jjc@houxl.UUCP (J.CARBONARO) (11/13/85)
<The Cards would have been world champs after game 6 <had the following occurred. < <Whitey leaves in Ken Daley!! <Daley was absolutely unhittable in the 8th innning and <throughout the entire post season (10 shutout innings in relief). < <I know Whitey set up things so he could have Worrel pitch to Sundberg <and Balboni, and that Worrel struck out 6 batters in game 5. <But, with Daley in there the Cards win. KC goes down 1-2-3 in the <ninth, game over no ifs, ands or buts. < <William Solomon <Brighton, Ma. I was thinking the same thing in the first game of the late-September three game Cards/Mets series. Dailey was picking up where Tudor had left off and had just made two excellent hitters (Hernandez and Carter) look very bad. Then Strawberry hit one AT LEAST 450 ft that VanSlyke hardly looked at. The longest homer of the year for a guy who hits them pretty far. Mets win, 1-0. Moral? - there are ALWAYS ifs, ands, and buts.
wbs@cybvax0.UUCP (William B. Solomon) (11/15/85)
> <The Cards would have been world champs after game 6 > <had the following occurred. > < > <Whitey leaves in Ken Daley!! > <Daley was absolutely unhittable in the 8th innning and > <throughout the entire post season (10 shutout innings in relief). > < > <I know Whitey set up things so he could have Worrel pitch to Sundberg > <and Balboni, and that Worrel struck out 6 batters in game 5. > <But, with Daley in there the Cards win. KC goes down 1-2-3 in the > <ninth, game over no ifs, ands or buts. > < > <William Solomon > <Brighton, Ma. > > > I was thinking the same thing in the first game of the late-September three > game Cards/Mets series. Dailey was picking up where Tudor had left off and > had just made two excellent hitters (Hernandez and Carter) look very bad. > Then Strawberry hit one AT LEAST 450 ft that VanSlyke hardly looked at. > The longest homer of the year for a guy who hits them pretty far. Mets win, > 1-0. > > Moral? - there are ALWAYS ifs, ands, and buts. I think Dayley learned alot from the mistake he made to Strawberry (throwing the same pitch in the same spot twice in a row). He seemed to become a much tougher pitcher after that game. In the eigth inning of game 6, he made Wilson, Brett, and White look bad. His fastball was over- powering (Strawberry hit a curveball) and he was throwing stikes with excellent location. But I would have left him in especially because of what happened against the Mets. I'll say this till the end of time, "If Herzog leaves in Dayley, the Cards win in 6". William Solomon Brighton, Ma.