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CUBS WIN HOMERUN DERBY; METS SHUT OUT, LOSE GAME IN STANDINGS
Thursday, June 26, 1969
The wind was blowing out on Ladies Day as the Pirates and Cubs combined for 7 home runs and 22 total hits.
Both teams notched 11 basehits, and both had 5 runs at the end of 9 regulation innings. Home runs from Billy Williams, Ken Rudolph, and Ron Santo matched blasts from Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguillen, and Roberto Clemente. Jim Hickman stepped up to the plate with Rudolph on first and 2 outs in the 10th, and sent a game-winning shot over the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley.
Cubs 7, Pirates 5 (10 inn.). W: Regan (9-5) L: Dal Canton (5-2)
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Another hard luck loss for Mets starter Don Cardwell, who suffered his 8th defeat in 10 decision. Cardwell pitched well, giving up just 2 runs through 7 1/3 at Shea, but Phillies hurler Grant Jackson bested him with a sparkling 4-hit, 10-strikeout performance. Cleon Jones went 2 for 3 to raise his season average to .353.
Phillies 2, Mets o. W: Jackson (8-6) L: Cardwell (2-8)
Team Name W L T PCT GB
Chicago Cubs 46 25 1 .648 -
New York Mets 38 30 0 .559 6.5
HOLTZMAN WINS 10TH, METS’ STREAK AT 11
Tuesday, June 10, 1969
A late, 3-run rally give Chicago’s Ken Holtzman his 10th win of the season.
Holtzman went seven innings while allowing just 1 run, but his team trailed 1-0 going into the top of the 7th in Atlanta. Pinch-hitter Willie Smith led off the 8th with a home run off Braves starter Ron Reed, and after Al Spangler singled, Ron Santo’s home run put the Cubs in front. Phil Regan took over from there to close out the win in this first game of the road trip.
Both Spangler and Santo went 2 for 4 in the winning effort.
Cubs 3, Braves 1 W: Holtzman (10-1) L: Reed (5-5) SV: Regan (6)
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Tommie Agee went 4 for 5 with 3 runs and 3 RBI to lead the Mets to their 11th consecutive victory.
San Francisco’s Mike McCormick and reliever Ron Herbel both proved ineffective on the mound. Jerry Grote and Mets starter Don Cardwell both went 3 for 3, and Cleon Jones knocked in 3 runs as New York beat the host Giants. Cardwell pitched well through eight innings but faltered in the 9th, giving up 3 runs before giving way to reliever Ron Taylor.
Mets 9, Giants 4 W: Cardwell (2-4) L: McCormick (3-3) SV: Taylor (5)
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Team Name W L T PCT GB Chicago Cubs 37 17 1 .685 - New York Mets 29 23 0 .558 7.0
SWEEPS WEEK FOR CUBS, METS!
Sunday, June 1, 1969
Ken Holtzman had another rocky outing but again the Cubs still came away with the win.
Chicago scored 6 runs in the 3rd inning off Atlanta starter Pat Jarvis, the big blow coming on Randy Hundley’s 3-run shot. But Holtzman gave up two 2-run homers, one to a unusual suspect (catcher Bob Tillman) and one to a very usual one (Hank Aaron) and failed to make it out of the 5th inning.
Dick Selma came on to pitch 4 2/3 scoreless innings in relief, though, to earn the win as the Cubs pulled away from the Braves and completed a three-game sweep. Ron Santo had a monster day with 3 hits and 4 RBI. Billy Williams (who also homered), Ernie Banks, and Willie Smith had 2 basehits apiece for the home town, and Jim Hickman added a home run of his own. The Braves’s Orlando Cepeda had 3 hits.
Cubs 13, Braves 4 W: Selma (5-3) L: Jarvis (5-3)
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Willie McCovey homered for the third consecutive game against the Mets but New York emerged with the win and the series sweep at Shea.
With the score tied 4-4 going into the bottom of the 9th, Giants reliever Joe Gibbon walked the bases loaded and then walked Ron Swoboda to force in Bud Harrelson with the winning run.
Neither starter had fared well. Bobby Bolin was fortunate to give up only 4 runs in surrendering 8 hits and 3 walks in just 4 1/3 innings. Meanwhile, the Mets’s Jim McAndrew was similarly lucky after giving up 3 hits and 4 walks that led to 2 runs (1 unearned) in 1 2/3 innings. Manager Gil Hodges brought in Don Cardwell, who pitched a strong 6 1/3 innings while giving up 2 runs. Ron Taylor pitched the 9th and got the win in relief.
