Daryl Boston
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Daryl Boston was an outfielder for the Mets from 1990 to 1992. He played in 382 games and batted .266 as a member of the team. Boston hit 27 home runs and drove in 101 runs in his three seasons with the Mets.
After six years with the Chicago White Sox, Daryl was claimed on waivers by the Mets on April 30, 1990. In his first year in Queens, Boston got 100 hits and scored 65 runs. Daryl made his presence known on July 3, being on the latter end of back-to-back home runs off the main scoreboard at Shea Stadium with Darryl Strawberry in the Mets' 12-0 win over the Astros. In a 6-1 Mets win over the Cardinals on July 26, he had four singles and scored two runs. Boston hit a single in the ninth inning to drive home the winning run against the Padres on August 29 and had two singles and a homer in the Mets' 11-5 win at Chicago on September 22. He also hit a three-run homer in a 6-0 Mets victory at Montreal on September 27.
In 1991, Daryl batted .275 in 137 games played. For the season, he had 16 doubles, 4 triples, 4 home runs and 21 RBIs. Boston drove in the tying run with a ninth-inning single in the Mets' 4-3 win in 11 at Houston on June 8. On September 24, he hit a grand slam off the Pirates' Bob Walk. In the season finale at Philadelphia on October 6, Daryl had a triple and a home run in the Mets' 7-0 victory over the Phillies.
Boston had 11 home runs and 35 RBIs while hitting .249 in 1992. He was one of four Mets players to hit two triples during the year. Daryl drove in the winning run by getting hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the 13th inning against the Cardinals at Shea on April 23. On May 19, he had a single, a triple and a home run in the Mets' 8-0 win at San Diego. Boston hit a pinch-hit three-run homer off Pittsburgh's Walk to tie a game that the Mets eventually lost in extra innings on August 12 at Shea. Also as a pinch-hitter, Daryl hit a game-tying homer off the Reds' Scott Bankhead in the eighth inning of a game won by the Mets, 4-3, at Shea on August 28.
Following the '92 season, Boston was set free by the Mets. He signed with the Colorado Rockies, with whom he played in their inaugural 1993 season. Daryl appeared as a pinch-hitter in the Rockies' first game ever against the Mets on April 5 at Shea. Boston completed his career with the Yankees in 1994.
