National League Standings, May 18, 1991
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE MAY 18, 1991 GAME:
Dave VW
August 29, 2022
I'm sure there are no comments yet regarding this game because it's so painful for us Mets fans to recollect. Up 2-0 in the 8th thanks to a superb start from Ron Darling, who tied his season-high with 9 Ks, the Mets commit 3 errors in the inning, including two by Jefferies at 3B on back-to-back at-bats, allowing the Dodgers to score 4 runs and steal a win. Nine batters came to the plate in the inning and only 1 hit the ball out of the infield (Murray's RBI double). Jefferies had actually just made a really heady play before his two blunders, fielding a grounder by Scioscia and tagging Murray, who had strayed to far off the 3B bag, out.
Jefferies then had a chance to redeem himself in the 9th when he came up representing the tying run with one out. He rapped a ball down the first base line that should have been a double, but Murray was guarding the line, snared the grounder and stepped on the bag for the second out. Tough all around game for Gregg.
Keith Miller and HoJo also had errors. The bad defense was par for the course in 1991, as the team ranked second in the NL in errors, with only Houston committing more. Also, Darling hit a double in the game and I found that, among pitchers, he has the most two-base hits in Mets history with 20. Tom Seaver is second with 17.
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