls and two strikes 161 and 1/3 Innings at Granton wberry he struck out 113 batters while walking just

60 and the count goes to three and two three and two to Charlie O’Brien who has struggled with the bat to his first two years with the New York Mets and he is struck out you’re watching Mets baseball 91 on WW TV universal line seeus New

Jersey I love the way you roll out that caucus New Jersey number David that’ll bring up David Cohen well the Mets have been carried on universal 9 since 1962 their 30th year caring the Mets games on Channel 9 as con tanks for ball one con hitting 130 has nine hits this

Year you well know con is no out up there he can make contact he’ll get some base hits missed the fast ball and it’s one ball on one stride he led the league in the National League among pitchers with the most base hits couple of years ago with

18 and he fouls off the fast ball and he is the only Mets pitcher as a pinch hitter to get a base hit I was just going to mention that that he is and he loves to to hit sometimes you see when the game is on the line it gets tight

Down there we’re running out of pinch hitters hook it up and grab a bat and wants to let the manager know that he’s available and he bounces this one to the shortstop batist nice throw over the first base for the out speaking of Short Stops when you

Were with the Baltimore Oriol you had one that might be considered the best feeling short stop ever Mark Banger hard to uh hard to imagine anybody better and that organization in ‘ 66 apparicio was the short stop behind him in the minor legs we had Davy Johnson had been a

Short stop made him a second baseman in the major leagues behind him Bobby grit behind him uh several other uh good Short Stops Bobby Balor who now manages uh in the Toronto chain was another short stop Kiko Garcia was another short stop in that organization from top to bottom

They had outstanding Short Stops Mark blaner as you mentioned probably the best of them all and Daryl Boston with the count of one ball and no strengths darl tripled his first time up off the fence and right field scored the first run of the ball game the Mets leading three nothing

In this final game of the year won again doing a good job as a utility outfielder picked up an unconditional waivers and he lines this one the right field where Murphy makes the play and that will retire the side well hit ball but turned into an

Out in the score at the end of one and a half Innings the Mets three and the Phillies nothing Well if you’ve ever wondered what lindsy Nelson did with his jackets after he got through wearing them here’s one of Lindsay’s old jackets being passed on to a clown but tell me

Ralph you are the fashion play what kind of slacks would you wear with the jacket you can put anything on anything you want got a matching tie I like that of course the Chapo is all PR nice as we go to the bottom of the second the Mets

Leading 3 nothing and Dave Hollands will lead it off oll hitting 297 I like the shoes alland a switch hitter and showing good power from both sides and he rips this one up the alley and left Center it’ll be at least the double Austin plays it Holland on his way to third

Decides not to go and holds up at second base with a double so C struck out the side in the first gives up a double here in the [Applause] second here’s that pitch again looks like it’s right down the middle tonight yeah it is right down over the plate he

Extends those arms and get a switch hitter switch hitting third baseman another one of the Philadelphia regular I think next year he’ll be playing Third Base every day along with de and Kim bestis will be the trucks of the infield for Philadelphia well now the batter rookie

Jordan the first baseman he’s been a disappointment hitting 274 this year but showing a lot of Promise in his rookie year this year he’s had nine home runs and 49 RBI and the fast ball for a ball two balls no strikes Jordan in his rookie year batted 308 with 11 home runs

In 69 Games first at bat he walked and in his second at bat in the major leagues he hit a home run a three-run home run off Bob Nipper big fell like that you would think he’d have a little more power but I think his Paris principally to the

Alleys he is a good uh kind of a clutch hitter he’s very good with minimum base and he fouls that one back into the stands Phillies have drawn over two million people as well as the mess a few other teams 2 million a necessity in today’s market isn’t it Frank certainly

Is and with a city this size it’s a it is a absolute necessity Bill JS and Dave Montgomery do a great job in running this franchise they haven’t had great success on the field in the last few years but it’s a good franchise they draw a lot of

People lot of New Yorkers here a lot of New Yorkers in the hotel it’s hard to play a game down here where it’s sometime during the course of the game you do not hear or you do hear that old Cry of let’s go Mets so David Cohen keeps his record intact as he

Strikes out his fourth batter all of his outs have been on strikeouts and that’ll bring up Castile and he swings misses strike one Castile hitting one 184 no home runs two runs batted in and the curve ball two strikes to count Mets leading three nothing the

Phillies with a runner at second one man out and swinging a miss so another strikeout five strikeouts at this pace Frank he will strike out 27 batters and set a new record I would not want to hold my breath at the better but he certainly is off to a good

Beginning this is the last chance for Tim McCarver to make good on his prediction that David gone would be the first first Mets player to pitch a no hit no Run game he’s got one going here right now through the first inning and then he blew it so Tim has disappointed

This again he predicted a no hit no Run game by David con this year I had heard that I’ll tell you he came CL so con pitched a one hitter and also a one hitter for seven Innings and two of his appearances since Tim made that prediction he said a tongue and cheek

Obviously no Mets pitcher has ever pitched a no hit no Run game that’s amazing isn’t it with all the great pitchers that they have had or we have had with this franchise our ball down the line I think the Hallmark of this franchise has been its great ping certainly not great

Hitting no Mets players ever hit 300 in a lifetime Keith Hernandez with the highest batting average as a Mets player at 297 And the slider for a ball and it’s one ball and two strikes about David is and all his pitches are above average he’s got above average fast ball he’s got above average slider he’s got above average football pitching to Doug Lindsay batting for the first time in the major

Leagues and he goes down on strik so corn is struck out his first six outs all of his outs have been on strikeouts through the first two innings last day of the year for the Metson Phillies and of course regular season baseball in the National League and the American

League and of course you by now know that Atlanta has won the Western Division over the Dodgers and it’ll be Atlanta and Pittsburgh in the championship series game time number one the first first game will be played on Wednesday and the first pitch to Miller as the Mets bat here in the third

Leading three to nothing taken for strike one it has really done something for the City of Atlanta they got a cute story in the paper Frank Dolson a fine writer for the Philadelphia enquire has a story about Greg Olsen the catcher Olsen walked into a waffle house and he

Was immediately recognized the waiters told him how much she had riding on the pen she’d been going with a guy she said a year or so ago and she asked him when he was going to pop the question about marrying him marrying her and that the fell answered with when the Braves won

The pen of course they were in last place last year he thought he was off the hook now that they won I guess you’ll be getting married shortly he’s he’s going to have to pay the piper there’s the 2-1 pitch and it’s a ball so it’s three and one to Keith

Miller who doubled his first time up Lanta Braves with their alltime record attendance this year going over the two-minute Mark Johnny shhawks went down there did a couple of things I think they had great young pitching and they were on their way to having a good ball Club he

