Amazin' Date 8/21/1969: Seaver Ineffective as Giants Salvage Series Finale

From the desk of:  HEAD-BUTTING MR. MET

AMAZIN'

THE MIRACLE METS

50th ANNIVERSARY

Game #120: Thursday, August 21, 1969
San Francisco Giants @ New York Mets
Shea Stadium

For the second time in three days the Mets and Giants go into extra-innings.  Only this time it is the visitors whom leave town with a victory.  Despite winning the series, the Mets fall 7-6 in eleven innings Thursday afternoon at Shea.  Neither starter pitches particularly well.  The seventh inning proves the undoing of each.  Tom Seaver yields six runs, four earned, on six hits, and an uncharacteristic seven walks.  Giants center fielder Bobby Bonds takes Seaver downtown in the second then again in the seventh.  San Francisco's Ron Bryant yields five earned run on seven hits and two walks with four strikeouts before giving way to the bullpen.  Ron Swoboda's RBI single in the bottom of the ninth sends the game into overtime.  With one on and two out in the top of the eleventh Ken Henderson triples off Ron Taylor pitching in relief of Jack DiLauro.  Giants reliever Don McMahon then retires the Mets in order to earn is fourth victory of the season.  The Mets six game win streak is snapped.  However they do not lose ground to the Cubs whom are defeated by the Atlanta Braves at Wrigley.

• Mets Record: 68-52
• N.L. East: 2nd; 7 GB