Word: dykstra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Knight's homer, the 11th of the WorldSeries but the first by a home-team player, LennyDykstra came in to hit for Kevin Mitchell andsingled to right. Dykstra went to second on a wildpitch on a pitchout, and Rafael Santana singleddown the first-base line for another...
...before anyone could finish gulping or sighing, the World Series was on. If the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox take most of this week to realize where they are, it is because playoffs can hang in the air as improbably as homers off the bat of Lenny Dykstra or the glove of Dave Henderson, and neither the National nor American leagues had ever seen such playoffs...
...five, but the Mets were blessed to be alive. The best team in baseball, self-appointed, batted .189 and struck out 57 times. Split-Fingered Fast-Baller Mike Scott dismayed the Mets twice; all they could do with Scott was collect allegedly scuffed baseballs and cry to the press. Dykstra's ninth-inning homer saved a third loss, and Umpire Fred Brocklander's mistaken out call at first base forestalled a fourth. Houston's essential run was lost. Slumping Catcher Gary Carter eventually won that one in the twelfth inning with a flash single off flamboyant Reliever Charlie Kerfeld...
Held without a run in support of their ace, Dwight Gooden, in the first game of the playoffs Wednesday night, the Mets were ignited yesterday by Len Dykstra and Wally Backman. And the big hitters--Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter and Darryl Strawberry--applied the throttle...
Hernandez hit a two-run triple along with a single and scored a run. Carter had an RBI double, and Strawberry drove in a run with a long sacrifice fly. Backman had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run. And Dykstra had two hits and scored once...