National League Standings, April 28, 1974
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE APRIL 28, 1974 GAME:
Thom Miller
September 30, 2003
I remember this game well. I had just moved to San Francisco from New York three weeks before. When "my team," the Mets, came into town, I went out to Candlestick Park for my first visit. I walked up to the ticket window an hour before the first pitch and bought a box seat about 10 rows behind the Giants' dugout. I was amazed that it was possible to buy such a good seat on game day. It wasn't too far into the game that I realized why I had been so lucky to land such a great seat. There were only about 3,000 people at Candlestick that day! And as the game progressed, it was all Mets....both on the field and in the stands. Of the 3,000 people at the game, at least 2,000 of them were Mets' fans, mostly transplanted New Yorkers like myself. During the 7th inning stretch, I said this is absurd, and I became a Giants fan, right then and there. And I've been a Giants'fan ever since --- it will be 30 years next April!
NYB Buff
November 27, 2022
Jon Matlack held the Giants to four singles, one hit-by-pitch and issued no walks in this doubleheader opener. He faced 30 batters and pitched the first of his league-leading seven shutouts for the 1974 season. Also, Dave Schneck slugged a pair of home runs for his second two-homer game of April. Schneck would hit only one more homer in his major league career.
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