There's an article in the Ledger today about Steve Henderson (hitting coach of The Rays) and it mentions…
.."What has come to be called The Steve Henderson game.". Apparently Steve hit a home run and the Mets won, and as the article highlights this was exciting because it moved the Mets within one game of .500 and 6 of the Expos.
I'm pretty hip to the "Lee Mazzilli Mets" years but I don't recall this at all and have never heard of "The Steve Henderson Game.". Anyone?
I do vaguely remember being excited one year that they were playing .400 ball (that's a four) but that was the second half of the split 1981 season.
You kids have no idea how awful this franchise was, and how great that made 1984. I still hate the Cubs. Look it up youngins.
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The single greatest game the franchise experienced between 1973 and at least 1984. Seriously.
http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/14/937187.html
http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/2/1190872.html
game was against the Giants in 1980 – june or july?? they were down and fought back and he hit a game ender – long before the walk off phrase was invented.
baseball reference 6/14/80 – they scored 5 in the bottom of the 9th to win. they had a 38-40 1st half record which was great for ateam that had come off 3 straight horrible years. any hope was clung to.
Thanks for the info. I must have been in Wildwood that week with the parents!