Ultimate Mets Database: Game of September 28, 1970

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September 27, 1970
Pirates 2, Mets 1 1970 Regular Season Game 159
September 28, 1970
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September 29, 1970
Mets 3, Cubs 1

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE SEPTEMBER 28, 1970 GAME:

Paul
May 31, 2007
If I remember correctly, didn't Stanton hit a triple and then nearly get knocked unconscious by the relay throw? Gaspar then pinch-ran. I was 7 years old, don't ask me how I remember this!

Raymond Malcuit Jr.
June 30, 2017
Paul, Leroy Stanton did hit a triple in this game and then got knocked unconscious by the relay throw.

NYB Buff
February 24, 2023
One day after getting eliminated from the N. L. East race, the Mets faced the Cubs to start a season-closing series for second place in the division. Donn Clendenon connected for a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to tie the game at 3-3. The home run gave Clendenon 95 RBIs for the season to break Frank Thomas's team record at the time. Wayne Garrett then hit a three-run homer in the tenth to win it for the Mets.

Dave VW
October 30, 2024
This game had a great start and finish, with not a whole lot in between. Stanton, making his first ML start, boomed a triple to RF to lead off the game for the Mets. That also represented his first big league hit. As mentioned previously, the relay throw nailed him on the head, and they brought a stretcher on the field to carry him off, though he eventually got up and walked off under his own power. Rod Gaspar pinch ran and scored on Cleon Jones' 25th double play of the season. Jones ended the season with a league-leading 26 twin killings, which stood as the Mets record all the way until 1999 when Mike Piazza tallied 27.

The teams traded zeroes until the 6th, when former Met Tommy Davis hit a line drive 3-run homer. The score remained 3-1 into the 9th, and the Mets looked all but dead as Ken Holtzman had retired 9 in a row until Jones hit a 2-out single. Then Clendenon came up super clutch with a huge game-tying home run. The Cubs brought in 48-year-old Hoyt Wilhelm to pitch the 10th, and he showed every bit of his age in giving up a 3-run homer to Garrett, which represented the Mets' only walk-off home run of the 1970 season!

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