Ultimate Mets Database: Game of June 10, 1990

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June 9, 1990
Mets 9, Pirates 3 1990 Regular Season Game 53
June 10, 1990
Mets 8, Pirates 3 Next Game:
June 11, 1990
Cubs 8, Mets 5

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JUNE 10, 1990 GAME:

sportsfan8690
December 23, 2009
This game to me was a real key game for the Mets to stay with the Pirates in the NL East race in 1990. We won this game to take 3 of 4 from the Pirates and played real well until the end of the season and stayed in the race to the final weekend. If we lost 3 or more in this series, the season would have been over for the Mets as they would have been 10+ games back and no wild card to be won in 1990. I was at this game sitting in Field Box right at home plate.

Dave VW
August 2, 2022
Hey sportsfan8690, I'm quite jealous, looks like you picked a great day to go to a game, considering both the weather and the final outcome. Also, I wonder if you remember taking part in the wave between innings they were filming for a movie.

The Pirates featured two pitchers with ties to the Mets -- one a former player (Walt Terrell) and one a future player (Rick Reed). Neither were very good here, both giving up home runs: Strawberry hit his fourth in three games off Terrell, and Magadan hit his first of the year vs. Reed. For his efforts, Strawberry won his fourth of six career Player of the Week awards.

The series was also notable for how poor the teams were defensively, as the Pirates committed 11 errors in the four-game series and the Mets 6. Pittsburgh featured two Gold Glovers this year (Bonds & Van Slyke) and I got the impression they were pretty solid defensively, but I looked it up and they actually committed the third most errors in the NL in 1990. Their bad defense doomed them in the 5th inning, as Jeff King booted a 1-out grounder by Elster, and then Don Slaught airmailed a throw to centerfield when Ojeda laid down a sac bunt a batter later. Both those runners scored on Jefferies' single later in the inning, and the rout was on from there.

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