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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
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Subject: Great line + unusual occurence
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 13:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 13:36:00 1985
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I was listening to the Sunday Met game on the radio
(the one that went 18 innings),
and one of the announcers suddenly said something like

"Well, folks, it now doesn't matter if this game goes 49 innings
and breaks the all time record. This game still won't make the
front page tomorrow, because the Yankees just fired Yogi and
hired Billy Martin again."

How true!

I also saw a replay of Rusty Staub's death-defying catch in the top
of the 18th inning that saved a run and let the Mets finally win
in the bottom of the 18th. Staub had been inserted in the outfield
as the Mets ran out of players, and Staub and Hurdle had been
switching between left and right field so that Hurdle would always
be in left when a right handed batter came up and vice verse.
But finally, Rick Rhoden, pinch hitting (!) for someone, hit
a fly ball down the right field line. Rusty, looking like
a rhino in full gallop, charged toward the line. At the last
moment, he lunged and caught the ball at his knees! Way to go, Rusty!

There was another unusual defensive change in the outfield
in this game. When the Mets had the bases loaded and nobody out
in the twelfth, the Pirates apparently brought the outfielders to the
outer edge of the infield and the infielders way in. I didn't
see this, so could anyone that was there describe this in
more detail?

Isaac Dimitrovsky