Ultimate Mets Database: Game of June 15, 1966 - Box Score

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Previous Game:
June 14, 1966
Cardinals 9, Mets 2 1966 Regular Season Game 54
June 15, 1966
Mets 5, Braves 4 Next Game:
June 16, 1966
Braves 17, Mets 1

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National League Standings, June 15, 1966

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Thru This Game

Mets Starting Lineup

2b
Ron
Hunt rf
Al
Luplow 3b
Ken
Boyer cf
Cleon
Jones c
Hawk
Taylor lf
Ron
Swoboda 1b
Ed
Kranepool ss
Eddie
Bressoud p
Dennis
Ribant

June 15, 1966, Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta, GA

New York Mets 5, Atlanta Braves 4

Mets ab r h bi bb so Avg.

Ron Hunt 2b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .283

Al Luplow rf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .228

Ken Boyer 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .291

Cleon Jones cf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .278

Hawk Taylor c 4 0 2 0 0 0 .226

- Jerry Grote c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .265

Ron Swoboda lf 3 1 0 0 1 0 .217

Ed Kranepool 1b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .213

Eddie Bressoud ss 4 2 2 3 0 0 .247

Dennis Ribant p 3 0 1 0 0 0 .143

- Bill Hepler p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500

- Billy Murphy ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .234

- Jack Hamilton p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .120

Braves ab r h bi bb so

Eddie Mathews 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0

- Denis Menke ph-3b 1 0 0 0 1 0

Woody Woodward ss 4 0 0 0 1 0

Hank Aaron rf 4 0 0 0 1 2

Felipe Alou 1b 3 2 2 2 1 0

Mack Jones cf 4 1 2 0 0 0

Rico Carty lf 4 0 2 0 0 0

Joe Torre c 4 0 0 1 0 0

Felix Millan 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0

- Gene Oliver ph 1 0 0 0 0 1

Denny Lemaster p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- John Herrnstein ph 1 0 0 0 0 0

- Arnold Umbach p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Miguel de la Hoz ph 1 0 1 0 0 0

- Clay Carroll p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Gary Geiger ph 1 1 1 1 0 0

- Billy O'Dell p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Ted Abernathy p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Frank Bolling ph 1 0 1 0 0 0

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

New York Mets 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 1

Atlanta Braves 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 4 9 3

New York Mets ip h r er bb so

Dennis Ribant 6.1 7 3 3 2 1 1.93

Bill Hepler (W,1-0) 1.2 1 1 1 0 1 2.50

Jack Hamilton 1.0 1 0 0 2 1 3.79

Atlanta Braves ip h r er bb so

Denny Lemaster 2.0 5 3 2 0 1

Arnold Umbach 3.0 1 0 0 1 1

Clay Carroll 2.0 1 0 0 1 0

Billy O'Dell (L) 1.0 3 2 1 0 0

Ted Abernathy 1.0 0 0 0 1 0

Errors: Eddie Bressoud (1), Eddie Mathews.
2B: Ed Kranepool (5), Rico Carty.
HR: Eddie Bressoud (4), Felipe Alou 2, Gary Geiger.
Intentional Walks: Al Luplow.
SF: Ken Boyer.
SB: Hank Aaron.
CS: Ron Hunt (3), Al Luplow (3), Denis Menke.

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