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Phillies 26, Mets 7
Game 55 - Tuesday Night, June 11th in Philadelphia
Record - 21-34, 5th Place, 14 1/2 games behind the Cubs
One Sentence Summary: The Phillies destroyed the Mets, 26-7, in one of the most memorable Phillies games from my childhood.
What It Means: This is it. This game represents the highlight of the season and the most positive moment from the entire Phillies' 1985 output. They would string together some wins throughout the rest of the year, but nothing would top the euphoria of this absolute bashing of the Mets.I clearly remember watching this game on PRISM, the Philadelphia-area cable TV channel, and I was thrilled to find the game on YouTube, embedded below. Andy Musser and Chris Wheeler called the game for the Phillies.
With the 2020 season now possibly beginning in mid-July, I gave some thought to stopping these daily posts from the 1985 season at this point and leaving on a high note, but I decided to keep going a little further. If nothing else, this exercise has provided a daily diversion from these strange times and I think I'll keep it up until and if live baseball resumes.
What Happened: Von Hayes hit two first inning home runs, becoming the first player in Major League history to accomplish that feat. The Phillies were up 9-0 after the first inning and 16-0 after the second. The offense set a franchise record for most doubles in a game with 10, with Bo Diaz (3), Glenn Wilson (2), Mike Schmidt, Juan Samuel, Rick Schu, reliever Dave Rucker (!) and Steve Jeltz all contributing to that tally. Interestingly enough, the 1986 Phillies would break this record with 11 doubles in a game on June 23, 1986. Schu and Garry Maddox also tripled.
To date, the only two players in Phillies franchise history to hit two home runs in one inning are Hayes and Andy Seminick, who did it on June 2, 1949. The runs scored and total hits (27) are still franchise records in a single game for the Phillies.
Future Phillie Tom Gorman and Calvin Schiraldi were the two Mets pitchers hit the hardest, allowing a combined 16 runs on 14 hits over 1 2/3 innings. Joe Sambito was the sacrificial lamb from the depleted Mets bullpen, soaking up three innings and giving up 10 more runs, eight of which were earned. Phillies starting pitcher Charles Hudson was the beneficiary of the win, despite not pitching well himself. Hudson gave up seven runs (six earned) on 13 hits in his short five-inning outing. Rucker, along with his double, provided three scoreless innings of relief.
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Featured Cards: There are two cards in my collection commemorating this game. Donruss celebrated Hayes' first inning heroics with a card in its 1985 Donruss Highlights set, released late in 1985. The Phillies issued one of my favorite team-issued cards in its 1986 Tastykake set featuring a painting from artist Dick Perez. The back of the Tastykake card contains the full box score and a summary of all the MLB, National League and Phillies records set or tied.
1985 Virtual Phillies Wall / 1985 Season Summary Index
4 comments:
What a game! It's almost too good of a start. Makes the rest of the game a bit of a drag.
I wonder how many of the 22,591 in attendance stayed until the end? As the game ended close to 11pm on a school night, I'm guessing I didn't watch until the very end.
Any time the Mets are spanked is a good day.
My memory of the Inquirer (or maybe the Reading Times or Reading Eagle, since that's where I was living) the next day was that the headline said "Phils give Mets a Hayes-ing"!
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