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Dodgers @ Shea, 1964-2008

G-Fafif Jun 01 2008 09:25 AM

Not a ton of great, momentous games leap to mind where the Dodgers coming to Shea are concerned. But some images do eventually creep onto the scene. Presented in no order whatsoever except stream of consciousness: • Lo Duca's double-tag, NLDS Game One 2006. • Ralph throwingo out ball before Game Two in a yellow sweater so bright we could see it from way the heck up in the upper deck. • Scioscia, Gibson, Hershiser...oy 1988. • Jefferies being hit by batted ball the next day. • All that mud the previous Saturday when things looked better. • Various Dodgers singing Happy Birthday to Casey in 1964. • Tug beating Sandy, 1965. • The Happy Days crew playing softball, 1978. • Sutton and Garvey going at it in the visitors clubhouse, same series. • All-Amazin' Team announced on a Saturday night in 2002. • Seaver lashing out at Bobby V the next day for not having the team in the dugout for Tommie Agee's HOF induction the next morning. • Billy Crystal and Robin Williams being not all that funny in promoting Comic Relief with Ralph and Tim, 1990. • Doc striking out 15 despite the presence of Billy Crystal. • Darryl's circusish returns in 1991. • Darryl hitting 'em through the Big Top in 1991. • The Mets going 53-38 on a Sunday in 1991 and me thinking that with this split against the Dodgers, we're clearly on our way to overtaking the Pirates. • Magadan walkoff HR, 1992 • Rodney McCray's only at-bat, a winning walkoff infield single, the night before. • Brett Butler changing clubhouses, ours to theirs, 1995 • Nomomania falling short of Izzy Fever, same series. (Birmingham Barons caps given out that day seemed to pop up at Shea for years thereafter) • Young Pedro coming out of the bullpen and outpitching Doc, 1993. • Me snarking to my friend Rob "he's probably only there because his brother pitches for them" and Rob informing me, no, this Pedro Martinez is gonna be way better than Ramon. • Tom Prince doubling and homering off Pete Harnisch, 1995, and me applauding the only Prince I ever saw in the big leagues (I'd later be given a ball autographed by Tom, congratulating me for having "a great last name"). • Willie Randolph plunges dagger into 1989 surge, homering off Don Aase • Cone sticks it to Hershiser to avenge 1988 a tiny bit two nights earlier • Chan Ho Park lures Korean-American fans from Flushing during interminable doubleheader, 1997, first International Night. They root for Dodgers. Dominicans on Hispanic Night root for Dodgers in deference to Raul Mondesi. Few seem to root for Mets. • Mets wear "Los Mets" unis, 2007; fans root for Mets; world doesn't end • Delgado gets fans on his side with key hit (they urge him on with runners on base, forgetting they'd been booing him) the next day • Jackie Robinson Night, 42 retired, 1997. • Horrible Fireworks Night ruined by John Franco in ninth, 7/31/98 (my sister, who only came for the fireworks, insisted on leaving before the fireworks) • Dotel outduels Park 2-1, Mets maintain first place, August 6, 1999 (I watch from directly behind plate and see that curves actually curve); caps the 40-15 stretch Bobby V promised he'd deliver • Gil Hodges Night, early 2000, I squint into visitors dugout and see Orel Hershiser back with Dodgers, wonder if he'll pitch against us (he doesn't) • Darling shows Leary who's boss on Monday Night Baseball, Memorial Night 1988 (setting tone for untold Met success over Dodgers that season...sigh) • Jack DiLauro's nine shutout innings, Mets eventually win in 15, sweep L.A., part of 1969 record streak of eleven straight • Ventura's last grand slam, as Dodger, versus Mets, August 2004 (our season is shot, I standing-ovate Robin) • El Duque outduels Maddux, 2006 • Jose's inside-the-parker, 2006 a couple of nights earlier (probably the absolute peak of that season in retrospect) • Doc loses hyped matchup to Valenzuela May 1985, record falls to 6-3; Gooden eventually 20-3 • Fernandomania for Valenzuela, 5/8/81; beats Mike Scott 1-0 • Fernandomania for Tatis, 5/31/08; beats Broxton 3-2 That's just stream of consciousness, aided slightly by UMDB and Baseball-Reference. The stream's running dry. Please add your own.

