We joke about the "Statis-Pro gods" making realistic things happen with the dice rolls or flips of the Fast Action Cards, but playing with the 1978 4-color fast action cards and board this coincidence takes the cake.
In 1988, injuries to Dodgers third basemen brought my high school classmate Tracy Woodson to the majors for a magical run. He not only played behind Orel Hershiser's record scoreless string. When the Dodgers won the World Series it was Woodson on the photo seen round the world lifting Hershiser to start the celebration.
Here he is now as coach of the college Richmond Spiders.
In our simulated game against the 2022 Padres Woodson likewise ended up in the game during an unusual Z-play number 14 where multiple players are ejected. This play brought Woodson into the game as DH and in the top of the 7th inning with the score tied 1-1 and two outs Woodson came in and delivered a clutch single.
That was it as he left for speedy pinch runner Alfredo Griffin who stole second and then scored the game-winning run on Dave Anderson single for the 2-1 win. It made back-to-back Dodgers wins in our all-time West Great Division, as the Covid year Dodgers beat the feared 1989 Oakland A's despite homers by Mark McGuire and Dave Henderson. The box scores for both Dodgers wins are below.
I still vividly remember Woodson playing poker in the back of Latin Class at Benedictine High School in Richmond, and then the excitement of reading that he had 14 straight hits at NC State before heading to the pros.
Our school was more known for basketball, and he was the big shooter on our team that was ranked in the first ever national basketball rankings in the New York Post.
OK, more famous players delivered other runs. Steve Sax led of the game with a triple and scored for the Dodgers, the Manny Machado doubled in the bottom of the first and scored to make it 1-1, but the rest of the way it was only Woodson's hit that was the difference in the 2-1 win.
All the best relievers were used so the second game of number 4 starters and two tired bullpens should be higher scoring.
LAD 2, SDP 1 | ||||||
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Los Angeles Dodgers 1988 | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | Other |
Steve Sax | 2B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | SB,3b |
Kirk Gibson* | LF | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2b,sb |
Pedro Guerrero | 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Rick Dempsey | DH-C | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Mike Marshall | RF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
John Shelby# | CF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Franklin Stubbs* | 1B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ejected |
Mickey Hatcher | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Mike Scioscia* | C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ejected |
Tracy Woodson | 3B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Alfredo Griffin# | SS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Dave Anderson | SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Danny Heep* | RF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | gw-rbi |
1988 Dodgers Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | W | K |
Orel Hershiser | 5.3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Jay Howell (W) | 0.7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alejandro Pena (H) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Brian Holton (S) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
San Diego Padres 2022 | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | Other |
Ha-Seong Kim | SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Manny Machado | 3B | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2-2b |
Juan Soto* | RF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Eric Hosmer* | 1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Jurickson Profar# | CF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Wil Myers | LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jake Cronenworth* | 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jose Azocar | DH | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | SB,3b |
Austin Nola | C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2022 Padres pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | W | K |
Joe Musgrove (L) | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
Josh Hader | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Robert Suarez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
LAD 4, Oak 2 | ||||||
Oakland A's 1989 | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | Other |
Rickey Henderson | LF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | SB,3b |
Jose Canseco | RF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Carney Lansford | 3B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Mark McGwire | 1B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | HR |
Dave Henderson | CF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | HR |
Terry Steinbach | C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Tony Phillips# | 2B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Mike Gallego | SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pitcher bats 1989 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Luis Polonia* | PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1989 A's Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | W | K |
Mike Moore (L) | 5.3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Todd Burns | 1.7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Gene Nelson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
LA Dodgers 2019-21 | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | Other |
Mookie Betts | RF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
AJ Pollock | LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Max Muncy* | 1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Will Smith | C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Justin Turner | 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Austin Barnes | C | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Corey Seager* | SS | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2b,3b |
Cody Bellinger* | CF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | HR |
Enrique Hernandez | 2B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Pitchers 2019-21 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sac |
Dodgers 2019-21 pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | W | K |
Walker Buehler (W) | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
Alex Vesia (S) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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