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Across the state, if the St. Louis Cardinals were to yield the National League's East division, they pretty much had to lose three straight games to the New York Mets, and they pretty nearly did. Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog rearranged Ace John Tudor's date with Darth Gooden only to lock Tudor and well-bred Yalie Ron Darling into a 0-0 death grip, broken like a windowpane on an eleventh-inning Darryl Strawberry home run that, except for the stadium clock being digital, put spectators in mind of Roy Hobbs. Naturally, Gooden won the second game, his 24th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweet Prelude to Playoffs | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Tonight, two 20-game winners hook up in the second contest of the three-game series. Dwight Gooden (23-4) goes for the Mets against Joaquin Andujar...

Author: By E.a. Boone, | Title: Straw's Stroke in 11th Wrecks Redbirds, 1-0 | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...Gooden, who leads the Major Leagues in victories, earned run average, and strikeouts has not allowed an earned run since late August...

Author: By E.a. Boone, | Title: Straw's Stroke in 11th Wrecks Redbirds, 1-0 | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

CHICAGO--Dwight Gooden pitched an eight-hitter on the way to his club-record eighth shutout of the season and added an RBI single as the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs, 3-0, yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

...between the Dodgers and Angels. Cincinnati's Pete Rose was closing in on one of the game's most cherished records, Ty Cobb's standard of 4,191 base hits; as the weekend began, he needed only three more to break it. The young Met fireballer, Dwight Gooden, a 20-game winner at the age of 20, was prompting comparisons with the greatest pitchers of the past. But the drug disclosures could not help putting the game under a cloud. Not since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, when eight Chicago White Sox players admitted taking bribes from gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Drug Scandal | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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