I was at this game. I was 12 years old and I'll never forget Shelby missing that line driver at center field. It stays in my memory. I was a Yankees fan but living in LA at the time. I had been in LA for a year coming from NYC so I figured I'd root for the Mets lol

Great memories of the Mets 1988 baseball season. 30-11 start. 500 baseball during a very hot summer here in NY, then fought off the Pirates in 2 exciting weekend series in late July early Aug, caught fire again in late Aug to close it out with a 29-8 finish.

@M.AlexanderZagorski-uo1gu

Жыл бұрын

DITTO Garfield! I particularly liked McReynolds' blase response upon scoring the go ahead run.🤣

Mike Soscia still hurts from that...he didn't realize who he was dealing with...but kudos to him...nowadays it's pattycake and pitchers that can't complete a game....here's to the heroes 🏆

great piece of hitting by an aging Gary Carter there. Outside curve, waited for it

This baseball is rougher than today's nfl.

@M.AlexanderZagorski-uo1gu

Жыл бұрын

PRECISELY Beef!🤣

@jonathanbeatrice8317

Жыл бұрын

That collision was LEGAL. I remember those days.

@mattdon2164

11 ай бұрын

McReynolds and Scoscia: two tough guys

@94champs

11 ай бұрын

ALL sports were rougher back then. Look at the NHL now. It's like a women's league compared to the 80s.

@CoreyT127

10 ай бұрын

@breadandcircuses8127I ate breathed and slept football from 13 to about 5 years i stopped watching. Its a different game then i grew up loving. I don’t even recognize it anymore!

Hershisher ended the regular season with 59 scoreless innings. Then, he added 8 more in the NLCS. Amazing. I fully expected the Mets to win this series and never expected the Dodgers to beat the A's.

Still don'r know why Johnson didn't bring in Myers to pitch to Soscia in game 4. Myers had a great year in 88 and lefty vs lefty , edge Mets. That game turned around the series.

@bobbenbrown123

2 ай бұрын

Totally agree 💯. Gooden should NEVER have been in the 9th inning

Great game Tuff Ballplayers back then Old School!

Darryl was pretty clutch.

The mid 80's Mets were a majical team that should have won at least one more championship. they somewhat underachieved. legends none the less

@bobbenbrown123

3 жыл бұрын

1986, 1988 and 1990 should have won.

@TL2354

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobbenbrown123 they weren’t good enough

@TL2354

3 жыл бұрын

Magical

@infoguy1978

3 жыл бұрын

@@TL2354 - you're seriously correcting a internet comment. this is a relaxed forum where people type with their index finger while eating ribs.

@davidellis5141

Жыл бұрын

If there had been a wildcard ..

if not for the Scioscia home run in game 4 in the 9th, the Mets would have likely went on to face the A's. Too bad we did not get to see that matchup but hats off to the Dodgers. They upset the favored Mets in 7 games despite losing 10 out of 11 in the regular season

I saw this game live. I was a kid. I was ecstatic.

@chaznymale1

4 жыл бұрын

me too

@irar4665

3 жыл бұрын

@@chaznymale1 I saw this game live...but on time delay! My brother VCRed the game for me for when I got home later that evening, and I made sure to not let anybody tell me the score. Unfortunately, this game(and the entire season) gives me no pleasure in light of how disappointing the outcome of this series was.

Davey Johnson destroyed this entire NLCS by NOT making beast RANDY MYERS start the 9th inning of game 4 with the Mets up 4 to 2. With the Mets taking game 4 the Dodgers are down 3 games to 1 going into game 5 at shea

@bobbenbrown123

2 ай бұрын

And the Mets would have won the series in 5 games and beaten Oakland in the World series. What might have been 😮

@friotaiocht101

Ай бұрын

Lenny Dykstra has always been the most outspoken critic of Davey Johnson's decision to stick with "Doc" Gooden in game 4 rather than bring Randy Myers in the game ....

Orel hadn't allowed a run in 67 innings and the Mets scored 2 in the 9th off him to win the ballgame!

