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Heh.

There is a difference though. Schiraldi pitched all of four innings in the 1986 WS. Kim was used a lot more, and in a way he was unaccustomed to. His runs were given up when he was dog tired. Brenly tried really hard to give that World Series away.

Schiraldi just got the deer in the headlights look after pitching well in game one.

Brenly tried really hard to give that World Series away.

He merely tried. Joe Torre did give away the World Series. I mean, how dumb can you get pulling the infield in in the bottom of the ninth in Game Seven? You might as well just tell your pitcher to groove one to the hitter if you're going to do that. If the infield had been playing back proper, it would have been Gonzalez lining out.

By the way, there's one thing separating Byung-Hyun Kim from Calvin Schiraldi: guts. Kim has them. The only guts Schiraldi had were those hanging over his belt before very long and, anyway, the real goat of the 1986 World Series was John McNamara. (I mean, who told him to a) leave Bill Buckner in the game for the bottom of the tenth in Game Six, and b) to keep his only reliable lefthanded relief pitcher - Sammy Stewart - in the doghouse all year long for nothing more heinous than standing up for a teammate outside the team bus at the beginning of the season? Bright move, Johnny Mac, especially against a club whose only known weakness in 1986 was lefthanded pitching, at least until Bruce Hurst finally ran out of gas...)