Skip Lockwood on NY Baseball Digest

[Guest msilva177]

I have been away for a couple of weeks as I dealt with the transition of my show to my very own website and some personal situations I had to work through. Right now we are still under construction but you can listen to each show and get archives. I thought this forum might enjoy tonights guest sincey you have an appreciation for Mets history.

I will be kicking off another NY alumni segment with former Mets closer Skip Lockwood joining me tonight. I am sure you long time Mets fans will remember Skip and I promise his interview will be enjoyable. A very humble and intelligent man.

To listen live at 6pm or download the replay go to www.nybaseballdigest.com

Thank you as always for your support.

[Guest AG/DC]

Ask him about his Pilots days. He's one of only six Mets who were Pilots, and by far the most prominent.

[G-Fafif]

Skip one of four ex-Pilots to be Mets. Only Jim Gosger and Jack Aker were Mets at the same time. They played in the same game as 1974 Mets four times. Jack in the pen, Jim on the bench, crossing paths by the buffet table, maybe during stretching, possibly sitting together on the bus to the airport.

Wonder how often Fred Talbot came up in conversation.

[Benjamin Grimm]

G-Fafif wrote: Skip one of four ex-Pilots to be Mets.

There are actually six: http://leaptoad.com/mets/oppteams.php?ThisTeam=33

[Guest AG/DC]

I'm thinking he means four former Pilots. Goossen and Davis, unknown to themselves, were future Pilots.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oh, I see. (But I suspect Goossen and Davis knew somehow that they were destined to be Pilots.)

[Guest AG/DC]

I'm guessing Skip is the only Met to get a homer and a save in the same game:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL197807172.shtml

That's 1978, folks, when both were rare enough.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Oh, I see. (But I suspect Goossen and Davis knew somehow that they were destined to be Pilots.)

Didn't you see the highlight film during a rain delay?

1967 NEW YORK METS: HOME OF TWO FUTURE SEATTLE PILOTS

Or as Casey put it of Greg Goossen, in four years, he has a chance to land on another brain-dead expansion team.

[Benjamin Grimm]

AG/DC wrote: I'm guessing Skip is the only Met to get a homer and a save in the same game.

Yes, he is. Lockwood got a save and a home run on July 17, 1978. Two relievers have homered and saved against the Mets. (Enrique Romo on October 1, 1980 and Mitch Williams on September 18, 1989)

There have been 46 games where a Mets pitcher got both a save and a base hit. The last time it happened was Allen Watson on April 6, 1999. Two Mets have had two hits in games that they saved: Bob Apodaca on July 28, 1975 and Ed Lynch on July 25, 1984.

Six Mets have doubled in games that they saved. Skip Lockwood did it twice, to celebrate the bicentennial on July 4, 1976 and again on July 20, 1978. Others who did it once were former Seattle Pilot Jack Aker on July 12, 1974; Bob Apodaca on September 4, 1974; Ed Lynch on July 25, 1984; Roger McDowell on August 25, 1985; and Randy Myers on August 23, 1988.

No Mets pitchers have tripled in games that they saved.

[G-Fafif]

Mind-bottling...

You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?

Was this sort of saving and hitting activity all but outlawed starting in 1990? Can we blame John Franco?

[G-Fafif]

Come to think of it, Jesse Orosco singled and saved in Game Seven.

Jesse HAD to have been the last active Major Leaguer to have played alongside two Seattle Pilots (actually pitching in the same games as teammates): Skip Lockwood and Dr. Mike Marshall. Lockwood's final Met appearance came in Jesse's first Major League start.