'Doctor K' | Dwight Gooden Prime Highlights

well hi everybody i'm ralph keiner along with tim mccarver and steve sabrisky and a special night here tonight a few years back there was a great picture called a stars born and the mets are hoping here tonight that dwight gooden will be a star here in his first appearance in a major league uniform last year he won 19 and lost only four while pitching in class a ball he is trying to make an awfully big chance he doesn't uh he doesn't appear to get that nervous too often fastball struck him odd so dwight gooden gets his first major league strikeout he had 300 of them last year at lynchburg all right yes sir julia serving of course curveball gets mumphrey 2-2 curveball and the second strikeout for dwight gooden jack morris a man that did it for detroit against the white sox swinging a miss he gets ray knight third strikeout for dwight gooden her chance to steal swing and a miss he got him fourth strikeout for dwight goodman swinging a miss he got him oh what two strikeouts they were first the pitcher bob nipper and now during the second baseman and he gets him with a fastball a high fastball and a perfect spot and dorne just tied up on the ball he just did not have a chance that is the high rider my friend i'll tell you goodin likes to be called doc goes back to his basketball playing days doc or doctor three balls two strikes strike three first strikeout for dwight good fastball strike three that ends the ending the second strikeout for dwight gooden [Applause] swing and a miss he got him third strikeout for goodin and dave anderson fails to move valenzuela one away so dr k racks up another 205 for him now as you look at it again did it with power all fastballs and anderson's not even close to getting the bat out in front [Applause] and a breaking ball gets him [Applause] two strikes on it runner goes and a strikeout on a breaking ball in the dirt and he's got six through the first four and two thirds tonight seven [Applause] swing and a miss he got him tough assignment to pinch hit against the guy throwing as hard as dwight gooden ninth strikeout for goodin basketball punched him right on out of there 11th strikeout for dwight gooden and ken landro didn't even offer it that here's pedro guerrero [Applause] owen one guerrero has not struck out tonight another curveball is low only have not been punched out he tried to hold up he didn't though one and two [Applause] i think he held up in time [Music] strike three on curveball 12th strikeout for dwight goodness he strikes out the side here in the eighth inning and these this crowd's going bananas after seven and a half innings of play [Music] as guerrilla white gooden takes over on the mound so he becomes the youngest man ever to play in the all-star game 19. two years out of high school one of the brilliant young met pitchers leads the majors in strikeouts at the all-star break due to pitch to parish got him swinging so dwight good leading the pigs in strikeouts strikes parachute has it crossed the plate not in the catches club and he strikes him out so the last five american leaguers have gone down on strikes two balls two strikes on al davis of seattle and good strikes on the side [Applause] right good two years out of high school two years ago in tampa florida and at the age of 19 comes into the all-star game and strikes off the side second nobody out davey johnson was talking about how gooden judges backspeed and pitches accordingly i think that was up around keith's eyes that fastball really exploded i tell you when he gets two strikes on you he's on big curveball strike three lord charles has arrived strikeout number five well let's see two and two will it be the express for the breaking ball fastball got him one and two to ryan basketball got him looking and seven strikeouts for dwight good for to put it another way ten outs have been recorded and seven of the ten have been strikeout [Applause] runner goes straight three call [Applause] there it is got him i wonder if frank pulley to play gunfire the way he punches out those strikes we'll have a sword on him tomorrow he's really been punching him out tonight and gooden has been punching him out 11 strikeouts for dwight and now here's liam record 2-2 pitch goes to the curveball and dwight has struck out his first man really unfair to compare him with a guy who had a year like that and the curveball strike three so dwight gets his second strikeout they've both been on curveballs they've both been taken and half his age dwight gooden swing and a miss on a cornfield or something close to that tipped into carter's glove strike three number five for dwight gooden who has now retired eight in a row the last three consecutive via strikeouts right here the good fastball by goodin dwight getting his 48 strikeout the league leaders have 51. one out nobody on top of the fourth in the scoreless ball game [Applause] just a few more times goes to the curb boss strike three [Applause] off the curve ball fastball got him with that strikeout dwight gooden now takes the national league lead 52 strikeouts on the year working out in the bullpen swinging a miss he got intense strikeout for glenn wilson we'll tell you about that little bit of history right after we see the 10th strike out of the night well dwight goes over double digits yet again as he gets that high cheese by glenn wilson and now with 53 strikeouts gooden leads the national league over jose de leon of pittsburgh and fernando valenzuela of los angeles by two luis suguayo 0 for one that has kept seen sparing action he saw some action on that fastball 11 strikeouts for dwight gooden two out [Applause] well the