Ultimate Mets Database: Game of July 27, 1984

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July 25, 1984
Mets 9, Cardinals 3 1984 Regular Season Game 96
July 27, 1984
Mets 2, Cubs 1 Next Game:
July 28, 1984
Cubs 11, Mets 4

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National League Standings, July 27, 1984

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JULY 27, 1984 GAME:

clubhouse report
April 22, 2002
The Mets stood 4 and 1/2 games in front of the cubs in the n.l. east after this win but would lose 13 of their next 16 games, including 7 losses to Chicago, a stretch which probably decided the division title. Another odd Mets giveaway night too, USA cap night, after all it was an Olympic year.

anthony reccoppa
June 17, 2002
I listened to this game on WHN, and it was probably the first "big" game the franchise played in 11 years. Doc was brilliant for a rookie in a high-pressure start. I remember Mookie throwing out a Cubbie trying to score, and Murph had one of his best calls of his life. After he yelled the runner was out, he said nothing for about 5 seconds while Shea went nuts. Then he said "this place just exploded".

A.J. Antezana
May 9, 2005
I was 18 and during batting practice my dad and I almost got beaned with a Leon Durham foul ball while we had a lapful of food.

Great game pitched by Doc and the entire crowd left the game yelling, We're # 1-"hoot".

Unfortunately, things went awry the next day with the Sisk fiasco and our lead vanished when we went to Chicago. That night there was definitely a fever in the air and it felt good for the first time in a long time as a Met fan with good things to come at the time.

bill
July 13, 2005
After this game, I, along with many other Mets fans, thought the Mets were playoff bound. We're a silly breed, us Met fans!

John L.
November 25, 2007
The biggest Mets game since the mid 70's. I believe it was a nationally televised game (NBC?). I remember the excitement of a jam packed Shea and Gooden being sensational.

Gets by Buckner
February 18, 2011
I was at this game with a group from my summer job and my college roommate. We sat in the left field nosebleed upper deck. It was the first time in maybe 11 years I left a Mets game being proud to be one of their fans. People were leaving the stadium yelling "We are number 1!!" However the Mets fell apart even after getting Ray Knight a month later. Regardless, it was great to be a fan on that night!!

Joe G
August 26, 2014
After growing up a Buddy Harrelson fan from the age 5, but then as a Mets fan being like a bear in hibernation for years from the late 70s to early 80s, this was the biggest and most important ballgame I'd been to, ever... and probably my favorite ballgame of all time, to this day.

From Upstate NY, just west of Syracuse, at age 16, I researched and purchased the tickets for this Friday night, as well as the Saturday and Sunday double header.

For Friday night, it was to be Doc Gooden.... plus, during the era of Reagan and the Olympics, it was USA Cap Night, promoted for weeks by Kiner, and Murph (he seemed to be so looking forward to it, the ultimate patriot)..... so the Friday night tickets were tough to get by the time I convinced my parents to go to this critical Mets/Cubs series.... we were well under the overhang in the Mezzanine, maybe 4 rows from the back with a somewhat obstructed view of pop flies and that unusual wind tunnel swirling to our backs.... but at least we were directly behind home plate, DIRECTLY behind home plate, to see the Doctor's magic..

Unfortunately, the forecast, 2 days before the event, looked dismal. Heavy rain, unseasonably cold, chances of game occurring were minimal, but my dad said not to worry, all would work out. Indeed, though it rained all day and the temp felt like a November Jets game, Shea Stadium was packed, the rain ceased, the fans were intensely loud and rowdy, the K-Korner was ready, and Doc did not disappoint.

That game was the most loud and intense I have ever been to, ever. It was not just that Doc won, it was the rebirth of the Mets. 52,000 of us agreed, it was the rebirth of the magic. I still remember winding down the ramps after the ballgame, packed with Met fans, screaming as loud as they can "Let's Go Mets" to the point where the ramps felt like they were moving, bouncing.... amazing.... absolutely one of the best nights of my life.... plain and simple.

Shickhaus Franks
April 3, 2015
To John L.---The game was on SportsChannel and my part of New Jersey didn't have cable yet so I had to listen to it on the late great 1050 WHN. Plus it was a unusually cool, dreary July evening as I tend to recall but they got the game in anyway!

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