Greatest 21 Days Baseball Profiles

Met reliever Wally Whitehurst got his first major league win in this July 1990 game, just now how he envisioned it, according to The Tarrytown Daily News .  After coming on in the second inning, he stayed in through the sixth. He left the game behind 7-3. But The Mets came back in the next half inning and took the lead and Whitehurst got the win . "It was special," Whitehurst told The Daily News of the win, "but I was more excited because we came back." Whitehurst eventually came back to the majors over seven seasons , getting 20 major league wins in all. He played with the Mets, Padres and Yankees.  Whitehurst's career began in 1985, taken by the Athletics in the third round of the draft out of the University of New Orleans . Whitehurst started with the Athletics at short-season Medford and single-A Modesto . He went 8-5, with 3.40 ERA. He made AA Huntsville for 1986 and 1987, then moved in a trade to the Mets and AAA Tidewater for 1988.  In July 1989, Whit...