Ultimate Mets Database: Game of April 19, 1992

Dave VW
November 1, 2022
Anthony Young could quite possibly be the unluckiest pitcher in baseball history. He improved to 2-0 here, as flushing flash wrote back in 2002, then lost his next 14 decisions in 1992, and went 1-16 in 1993. And it's not like he was God awful, as he held a combined 3.98 ERA during that span. He also recorded 12 straight saves without blowing a game later in the year, so it's crazy how unlucky he was when it came to wins and losses.

There were 7 walks in this game before anyone got a hit, that being a single by Howard Johnson to lead of the 4th inning (though it easily could have been charge an error to Montreal 3B Archie Cianfrocco for bobbling the ball). Defense was atrocious on this Easter Sunday, with the teams combining for 5 miscues ... though there easily could have been 7 or 8. Montreal LF Ivan Calderon made the biggest blunder, letting a HoJo double go through his legs in the 7th for a bases-clearing, 4-run, error-assisted inside the park home run. Johnson finished the game with a career-high tying 5 RBI.

Mets did some heavy damage against southpaws Jeff Fassero and Doug Simons, who gave up 4 runs each. Simons pitched for the Mets in 1991 and had just been traded to Montreal 17 days earlier for minor leaguer Rob Katzaroff (who never panned out to anything useful). Todd Hundley, who missed the Mets' previous 4 games with the flu, greeted Simons with a bomb of a home run to lead off the 8th, which was the second longball of Hundley's career.

The Mets went with a 3-man booth for some WWOR games in 1992, adding Bob Carpenter to the tandem of Kiner and McCarver. I don't remember him calling games for the Mets at all, but apparently was nominated for an Emmy for his work. Pretty sure he only spent one season in New York before moving on to Minnesota, Texas, and now Washington, where he's been since 2006. He still sounds exactly the same as he did in '92.

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