Ultimate Mets Database: Game of July 28, 1976

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July 27, 1976
Mets 4, Phillies 1 1976 Regular Season Game 101
July 28, 1976
Pirates 1, Mets 0 Next Game:
July 29, 1976
Pirates 2, Mets 1

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scott michaels
March 5, 2020
The first Met game I ever went to. 10 years old... Sat 4 rows up from first base and couldn't believe I was sitting so close to Ed Kranepool playing first base... one of my all time fav Mets and my hero at the time. If you would have asked what was better, Disney World or Shea at that time it would have been Shea. We left in the 7th. Seaver pitched 10 innings of scoreless baseball and struck out 10. Mets got whipped 1 nothing on a 15th inning homer by Zisk. Pirates were lucky. That game was like your first kiss from a girl. Never forget my first day at Shea.

NYB Buff
March 9, 2020
Scott, I don't mean to spoil your memory, but you've got the wrong Richie and the wrong inning in which the homer was hit. It was Richie Hebner, not Zisk, who connected against reliever Ken Sanders to give the Pirates the win in the top of the 13th, not 15th. Seaver pitched scoreless ball for the first ten frames, but so did the Bucs' George Medich in a good old-fashioned mound battle. How often do starting pitchers - even with shutouts going - last into extra innings today? Relievers are always brought in during these kinds of games in the 21st century. Sadly, complete games and lengthy pitching duels like this one are missing from the current game.

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