Cemented it he did a marvelous job with that te one of the benefits of finishing last so many years as they did was the fact you get the first round draft choices and they they come through when you get first pick in the nation or at

Least the first four and the ground ball hits slowly the more the second baseman and Miller is [Applause] out talking about the National League playoff schedule this is the way it will be race versus a par on Wednesday in Pittsburgh and Thursday in Pittsburgh and then Saturday and Sunday Monday they

Go in Atlanta then Wednesday and Thursday back in Pittsburgh it’s the best four out of seven what do you think about that Playoff round can we put you on the spot well first we better talk about the American League playoffs where Minnesota Twins and the Toronto Blue

Jays we play Tuesday and Wednesday in Minnesota Friday through Sunday in Toronto then we return to Minnesota if necessary on Tuesday and Wednesday October 15 and 16 also I best uh four out of seven two teams that finished last last year Minnesota and the Atlanta Braves remarkable what a

Turnaround so there’s hope for the Mets next year yeah I think that there’s a lot of Hope for the Mets next year tell me what you think about the playoffs you I’m trying to get out of that championship series the longer I been around baseball the less I know this one

Popped up to left field makes the play I would like to see Pittsburgh with it obviously I have something special there Pittsburgh of course my my team when I played baseball most of my major league career but I actually think Pittsburgh has an outstanding ball Club I think they got a

Good chance to win Jim has done done a great job at that ball club and bringing them together they lost some people this year uh they lost Sid Breen who went to uh prbly who who went to Atlanta and he still put them back together and put together outstanding ball Club one more

Games this year than they won a year ago and of course Atlanta acquiring Sid bream he was a factor to some degree although he missed quite a few ball games but the big man over there was Pendleton who might lead the national leag in hitting he’s leading by two

Points over Tony Gwyn right now at 319 if he doesn’t play today he will win the national league championship and he was picked up as a free agent hard Smash in the hole great play by bati a long throw not in time and M Reynolds has an

Infield hit but batis making a fine stop and a strong arm right there too huh yeah he’s got a good credentials good Scouting Report which I mentioned Previously here he goes way way over in the hole way over stops see how he sets himself and then gets it across too many young Short Stops will try and throw that ball off balance but he’s going to get up he’s going to set himself right there and then comes overhand and across

The diamond so MC Reynolds with a base hit the Mets Fifth and they have a runaround with tumat and Greg Jeff the B one strike the count Jeff a disappointment what how does he fit into your plans that’s got to be a tough question question on Jeff was uh is nail

Will continue to be what position does he play uh looks to me like he’s going have to be a third baseman there was a wild wild pitch not just a wild pitch but a wild wild pitch that’s a major league wild pitch right there linday is going to have to

Position himself a little bit higher that ball had to get away from him he couldn’t have well we saw Tommy green throw run against the screen at Trey Stadium earlier this year and then he went out and pitched to no hit no Run game Tommy green was scheduled to start this game

Today but when the Phillies clinched uh third place I they came on with the youngster had a good year he did have a good year no hit no Run game against Montreal here the Murphy trade from Atlanta that was a good trade for Philadelphia yes it [Applause] was and a line drive to right field as Jeff hits it hard the throw by Murphy he’s got a strong arm and not in time and going down to second on the throw as

Jeff the Mets now lead four to nothing They gave him a single called it second on the throw good [Applause] scoring he hits that ball sharply to right fiet hard to say whether good throw would have gotten him there or not it would have been awful close as it was the ball’s a little bit up the line catcher has to reach for it come back Tim m bar has told you ad

Nauseum that the catcher wants a ball on the other side he never wants to turn his back on the runner which you have to do there and he course to me is exactly right one of the game’s better catchers than through the years and the batter

Now is Chris Donalds and he takes the first pitch with strike one Donald single the center field to drive in a run in the first inning that’s now leading by a score of 4 nothing as they bat here with tanad in the top of the Third ground ball to the second baseman Moren

Dei that retires aside but the Mets get one on two hits and they leave one well we’re going to the bottom of the third the Mets leading four to nothing and Andy Ashby will be the leadoff batter the pitcher takes the first pitch of called strike love a son Gregory to

Works in that menow Park Mall so I’m sure he’ll be spending a lot of his time at lunch up there look going through the Met memorabilia he’s a major Met fan as you can imagine has to be has be one for 11 in his major league

Career and the breaking ball for a ball and it’s one and two at the risk of this young man standing up and getting a base hit he doesn’t look like a hitter right and we’ll see if he can get the bat on the ball he does that and that’ll break the

Stren Jeffrey should drop it ball was in foul territory if Jeff Jeff drops the ball then Cohen would have a shot at the alltime strikeout record of consecutive strikeouts he had struck out his first six batters the record for consecutive strikeouts is 10 held by Tom saver he did that for the

Mets against the San Diego Padres perhaps Jay harwit should have gone down and warned them of that so that they would have thought about that possibility we’re only folks we’re only kidding players don’t drop balls actually now I got a story for you and it’s a true

Story Dizzy Dean was pitching the ball game he had made a wager a small wager that he would strike out Vince dagio Jo de maio’s brother four times in the ball game he struck him out three times and the fourth time he came up and hit a pop

Fly in foul territory like that Dean ran over and yelled at the third baseman that dropped the ball which he did and then he came back and struck out the Mao for the fourth time and one on his bet so those things have taken place I guess nowadays they’d have a major

Investigation on it thinking of the stature of dizzy I’m sure that by that time the third baseman was shaking hearing dizzy yelling in his ear I saw uh Stan Mel the other day was with him the other day New York and he of course played his armonica which he will do at

The drop of a hat anywhere at any time any time and and he he mentioned Dizzy Dean Dean I think played armonica too didn’t he he did I know he did sing and there’s a swing and a miss and that is the seventh strikeout here’s a look at the Macy’s

National league scoreboard Montreal Pittsburgh are nothing nothing in the fourth Houston Atlanta the same way in the first St Louis and Chicago no scor in the first Cincinnati and San Diego go at it later and of course the game on the west coast uh which now becomes a

Meaningless game between Los Angeles and uh the the Giants and this ball is fouled off so the count one and one a lot has been made Frank Ashen about the Rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers I think it’s a very healthy rivalry and I know it it stems from the

Top uh you and I both know one of the great gentleman and great competitors in this game Al Rosen who is a general manager of the Giants and um and you know that he has much dis like for the Dodgers he also doesn’t like to lose that’s another and I think those two

Combinations I’m going to have to call out here in the day or so and congratulating really on his team’s performance because it was a crucial series and and I sat like everyone else and watch those games on television and and uh the Giants just played superb

