However, today's (and future) baseball fans must be thankful for those intrepid souls who recorded audio of the radio broadcasts from this era. Thankfully, the audio of this game is on YouTube, so we can place ourselves back to that cool Sunday afternoon in October, imagining the Mets in the bright daylight at Fulton County Stadium in their road uniforms. The Braves' uniforms of that era were a dark navy blue, almost black, so I can imagine myself as a young Mets fan seeing this series as a true battle between the good guys in the bright blue and orange uniforms and the bad guys with the black hats.

The Braves pitcher (and former NBA player, according to Lindsey Nelson) Ron Reed came into this one with a lifetime record against the Mets of 4-1, but on this day he did not have good control. After giving up a single to Agee, he walked Garrett, then Jones. He then got Shamsky and Boswell to strike out, but Kranepool singled to right to drive Agee in.

In the 2nd inning, Koozman was given a 3-0 lead after he walked and then Agee homered. The Mets kept hitting the Braves starter hard in the second, with Jones doubling and Shamsky driving him in with a single, knocking Ron Reed out of the box after 1.2 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, good for an ERA of 21.60.

The Mets scored two more runs In the top of the 3rd to make it 6-0, then two more in the 4th inning to make the score 8-0. A single by a Braves hitter in the bottom of the 4th made the score 8-1, but then the Mets got that run back in the top of the fifth to make the score 9-1. With Koozman pitching, things were looking pretty good for the Mets. However, Jerry could not get out of the 5th inning, allowing 6 ER and ending his day with 4.2 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 4 BB, and an 11.57 ERA, slightly better than Reed.

With the score 9-6 Mets, Ron Taylor pitched the good guys out of trouble in the fifth and also pitched a scoreless sixth.

In the top of the 7th, Agee was also part of a scary play when he narrowly avoided a line drive that just went over his head on an attempted steal of home. The "wicked line drive" (as Bob Murphy put it) by Cleon Jones seemed to barely miss Agee's head, and both players needed to take a moment to compose themselves. According to the New York Times, in the dugout right after the play, Gil Hodges said, "the Mobile Express almost got derailed." Two pitches after that near disaster, Cleon hit a two-run homer to left to make it 11-6 Mets.

Tug McGraw pitched three scoreless innings for the save, sending the Mets back to New York with a 2-0 lead in the series.

By the way, Casey Stengel was in the stands, as well as Joan Payson. Casey was apparently being considered by the team as something of a good luck charm because he travelled with the team and rode on the team bus to the games in Atlanta.

After the game, Casey was asked what he thought of the Mets and he responded, "This team has come along slow but fast."