Doc Gooden Charges the Mound and Darryl Strawberry gets mad, a breakdown

May 4, 2020 595.8K views 5:03

What Happened

The Mets and Phillies are facing off in a heated 1990 matchup. New York Mets pitcher Dwight "Doc" Gooden steps up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning, with his team trailing by one. Tensions are already high, as Gooden had hit two Phillies batters earlier in the game. As Gooden approaches the batter's box, he is clearly upset. Phillies pitcher and former Mets teammate Kevin Gross immediately throws at Gooden without even looking for a sign from the catcher. Gooden is furious, dropping his bat, glove and helmet as he charges the mound. Gooden lands a right forearm strike directly to Gross's nose, drawing blood. Phillies catcher Darren Daulton rushes in, putting Gooden in a headlock and raining down punches to the back of his head. Meanwhile, Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry, watching from the dugout, sees Daulton's actions and is enraged. Strawberry sprints onto the field, leaping into the scrum without his feet ever touching the ground. Strawberry and Daulton begin exchanging blows as the benches clear and the brawl escalates. Mets pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre and Phillies manager Nick Leyva try to intervene, but the players refuse to be separated. Umpire Joe West aggressively manhandles several players, ordering them off the field. Mets broadcaster Ron Darling, observing the chaos from the broadcast booth, calmly puts on his jacket as the fight rages on. The melee drags on for over 20 minutes, with multiple skirmishes breaking out across the field. Strawberry repeatedly tries to get back at Daulton, shouting "I won't forget what Daulton did! He's good at sucker punching!" Daulton defiantly responds, telling Strawberry to "pack a lunch" if he wants to take him on. Eventually, the umpires simply give up trying to restore order, allowing the players to sort out their differences. Gooden, his nose bloodied, stands up for himself against his former teammate Gross. As the combatants finally disperse, the stage is set for future confrontations between these fierce division rivals.

Why This Matters

Doc Gooden was already heated after hitting two Phillies batters earlier, so when Kevin Gross threw at him without even waiting for a sign, all hell broke loose. This is peak 90s baseball beef where a pitcher charges the mound and Darryl Strawberry loses his mind in the dugout, and Jomboy breaks down exactly how it all went down.

Nearly 600K people have watched this breakdown, making it Jomboy's 528th most-viewed video of all time.

Key Moments

Who / What Is Involved

Players: Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry.

Dwight Gooden Darryl Strawberry

Key Terms Mentioned

Bench Clearing Brawl Manager Ejection Umpire Controversy

we're going back to 1990 the Phillies

are playing the Mets and doc Gooden is

stepping up to the plate and here's a

little context a little backstory not

good and this is him talking I

understand what Combs was doing too but

I didn't hit her and thawne on purpose

those oh so good and hit two Phillies

players earlier in the game I have total

respect for her and there was no way I'd

throw it on but when Combs went out to

the mound for the fifth inning

I was mad before I even got into the

batter's box I knew what was going to

happen he didn't even get a sign from

the catcher he just went on the mound

and threw the ball as a pitcher I know

that means he intended to hit me all

along so he's pretty quick thinking cuz

he gets hit the bat goes down the glove

goes down the helmet goes down and then

Doc's gonna try and throw her right here

kind of gets the forearm right to the

nose and now the catcher Daulton he

comes in and he's gonna get him in a

headlock and start throwing punches to

the back of his head which isn't that

cool then this guy's gonna fly in never

touching the ground at all just like on

a magic carpet ride meanwhile Dalton's

just hammer in the back of DOC good and

said here's another look at it doc with

the right to the nose kind of a forearm

she ever oh the Hat does one to throw a

900 call Tony Hawk alright so number 25

he jumps on top there he's having fun

Dalton still throwing punches that dude

magic carpet rides into the pile now we

just have a whole big holding me back

pull me back fest you guys know how that

goes here's another view BAM forearm

right to the nose Dalton gets good and

down to the ground

number 25 comes in now these are the

punches to the back of head one that one

he couldn't find it magic carpet ride

here's another punch Bam Bam Darryl

Strawberry saw that happening he was not

happy at all

I like these two guys he helps them up I

think these are coaches they got me then

they start boxing each other out boxing

each other out McDowell on the phillies

comes over to doc good and they used to

be teammates McDowell was with the Mets

for a while nice mullet it's like calm

down calm down over here we have Joe

West just manhandling Cooke Joe West got

like two guys on them just manhandles

Klux to stay over there

you're done I'm Joe West you're done now

combs is like [ __ ] I'm bleeding he got

me Ron darling looking sexy like you

know he's at the beach with his girl and

a wind just picked up so he threw his

throws on his jacket just looking great

they get good into the side now we got

strawberry here and Dalton there and

strawberries pissed at Dalton Dalton

says I don't give a [ __ ] dude I don't

give a [ __ ] so they get him to the side

they got docked to the side and now

strawberry comes back for more and

strawberry's gonna hear and then we're

gonna cut to a pretty [ __ ] up skit

scene if I'm being honest

it's Sasser with Hayes and he's just

kind of like choking him his pinned him

down it was kind of like a one-on-one

battle that everyone else was like that

seems [ __ ] out so anyway now we got

Krupp holding strawberry back

strawberry is so upset he wants to kill

Dalton because he saw Dalton sucker or

cheap shot good into the back of the

head so he gets over here McDowell and

Crocker holding him back they're like

calm down Daryl calm down doc gooden

soft to the side sasser's off the side

Hayes is like Jesus Astor what the [ __ ]

was that about

and then joe wes is manhandling more

people he's got a bunch of people shout

out joe ass just doing good jobs doc

gooden gettin gettin gettin hugged

they got to get him off and this is the

fun part

Strawberry says oh yeah okay I'm cool

I'm cool I'm cool I'm cool I'm cool

psych [ __ ] I'm going back over there

runs over now they all and then BAM I

don't know who that was that tackled

strawberry but he got close and now the

umpires are just standing in the

background the umpires are like alright

well we tried and now will you give up

we're not gonna do anything anymore

and they just let everything happen this

went on for 20 minutes this brawl kind

of crazy just scrum after scrum after

scrum pulling people off holding people

back strawberry going crazy darling

looking fantastic Sasser with a little

bit of a sociopath pinned down of haze

doc gooden stands up for himself combs

gets a bloody doze is that Bowa right

there I don't know why I let this clip

linger for as long as I did they all go

their own way

these are some good quotes at the end of

it we got a the next time I'm ready to

score we'll see what happens at the

plate said Darryl Strawberry I won't

forget what Dalton did he's good at

sucker punching if a filly throws at me

I'm going after the catcher but and

dalton responded and said tell him to

pack a lunch tell him to pack a lock

tell him to pack a lunch if he thinks

the whole league is intimidated because

his name is Darryl Strawberry well he's

got the wrong guy here tell him to pack

a lunch