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Wednesday, July 12th 1972: Yogi Berra's second place New York Mets (45-33) were hosting Charlie Fox's fifth place San Francisco Giants (36-49) n front of a large weekday crowd of 33,227 at Shea Stadium. The Mets young left hander, Jon Matlack, who was 8-5 with a 2.70 ERA coming into tonight's game took the mound against the former Cleveland veteran, Sam McDowell, pitching his first year with the Giants. In tonight's Mets line up was, legend; Willie Mays/ Mays had come over from the Giants in May, at the twi light of his Hall of Fame career, that would end where it began, in New York. Starting Lineups Giants 1 Bobby Bonds RF 2 Garry Maddox CF 3 Chris Speier SS 4 Willie McCovey 1B 5 Dave Kingman 3B 6 Fran Healy C 7 Tito Fuentes 2B ...

Franklin Kilome was born June 25th 1995 in the Dominican Republic. In 2013, Kilome was signed as an amatuer free agent by the Philadelphia Phillies.  He was considered a good Phillies pitching prospect as he progressed through the minors starting out with the Gulf Coat Phillies, the New York / Penn. League's Williamsport Cross Cutters, the A ball Lakewood Blue Claws in Lakewood New Jersey, the AA Clearwater Threshers & Reading Fighting Phils. In 2017 he was added to the Phillies 40 man roster. During another season at Reading in 2018, he was traded to the New York Mets for Asdrubal Cabrera. The Mets assigned him to AA Binghamton where he went 4-9 with a 4.18 ERA striking out 42 batters in 38 innings.  He was listed as the Mets fifth ranked prospect according to MLB pipeline. Unfortunately, Kilome needed Tommy John surgery that October. Four of the Mets top six pitching prospects have had the surgery from 2016 to 2018. He missed all of the 2019 season & is on...

The 1905 World Series saw two of the games all time best Managers go head to head against each other, the Giants John McGraw & the Philadelphia A's Connie Mack.  The previous year McGraw refused to have his Giants play the newly upstart American League Champion, Boston club due to what he called inferiority. 1905 was different as McGraw acknowledged his AL opponents & respected Connie Mack, who was known for wearing a suit in the dugout. Game #1 of the 1905 World Series saw two of the games best pitchers go head to head - the Giants Christy Mathewson (31-9) against the A's Eddie Plank (24-12). The game was played at Philadelphia's Columbia Park. Mathewson held the A's hitless until the 4th inning, as he served up a lead off base hit. He would just allow three more hits, all doubles (two ground rule doubles) while striking out six batters shutting out the A's for his first complete game win of the series.   The Giants scored in the 5th inning, as Ma...

1983: The Mets were starting to turn things around in 1983. It was the year Tom Seaver returned, Dave Kingman was still blasting HRs & they brought up Darryl Strawberry & Ron Darling. They already were seeing promise from Mookie Wilson, Jesse Orosco & Hubie Brooks. In July they brought Keith Hernandez over from St. Louis & that set the stage for the good years to come. The previous year the Mets brought in slugger George Foster from the Big Red Machine. Foster had his issues & wasn't the super star he once was but he did make an impact on the Mets. In 1983 he contributed with five walk off hits. Friday May 6th 1983: George Bamberger was now the Mets skipper, his (7-15) Mets hosted Russ Nixon's Cincinnati Reds (13-14). The Reds were just a small engine compared to their Big Red Machine Days of yesteryear.  Johnny Bench, Dave Concepcion & Dan Driessen were all that was left. Tonight Tom Seaver, now back with the Mets faced his old Reds t...