Cardinals @ Mets
September 20, 1981

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Bottom 9 R H E
Cardinals 6 8 0
Mets 5 21 2
Bottom 9 R H E
Cardinals 6 8 0
Mets 7 22 2

Mookie Wilson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .600 .288
OBP .600 .337
At Bats 5 285
Hits 3 82
• Singles 2 66
• Doubles 1 7
• Triples 0 7
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 19
RBI’s 1 12

Bruce Sutter Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 3 22
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Shea Stadium - September 20, 1981
Bruce Sutter
Darrell Porter
Keith Hernandez
Tom Herr
Ken Oberkfell
Garry Templeton
Gene Roof
George Hendrick
Tito Landrum
Mookie Wilson
Frank Taveras

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
St. Louis Cardinals 6 8 0 10
New York Mets 7 22 2 13
Winning Pitcher Neil Allen
Losing Pitcher Bruce Sutter
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Mookie Wilson
Attendance 13,337
Time of Game 2 hours 55 minutes
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Wilson hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Taveras hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Roof. Taveras reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 9 Alex Trevino pinch hits for Neil Allen. Trevino hits a fly ball into center field. Hendrick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Bruce Sutter now pitching. Flynn hits a ball on the ground towards short. Templeton scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Oberkfell is called out on strikes.
Top 9 Landrum hits a line drive into center field. That will be extra bases. Wilson fumbles the ball. That's a triple and an error on Wilson. Landrum moves all the way to home. That run is unearned.
Top 9 Porter hits a fly ball into center field. Wilson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Hendrick hits a fly ball into center field. Wilson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Stearns hits a ball on the ground towards short. Templeton fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 8 Mazzilli hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Herr settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Kingman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Brooks moves to second.
Bottom 8 Mark Littell now pitching. Brooks hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Littell fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 8 Hernandez strikes out.
Top 8 Templeton strikes out.
Top 8 Neil Allen now pitching. Ellis Valentine now playing right field. Herr hits a ball on the ground towards short. Taveras scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Bob Sykes now pitching. Ellis Valentine pinch hits for Mike Howard. Valentine is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Wilson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hernandez fields the ball and throws to DeLeon covering. Safe. Harris moves to third. Taveras moves to second.
Bottom 7 Greg Harris pinch runs for Rusty Staub. Luis DeLeon now pitching. Taveras hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Harris moves to second.
Bottom 7 Rusty Staub pinch hits for Jesse Orosco. Jim Kaat now pitching. Staub hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Flynn scores.
Bottom 7 Flynn hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Hendrick. Flynn reaches second base with a double. Stearns goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 7 Stearns hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Brooks scores.
Bottom 7 Mazzilli hits a ball on the ground towards short. Templeton scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Brooks moves to second.
Bottom 7 Kingman hits a popup, foul, towards third. Oberkfell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Tito Landrum now playing right field. Brooks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Bair strikes out.
Top 7 Roof is walked intentionally.
Top 7 Oberkfell hits a line drive into left field. Mazzilli settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Tito Landrum pinch hits for Dane Iorg. Landrum bunts towards first. Kingman scoops it up and throws to first, with Flynn covering, for the out. Porter moves to second.
Top 7 Jesse Orosco now pitching. Frank Taveras now playing shortstop. Porter takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Doug Bair now pitching. Howard strikes out. Porter drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Howard out.
Bottom 6 Frank Taveras pinch runs for Ron Hodges. Wilson hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Roof. Wilson reaches second base with a double. Taveras scores.
Bottom 6 Ron Hodges pinch hits for Mike Marshall. Hodges hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Iorg. Hodges reaches second base with a double. Flynn scores.
Bottom 6 Mike Jorgensen pinch hits for Ron Gardenhire. Jorgensen hits a fly ball into left field. Roof settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Flynn hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Roof. Flynn reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Stearns hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first, with Sorensen covering, for the out.
Top 6 Hendrick hits a ball on the ground towards short. Gardenhire fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Flynn fields it and throws to home to get Herr. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 6 Templeton hits a fly ball into center field. Wilson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Herr moves to third.
Top 6 There goes Herr. The throw from Stearns and he is safe. Herr steals second.
Top 6 Herr hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Mazzilli hits a fly ball into left field. Roof settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Kingman hits a popup towards first. Hernandez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Brooks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Howard moves to second.
Bottom 5 Howard hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Wilson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hernandez scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Wilson for the out.
Top 5 Sorensen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brooks fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Roof hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brooks juggles the ball. That's an error on Brooks. Oberkfell moves to third.
Top 5 Oberkfell takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Iorg hits a fly ball into right field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Mike Marshall now pitching. Porter hits a ball on the ground towards first. Kingman scoops it up and throws to first, with Marshall covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Mike Cubbage pinch hits for Ray Searage. Cubbage hits a line drive towards short. Templeton reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Gardenhire hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Stearns moves to third.
Bottom 4 Flynn hits a fly ball into right field. Iorg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Stearns hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Mazzilli hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Herr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Hendrick hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Flynn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Searage fields it and throws to first for the out. Templeton moves to third.
Top 4 Templeton hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Howard. Templeton reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Herr hits a fly ball into right field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Kingman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Templeton fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Brooks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Wilson moves to second.
Bottom 3 Howard hits a fly ball into center field. Hendrick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Wilson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Sorensen strikes out.
Top 3 Roof takes first base on ball four. Iorg moves to second.
Top 3 Oberkfell hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Flynn settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Iorg takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Ray Searage now pitching. Porter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Flynn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Hendrick hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 3 Hernandez hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Templeton moves to third.
Top 3 Templeton takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Zachry hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Herr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Gardenhire hits a ball on the ground towards short. Templeton fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Mazzilli moves to third. Stearns moves to second.
Bottom 2 Flynn hits a line drive into right field. Iorg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Stearns bunts for a single. Mazzilli moves to second.
Bottom 2 Mazzilli hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Kingman hits a fly ball into left field. Roof settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Herr hits a fly ball into left field. Mazzilli settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Sorensen hits a fly ball into center field. Wilson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Roof hits a fly ball into center field. Wilson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Brooks hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Herr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Howard hits a popup, foul, towards third. Oberkfell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Wilson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Templeton scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Oberkfell hits a fly ball into center field. Wilson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Iorg hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Hernandez scores. Hendrick scores. Porter moves to second.
Top 1 Porter takes first base on ball four. Hendrick moves to second.
Top 1 Hendrick hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hernandez moves to third.
Top 1 Hernandez takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 There goes Templeton. The throw from Stearns and he is out, Gardenhire applying the tag.
Top 1 Templeton bunts for a single.
Top 1 Herr hits a fly ball into center field. Wilson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.