1988 New York Mets season

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1988 New York Mets
NL East champions
Major League affiliations
Location
  • Shea Stadium (since 1964)
  • New York (since 1962)
Other information
Owner(s)Fred Wilpon and Nelson Doubleday, Jr.
General manager(s)Frank Cashen
Manager(s)Davey Johnson
Local televisionWWOR-TV/SportsChannel New York
(Ralph Kiner, Steve Zabriskie, Tim McCarver, Fran Healy, Rusty Staub)
Local radioWFAN
(Bob Murphy, Gary Thorne, Charlie Slowes)
WJIT (Spanish)
(Juan Alicea, Billy Berroa)
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The New York Mets' 1988 season was the 27th regular season for the Mets. They went 100–60 and finished first in the NL East. They were managed by Davey Johnson. They played home games at Shea Stadium.

The Mets would go on to lose to the eventual World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS in seven games.

Offseason[]

  • December 11, 1987: Jesse Orosco was traded as part of a 3-team trade by the Mets to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers sent Jack Savage to the Mets, and the Oakland Athletics sent Kevin Tapani and Wally Whitehurst to the Mets. The Dodgers sent Bob Welch and Matt Young to the Athletics, and the Athletics sent Alfredo Griffin and Jay Howell to the Dodgers.[1]
  • December 11, 1987: Rafael Santana and Victor Garcia (minors) were traded by the Mets to the New York Yankees for Darren Reed, Phil Lombardi, and Steve Frey.[2]
  • March 26, 1988: Randy Milligan and Scott Henion (minors) were traded by the Mets to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Mackey Sasser and Tim Drummond.[3]

Regular season[]

  • August 9: The Mets participated in the first official night game at Wrigley Field, which the Cubs won, 6–4.

Season standings[]

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NL East 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Mets 100 60 0.625 — 56–24 44–36
Pittsburgh Pirates 85 75 0.531 15 43–38 42–37
Montreal Expos 81 81 0.500 20 43–38 38–43
Chicago Cubs 77 85 0.475 24 39–42 38–43
St. Louis Cardinals 76 86 0.469 25 41–40 35–46
Philadelphia Phillies 65 96 0.404 35½ 38–42 27–54

Record vs. opponents[]

1988 National League Records
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Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Team ATL CHC CIN HOU LAD MON NYM PHI PIT SD SF STL
Atlanta — 5–7 5–13 5–13 4–14 4–8 4–8 6–6 5–5 8–10 5–13 3–9
Chicago 7–5 — 6–6 7–5 4–8–1 9–9 9–9 8–10 7–11 8–4 5–7 7–11
Cincinnati 13–5 6–6 — 9–9 7–11 5–7 4–7 9–3 7–5 10–8 11–7 6–6
Houston 13–5 5–7 9–9 — 9–9 6–6 5–7 8–4 8–4 6–12 7–11 6–6
Los Angeles 14–4 8–4–1 11–7 9–9 — 8–4 1–10 11–1 6–6 7–11 12–6 7–5
Montreal 8–4 9–9 7–5 6–6 4–8 — 6–12 9–9–1 8–10 4–8 7–5 13–5
New York 8–4 9–9 7–4 7–5 10–1 12–6 — 10–8 12–6 7–5 4–8 14–4
Philadelphia 6-6 10–8 3–9 4–8 1–11 9–9–1 8–10 — 7–11 4–7 7–5 6–12
Pittsburgh 5–5 11–7 5–7 4–8 6–6 10–8 6–12 11–7 — 8–4 8–4 11–7
San Diego 10–8 4–8 8–10 12–6 11–7 8–4 5–7 7–4 4–8 — 8–10 6–6
San Francisco 13–5 7–5 7–11 11–7 6–12 5–7 8–4 5–7 4–8 10–8 — 7–5
St. Louis 9–3 11–7 6–6 6–6 5–7 5–13 4–14 12–6 7–11 6–6 5–7 —


Notable transactions[]

Roster[]

1988 New York Mets
Roster
Pitchers Catchers
  •  8 Gary Carter
  • 33 Barry Lyons
  •  2 Mackey Sasser

Infielders

Outfielders
  • 32 Mark Carreon
  •  4 Lenny Dykstra
  • 13 Lee Mazzilli
  • 22 Kevin McReynolds
  • 18 Darryl Strawberry
  •  1 Mookie Wilson
 Manager
  •  5 Davey Johnson

Coaches

Player stats[]

Batting[]

Starters by position[]

Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Gary Carter 130 455 110 .242 11 46
1B Keith Hernandez 95 348 96 .276 11 55
2B Wally Backman 99 294 89 .303 0 17
3B Howard Johnson 148 495 114 .230 24 68
SS Kevin Elster 149 406 87 .214 9 37
LF Kevin McReynolds 147 552 159 .288 27 99
CF Len Dykstra 126 429 116 .270 8 33
RF Darryl Strawberry 153 543 146 .269 39 101

Other batters[]

