Greg from Faith & Fear in Flushing shared this with me (us)…another Mike Scott anecdote…more about fear of Mike Scott than actual Mike Scott…and yes he sucked on the Mets (14-27 with the crappy Mets and then 110-81 in Houston)….and you really should read the account if you aren’t old enough to remember The Other Game 6 and the wonders of an after-school 4pm playoff game. I heard the first few innings on a walkman on the 7 train.
Mike Scott? Ryan was immortal but the Mets won the games he started. Knepper was close to impenetrable but the Mets got past him in his first start. Kerfeld had finally seen his act boomerang on him. But Mike Scott was Mike Scott. Middling ex-Met turned unremarkable Astro turned filthy cheat turned untouchable cheat. Scuffed the ball — no serious person denied it — to unprecedented success. Owned the Mets in Game One and Game Four. Mike Scott clinched Houston’s division championship by no-hitting the Giants. He hadn’t done the same to the Mets…yet. He was, famously, the guy the Mets didn’t want to see in Game Seven, the game after Game Six.