doctor continues as he did last season to appear to get stronger as the game goes along here's juan samwell he has struck out three times 11 strikeouts for goodin swing and a miss owen won that 11 straight fastball is high one and one in that game on a buck in the eighth inning swinging a miss one and two [Applause] swing and a missed 12th strikeout for dwight kedden fans are on their feet [Applause] no runs one hit only the second of the ball game there's that baker's dozen they can put the 13th k up in k corner [Applause] he keeps doing this he's going to make a lot of dough too strikeout number 13 and five in a row for dwight gooden man what a talent and another curveball got him looking oh and two aspire fastball got him looking [Applause] 25 times in his career curveball got him he struck out the side no balls and two strikes to ray fonnano with one out on the bases loaded another fastball that's five strikeouts for dwight gooden there you can see where he ranks in the lead way out in front hang another k curveball got him looking fastball got him scoring fly ball and garden hire who was walked all three times and davey has the curveball get him again eight strikeouts for dwight goodin curveball oh what a pitch to end the game nine strikeouts could we see that again or we run out of time what a way with the crowd roaring you'd expect the adrenaline pumping that he would come with the bullet and instead the big slow jug strike three called and again the two strike pitch curveball did he swing and he did so youngblood struck out on the half swing gooden works to bob brindley and he goes to the curveball and that's strikeout number two god hit his two off of bob force he's against the cardinals one and two to dan gladden got him with a fastball for the first time tonight goodin uses his fastball as his terminating pitch four strikeouts and one out here in the third and all four strikeouts have been on pitches out of the strike zone this one down below the knees and dykstra played at strawberry and johnson in the second got him with a fastball first inning big curveball strikeout number six four strikeouts last year 214. the curveball punches out youngblood on three pitches joel is out of there and gooden has struck out seven young blood with some words for home plate umpire bob engle four balls and two strikes and they're threatening to strike out the side and does 200 strikeouts for dwight gooden and the 27th time in his young career that he has struck out the side in a ball game he now has eight tonight and as you said ralph 200 even on the season who cares on that breaking ball 13th strikeout for dwight gooden one out here in the seventh breaking ball got him strikeout number 14 for dwight gooden [Applause] that ties his high for the year and they have both been against the san francisco giants did he get him yes says first base umpire dave pallone strikeout number 15 for the doctor it is a new high this season for goodness [Applause] dwight gooden has struck out 16 to tie his career high he has won his 13th game in a row it is his 13th complete game and sixth shutout of the year his record is now 19 and three what a great player he became and strike three as youngston follows the problem that tim pointed out swinging in another pitch out of the strike zone white goodness each alive up here then a curveball for strike three and the curveball leaves him at home playing so two fast balls in the curve and eckersley joins the bench [Music] yo what a curveball at one breaking ball strike three dwight goodness had enough standing curveball tonight and he picks up strikeout number six outstanding is the right word steve this is just an overmatch look at the knees when those knees start buckling you have absolutely no chance fastball blows sandberg right out of it breaking ball strike three 13 years of waiting ground ball of second backman to hernandez the unbelievable season is not over but the championship is here in new york the inevitable has finally become the theory and principle is to get one or two runs early because hershey's been pitching so well i would have to think he did that on his own oh yeah 3-2 pitch is slung on and missed one two he swings away and down he goes he doesn't and gibson strikes out on a breaking pitch lowing in on him tight blown away chased it down he goes and dwight wooden strikes out the side in the third back in 1968 with a 112 euro down goes sosha now his second postseason action with the mets fercheiser tries to fund his way on with two strikes and down he goes gooden records strikeout number six one two pitch got him fastball go gibson goes down on strikes this was one of them here's the o2 fix to marshall got him again that's nine striking path swing down he goes team strikeouts for dwight goodman after six dodgers one that's nothing what is this minnesota here's the 02 pitch got him swinging and they get it on a curve 2-2 got him swinging glitten and a says two nothing in los angeles pass swing got him so marshall strikes out for the second time dodgers strand sacks followed by saxon hatcher here in the fifth inning shooter strikes out for the second time gooden has struck out six in four into third half a dozen k's for the dock and up comes sacks breaking ball strikeout number seven with 2-2 pitch strikeout number eight [Applause] head and that's what he was trying to do to sochi got him on a breaking ball so hamilton goes down on strikes number nine for dwight gooden 14 and allowing five hits you better believe it the doctor is in

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Length: 19min 37sec (1177 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 08 2020