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Mookie Wilson 112 378 112 .296 8 41
Dave Magadan 112 314 87 .277 1 35
Tim Teufel 90 273 64 .234 4 31
Lee Mazzilli 68 116 17 .147 0 12
Mackey Sasser 60 123 35 .285 1 17
Gregg Jeffries 29 109 35 .321 6 17
Barry Lyons 50 91 21 .231 0 11
Keith Miller 40 70 15 .214 1 5
Mark Carreon 7 9 5 .556 1 1

Starting pitchers[]

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Dwight Gooden 34 248.1 18 9 3.19 175
Ron Darling 34 240.2 17 9 3.25 161
David Cone 35 231.1 20 3 2.22 213
Bob Ojeda 29 190.1 10 13 2.88 133
Sid Fernandez 31 187 12 10 3.03 189

Other pitchers[]

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Rick Aguilera 11 24.2 0 4 6.93 16
David West 2 6 1 0 3.00 3

Relief pitchers[]

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Roger McDowell 62 5 5 16 2.63 46
Randy Myers 55 7 3 26 1.72 69
Terry Leach 52 7 2 3 2.54 51
Gene Walter 19 0 1 0 3.78 14
Bob McClure 14 1 0 1 4.09 7
Jeff Innis 12 1 1 0 1.89 14
Ed Nunez 10 1 0 0 4.50 8
John Mitchell 1 0 0 0 0.00 1

NLCS[]

Main article: 1988 National League Championship Series

Game 1[]

October 4: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 8 1
Los Angeles 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 0
WP: Randy Myers (1–0)  LP: Jay Howell (0–1)
HR: NYM – None.; LA – None.

Game 2[]

October 5: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 0
Los Angeles 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 6 7 0
WP: Tim Belcher (1–0)  LP: David Cone (0–1)  SV: Alejandro Peña (1)
HR: NYM – Keith Hernandez (1); LA – None.

Game 3[]

October 8: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Los Angeles 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 7 2
New York 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 X 8 9 2
WP: Randy Myers (2–0)  LP: Alejandro Peña (0–1)
HR: LA – None.; NYM – None.

Game 4[]

October 9: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E
Los Angeles 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 5 7 1
New York 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 2
WP: Alejandro Peña (1–1)  LP: Roger McDowell (0–1)   SV: Orel Hershiser (1)
HR: LA – Mike Scioscia (1), Kirk Gibson (1); NYM – Darryl Strawberry (1), Kevin McReynolds (1)

Game 5[]

October 10: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Los Angeles 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 7 12 0
New York 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 4 9 1
WP: Tim Belcher (2–0)  LP: Sid Fernandez (0–1)  SV: Brian Holton (1)
HR: LA – Kirk Gibson (2); NYM – Lenny Dykstra (1)

Game 6[]

October 11: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 5 11 0
Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 2
WP: David Cone (1–1)  LP: Tim Leary (0–1)
HR: NYM – Kevin McReynolds (2); LA – None.

Game 7[]

October 12: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
Los Angeles 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 10 0
WP: Orel Hershiser (1–0)  LP: Ron Darling (0–1)
HR: NYM – None.; LA – None.

Awards and honors[]

  • Keith Hernandez, Gold Glove Award
  • Keith Hernandez, Major League record, most Gold Gloves by a first baseman (it was also his 11th consecutive Gold Glove)[6]
  • Kevin McReynolds – Player of the Month, September 1988
  • Gary Carter – 300 career home runs, and set record for career putouts for a catcher

1988 MLB All-Star Game

  • Gary Carter
  • David Cone
  • Dwight Gooden
  • Darryl Strawberry

Team leaders[]

  • Games – Darryl Strawberry (153)
  • At-bats – Kevin McReynolds (552)
  • Home runs – Darryl Strawberry (39)
  • Runs batted in – Darryl Strawberry (101)
  • Batting average – Wally Backman (.303)
  • Hits – Kevin McReynolds (159)
  • Doubles – Kevin McReynolds (30)
  • Triples – Mookie Wilson (5)
  • Walks – Howard Johnson (86)
  • Stolen bases – Len Dykstra (30)
  • Wins – David Cone (20)

Farm system[]

See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Tidewater Tides International League Mike Cubbage
AA Jackson Mets Texas League Tucker Ashford
A St. Lucie Mets Florida State League Clint Hurdle
A Columbia Mets South Atlantic League Butch Hobson
A-Short Season Little Falls Mets New York–Penn League Bill Stein
Rookie Kingsport Mets Appalachian League Bobby Floyd
Rookie GCL Mets Gulf Coast League John Tamargo

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: St. Lucie, Kingsport[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jesse Orosco at Baseball-Reference
  2. ^ Rafael Santana at Baseball-Reference
  3. ^ Randy Milligan at Baseball-Reference
  4. ^ Mike Maksudian at Baseball-Reference
  5. ^ Héctor Ramírez at Baseball-Reference
  6. ^ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p. 47, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
  7. ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

External links[]

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