Amazin' Date 9/3/1969: Dodgers Rally For Ninth Inning Victory Over Mets

From the desk of: HEAD-BUTTING MR. MET

AMAZIN'

THE MIRACLE METS

50th ANNIVERSARY

Game #133: Wednesday, September 3, 1969 - BR
New York Mets @ Los Angeles Dodgers
Dodger Stadium

After being held scoreless through seven innings the Mets erase a four run deficit in the top of the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium, only to surrender the game winning run in the bottom of the ninth.

Jerry Koosman surrenders four runs, three earned, on nine hits and one walk with four strikeouts through six innings pitched, but does not factor in the decision.  Cal Koonce pitches a scoreless seventh in relief of Koosman.  In the top of the eighth Tommie Agee and Donn Clendenon each hit two-run home runs off Dodgers starter Claude Osteen tying the game at four.  Nolan Ryan retires the Dodgers with two strikeouts in the bottom half of the frame.  Los Angeles reliever Pete Mikkelsen then pitches a scoreless top half of the ninth.  With Jack DiLauro pitching in relief of Ryan, Maury Wills leads-off the bottom half of the ninth with a hit.  Manny Mota successfully bunts Wills over to second, who then scores the game winning run on Willie Davis' double to left.  Jack DiLauro is tagged with the loss, while Pete Mikkelsen wins his seventh game of the season.

Los Angeles wins the series but the Mets close out the road trip with a 6-4 record.  Chicago has their five game win streak snapped by the Reds at Crosley Field, and so the Mets lose no ground.

• Mets Record: 77-56
• N.L. East: 2nd; 5 GB