Ultimate Mets Database: Game of June 13, 1991

Dave VW
September 26, 2022
The Mets take a fast 2-0 lead in the first but only muster two hits the rest of the game, squandering a solid performance from Whitehurst. His only mistakes are a two-out RBI seeing-eye single to Otis Nixon in the third, and a two-run homer to Sid Bream in the fourth.

You could tell the Mets' frustrations were reaching a boiling point with this loss. I looked up some quotes in the archived New York Times game story. Coleman was quite upset that, when he lead off the 8th with a walk, he was then flashed the hit-and-run sign instead of the straight steal sign on the first pitch with Magadan at the plate. He was gunned out, and said, "Why put a hit-and-run on with me on base? The best base-stealer in the world. I don't need no hit-and-run. If I'm straight stealing in that situation, you can't throw me out." Third base coach Mike Cubbage took the blame for getting the signs mixed up. But Harrelson then took umbrage with the lack of offense, saying, "Pete Smith hadn't pitched a whole lot, and he looked like Cy Young against us." Indeed, Smith was coming off shoulder surgery and got his first win in five starts in 1991 here, as well as his first major league win since June 5, 1990.

Swinging for the fences in the 9th, McReynolds flew out to left, HoJo popped out behind the plate, and Brooks popped out to third, although Jeff Blauser caught the ball falling down behind the mound as the wind had really picked up by the later stages of the game. This was also Julio Valera's penultimate appearance with the Mets; it also being his first appearance with the Mets in 1991 and his first relief appearance since pitching for Class A Columbia in 1988. You got the feeling the Mets were holding it together with duct tape and silly string and things were on the brink of unraveling in an ugly way.

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