Baseball they really were up for it of course it doesn’t hurt when you got a full house behind you all the time and of course they knocked the Dodgers off too straight to knock them out of the championship that rivalry of course started in New York where it was even

Bigger the Dodgers and the Giants were bigger Rivals there than they are in San Francisco and La I don’t think those people in Los Angeles understand that but uh we were in New York very much [Applause] too that’s great for baseball that the come down to that race in the final you

Know next the last day of the season in the races finally decided I say it’s great from afar if I was there he’d rather win sooner I’d rather win by 12 and again a foul ball and this one right underneath it so the count stays at three and two on Moren

Dei who was walked his first time up metla in four nothing around the anniversary of the greatest so-called game ever played the playoff game Bobby Thompson’s home run off of Ralph banka when the Giants defeated the Dodgers in 1951 in the playoffs and that is only the second out

Made that wasn’t a strikeout in this ball game as Miller makes the catch and David Cen walks off with seven strikeouts in the first three Innings well the first pitch here in the top of the fourth inning hit hard by Jeff Gardner to the first baseman Jordan

Makes a nice stop as he knocks down the line drive and picks up the out there’s that play gner hits the ball solidly gets a nice inside fast ball drives it into Jordan’s glove out of Jordan’s glove but he recovers quickly and makes the put out

Himself so one pitch and one away as Charlie O’Brian steps in the Mets leading four nothing three in the first one in the third Jordan taking an extra base hitway from Jeff Garden know that first inning we had the umbrellas going up we had a light rain started to fall

But it was was a very short duration and again the first pitch is hit getaway day Hollins g at the first base and no’ Brian is out two pitches two men [Applause] out all right let’s take a look at the Budweiser American League scoreboard where Cleveland is defeating New York

One nothing in four Milwaukee and Boston tied won a piece at four Detroit and Baltimore delayed by rain Toronto 10 over Minnesota Oakland and Kansas Texas Kansas City California Chicago Seattle all at later times and David con the batter and he hits the first pitch and

This will be a three- pitch inning just the way we like it on get away day and three men are out so David conen flies out the left to end the inning and the score at the end of three and a half Innings it is the Mets four and the Phillies

Nothing stand by the Chase Manhattan Bank Chase profit from the experience and we’re going to the bottom half of the fourth inning the Mets leading by a score of 4 nothing West Chamberlain will lead it off Chamberlain has struck out in his one bat and there’s strike two David con has

Struck out seven in the first three Innings he will lead the national league in strikeouts he now has a total of 229 strikeouts last year he struck out 232 to lead the major leaks and he misses high and it’s one and two I’m working with Frank cashion

Who has taken the place of Tim McCarver here in this final game Frank it’s nice to have you with us but we got to ask you who’s going to be the Mets new manager there’s strikeout number eight uh Ralph I don’t know who is going to be the Met manager Al Harrison’s

Going to make that decision I do know that he has set no particular timetable to get it done although he is anxious to get it done sooner than later what is sooner than later sooner would be uh before the end of the world series I would think he would expect to have so

Many of course one of the candidates Mike cubage who is running the ball Club right now after the departure of Bud harelson right Mike’s a good baseball man manag for us in the minor leagues is one wherever he’s been very thorough baseball Le what are you looking for in a manager

It’s different in New York there’s no doubt about it well I’m glad that you did that preamble to your question because the truth of the matter is that it is a little different in New York than anywhere else uh you want an experienced baseball person I guess the

Number one requirement would be somebody who can communicate with 25 ball players let them know where they stand um at all times pretty much uh tell them they’re going to be sitting on the bench tell them if they’re going to be pitching out of the a bullpen I say that because some

Few years ago as you will test that we ruled by the fear syndrome you know you do it my way or we’ll bury you in the minor leagues forever of course kind of what branch Ricky used to tell you that’s right we can finish last without you but

Today you have to be able to communicate so know the game communicate with players I guess the added thing in New York is that you have to be able to handle a a very large and a very inquisitive uh press gr that’s not as easy as one might think

Uh it’s something you have to look for you have to get somebody who has ball players don’t have to like them but they certainly got to respect them so somebody who has to respect the ball that one there’s a swinging strike out as Murphy gets a lot of distance on the

Throw close to the record but not a new and that is strikeout number nine for David con and he is tacking up some pretty good numbers here here he comes with this pitch again and he he really fools mareld he’s out there in front of that pitch and there goes the

Bat pretty good form though the way he threw that think went down to one knee got almost as much distance as you possibly can not a world record but a close to it I’d give him about a nine on a scale of one to 10 one to 10

And that’ll bring up Dave Holland who has the only hit for the Philadelphia Phillies he doubled in his first at bat and he takes that pitch for strike one you know this uh Dave Holland has shown something I don’t like to see here and that is he

Seems to have the ability to hit very well against the New York Mets he’s uh he’s just done a good job against us and he fouls this one away and at strike two he’s done a better job hitting right-handed than left by far Dave comes out of Buffalo in fact

Out of Orchard Park High School where some of my good friends that I play a lot of golf with the Jun and Gus hack are out of that area G heck was a was an engineer out of John Hopkins who worked in Buffalo for many years and somehow always wants to talk

About the Buffalo Bills why would you think that I don’t understand because they all they do is win Course Buffalo a candidate for a major league franchise as a fellow named Rich up there has been trying to get a franchise in Buffalo just to put it in perspective

That would be a tough place to put a ball Club not because of the city and not because of the fact they wouldn’t draw they’ve drawn a million people in minor league baseball but the fact that they infringe on a lot of TV areas uh by being in that location

That’s true their proximity to Montreal and uh would be a you know would be a difficult Cleveland Boston Cleveland Detroit Detroit Detroit is actually very close in there Toronto the other Canadian team is in there Dave Hollands uh was originally signed by San Diego and then the

Phillies picked him up in 1989 in the rule five draft the rule five draft is a draft whereby if a ball player has played organized baseball for three years and is not on a Major League roster he can be picked up and that’s the way d Hollands was secured by

Philadelphia as David con adds another C another strike out to his record 10 strikeouts and the game isn’t halfway over the record is being approached by David con and we’ll be back with the Mets leading four to nothing after four well back here at veteran Stadium the Mets are leading four to nothing

After four Innings of play and David con has struck at 10 men through the first four Innings a record of course 20 strike out in the nining ball game by Mr Clemens of the Boston Red Sox as Daryl Boston leads it off of the Mets Daryl with a triple and a run scored

Moves into buing position and takes ball one some of the races R for surprises we talked about Atlanta going from last to First and Minnesota following the same course the Toronto win over Boston I think was they look like the two class teams in the East and the Boston battled

