Amazin' Date 6/11/1969: Giants Bring Soaring Mets to Screeching Halt

From the desk of:  HEAD-BUTTING MR. MET

AMAZIN'

THE MIRACLE METS

50th ANNIVERSARY

Game #53: Wednesday, June 11, 1969 - BR
New York Mets @ San Francisco Giants
Candlestick Park

Mets Bow to Giants 7-2 at Candlestick Park; Win Streak Halted at Eleven.

The Mets enter game two at Candlestick Park undefeated (4-0) against the Giants this season, and in the midst of a season altering eleven game winning streak.  By close of business Wednesday, starter Gaylord Perry and Willie Mays had put an end to all of it.

The Giants line-up waste little time getting after Mets rookie starter Gary Gentry.  With one out in the bottom of the first, former Mets all-star second baseman Ron Hunt triples into the left/center gap.  Willie Mays delivers Hunt with a single, and soon after would come around to score giving San Francisco an early 2-0 lead.  Mays is at it again in the fourth, doubling home two more runs and knocking Gentry out of the box.  With Tug McGraw pitching in relief of Ron Taylor in the sixth, Willie McCovey knocks in his 48th run of the season with a double as the Giants score three more times for a 7-0 lead.

Ed Kranepool finally put the Mets on the board with a lead-off home run in the seventh.  Cleon Jones makes it a 2-7 deficit with an RBI in the eighth.

Gaylord Perry completes the game, allowing the two runs on just four hits and four walks, with four strikeouts.  He improves to 9-5 on the season.  Gentry lasts 3.1 innings while yielding four runs (three earned) on six hits and three walks with two strikeouts.  His record evens out at 5-5 for the season with a 3.79 ERA.

Willie Mays goes 3 for 5 with a double and two RBI and a run scored.  Ron Hunt is 3 for 5 with two runs scored against his former team.  Ed Kranepool's home run was his sixth of the season.

• Mets Record:  29-24 (.547)
• N.L. East:  2nd; 7 GB