HOME RUNS FROM METS’ GROTE, CUBS’ WILLIAMS EARN SERIES SWEEPS
Sunday, August 3, 1969
Trailing the Braves 5-0, the Mets rallied for five in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game. The two bullpens keep the score notted into extra innings until Jerry Grote led off the eleventh with a game-winning homer off Atlanta’s Claude Raymond. Ron Taylor pitched three scoreless in relief for the win. The loss dropped the Braves into a three-way tie for first place with the Reds and Giants.
Mets 6, Braves 5. W: Taylor (6-2) L: Raymond (2-2)
Billy Williams’s struck a three-run blast in the eighth off Padres starter Joe Niekro to give Dick Selma, who was traded for Niekro back in April, and the Cubs a dramatic, come-from-behind victory.
Cubs 4, Padres 3. W: Selma (11-4) L: J. Niekro (6-8) SV: Regan (12)
NL EAST STANDINGS
Team Name W L T PCT GB
Chicago Cubs 67 41 1 .620 -
New York Mets 58 44 0 .569 6.0
Saturday, August 2, 1969
Jim McAndrew and Ron Reed went head-to-head for seven innings at Shea, and Cleon Jones’s pinch-hit single to score Ron Swoboda in the seventh proved to be the only run of the game.
Mets 1, Braves 0. W: McAndrew (3-3) L: Reed (9-8) SV: McGraw (6)
Ron Santo hit two solo home runs to lead the Cubs over the Padres at Wrigley. Ken Holtzman pitched a remarkable game, yielding a run on just two hits in nine full innings. Don Kessinger drove in two runs and Randy Hundley had two hits for Chicago.
Cubs 4, Padres 1. W: Holtzman (13-5) L: Santorini (4-10)
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