Them for a while but Toronto won it easily the other division of baseball uh the uh American League and that pitch a ball Minnesota yeah Minnesota winning easily easily nine games up on the white sock and of course Oakland 11 games back and they were in the World Series last year it

Changes quickly doesn’t it baseball experts whoever they may be there had predicted that the best division in baseball was the American League West because they had such great teams and they didn’t even mention Minnesota but Oakland and California who actually finished up last and almost a 500 year though California had uh one

Game under 500 I guess they could finish at 500 and had three pitchers who had a good shot at winning 20 ball games a lot of good teams out there yet Minnesota made a absolute mock of it walked away with the divisional two balls two strikes on

Boston who’s one for two in this game the mens have six hits and the Phillies have one and there’s a half swing and a strike out for Andy Ashby is fourth in the ball game remember drinking responsibly makes good sense please know when to say when a reminder from

Budweiser great sponsors throughout the year one away in the top of the fifth inning and Keith Miller the better Keith doubled his first time up is one for two today and he takes a strike Miller hitting 270 for the year finally getting a chance to play his favorite position second base he was

Always regarded as a great Prospect in your minor league operations yes he was and for the things that you see here particularly late in this season he’s a spark plug he’s the kind of person you like to have early in the lineup he can do a lot of things uh

Defensively he has always been better than adequate second baseman with better than adequate arm not outstanding but a very good everyday Bowl player keeping him healthy as you know has been the major problem he plays hard and gets hurt a lot and the one- two pitch fou off the

Can stay at one and two speaking of playing hard one of your parades that has been criticized Lenny Dy and Lenny Dy of course is heard and on the disabled list right now he broke his collar ball running into the fence in Cincinnati and uh when he was traded to

The Phillies he had a very poor finish for the Phillies out in that year that he was traded then came back to become the player that Mets always thought he could be but you traded him off we did trade him off and he came over here to

Philadelphia and he had a very poor year for the rest of the year at the end of the year they offered to trade him back that’s probably our mistake was not in trading him but not taking him back uh I think what happened to Len is that he

Came over here found out he had a very poor last half of the season and said to himself uh maybe I better do what they’ve been trying to get me to do for a long time which is to go with the pitch and to hit it and not to worry

About trying to pull the ball and be power hungry once he did that he became a splendid hitter and had some had a great year that was going with a great year this year when he was home this one is going to be gone goodbye Keith Miller

With his fourth home run and the Mets lead it 5 to nothing we were just talking about what kind of ball player L is and he’s got that ability to hit the ball long way as well as goil to Steel basis AR plug the infield he couldn’t possibly have him been

Having a Sal drive this is the last day of the year but he does have two extra base hits and three at BS but he shows that he can hit the ball for some distance although he’s never shown that in a regular season throughout the year there he goes

And he gets all of it it’s right above well above the belt it’s right there almost on the verge of being a ball but he went up and got it and drove it and now the batter is Howard Johnson who needs an RBI to be the leader in

Runs bad and he has really struggled trying to win that department as Keith Miller goes to the water cooler suppose the easiest way for him to do that hit the ball out of the ballpark just like no did he will lead the National League in home runs with

His 38 one short of the Mets Club record Daryl strawberry has that and there’s the fast ball two strikes the count Johnson has taken over the RBI record for the New York Mets with his 116 also is tied for the club record and run scored with 108 tied with darl strawberry in that

Department he is having some so to you isn’t indeed I’ve been a super year with the B we’ll be talking to Howard Johnson after the ball game about his great season and he hits a softline drive the first a good play on it by Jordan and the throw

Over to First is an award throw and Ashby makes the fo out at first as Johnson is out for the third time it’s almost a casual throw over there but it was right on the money there have no doubt about it let’s see that play again made good contact throw the ball over

There nicely look at that almost a jump throw jump pass so two men away and that brings up Kevin mcgold who’s had not a good year and the pitch is fou away well he hasn’t had a good year and I noticed the other day when sever of the writers ask

Him about about it he was very uh very tur about it said I did not have a good year I don’t know why I never seemed to get the thing going he a man of very few words tur is a understatement but you know he also

Said I don’t worry about it that would scare me I would worry about a bad year well I would worry about a bad year too as I worry about this year and the is taken for a ball it’s two balls and one strike you know when a

Team goes well and wins just like when we were winning constantly not one ball player carries a team they have to take turns the team somebody carries it for a while they slack off somebody else picks it up we never had that luxury this year

Of anybody picking it up and as I said at the top of the show uh if the collapse of the Mets this year was a real team effort this one is far enough is it fair if it’s Fair it’s gone and it is foul foul ball not by very much but foul

Ball it was a team effort here we’re going to see that play again and here it is we don’t have a great angle in reading that ball I noticed while it looked very close to us that Kevin never really left the plate so I’m sure he was thought it was going

To be a foul ball Kevin will be off to Arkansas to be going and fishing which are his off season activities he’d rather be on the cover of uh Field and Stream than on Sports Illustrated as he walks in the Met have Runner first so he’s one for three having

Singled in the third inning and later scored Greg Jeff drilled the ball to right field and Jeff is the batter two for two je Jeff nine home runs 61 runs batted in hitting 270 and that ball gets away from Lindsay and MC Rey’s down the second on the wild

Pitch was that a wild pitch I thought that ball should have been caught maybe it did bounce in there Bounds No didn’t bounce it’s going to be a pass ball oh he’s having a tough time he is having a tough time for his debut in the major leagues Doug Lindsay catching his first game in the major leagues and a ball call so it’s two and0 good looking size for a catcher on you

Know I know a little bit about him from the eastern league there’s Jim froi took over this ball Club early on one of the the early changes in managerial almost the second week of the second third week of the season and has done a good job with the Philadelphia ball Club Jim’s

Third managing assignment he managed for the Angels he managed for the white socks and now it’s over managing in the National League with the Phillies three and0 the count the Jeff he takes a strike three and one looks like we’re getting some action in a bullpen there’s Bruce ruffing the

Left-handed pitcher now warming up that’s leading five to nothing as they bat here in the top of the fifth and the feature of this ball game 10 strikeouts by David con through four Innings seems to me the Phillies announced today that one of their coaches was not coming back is that what

You heard I didn’t hear that yeah Howen there is it yes it was Howen here former Major League manager and this ball popped up into center field Jeff flying out to Center as Castillo makes the catch in the Inning on meds get one on the home run by Keith Miller he also

Had a walk and the runner left on and the score at the end of four and 1 half Innings the Mets five and the Phillies nothing Well we’d like to remind you this copyrighted telecast is authorized under television rights granted by the New York Met solely for the entertainment of our audience any

