Ultimate Mets Database: Game of May 12, 1990

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May 11, 1990
Mets 9, Dodgers 4 1990 Regular Season Game 30
May 12, 1990
Mets 7, Dodgers 0 Next Game:
May 14, 1990
Giants 4, Mets 2

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National League Standings, May 12, 1990

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE MAY 12, 1990 GAME:

Bob P
May 13, 2006
Frank Viola wins for the seventh time in seven starts at the beginning of the 1990 season. No other Mets pitcher as of today has ever won his first seven starts of the year.

Only one member of the Dodger starting lineup had a hit: Mike Sharperson, who had three of the four Dodger hits that Frank allowed. Pinch-hitter John Shelby had the other Dodger hit.

Shickhaus Franks
August 9, 2010
Here's what happened hours after this game: Mets manager Davey Johnson and Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda went to Radio City Music Hall to appear in the HBO's "Comic Relief" show and both managers tossed soft baseballs to Billy Crystal who proceeded to hit them into the audience and the higher he got into the upper deck of RCMH, the more money they would raise for the homeless. A wonderful gesture and priceless moment in Mets history in my opinion!

Dave VW
July 13, 2022
As of 2022, Viola's 7 straight wins to begin the season still stands as the Mets record. And somehow he didn't receive a single first-place vote for that year's NL Cy Young Award.

This was Davey Johnson's 1,000th game managing the Mets. He actually only lasted 12 more games before getting replaced with Bud Harrelson. This was also Willie Randolph's last game with the Dodgers as he was traded the next day to the A's for Stan Javier. This was mostly done to allow Juan Samuel, who was overmatched playing CF for LA, to move back to 2B and let Javier and Kirk Gibson platoon in CF with Kal Daniels and Hubie Brooks manning the corner OF spots.

Weird seeing John Wetteland starting a game. He only made two more starts this season before spending the rest of his career as one of baseball's best closers.

Tim McCarver mentioned that, as of 1990, only two pitchers in major league history had the initials FV: Frank Viola and Fernando Valenzuela, who was in the opposing dugout with the Dodgers. Can anyone think of any others? Framber Valdez pitches for the Astros, that's all I can come up with.

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