They are the pitchers that made Shea Stadium shake during the height of the 80s. They were the popping sound of a fastball in Gary Carter’s mitt. They were the sudden hush before a two-strike curve. They were young, loud, gifted, half-wild — and on the mound, they had three very different ways to make a hitter feel alone. There was Dwight Gooden, the phenomenon, all elbows and electricity, the teenager who made Queens look up from its newspapers and believe it was seeing the future in real...

Mets 5 Padres 0 (Petco Park - San Diego, CA) Mets record: 28-35 Mets streak: Won 2 WP - Christian Scott (2-0) LP - Michael King (4-5) Seat on the Korner: Luis Torrens We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main Event Restaurant & Sports...

The lefties that helped define Shea Stadium pitching magic in the 1970’s, Tug McGraw and Jon Matlack, couldn’t have been more opposite in approach and in attitude. McGraw was motion, noise, improvisation — the hurler who slapped his glove, shouted belief into a clubhouse, and made the bullpen feel like a stage entrance. Matlack was quieter, cleaner, more severe — a starter whose excellence could be hidden by won-lost records, and an offense that too often left him no margin. One gave the Mets...