Gwreck Jun 01 2008 10:29 AM

The double-play at the plate will go down as the most memorable moment of NLDS '06 game #1 but for me, that game will always belong to Carlos Delgado -- first, hitting his first-ever postseason home run (and it was a massive shot -- I think 470 feet?) in the 4th to tie the game up; then, in the 6th, hitting the RBI single to give the Mets the lead again (the Dodgers had just tied it up). I know how much people are down on Delgado right now, but in '06 he was the MAN. Delgado's fist pump after hitting that single was perhaps the most excited I've ever seen him at Shea, even more than that grand slam for homer #400 vs. the Cardinals.

themetfairy Jun 01 2008 12:17 PM

Gwreck wrote: The double-play at the plate will go down as the most memorable moment of NLDS '06 game #1 but for me, that game will always belong to Carlos Delgado -- first, hitting his first-ever postseason home run (and it was a massive shot -- I think 470 feet?) in the 4th to tie the game up; then, in the 6th, hitting the RBI single to give the Mets the lead again (the Dodgers had just tied it up). I know how much people are down on Delgado right now, but in '06 he was the MAN. Delgado's fist pump after hitting that single was perhaps the most excited I've ever seen him at Shea, even more than that grand slam for homer #400 vs. the Cardinals. Delgado was great, but the double play at home was totally etched in my memory. Sure I had seen plays like that before, but that was in Little League....

Benjamin Grimm Jun 01 2008 01:54 PM

These are, in order, the 20 most frequently looked up box scores on the UMDB for games the Dodgers have played at Shea Stadium. 1988-10-09 Dodgers 5, Mets 4 1988-10-08 Mets 8, Dodgers 4 1988-10-10 Dodgers 7, Mets 4 1984-05-25 Mets 2, Dodgers 1 1986-05-27 Mets 8, Dodgers 1 1985-05-27 Mets 8, Dodgers 1 1980-06-11 Mets 6, Dodgers 2 1984-08-27 Mets 5, Dodgers 1 1978-08-20 Dodgers 5, Mets 4 1984-08-29 Mets 3, Dodgers 2 1990-05-11 Mets 9, Dodgers 4 1978-06-05 Mets 9, Dodgers 8 1986-05-28 Mets 4, Dodgers 2 1985-05-24 Dodgers 4, Mets 3 1994-04-30 Dodgers 12, Mets 10 1965-04-12 Dodgers 6, Mets 1 1994-05-01 Mets 7, Dodgers 4 1969-06-03 Mets 5, Dodgers 2 1988-09-02 Mets 8, Dodgers 0 1998-08-01 Mets 2, Dodgers 1

SteveJRogers Jun 01 2008 02:18 PM Re: Dodgers @ Shea, 1964-2008

G-Fafif wrote: • Scioscia, Gibson, Hershiser...oy 1988. That was also the night (well, early evening is when it happened) WFAN moved from 1050 to 660 on your AM dial, forever silencing WNBC radio.

G-Fafif Jun 01 2008 03:20 PM Re: Dodgers @ Shea, 1964-2008

SteveJRogers wrote: ="G-Fafif"] • Scioscia, Gibson, Hershiser...oy 1988. That was also the night (well, early evening is when it happened) WFAN moved from 1050 to 660 on your AM dial, forever silencing WNBC radio. A couple of days earlier, actually: 10/7/88, Friday evening. NLCS Game 3 got rained out (some omen for WFAN). Game Four wound up being Sunday, 10/9/88.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 01 2008 03:39 PM

Hold on here. Did someone just out-Jeter Rogers on sports radio history? I'm calling Don LaGreca.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 01 2008 03:46 PM

I remember that rainy day. I was driving from Pennsylvania to Long Island, and hit so much traffic I was afraid I'd miss the beginning of the game. I had the radio on, and Don Imus was doing a live remote from Shea with Pete Franklin.

SteveJRogers Jun 01 2008 04:52 PM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I had the radio on, and Don Imus was doing a live remote from Shea with Pete Franklin. I do remember that curmudgeon Franklin's first regular show on 660 the following Monday. He acted like he was just sold a bill of goods since he thought that the changeover would mean that WFAN would be relocating to the studios in 30 Rock, rather than the same studios in Astoria that WFAN commandeered a year earlier when the frequency at 1050 flipped. It is a shame they didn't though, a lot of history in those studios, now its the home of NBC TV's digital networking systems. Although Arturo Toscanini's old studio is the current home of Saturday Night Live, so at least one of the old radio studios still has entertainment broadcasting from it.

Zvon Jun 01 2008 05:47 PM

]• Willie Randolph plunges dagger into 1989 surge, homering off Don Aase I was at this game. Box seats, 3rd base side. When it went out, I felt like a balloon of escaping air.

AG/DC Jun 03 2008 10:17 AM

September 8, 2006: By craft or by fate, Taiwanese heritage night falls on the schedule to coincide with Hong-Chih Kuo's first start. He makes the playoff bound Mets seem silly. http://ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=7200 He establishes a legacy of dominance that he exhibits against almost no other team, currently sporting a 0.35 ERA in 26 regular season innings against the Mets. We do manage to get a little off of him in the playoffs later that season.