This Date in Shea History

[Frayed Knot]

Newday has been running this thing everyday where they look back at a random game on this date in Shea (also at some other stadium) and give a quickie run-down of that game and the main players involved.


Today they go back to June 25th of 1989 and a game that became the first in NL history where the [u:537b4e1895]defense recorded zero assists[/u:537b4e1895].
Not surprisingly it was a Sid Fernandez game with 9th inning help from Aguilera.
The final tally involved 13 strike-outs, 12 fly/pop-outs, and 2 unassisted groundouts.

[Guest sharpie]

I remember that game. The last out came on a grounder to Sid who ran to first base in order to preserve the no-assist aspect.

[G-Fafif]

Rick Aguilera, this reminds me, just went into the Twins Hall of Fame. His serious relieving career began in '89 as a Met. I dreamed that summer of a Myers-Aggie closing tandem that would blow away the previous work of Orosco-McDowell. In a way, it worked just that way, just not together or as Mets.

Oh well.

[Guest AG/DC]

Couldn't have been the last out if Aggie finished up.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

The last out, according to BR:
L Dykstra Groundout: 1B unassisted (2B-1B)

[Guest sharpie]

Did it happen a second time or is my memory just shot? Could be either.

[Guest sharpie]

It did happen a second time. I'm not losing it.

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