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Prohibited bottom of the fifth and Ricky Jordan Del laay it off and the curve ball swung on a Miss well speed pitch just to clarify what we were talking about before the Phillies announced today that four of their five coaches will be back they are Mike Ryan John

Brovich Larry boa Dennis miny and Johnny Padres but that Hal lanir will not return uh he is going to be succeeded by a young man out of the uh out of the uh Philadelphia system um how lanir was the manager of Houston in that 86 championship series when the Mets

Played then which I’m sure you will never ever forget that series and that ball game that went on and on and on six game that the Mets won 16 Innings yes that’s the game like Bo’s name I’ve heard around the still possible uh managerial material there was some thought about John lukovich perhaps

Moving on to manage a ball Club somewhere and another strike out for David Co is 11th in this game he has struck out four in a row here’s David Cohen he needs one strike out to surpass last season’s career high of 233 and the manner in which he’s

Coasting through that game I would expect fully expect that we’d see that and not in the very I mean see it in the very near future and the batter is Rolo Castillo who was struck at his first half pH have made only two outs other than strikeouts on this ball game as

Going with a count of strike two on castio and a ground ball to the short stop fielded by Gardner the throw it first for the out so now three outs other than strikeouts couple other baseball announcements today uh the Padres announced that GRE Riddick would be back along with all his coaches for

The 92 season that was a matter of uh some uh some controversy some people thought that Joe mlan might replace him but he announced today that he would be back the other significant thing in baseball today is the final game being played in Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium

Now the batter is Lindsay and he takes for ball one that should have a little tug at your heartstrings it does I was invited to go down there for the final game they’ve had big dinner last night they have another party tonight after the game and you know the way I hate

Parties Ralph but I would much rather be here with you uh they had an interesting idea which I suppose they they did make them off another good curveball for strike two that idea was he invited all the players that had played for the Orioles there in that stadium and they were all

Going to put on their uniforms and then they would all go to the positions that they play Cony gets another strike out equals that Mark MOS him down again one two three inning and his 12th strike out and the score at the end of five it’s a Mets five and the

Phillies nothing Jim lindan the new first baseman as they make a double switch and bring in another pitching Bruce Ruffin the new pitcher with a record of 4 and s ear run average of 3.77 his second appearance in this series and he’ll be working to Chris Donalds as his first batter the leading

Five to nothing Andy Ashby out of the ball game after five innings of work charged with five runs on a total of seven base hits while striking out four and walking one saw the Philly fanatic there during the break doing some line dancing with some of the usherettes

Here to know who his choreographer is he’s something else is he a good piece of talent he is good Donald’s one for two in the game and now having to face the left-hander he takes a strike and ruffing misses away in the count one ball and one

Strike Chris is one for two in this ball game he um single to Center Goen a run in the first inning and he goes too far in the half swing and it’s strike two one ball and two strikes Chris Donalds Chris donals lyola maram Mount College in California are number one draft

Choice and he is struck out so Ruffin strikes out his first batter and that’ll bring up Jeff Gardner Jeff o for two met five runs on seven hits the Phillies no runs on one hit and the feature of the ball game the strikeouts by David con now has 12 surpassing last

Year’s total of 233 now has 234 the National League record for strikeouts held by Steve Carlton and Tom sver 19 Carlton did it against the Mets and lost the ball game he is the only pitcher in Major League history who has struck out 19 batters and lost and a Fly ball to left

Field so two men away and Charlie o’ban will be the batter that game that he lost Ron swaba had two home runs in the ball game to beat him is that right that’s that was 1969 a year that Mr cashon would like to forget in a year which everybody brings up

Constantly as the Mets beat Baltimore Frank Ashen was the general manager of Baltimore that year that’ss winning four of the five games after losing the first Tom cver the losing pitcher the Mets one four in a row seems to me the first batter Donnie Buford to face cver hadit

A home run that’s right and the Orioles went out in front I thought the ball should have been caught by Ron swaboda was just over the right field fence Ron SWOT has got no apologies to make about that series he made some catches one against Brooks Robinson where he made a

Diving backhand catch but let us talk about other things now change the subject quickly no it was listen took me a number of years but I finally did admit it was a great thing for baseball when the Mets came and won that Series in 69 Mets coming from Ninth Place to

Win in 1969 of course that was when there was 10 teams in the division and that’s coming from from ninth this year Atlanta coming from Sixth and Minnesota coming from sixth place to win was Minnesota seventh I forgot they were last seven seventh what’s going to happen Frank

Ashen uh with the expansion what kind of a schedule are we going to have well that’s a u that’s a subject that everybody in baseball is uh talking about these days but Charlie O’Brien goes down swinging and uh we’re going to move into the bottom of the

Sixth inning here and we’ll be back in a minute we cap drug free New York week with the 1991 walk away from drugs over the Queensboro Bridge on Sunday October 27th at 10:00 a.m. to register call outre project at 718 847 9233 718 847 9233 bottom of the sixth inning the Mets

Leading five nothing and David con tching to Jim Linderman who is batting for the first time in this game lindman coming in the ball game when the Phillies made a double switch lindman at first base and ruffing came in Pitch Tim lindman was a long time St Louis Cardinal ball player

Was scheduled or rumored to be you know going to be a pretty good hitter with power never really quite made it over there when Lee Thomas came over here from St Louis to Philadelphia he acquired Lan’s contract he’s been an extra ball player has occasional power batting 344 for the year with no

Home runs 12 runs batted in and swing at the fast ball two and two Lan bothered with a bad back he’s had a couple of operations yeah he uh he has been out for huge chunks of the season two and two the count and The Swinging a miss and David con gets his

13th strikeout that matches his career high we’re going to take another look at that strikeout and here it is like so many of David Cohen’s pitches it’s either borderline or out of the strike zone but he’s got that good stuff that good motion on the ball his bow is

Really moving today there’s a good fast ball you could see the movement on that one as Kim ba East that’ss for the third time he has struck out twice he has struck him out twice with balls high and outside of the strike zone since that’s the way he’s been going and it’s let’s

See if he stays the same way that ball was low a good low strike let’s see if he takes the ball highing outside again cor has struck out 13 batters three times in his major league career this makes it the fourth he tried to get him high on outside but he didn’t bite

Let’s see if he goes back out there where Charlie’s sitting he’s sitting right down Broadway and there’s his 14th strike out and that ties the national league high for this year doc goodon struck out 14 good struck out 14 against Montreal earlier this year yeah here’s a fast ball rightow fast ball right on the outside for just overmatched it and now the batter is Mickey morandini who has not struck out is the only batter to be able to say that and he still hasn’t struck out as

