The 3 biggest Mets playoff villains who played for the Dodgers

Orel Hershiser, Mike Scioscia, and Chase Utley are the three players who did the most to hurt the Mets in the post season.

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2) Mike Scioscia

Mike Scioscia was an unexpected hero for the Dodgers in Game 4 of the 1988 National League Championship series.

Doc Gooden was cruising along with a 4-2 lead heading into the bottom of the 9th inning. The Mets were on the verge of taking a 3 games to 1 lead in the series and he should have breezed through the bottom part of the Dodgers order. Today it would be an automatic no-brainer to bring in your closer for the save. But this was still Doc that we are talking about.

Doc began the inning by issuing a lead-off walk to weak-hitting John Shelby. And then he quickly got ahead of Scioscia 0-2. And then the Shea Stadium crowd…went from electric to a power outage…as Scioscia, a career .180 hitter against Gooden, hit a dramatic homer that would change the course of the series.

Although Kirk Gibson hit the game-winner later on in the 12th to even the Series at two games a piece…it was Scioscia’s homer in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Gooden that got them there in the first place.

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