Behind Enemy (Base)Lines: Washington Nationals
The trade deadline is upon us and Jacob deGrom is coming back, and Colleen Sullivan notes that amid all this, the Mets have some actual games to play against the NL East cellar dwellars in D.C.
Project ShaqBox Trivia: Among Mets with at least 50 career games played in the month of August, the man with the second-highest batting average is… Roger McDowell?
It’s true. The reliever didn’t get a lot of at-bats, obviously, but he was 2-for-6 as a Met in the month of August, with both hits coming in 1985. First was a single off Warren Brusstar of the Cubs in the seventh inning of a tie game on August 9 at Shea Stadium. Lenny Dykstra and Wally Backman followed with singles of their own, and McDowell scored the tiebreaking and eventual winning run — one of six runs McDowell scored in his career. Two weeks later, on August 25, McDowell collected one of his six career RBI with a double off Tim Stoddard as the Mets bludgeoned the Padres, 9-3, for Dwight Gooden’s 20th win of the his legendary campaign.
Who is ahead of McDowell on the Mets’ career list with a .340 August batting average, compiled in 115 plate appearances over three seasons? And who is the Mets’ real August batting king, with a .323 average in 233 career August games with the Mets, spanning 937 plate appearances?
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