He singles for the second hit out David Co Morini had walked his first time up and had popped to Second and now he has single to center field David con hadn’t given up a base hit since lead off double to Dave Holland in the second inning David then came back and struck

Out the side to leaves THS to leave Hollands at second base and now the batter will be West Chamberlain who has struck out twice in the curveball snapping over in the strike zone for strike one good fast ball and strike two but he just powered that one right by

Him he has great command of all of his pitches today what been the difference and he hasn’t nibbled at all he gets ahead two strikes and comes right back after the hitters he’s too strong to nibble he can really power you out of there and it’s high for a ball it’s one

And two you almost feel like’s a pitcher’s going to cheat himself and he has that kind of equipment to nibble at all D with a record of 13 and 14 and a curve again two and two he has a major leg curve ball very few pitchers have that the Mets have two curveball pitchers and Doc good and David Cen very few pitchers have curve balls anymore they throw the slur and the fast ball foul back and it

Stays at two balls in two strikes toughest pitch to hit you know the MS may be in an unusual position over the winner and that is a point out in looking for another star uh starting pitching has been the strength of this par for many years but with Doc good

Coming back from surgery and Sid Fernandez coming back from surgery in in order to have some insurance policies they may have to go out and get them David Gets another strike out and West Chamberlain throws down his batting helmet and his Bat in disgust but that’s it for the

Philadelphia Phillies in the six and we move to the top of the seven well fans David Co with 15 strikeouts through his first six Innings he has nine outs to go and he needs five to tie the alltime record of 20 and he will be working on that in the

Seventh inning we’re going to the top of the seventh and for the MS lead off batter will be David with no hit two his BS and he takes for ball one we were talking about the expansion with Frank cashen and what’s going to happen with the new schedule

And whatever when it comes about in 1993 actually uh the the two new teams which are the Florida Marlins and the Denver Rockets will be able to to draft in the the amateur draft in June but the telling draft is going to come after the 1992 season when they will have their

Real expansion draft the way the draft will operate is that each team will be able to write down 15 players that are protected they will then have one of the expansion teams will have their pick of the 16th ball player on your club which should be a very good good ball player

As David con takes a walk gets free transportation to first base and then after they select one you’re allowed to draw three more players back back and then they have the right to select the next player on your ball club which would be the 19th player

On your ball club and they can draft anybody that is eligible for the rule five graft so anybody who has had three or more years experience will be eligible for the gra and that pitch by Ruffin is in the dirt it gets by Lindsay and that will be

A wild pitch and C moves down to Second here’s that pitch again and he just B bounces the ball Lings he’s got no chance on this one that’s leading five nothing the runner at second with no one out darl Boston the batter we don’t want con to start using

Up his energies running the bases with the kind of pitching performance he’s put on here today maybe that’s her strategy get him on and wear him out although it’s a very cool day here in Philadelphia after some very very warm weather Maybe refused his jacket though well we’ve been blessed this year with

Really uh good weather right down to this the final thing the final day of the season I haven’t uh worn a top coat in any bow game you’ve been to since last uh spring in Chicago well she can wear a top coat in Chicago in the summertime or San Francisco or San

Francisco Boston with a count of one and two the Mets leading 5 nothing we’re in the top of the seventh inning the last game of the year and it’s fouled off to can stay of one and two on the roof in the uh expansion draft anybody who is a 5 and 10 player

Which means he can only be traded with his permission or anybody that has a no trade contract must go on your 15-man list the trick really and I’ve been through this twice with the with the Orioles the trick really is to be able to protect your young allall players and

Still protect the nucleus of your major league club so the Mets will lose their 16th best player in your opinion or the Mets opinion for instance we have Jeremy Bernett who had a fantastic year home run wise and RBI wise at in the eastern league and he’s a good young ball player

That you would assume at this point in time you certainly would have to used to got an easy play across the good strong arm on that short stop Kim batist the short stop all right let’s take a look at the Macy’s national league scoreboard Pittsburgh has gone ahead of Montreal

One- nothing after five Houston over Atlanta fourth inning St Louis is losing to the Cubs 3 0 Cincinnati San Diego Los Angeles San Francisco starting later if the Cubs W that ball game and the Mets win the Mets will finish fifth Frac that’s true Ral

And of course in a way it’s a benefit to the New York Mets it increases her position in the draft when that comes up well more importantly by Philadelphia winning and I certainly would prefer to have finished third but uh what it does do that if we go into the free agency

Market which we have every expectation of doing uh we would then lose our first round draft choice if we finish in the first three places in the National National League East but by finishing fourth or fifth or sixth uh we would only lose a second round draft

Choice pop up into shallow center field the stadio that’s going to fall in it does fall in now know one at second here’s a play at the plate and it will be in time and home is out at the plate after deciding to go home after stopping

The third well he stopped the coach was waving him but he uh he just went in tried it into there and stood on a base and then was urged to go [Applause] home here’s that play again he has to hold up he has to look at the when the ball Falls

In he proceeds to Third Base but as you can see he’s not really running then he stopped they gave him the go sign but he was he was out almost all the way any kind of a decent throw would have gotten him and they did now runner at third as

Miller followed the play all the way around to Third and Johnson with a chance for an RBI and he holds it foul almost had two RB Johnson tied for the RBI leadership with 116 he’s tied with Will Clark it’ll be interesting to see whether or not Will Clark plays against the Dodgers in

That game at San Francisco and I’m sure he will because he’ll want that title by himself but you never know today really don’t talk the type of player that will play though he likes to play the game of baseball and he is a guy that shows up

And plays hard all the time one of the outstanding players in our game yes I certainly would subscribe to that Wally Richie is sowing in the bullpen for Philadelphia metch leading by a score of 5 nothing Johnson gets an RBI so he now has the leadership at

117 and it will be up to [Applause] cled good base hit by Howard Johnson his second run batted in in this series he’s had a lot of opportunities he’s left 11 men on base but he got the very important RBI right there no switch hitter has ever led the national league

In runs baded in there it is in the National League balls out there and he goes the other way with the pitch clean single and now another base hit the right field Johnson on his way to third the throw not in time and Johnson hustling even

Though it’s the last day of the Season he is the Home Run champion and he might be the RBI champ what you just saw is why Howard Johnson is a is the kind of ball player he is he is forever trying to get the extra base he always hustles he plays

Every day he plays injured you can’t say enough good things about Howard Johnson so the M now leading by a score is six to nothing and Jeff is a batter with Runners at first and third two minut up they just announced that they’re crediting Keith Miller with a two base

Hit third on the throw home that that got con at the plate Miller now with two doubles and the home run in this final game Jeff with a run batted in pops it up short step having the play and he makes the catch he tires inside retired that

