Ray Knight threw a right – started a fight
by Jim OMalley • July 16, 2020
On July 22, 1986, the New York Mets played a road game against the Cincinnati Reds. Bobby Ojeda started against rookie Scott Terry. The Red led 3-1 with two outs in the 9th inning when Dave Parker dropped what should have been the final out of the game.
In the 10th inning, pinch-runner Eric Davis stood on 2nd base, after Pete Rose had hit a pinch-hit single. Ray Knight was the Mets’ third baseman. What happened next has become one of the team’s most memorable brawls. Here’s the YouTube video:
In the 10th inning, pinch-runner Eric Davis stood on 2nd base, after Pete Rose had hit a pinch-hit single. Ray Knight was the Mets’ third baseman. What happened next has become one of the team’s most memorable brawls. Here’s the YouTube video:
At 11 seconds in: Knight takes the throw from Gary Carter. Davis emerges from the slide and faces the first base line and seems to declare himself safe.
2 comments:
We need more Mets fights.
Let me correct that...
We need ANY Mets fights.
That was a donnybrook. Eric Davis was quite a player. I often like to think back as to why a guy missed the Hall of Fame. In his case, he had 8 seasons where he played between 125 and 135 games, none in which he played more, and compiled just 1,626 games in 17 years. 282 homers, 349 steals, but 500-700 games short of putting up enough stats to be considered for the Hall.
If he had been up 50% more times than his career total of 6,147, he would have been a real Hall consideration, but he just didn't play enough. The other 10 years, he only averaged about 80 games.
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