Ultimate Mets Database: Game of September 27, 1992

sportsfan8690
September 8, 2009
I remember watching this game in my college dorm room in Miami on WWOR. The Pirates clinched the NL East in this game and WWOR did the Pirates locker room celebration on the Kiners Korner postgame show.

At the beginning of the season I thought the last 2 weekend series against the Pirates would decide the NL East as the Mets were expected to be right at the top all year. That never happened as the Mets were never even close to contending. The Mets were not as good as everyone thought and they had to watch the Pirates clinch in front of their eyes.

Michael
March 30, 2020
As mentioned above, Ralph Kiner did a full Kiner's Korner from the Pirates locker room after they clinched. I remember watching as a kid and thought how weird it was for the Mets channel to do that. But looking back, it was a nice gesture. Few expected the Pirates to win the east for the 3rd year in a row after losing Bonilla to the Mets. But they deserved every bit of it. The Mets, after a good early start in April, fell into a season long slump and just weren't very good.

Dave VW
December 8, 2022
To elaborate on why WWOR covered the Pirates celebration: If you can believe it, none of the TV channels in Pittsburgh even broadcast the game, so WWOR had all the exclusive content. I also remember hearing during the postgame that the city's newspaper reporters were all on strike, so there was virtually no media there to cover the celebration. Shame for Pittsburgh, as they wouldn't make it back to postseason play until 2013!

This game came directly after the Mets took a 19-2 loss on the chin, and it really looked like they were going through the motions here. No HoJo, Bonilla, Magadan, or Randolph, and Coleman was practically benched for most of September. Even when the Mets put the first two runners on in the eighth to threaten, Sasser quickly popped out to left and Walker struck out. After Murray walked, Bass grounded out weakly and that was that. However, this game featured Jeff McKnight's only defensive appearance in the outfield for the Mets, so there's that bit of trivia.

Speaking of the outfield, am I the only one who remembers Three Rivers Stadium as ALWAYS having ugly wet spots all over their artificial turf? I know the Vet in Philly and Olympic Stadium in Montreal were bad, but 3RS in Pitt has my vote for ugliest baseball stadium during the early 1990s.

Schourek pitched decently, and Barry Jones struck out the side in convincing fashion. They needed those performances after what happened the day before. Schourek threw 121 pitches, which tied his season high.

There was also a debate between McCarver and Kiner about what is grammatically correct to say: RBI or RBIs. My 2 cents: it's RBI. Why? Because there's no need to pluralize RBI, as the abbreviation stands for "runs batted in." So making it RBIs means you're saying "runs batted ins." Of course, McCarver didn't understand why one is right and one is wrong, but hopefully somebody has enlightened him since 1992.

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