Side of medium center field so one run on three hits and two men left on base and on the GE line score after 6 and A2 Innings the Met six and the Phillies nothing the big interest here of course he’s in David Cohen’s performance he’s got a chance at some records here and

Ralph uh take him away 15 strikeouts for David Conan he’s working to Dale Murphy he has nine more outs to go if he can strike out six of the remaining nine batters and that’s quite in order he will set the alltime strikeout record of 21 strikeouts and it’s popped up drop it

Don’t let it don’t catch it but Donald does make the play and so Murphy who had struck out his first two times up flies up pops up to the first basem Donald’s all right oh it’s all over in the American League but here are today’s scores the Yankees are 3 to2

Over Cleveland in the seventh the Boston leads Milwaukee 2-1 in the Seven Detroit is 4-1 over the baltimores in the third Toronto Minnesota tied up in the fifth Oakland Texas nothing nothing Kansas City California the Chago Seattle games will start later and now Dave Holland the batter Holland has doubled one of

The two hits that con has given up and he has struck out kind of like this young man’s back Ralph huh switch hitter too yeah switch hitter and con misses for ball two two balls and no strikes earlier this year in the American League Nolan Ryan had 16 strikeouts against Toronto that’s the

High for strikeouts in major league baseball this year conen has 15 and this ball hit out to right field it’s playable and Howard Johnson makes a catch so now David con has seven more outs and he’ll have to strike out six of the seven batters if he wants to break that alltime strikeout

Record of 20 set by Clemens back in 1986 against Seattle when he struck out 20 batters on April 29th 1986 Ron Jones steps in here as a pinch hitter for the pitcher first pitch all one Jones uh Prospect until he just tore up his leg against the Mets atadi and

Jones batting 160s had four hits this year And this ball hit in the air to right field and again it’s playable so now six outs to go and it’s turning against David Cen as he walks off the mound with 15 strikeouts through seven ends but he has the lead six to nothing and a new pitcher for Philadelphia Philadelphia Wally Richie

Is in the game a young left-handed pitcher another pitcher that spent most of the year in Scranton was brought up here after they had some injuries has not pitched all that much he was he’s been at Scranton for the last couple of years he was there in 89 again in 90 and

Again in 91 and pitching to Chris Donalds who is one for three in this game and this one grounded foul Richie was the pitcher earlier this year that got into a fight with noce Nixon after he hit Nixon with a pitch Nixon came out and kicked him and cut him with his

Spikes around the stomach and Richie was suspended for one day and Nixon also was suspended in that situation of course Nixon out for the season for a drug abuse suspension yeah look at a couple of pitchers just limbering up out there in the in the medf PIN can’t believe

They’re going to replace David K but I suppose it be tires High Fly ball to center field by Donalds and it’s caught by Castillo one away in the eighth B with 15 strikeouts certainly not warming up for tomorrow’s game we’ve gotten the starting pitchers for that series uh Pittsburgh Atlanta’s

Going to start Tommy glavin that’s to nobody’s surprise he’s 2011 Jim Leland had some chances there some things where he could go he’s going to open with Doug greyback who’s 15 and 14 he will open for Pittsburgh over in the American League Toronto has announced that Tom

Kotti will be the starter and he will oppose Minnesota’s Jack Morris and the pitch to Gardner is swung on the Miss for strike two Gardner all for three in the game candotti acquired from Cleveland in the middle of the season a good acquisition for Toronto good acquisition gave up some good young

Ball players for him but he has helped in their winning the Eastern Division of the American League so it’s certainly worth the investment do you like knuckle ball pitchers well I think the the romance of knuckle ball pitchers or the practicality of knuckle ball pitchers

Today are that there are so few of them that they are uh you know you don’t hit against them that often and I think that that’s why they’re so effective or if Charlie Huff is having a fantastic year and he’s what 43 or something something the other thing

About knuckle ball pitchers is they go on and on and on and on Mound 48 uh yeah he’s going to be was he 48 when he retired yeah I think he was 48 ground ball by O’Brien the third base Holland’s a good play on it the throw to first

Retires and Mets in order easy inning an easy inning so one two three ining for Wally Richie and we go to the bottom of the eighth the Mets leading by a score of 6 nothing oh we’re going now to the bottom of the eighth inning the Mets leading six to

Nothing in this final game David Co with 15 strikeouts in the ball game the alltime high in the National League this year there’s Bruce fing out there from the right right hand side there one of the senior umpires in the National League he’s going to be one of the

Umpires in that championship series National League championship series between Atlanta and Pittsburgh right I’m right good onire You’re and that championship series will start Tuesday in the American League Wednesday in the National League Tom canot is going to start for Toronto is going to be a free agent this year which is why Cleveland really made the trade I’m sure Toronto will make every effort to signing

Toronto growing 4 million people plus this year and the first pitch to Castillo is fouled back out of play Castillo 0 for two he has struck out once also has grounded out MET strike out record 19 which is a tie for the national league alltime high with Steve Carlton

And that was by Tom sver 1970 against the San Diego Padre Siver struck out his last 10 batters in that ball game and that is a record for consecutive strikeouts Cor in this game struck out seven consecutive batter and it’s strike two one and two good play there with the fish

Neck looks like he’s got his fishing equipment in the back too where is Kevin mcgrs he’s probably holding it for Kevin curve ball did he swing nope Bruce said he did not so it’ll go as a ball that’s two balls and two Strikes a lot of dedicated fishermen on our ball Club probably no more than the two coaches Greg pck and M store there’s a strike out 16 strikeouts and he got him with the curveball that ties Nolan Ryan for the major league high this year there’s that pitch one more Time Ryan did it earlier when he pitched that no hit no Run game against Toronto and the fast ball to Doug Lindsay and it’s taken for ball One Lindsay has struck out twice know as that last replay sh uh David’s ball has really got so much movement on it’s moving out of the

Strike zone one ball one strike and they’re still fishing pitcher named Ron Nei in the pirate organization struck out 27 batters in the minor leagues 27 out of 27 that’s amazing there’s a strike and that’s two and two never made it in the majors he was one of Branch rookie phenoms back in

About 1951 or two like Baltimore Steve Del Kowski the legendary fan in another St 17 strikeouts for David Co if he can strike out his remaining batters he will set a new record that will bring up Jim lindman who batted once back in the sixth inning and was struck

Out on the fast ball for ball one thr now second on the all-time strikeout list for the New York Mets Tom saver with 19 and now David con second two-time receiver on the Mets list with 17 and it will be a fly ball the right field if Johnson catches