Sadly, Dodgers did this to my Mets on game 4 :(. I really wanted to see the Mets vs the Bash Brothers A's in a 1973 World Series rematch

@ogrebattle22763

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah me to but it wasn't meant to be... these pathetic bums with a cheating reliever no less beat The Mets... it's just to much to fathom how a team like this went all the way...

@jimsmith6603

5 жыл бұрын

The 100-win Mets most definitely should've been in the 1988 World Series, after all they had the National League's best record that year.

@BeefPapa

3 жыл бұрын

I still can't believe we lost this series. End of an era.

@roberthuot7887

3 жыл бұрын

Ah come on guys, you blew your load in 86. At least you had that.

@TL2354

3 жыл бұрын

@@ogrebattle22763 2+2 is too much for you to fathom

😂 K MAC was a big dude ! Don't see those plays anymore.

What a huge comeback victory. I still can’t believe to this day that the Mets lost this series. I was 18 yrs old in college and was devastated when they lost. Oh well.

@scottross4374

4 жыл бұрын

Mets were the better team no doubt

@Manatti06

2 жыл бұрын

Was it a given tho they woulda got past the A's...

@brianleetch7415

Жыл бұрын

@@Manatti06 They would have destroyed the A's.

@bobbenbrown123

2 ай бұрын

Totally devastated and pissed off 🤬. Never should have lost this series 😭

Kid Carter !!!! Kid Carter !!!!

Gregg Jeffries always kinda looked like a poor man's Lenny Dykstra

In case you were wondering. Griffin told Jeffries it was a line out so Jeffries wandered off the bag griffin asked for the ball real quick but he wasn't thrown the ball.

I remember banging my hand on a table as I swung my arms around in joy.

I was ten years old in 1988. I knew the Mets were the better team by composure and statistically. Just two years earlier winning 108 games and a world championship. The most wins by any MLB team since a decade earlier when the Big Red Machine did no different victoriously. The Dodgers were definitely underdogs all the way. After this year though the Mets fell apart. Was rather surprised that they didn't continue their prowess for a few more seasons but that's just how the cookie crumbled.

I thought the 1988 Mets team had more firepower than the 1986 team, and deserved a much better ending than they received. This game was a perfect emblem of what they were capable of.

I can remember one day in 1988 seeing a METS fan wearing a 1986 METS baseball Cap saying➡️1986 WORLD CHAMPIONS ‼‼ ... I then ssid to him .. You can change that 86 to an 88 ‼‼ What a monumental "7" Game series defeat against the DODGERS in the NLCS .. that after going➡️ 11-1 Against them during the season .. That game 4 lost in extras took the life out of them ... Playing game 5 at noon the next day was way too soon ... not nearly enough time to allow the sting of the game 4 long to subside ... lost game 5 ➡️7-4 ... END OF STORY .. END OF A "100" WIN SEASON➡️😣😞😣😞‼

@jasonaronson4507

4 жыл бұрын

Game 4 loss took the life out of the franchise for over a decade. They had those dreadfully overpaid underperforming teams of the early 90s and didn't really recover until they made the playoffs in '99.

I really think the Mets would have also beaten the A's in the World Series. The Mets had the best team in MLB in 1988. In some ways the Mets had a better Team in 1988 than 1986 even though they won 100 games instead of 108. . I was more baffled the Mets lost against the Dodgers in 1988 than the A's losing against them in the World Series. Gooden was running out of mojo and you know his history in the World Series yet Johnson leaves him gift wrapping Game 4 win and eventually the series. As good the decisions he made in 1986 he made the biggest boner mistake in all the Playoffs series he managed the Mets leaving Gooden in for the tying runs and game loss instead of bringing Myers in.

@marcor22044

9 ай бұрын

Dreaming

It’s even easier to see now why the Mets nailed Howell for pine tar a couple days later. You note he gives up the winning runs here, but he hadn’t been hit hard. Plus, he’s throwing a lot of breaking stuff. Combine that with the fact that they get out of LA with a split and Lasorda NEEDS Orel to come thru repeatedly throughout the series? Sure: get their best reliever out of the picture altogether. After this game, it blows my mind the Mets lost this Series. Unreal.

