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John Tudor Vs. The New York Mets 1985

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4.11.85 – In the second game of the year, Tudor squares off against Ron Darling, Tudor goes 9 and gives up no runs. Keith Hernandez leads off the Bottom of the 11th with a single, followed by a Gary Carter single and an intentional walk to George Foster. Danny Heep comes off the bench and Neil Allen walks in the winning run.

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4.22.85 – In Tudor’s second loss of the year, he gives up HRs to Foster and Strawberry, going only 3 innings. Cardinals lose 6-7 at Bush Stadium. Schiraldi goes six and gets his first victory of the season - Orosco gets his second save.

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6.8.85 - 1–0 Cardinal victory for Tudor over Ed Lynch, who pitches 8 shutout innings and Tommy Herr hits a ninth inning Shea Stadium HR off of Tom Gorman. This victory gives Tudor a 3-7 record.

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6.28.85 – To even his record to 8-8, Tudor pitches seven plus, giving up HRs to Wilson and Foster – Tommy Herr, goes 3-4 with a HR in the third, raising his average to .346. Tom Nieto, gets the big hit of the day, a two our single, driving in Van Slyke and de Jesus. Ken Daley pitches a four out save and the Cardinals hold on to a 3-2 victory at Busch.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN198509110.shtml

9.11.85 - 10 Inning masterpiece, Cesar Cedeno comes off the bench and hits a HR off Jesse Orosco and Tudor comes back to finish off the Mets in the bottom of the Tenth. Gooden is out-dueled, pitches 9 and Ks 7. With Jack Clark injured, Mike Jorgenson was the starting first baseman for the Cardinals.

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10.01.85 – Darling and Tudor battles through nine shutout innings – Darling is replaced by Orosco who gets the win after Ken Daley gives up a two-out top of the 11th HR to Stawberry. The Cardinals get only four hits all day but they hold off the Mets for the NL East title.

The Cardinals take down the LA Dodgers with Ozzie’s “Go Crazy Folks” Game 5 HR and Jack “The Ripper” Clark’s big-time Game 6 HR off Niedenfuer (Thanks Tommy) - going on to win the NL Pennant. Heatbreak in Kansas City, but Tudor had one of the great pitching performances of all time not to receive the Cy Young - 275 innings, finishing 21-7 with a 1.93 ERA. I was ten years old and it was a summer I will never forget.

It's weird how Grady Little kept yanking him out of these dominant starts right about at 100 pitches (including back-to-back one hitters (holy smokes) and FOUR consecutive games in July and August... but at 110 pitches and having just given up three hits in the prior frame, he sent Pedro out in the eighth inning of Game 7, 2003 ALCS.

"Pitchers aren't ball players." - Dazzy Vance