Game 1 featured a pitching duel between eventual NLCS Most Valuable Player Mike Scott of the Astros and Mets young ace Dwight Gooden…..as Scott allowed just five hits and walked one while striking out 14 in a complete-game effort as the host Astros prevailed 1–0…..in a game that Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden only allowed one run in his seven…
Game 2 saw the Mets knot the series at one game apiece as New York scored two runs in the fourth inning….and then got three more in the fifth against Astros’ starter Nolan Ryan en route to a 5 – 1 victory. Lefty Bob Ojeda went the distance on a ten-hitter for the Mets….who were aided by an RBI double…
In one of the most famous games in baseball history, the Mets defeated the Houston Astros at the Astrodome by a score of 7 – 6 in 16 innings….as Mets Jesse Orosco struck out Kevin Bass on a curveball for the final out with runners at first and second….and the New York advanced to its third World Series in franchise…
Michael White was an aspiring opera singer….as seen in this video herewith….when he sings The Star Spangled Banner at Game 1 of the 1986 MLB National League Championship Series between the New York Mets verses the Houston Astros….who developed into a renowned “breathing coach”. Michael White knows what you’re thinking….a breathing coach? Really? No, thanks. I’ve been doing…
This wonderful piece of Major League Baseball history is narrated by the legendary voice of the New York Yankees, Mel Allen….who was also the voice of the tremendously popular MLB weekly show, This Week In Baseball …..which was abbreviated as TWIB pronounced phonetically….was an American syndicated television series which focused on Major League Baseball highlights…..and was broadcast weekly during baseball season program that…
DOG ASIDE: As the viewer watches U S President George H. Bush throw out the 1st pitch at Game 1 of the 1986 National League Championship Series between the New York Mets verses the Houston Astros….I have just got to tell you a little story about Big George (G H Bush), the pres…..cuz our Bone Daddy,…
DOG COMMENTARY: Every time we at ImaSportsphile get to post a vintage ABC Wide World of Sports or a CBS Sports Saturday/Sunday or an NBC SportsWorld….we get excited because we know we are going to get to watch something that is really good and interesting….and things in the sports world that don’t happen very often….and this NBC…
DOG ASIDE: Nolan “The Ryan Express / Big Tex” Ryan signed a lucrative free-agent contract with the Houston Astros after the 1979 season. The normally light-hitting Ryan got his Houston years started with a bang in a nationally televised game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 12, 1980….when he hit a three-run home run off…
DOG COMMENTARY: The 1983 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 50th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL)….as the game was held on Wednesday, July 6, 1983, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois….the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League. The…