50th Anniversary of the 1969 World Champion "Amazing Mets"

Tom Seaver took the mound, shutting down the Padres for eight innings allowing no runs on four hits with four strike outs. Ron Taylor closed the door in the 9th with his 11th save, securing Seaver's 17th win (17-7).
In the Mets 5th, Tommie Agee singled in Baud Harrelson for the first run. Bobby Pfeil singled in Jerry Grote for a 7th inning insurance run. The Padres Tommie Sisk took the loss (0-7).
In the night cap, another fine Mets pitcher Jim McAndrew won his fourth game, pitching seven innings allowing just one run on three hits, striking out seven Padres. Tug McGraw came on for two scoreless innings of relief sealing the double header sweep.

Sunday August 17th, 1969: As the Woodstock Festival was going into it's third day in Upstate New York the Mets hosted the Padres & swept them once againin a Twin Bill at Shea Stadium.
In the first game Jerry Koosman tossed a complete game victory, allowing two runs & five hits. He went to 10-8 on the year defeating Joe Niekro. A Duffy Dyer three run HR in the 5th was all the offense needed.

In the 7th inning, Ed Kranepool singled & Jerry Grote walked. Bud Harrelson followed with a triple bringing both runners in. J.C. Martin followed with a sac fly for the game winning run.

As usual all the old NY Giants fans came out & a big crowd of 48,968 settled in for what was to be a great game. The Mets sent young Gary Gentry to the mound to face off against future Hall of Famer; Juan Marichal.
Starting Lineups
San Francisco Giants | New York Mets | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bobby Bonds | RF | 1 | Tommie Agee | CF | |
2 | Ron Hunt | 2B | 2 | Bobby Pfeil | 3B | |
3 | Willie Mays | CF | 3 | Cleon Jones | LF | |
4 | Willie McCovey | 1B | 4 | Art Shamsky | RF | |
5 | Bob Burda | LF | 5 | Wayne Garrett | 2B | |
6 | Bobby Etheridge | 3B | 6 | Ed Kranepool | 1B | |
7 | Bob Barton | C | 7 | Bud Harrelson | SS | |
8 | Hal Lanier | SS | 8 | Duffy Dyer | C | |
9 | Juan Marichal | P | 9 | Gary Gentry | P |

The only problem for the Mets was Marichal was just as good, Marichal stayed in the game pitching all the way into the bottom of the 14th inning. Up to that point he allowed no runs on just five hits, walking one & striking out 13 Mets.
With one out in the 14th, Tommie Agee stepped in & hit a dramatic walk off HR off Marichal, his 21st HR of the year. It was an exciting win for the Mets, as the win streak went to five games. Although they were still eight games out of first, the Mets were already the Amazing Mets & believed they could win this thing. Now they were proving it to the world.

Out of all the powerful hitters in the Giants line up, like; Willie Mays, Willie McCovey & Bobby Bonds, it was Mason (a career .205 hitter) who got the only two hits of the day off McAndrew.

The Mets got to Perry for six runs, led by an Art Shamsky three run HR & RBI double. Another Bud Harrelson RBI triple accounted for a run, along with a Tommie Agee RBI.
In this week of great Mets pitching the staff allowed just three earned runs in 54 innings of work. The Mets won six straight, and 14 of 16 games going into September. They were now just four games behind the fading Chicago Cubs.
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