Love or hate them the Mets were a fun team to watch in those days.

@Manatti06

2 жыл бұрын

Owned NY for sure... Tru NYers know

I was at this game... lost my voice cheering at Carter's game winner.... That being said.mmTake note of what they said earlier in this video, talking about Hershiser having a "relatively low" pitch count at 91.

1988 Dodgers Stadium! Back when you can attend baseball games without being beat up or suckered punched just for rooting for the opposing team.

@tedstriker7248

3 жыл бұрын

That's total bullshit. Dodger stadium and the surrounding area were far more dangerous back then than they are today.

@davidnoticiero6728

3 жыл бұрын

Please, you can't go 5 feet without running into a cop at Dodger Stadium. It's reminiscent of going to a game at Shea where NYPD blanketed the ballpark

I never knew why LA had more home games in that series, if NY had a better record

And when the Mets beat red hot Hershiser in this game I knew the series was over (they’d beaten the Dodgers 11 of 12 that year). As a Mets fan I was already thinking of matching up with Oakland.

@TL2354

3 жыл бұрын

10 of 11

@brandonbetts7133

3 жыл бұрын

@@TL2354 .909

@Manatti06

2 жыл бұрын

But maybe they win... You gotta play the games

That's a big league collision if the league is the NFL.

Wow, 91 pitches is a pretty low pitch count? My how times have changed. Today, the SP would be long gone.

0:17 1995 orel would have caught that ball

How the F! didn't the McReynolds/Soscia collision not SNIFF the top 50 collisions on the MLB channel? Fools!

the way the mets won this game there was no excuse for them losibg the series

Gm 1 wow what a finish but never remembered bc the Mets lost in 7 and Ron Darling came up short once again in a big spot. Lenny Dykstra was right about Darling getting smacked around early in a big game.

Kevin McReynolds is 1000000% concussed lol

As a Dodgers fan, I recall thinking this loss has "harbinger of doom" written all over it.

McReynolds ate Sciosia at home plate

3:30. Thats Old School!

Did...Al and Tom mention during the broadcast that the lengthy ovation was due to Orel finally giving up a run for the first time in 68 innings? I understand that regular season stats don't carry over from post-season, but the crowd was not just applauding the game, but the run Orel had from his last 9 starts.

@TL2354

3 жыл бұрын

Who’s Tom?

And they choked it away thanks to Frank Cashen. No sooner had that team won in '86, he trades Kevin Mitchell for Kevin McDONALDS!

Why didn’t the Mets have home field advantage in this or the ‘86 NLCS? Had better records than both the Dodgers and Astros but played the pivotal games away from home. Made no sense

@LIHFunited

10 ай бұрын

They rotated home field in the championship series at that time. That practice stopped sometime in the 90’s.

That dream turned into a nightmare.

I was 15 then... I remember burning a bunch of Dodgers cards when the Mets lost the series...I may have taken baseball a bit too seriously.....

@rjm22nd

3 жыл бұрын

Bet you burned MIke Scoscia's jersey in effagy

@zaqwertyfish

3 жыл бұрын

@@rjm22nd nah, I always liked the old Dodgers... Garvey, Monday, Scoscia...

@TL2354

3 жыл бұрын

Loser

bob ojeda showing off his bandages at 3:54 when he cut his hand cutting the hedges in his garden another reason the mets lost by not having him to pitch...he had an era of 2.88 and led the NL with 5 shut outs

“That’s a big league collision right there” not anymore! Today they cry! You have to basically let him score so he doesn’t get “hurt” “it’s to dangerous”

Mcreynolds vs Soccia an inside linebacker vs a interior lineman.

Mets should’ve had home field

@BeefPapa

3 жыл бұрын

Alternating home field within the same league was just wrong and ridiculous

Davey Johnson should have taken Gooden out and out in Meyers. He was great that year

was Freddy Tucker on the Mets in 1988???

