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[size=24:ce300b0205][b:ce300b0205]STRAWBERRY BLASTS 17TH HR[/b:ce300b0205][/size:ce300b0205]
[size=16:ce300b0205]Gooden's Pitching, Strawberry's 17th HR Help Mets Win[/size:ce300b0205]

<img src="http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/baseball/stratomatic/1986/story_photos/darryl_strawberry_2_150x191.jpg" align="left" border="1" width="150" height="191" style="margin: 0px 10px;" /> New York outfielder Darryl Strawberry hit his 17th home run of the season to help lead the [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=957][u:ce300b0205]Mets to a 7-1 victory[/u:ce300b0205][/url] over the Chicago Cubs.

Dwight Gooden (7-4) picked up the win for New York, surrendering just 6 hits and no walks in 7.1 innings. With the win, the Mets trail St. Louis by 2 games in the N.L. East. New York and St. Louis start a 3 game series Monday night.

Elsewhere... In a wild game at the Astrodome, [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=961][u:ce300b0205]Los Angeles defeated the Houston Astros 12-8[/u:ce300b0205][/url]. Trailing 7-5 entering the 9th inning, the Dodgers tied the game on two solo "ballpark effect" HR's (Bill Madlock & Franklin Stubbs), that were hit succesfully despite the improbable HR 1-2 (out of 20) chance. The Dodgers would then break the game open in the 13th inning, with Len Matuszek hitting a grand slam (his 2nd HR of the game) off of Houston reliever Aurelio Lopez.

[i:ce300b0205]photo: SN Archives[/i:ce300b0205]

How is it that Dave LaPoint (Tigers) and Danny Darwin (Brewers) started both halves of Sunday's Doubleheader? (Played on 1-27-2008). That's the kind of statistical realism I'm talk'n about!!

Sorry, from what I understand there was just a glitch with the double-header... sometimes realism takes a momentary back seat to "what could've been" if pitchers in 1986 had the stamina of the dead ball era when they could throw until their arms fell off. :)