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June 10, 1980
Mets 5, Dodgers 4 1980 Regular Season Game 52
June 11, 1980
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June 12, 1980
Mets 6, Dodgers 5

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JUNE 11, 1980 GAME:

Richard Holmes
February 14, 2002
I was visiting my mother in Connecticut when I got a job teaching summer school back in my district in Northern Virginia. I was planning to see the Mets on my visit and my sudden wave of good fortune did not send me immediately back to Virgina. I had to see the Mets first. It was a great pitcher's duel and was deadlocked at 2 after 9. In the 10th Mike Jorgenson hit a grand slam homer to win the game 6 to 2. My adrenline was pumping so hard through me that it kept me awake for the next three hours on my way home to Virginia. I got home at 6:00 AM, took a shower and taught my first day of summer school. It was worth it.

Marc Cohen
December 17, 2002
I was 11 years old and my Grandfather got tickets first row behind the Mets dugout. When Jorgensen hit that Grand Slam in the 10th to win it, me and my brother were jumping up and down on top of the dugout like they just won the World Series. I went to a lot of games at Shea in the early 80's and I have forgotten most of them, but that moment I will never forget.

David
February 25, 2003
Jorgensen's homer was a great moment in my LIFE! Hey, I caught the ball!! I brought it to Shea the next night to get his autograph on it. Pete Falcone was signing autographs and took it into the clubhouse for me, and brought it back, signed by Jorgensen. By some chance, if someone out there just happens to have a video tape of this home run, (they used it later in the season in commercials for Fireworks Night) please email me!

Tom
December 28, 2010
I was home from college and there with friends sitting along first. When Jorgy jacked it we were jumping around, I was hugging strangers. My friends gave me grief, but I didn't because the Mets won and it was a happy recap.

JZ
February 26, 2020
I remember this game well. I was just shy of 17 and being able to drive to games now with my cousin who just got his license. I remember sitting in the right field boxes, this was a great game pitched by Swan. I remember watching Jorgensen's home run sail over our heads, I believe into the loge boxes in right field above the auxiliary scoreboard. Nice catch to David. It was a real thrilling win, which didn’t happen often back then. I remember looking up at the scoreboard and there was only one other game played in a majors that day. A day game and it was between the Orioles and A's and ironically that game was also won by a walk off grand slam by Tony Armas in the 14th inning.

meestahcee
July 12, 2021
One of three or four Mets games I attended with my Dad, God rest his soul. The crowd went bananas - Dad & I were under the mezzanine, so we couldn't follow the mostly line-drive trajectory of Mike Jorgensen's walk-off grand slam, but we saw it land in the seats near the right field foul pole! So fantastic to hear Bob Murphy's call of this play on YouTube more than 40 years later! ("Ah, The Magic Is Back at Shea!" - followed by the Happy Recap.) This is probably THE moment when I embraced the Mets as my team for life. This is a terrific website - thanks for helping us relive these memories!

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