@davidellis5141

Жыл бұрын

No

If only mcreynolds had hit sciossia harder

Scoscia got what he deserved on that play. No reason to be 10 feet up the line.

How the Mets lost this series to those flukes is beyond me.

@josephharnett5075

11 ай бұрын

Ya I bet the A's were 4:22 wondering the same thing mmmm could it be that the Dodgers were the better team of density? Probably 😅

This win made the Mets over confident... And then Kirk Gibson was touched by the baseball gods...

91 pitches facing Jeffries and its a low pitch count 😂

So the Mets ended his scoreless inning streak at 67.

@bigpapasmurfz6252

4 жыл бұрын

The Mets were 10-1 in the regular season against L.A. that year, in their 12 scheduled annual games. They were rained out of their 12th matchup at Sheat on Sunday, September 4th. The scheduled starter for L.A. that day was one, Orel Hershiser. Who had a modest 4 consecutive scoreless inning streak going. He held the Expos scoreless in the last 4 frames of a complete game 4-2 win at Olympic Stadium. Going into that rainout Hershiser had a 5-5 record against the powerful Met lineup. Its most likely that Hershiser does not shut out a Mets lineup that led the league in scoring that year at their home park that day. He shut out an awful Atlanta team the next night to run his streak to a still modest 13 innings. History might have been very different had that rainout not occured. And Orel's aura of invicibility would not have existed without that awesome 59 inning string of ZEROS he carried into the postseason. In his last 13 starts of 88, including the playoffs, Hershiser pitched 117.1 innings while allowing 9 earned runs. NINE!!! Thats an 0.69 ERA. OH SIXTY NINE. With a record of 9-3 (he lost 3????) with 1 no decision. The 3 losses were all to the New York Mets.

@saveus228

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigpapasmurfz6252 well, he shut them out for 8 in this game..

@bigpapasmurfz6252

4 жыл бұрын

@@saveus228 By the time of this game the AWESOME scoreless streak had been piled up, and the aura of invicibility was made. The 88 Mets were one of the best ever teams to not win the World Series. They are the answer to a sad trivia question: Name the only team of the 20th century to lead their league in runs scored, and runs allowed and NOT advance to the World Series? The 1902 Pirates also 'accomplished' this. But, they had no World Series to advance to. The first one was played in 1903.

@jesseviv

4 жыл бұрын

No post season didnt count. The streak ended on opening day 1989 1st inning in Cincinnati

@TheMrKobeBryant2012

4 жыл бұрын

The year Kayleigh McEanny was born this happened. That's how long ago it was.

Carter and Strawberry, both from So. California area (LA/OC)...oh the irony.

When baseball was baseball. You could run over the catcher and take a infielder out with a slide. Now they have all of these old man softball rules. Smdh

No Yankee team in history was more hated than the '88 Mets. Everyone was coked out of their minds except Carter.

I love Oral. But I hate that Dodger pitcher.

But then the Mets lost but then the Mets lost but then the Mets lost but then the Mets lost that was just covering lots of times there were more

Maybe Davey J. was out managed

Those were the days, when men were men

They need to bring back those uniforms.

Time traveler @ 2:14

@jesseviv

4 жыл бұрын

That's probably her hearing aide 🤣

@TheMapcrow

3 жыл бұрын

Probably just listening to the Great Vin Scully do the game on the local radio broadcast. LA fans did that alot when Vin did the Dodgers games. Bring your radio to the game.

Boy, sorry, but all this does is bring back how disappointing and meaningless the Met season of 1988 was: they had no business losing to this Dodger team.

The Mets had a great team but got outplayed in the end by the Dodgers...they both had their 15 minutes of fame...BUT...YANKEES RULE..👍⚾️😁

God, I can't stand Tim McCarver

McCarver was The Worst

It's a joke la stole that series

Kevin McReynolds is to much of a nice guy . Should of taken Mike Soccia out at the plate .

Yeah Dodgers blew that one.. But we know how that series eventually turned out and the ultimate end result to the season.

Doesn't matter we won lol