Don Mattingly Never Played In The Post Series

Don mattingly held nothing back here.

Don mattingly never played in the post series. Mattingly only played in a single post season series in his final year in the majors and only because of the newly instituted wild card series a. He never played there. Only the cardinals played more games this month because of their own issues with covid 19. The yankees finally won the world series again in 1996 while mattingly was taking a self imposed year off from baseball.

Maybe it figures that the story for mattingly s team will play out at yankee stadium. During the 1981 season a mid season strike by the major league baseball players association forced a. Through wednesday mattingly s team had played 31 games in 30 days in september with four doubleheaders. They were in the nl championship series a year ago.

Mattingly is ambidextrous he pitched in little league baseball and was a first baseman also throwing both right handed and left handed and was a member of the 1973 great scott little league championship team in evansville indiana under the coaching of pete studer and earl hobbs in american legion baseball for funkhouser post 8 mattingly played at second. He played across the street where he was the one great yankee because of bad timing to never play in the world series. Don mattingly division series stats by baseball almanac. 222 hr 307 ba 1099 rbi 1b of 1985 al mvp 6xallstar 9xgg yankees 1982 1995 b l t l 3x 2b leader born in in 1961 donnie baseball.

Louis cardinals will face the san diego padres for their third and final game of the best of three nl wild card series. They still called him donnie baseball there. The 1996 yankees of jeter o neill and williams won the world series. Puckett was a world series hero though.

Playing career amateur career. He had left open the possibility of playing again someday but after watching his old teammates win the championship while his replacement tino martinez drove in over 100 runs something mattingly hadn t done since 1989 too much had changed. The division series was permanently created after the 1993 season when major league baseball restructured each league into three divisions but their first regular playing was in 1995 due to the cancellation of the 1994 playoffs.