It he will not break the record off it’s hard to see which way you’re ring so a one two three inning and con still working on the shut out the Mets leading six to nothing David con delet it off for the Mets and he takes the first pitch for

Ball one Wally Richie on the mound for the Phillies now the third pitcher used David with his 17 strikeouts the most ever pitched more most strikeouts ever here in veteran Stadium the old record have been set by Steve Carlton with 16 here at vet Stadium Carlton did strike

Out 19 at Chase Stadium against the Mets the Mets won that ball game on two home runs by Ron Roto and of course Tom Siver also with 19 strikeouts against San Diego and a foul ball so the count one and two on con who is 0 for two with a walk Ralph I know you’re leaving right after the game to go to your home in Palm Springs California is there a chance you’ll be on the golf course

Tomorrow morning well if they had lights we’d play tonight ground ball to short fielded nicely by batist and the throw to first base for the out the nobody beats the W game summary Miller three for four with two doubles in a home run and two runs batted in

Jeff with two for four and two runs batted in David K of course with 17 strikeouts and a chance to tie the Major League record if he can tie if he can strike out the side in the ninth inning that’s leading by a score of six to nothing 20 strikeouts by Roger

Clemens that was back in 1986 against Seattle and swinging a miss and it’s strike one to Daryl Boston tendance here today of 29,6 76 on Fan Appreciation Day so a good crowd here to bid farewell to the National season for the Philadelphia philes pH will finish third that’s her highest finish for a

While isn’t it quite a while they’re very happy about it this ball hit by Boston the Deep right field it could be gone it’s going it is gone goodbye Daryl Boston with his fourth home run of the year No Doubt about this one first bow

He hit first pitch of the game back went out there looked like it was a home run hit on the wall came back he had an easy triple no doubt about this one so the Mets now leading by score 7even nothing big SL now [Applause] Boston darl look at this one just gets

In there transfers his weight gets into that ball no doubt about it murf followed it all the way to the uh to the wall but looked up had no chance no chance to LEAP no chance for anything so Boston finishing on a big note as he homers his last at

B then Keith Miller who has had a big day three for four takes again and it’s ball too Miller with a double a home run and a double and what we sincerely hope will be his last at only way that Boston can hit again would be for the Phillies to tie it with

Seven runs in the night but this kind of season I thought the games Friday night and Saturday which were pretty good ball games but there were a micras of what has happened to the Mets this year unable to get men home from third base just unable to produce offensively when they really

Needed to that’s losing five to four and one to nothing in those two ball games so he’s playing 63 one-run ball games and there’s another base hit for Keith Miller his fourth and he will close out the season with a four for five day of course there is the possibility

That they could hit around and Boston Miller would have another shot at that’s true I like that possibility better than the other one of the two you’ll take the ladder about the tide score met with 12 hits in the ball game and now Howard Johnson with a chance to

Tack on another RB he leads the national league and runs batted in and he drives it on the line to the short step batist the double play and that will end the inning as Johnson lines out in his final at B some David Cohen fans here today I

Think they’re running out of pieces of paper there with 17 strikeouts for David you see those cone heads out there on a scoreboard with a sign that says let’s go Mets let’s go Phillies let’s go baseball let’s play two this guy back from B Frank that’s not a bad place to be right

Now and David con needs three strikeouts to tie the Major League record of 20 as 17 and he starts off against batist with a curveball and gets a strike batist has struck out three times and it’s strike two two times with balls out of the skri Zone first two

Last time he got him on the low fast ball was over the play Let’s see if he goes High outside to him again David’s a smart pitcher and Charlie O’Brien is a very smart catcher so I think that’s what they pitching yeah he set outside and got him 18 strikeouts and David con

Needs two more to tie the Major League record here’s a look at those last two pitches here goes he’s got strike one all right strike two outside corner the plate now goes up and out up and out there he goes got him swing and the batter is Mickey mandini

Who has not struck out he’s a tough little hitter contact hitter played on the Olympic team in 1988 this young man did only batter in the lineup not to strike out other than the pitcher and they count one ball and one strike and the as be the pitcher fouled out and his wanted

Back and there is a pitch for a ball and it’s two balls and one strike we’re up here reciting these Litany of records and I wonder if David Cohen knows really that he’s got a chance to match the oldtime strikeout back I got to believe he does somebody’s got to have told him

If he didn’t know it by himself you think Jay harwitz went down and whispered in his ear between inning go get him three and one count and three and two so home with a chance to tie the National League record of 19 strikeouts count of three balls and two

Strikes and Moren Dei who has walked popped to Second and single B has given up only two hits and the pitch in the dirt and he got him and he ties a national league record of 19 strikeouts and if that hadn’t been completed at first base he could have another

Shot why did he throw the ball to First [Applause] Ralph you literally don’t know how to Roo at last anywhere he got three easy outs and we’re all saying oh it’s too bad he didn’t get a strike in well you know you got to have your priorities and

You love to see records established and that does tie the National League record of 19 strikeouts in his nine inning ball game now west Chamberlain who has struck out three times and col needs a strike out to tie the Major League record here’s that last strike out against a tough little

Battle and a good curveball it’s strike [Applause] one you got to walk walk the guy all the guys did he get to somebody you think he can strike out so he can tie the record one to be able to Route this way and this one down the line it’ll be a

Base hit and it will be an extra base hit it grounds double as Chamberlain doubles to right and B still has a shot Chamberlain came late on that fast B but made contact and therefore went the ball went down the right field line into the Pavilion down there for a ground roll

Double one of the better hitters in baseball I suppose still is Dale Murphy who was struck out twice in three trips he fouled out to the uh first baseman the other time this will be the first year that Murphy has not struck out 100 times in the season in his major league

Career I didn’t realize that that’s that is unique and he can be the 19th make it a strikeout [Applause] victim will be the 20th strike out victim I should say and that would give him the tie for the Major League record and the curve ball for ball two two balls and no [Applause] strikes and there was a strike it’s two and one what that last pitch again take a

Look at this strike a breaking [Applause] ball Murphy has struck out 93 times this year and the count two balls and one strike and it’s it on the ground to Short Stop and the throw to first ends the ball game and ends the chance for David con

To have 20 strikeouts and to tie the Major League record he did get 19 of ties the National League record and the Mets win it by a score of seven to nothing David going with his second shut out of the year his other a one hit shut

Out this game he gave up three hits and the season is over 19 strikeouts 18 of them swinging I think from the look of disappointment on David Cohen face he knew that record was possible um he didn’t get it but what a magnificent magnificent pitching performance David

Con ends up with a record of 14 wins and 14 losses last year he was 14 and 10 and the Mets have won the final game of the year and they close out their year with a record of 77 wins and 84 losses