April 9, 1985 Game 12: Cardinals at Mets

There was a marathon at Shea Stadium tonight between the Cardinals and the Mets. This one would go 16 innings and would end just past 1 am. Runs and hits came at a premium as pitchers were throwing darts all night long. The game would feature to of the most intimadating starters in the game Joaquin Andujar for the Cardinals and Dwight Gooden for the Mets. The Cards would open the 1st with a run when Vince Coleman Singled and then stole secondbase, Tommy Herr would move him to third on a SAC bunt and Terry Pendleton would Single him home. The Mets would tie the game up in the 5th when George Foster would Double then score on a Rafael Santana Single. The scoring would stop for the next 11 innings and the Cardinals would seize control in the 16th. Tommy Herr would lead off the inning with a Single and then would steal second, two outs later Tom Nieto who replaced the injured Darrel Porterin the 4th would Double scoring Herr. The Next batter Willie McGee would Single scoring Nieto. Andy Van Slyke would groundout to Rafael Santana to end the inning. Bob Forsch would get the Mets to go down 1-2-3 to preserve the win

St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets
Apr 9, 1985	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Extras	R	H	E
St. Louis ()	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 0 0 0 0 0 2	3	10	0
New York ()	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0	1	9	2
W: Bob Forsch 1-0 L: Rick Aguilera 0-1

St. Louis Cardinals
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Coleman lf	7	1	1	0	0	3	.143
Herr 2b	6	1	1	0	0	2	.167
Pendleton 3b	7	0	1	1	0	3	.143
Clark 1b	5	0	1	0	2	1	.200
Porter c	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000
Nieto c	5	1	1	1	0	1	.200
McGee	7	0	2	1	0	1	.286
Van Slyke	7	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Smith ss	6	0	3	0	0	0	.500
Andujar p	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Cedeno ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Lahti p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Landrum ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Horton p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
DeJesus ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Forsch p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
BATTING 2B: Clark (1), Smith (1), Nieto (1) 3B: None HR: None SF: None SAC: Herr
BASERUNNING SB: Coleman (1), Herr (1) CS: Smith
FIELDING E: None PB: None

St. Louis Cardinals
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Andujar	9	6	1	1	1	4	1.00
Lahti	3	2	0	0	0	0	0.00
Horton	2	0	0	0	0	1	0.00
Forsch	2	1	0	0	0	1	0.00
PITCHING WP: Lahti

New York Mets
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Backman 2b	7	0	1	0	0	0	.143
Wilson cf	7	0	1	0	0	0	.143
Hernandez 1b	6	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Carter c	6	0	1	0	0	0	.000
Strawberry rf	6	0	2	0	0	2	.333
Foster lf	6	1	2	0	0	0	.333
Johnson 3b	6	0	1	0	0	1	.167
Santana ss	6	0	1	1	0	2	.167
Gooden p	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Heep ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
McDowell p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Dykstra ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Aguilera p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Hurdle ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.000
BATTING 2B: Foster (1), Hurdle (1) 3B: None HR: None SF: None SAC: None
BASERUNNING SB: Backman (1), Strawberry (1) CS: None
FIELDING E: Foster, Jonson PB: None

New York Mets
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Gooden	10	5	1	1	3	8	0.90
McDowell	3	1	0	0	0	4	0.00
Aguilera	3	4	2	2	0	3	6.00
PITCHING WP: Gooden