August 14, 1991While it has been a disappointing season for a team, the New York Mets got a sterling performance
from a player tonight against the St. Louis Cardinals. Shortstop Howard Johnson hit 3 homeruns and drove in 5 runs in the Mets 14-7 victory over the Cardinals. The homers gave him 27 on the year, 3rd most in the NL. Fans of the last place Mets haven't had much to cheer about this season and now take solace wherever they can. Johnson provided that tonight.
BOXSCORE: 1991 New York Mets At 1991 St. Louis Cardinals 8/14/1991
Mets AB R H RBI AVG Cardinals AB R H RBI AVG
K.Miller 3B 5 1 1 1 .248 R.Lankford CF 5 1 2 2 .249
D.Magadan 1B 5 3 3 4 .259 O.Smith SS 4 0 1 0 .265
G.Jefferies 2B 4 1 1 0 .257 G.Perry 1B 5 1 1 0 .286
K.McReynolds LF 5 0 1 1 .231 T.Zeile 3B 5 0 2 1 .304
H.Johnson SS 5 4 4 5 .272 F.Jose RF 4 0 0 0 .313
H.Brooks RF 4 1 2 1 .223 M.Thompson LF 5 1 2 0 .314
D.Boston CF 5 1 2 1 .284 T.Pagnozzi C 3 1 1 0 .266
M.Sasser C 5 2 2 1 .280 J.Oquendo 2B 4 1 0 0 .212
D.Cone P 4 1 2 0 .111 B.Smith P 1 0 0 0 .250
P.Schourek P 0 0 0 0 .000 W.Fraser P 0 0 0 0 .000
A-B.Gilkey PH 1 1 1 2 .249
J.Agosto P 0 0 0 0 .429
B-G.Pena PH 1 1 1 0 .293
C.Carpenter P 0 0 0 0 .000
C-L.Alicea PH 0 0 0 0 .182
S.Terry P 0 0 0 0 .250
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Totals 42 14 18 14 Totals 38 7 11 5
A-Pinch Hit For Fraser In 4th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Agosto In 6th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Carpenter In 8th Inning
Mets............ 4 1 6 1 1 0 0 1 0 - 14 18 2
Cardinals....... 1 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 - 7 11 0
Mets (47-66) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
D.Cone WIN(8-8) 8 2/3 11 7 5 6 10 1 191 3.90
P.Schourek 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5.40
Totals 9 11 7 5 6 10 1
Cardinals (60-52) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
B.Smith LOSS(11-5) 2 1/3 8 8 8 2 1 2 70 4.56
W.Fraser 1 2/3 3 4 4 2 0 1 46 6.84
J.Agosto 2 4 1 0 1 2 0 51 3.04
C.Carpenter 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 21 3.27
S.Terry 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 21 2.36
Totals 9 18 14 13 5 3 4
ATTENDANCE- 40,584 DATE- Wednesday, August 14th 1991 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Bill Hohn, Terry Tata, Jerry Crawford, Steve Rippley
T- 3:41
LEFT ON BASE- Mets: 7 Cardinals:10
DOUBLE PLAYS- Mets: 1 Cardinals: 0
ERRORS- K.Miller, H.Johnson
DOUBLES- D.Magadan-2(26th), D.Boston(9th), M.Sasser(7th), D.Cone, T.Zeile(24th),
M.Thompson-2(10th)
TRIPLES- H.Johnson(5th), M.Sasser(3rd), G.Perry(7th)
HOME RUNS- D.Magadan(5th), H.Johnson-3(27th), B.Gilkey(7th)
RBIs- K.Miller(13th), D.Magadan-4(41st), K.McReynolds(60th), H.Johnson-5(69th),
H.Brooks(61st), D.Boston(10th), M.Sasser(20th), R.Lankford-2(50th),
T.Zeile(66th), B.Gilkey-2(33rd)
CAUGHT STEALING- D.Boston
SACRIFICE FLIES- H.Brooks
WALKS- K.Miller, D.Magadan, G.Jefferies-2, D.Cone, O.Smith, F.Jose,
T.Pagnozzi-2, J.Oquendo, L.Alicea
STRIKE OUTS- K.Miller, D.Boston, D.Cone, R.Lankford, O.Smith-2, G.Perry,
T.Zeile-2, F.Jose, T.Pagnozzi, J.Oquendo, B.Smith
GIDP- G.Perry
WILD PITCHES- D.Cone
2-out RBI- T.Zeile, D.Magadan-3, B.Gilkey-2, K.McReynolds
RLISP 2-out- R.Lankford, H.Johnson, M.Thompson, K.Miller, F.Jose, T.Zeile,
G.Jefferies
TEAM RISP- Mets: 6 for 14 Cardinals: 4 for 15
Howard Johnson rocketed 3 homeruns and had 5 RBI and David Cone dominated
striking out 10 St. Louis batters as the New York Mets defeated the St. Louis
Cardinals 14 to 7 at Busch Stadium.
Johnson had a great evening at the plate. He smacked a three-run homer in the
1st inning, smashed a bases-empty 'big-fly' in the 3rd inning, tripled in the
4th inning and lofted a solo-blast 'downtown' in the 8th inning. New York
had many opportunities throughout the game and scored in 6 separate innings.
The victory went to Cone(8-8) who went 8 and 2/3 innings, allowing 7 runs. The
loss was charged to Bryn Smith(11-5). He was knocked around by New York,
allowing 8 hits and 2 walks in 2 and 1/3 innings.
'I had my good stuff tonight.' Cone said. 'As the game went along I started to
get the feeling that I was going to strike out a bunch of hitters.'