Both Harrelson and Swoboda went 2 for 4, and Jerry Grote was 2 for 3 with a triple. Ed Kranepool had an RBI single.
Mets 5, Giants 4 W: Taylor (1-0) L: Gibbon (1-3)
NL EAST STANDINGS
Team Name W L PCT GB Chicago Cubs 33 16 .673 - Pittsburgh Pirates 25 23 .521 7.5 New York Mets 22 23 .489 9.0 St. Louis Cardinals 22 25 .468 10.0 Philadelphia Phillies 18 25 .419 12.0 Montreal Expos 11 33 .250 19.5
BRAVES SCALP METS, CUBS SHUT OUT L.A.
Thursday, May 22, 1969
Like Tom Seaver the day before, Mets pitchers threw to Braves bats. Unlike Seaver’s the day before, their pitches were hit where Mets fielders weren’t.
A procession of New York arms that included Tug McGraw, Don Cardwell, Cal Koonce, Al Jackson, and Ron Taylor gave up a total of 18 hits, just a day after they managed just 3 off Seaver. Clete Boyer went 3 for 3 with a home run and scored four times, Felix Millan homered and scored 3 times, and Hank Aaron had first-inning home run that put the Braves up 2-0 en route to a blowout.
Braves 15, Mets 3 W: Jarvis (4-2) L: McGraw (3-1) SV: Stone (1)
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Fergie Jenkins and Bill Singer each pitched complete games but Jenkins outpitched Singer as the Cubs won at Chavez Ravine.
Jenkins held Los Angeles scoreless while Glenn Beckert’s run-scoring single in the 6th and Don Kessinger’s 2-RBI single in the 7th accounted for all the scoring.
Cubs 3, Dodgers 0 W: Jenkins (6-2) L: Singer (5-4)
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR AS METS COMEBACK FALLS SHORT
Thursday, May 15, 1969
The Atlanta Braves handed Don Cardwell his sixth loss in seven decisions.
The down on his luck Mets pitcher lasted just 3 innings, giving up 4 runs (3 earned) on 6 hits, including the first of two home runs from slugger Hank Aaron. Rookie Jack DiLauro made his Major League debut in relief and pitching a scoreless 4th and 5th innings, but Cal Koonce surrendered an RBI double by Bob Tillman in the 6th and Aaron’s second home run in the 7th.
Trailing 6-2, New York rallied for three runs in the 8th, and hope surged through the home crowd when the Mets moved two runners into scoring position with one out in the 9th. But after an intentional walk to Wayne Garrett, Ken Boswell’s grounder to first resulted in a force out at home, and reliever Cecil Upshaw earned his ninth save of the year by retiring Cleon Jones on a pop-up to end the game. Garrett went 3 for 4 on the day, and Art Shamsky went 2 for 4 with 2 RBI in the Mets loss.
Braves 6, Mets 5 W: Jarvis (3-2) L: Cardwell (1-6) SV: Upshaw (9)
NL EAST STANDINGS
Team Name W L PCT GB Chicago Cubs 23 11 .667 - Pittsburgh Pirates 17 15 .531 5.0 New York Mets 15 18 .455 7.5 St. Louis Cardinals 14 18 .438 8.0 Philadelphia Phillies 13 17 .433 8.0 Montreal Expos 11 19 .367 10.0
“RECREATING THE MIRACLE SEASON” is a look back at the storied division race between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets in 1969. Keep checking back throughout the 2009 season to get the game stories from 40 years ago to the day. This on-going feature is brought to you by the book 1969: The Year Everything Changed, available now from Skyhorse Publishing.
AGEE GOES DEEP 3 TIMES IN SPLIT, HOLTZMAN K’S 10 GIANTS
Sunday, May 11, 1969
The Mets and Astros split a Sunday doubleheader at Shea.
A 4-run 4th inning was starter Don Cardwell’s undoing in the first game. Joe Joe Morgan reached on rookie second baseman Wayne Garrett’s error to lead off the inning. Norm Miller singled him in and then scored on Jimmy Wynn’s 2-run homer. Later, Garrett’s second error of the inning allowed Denis Menke to score another unearned run.
Houston ace Larry Dierker limited New York to one run, on Tommie Agee’s home run in the 6th.
The Mets bounced back in game two. The home team recorded 6 runs in a sloppy 1st inning that included an error, a passed ball, and 5 walks (one intentional). Astros starter Don Wilson lasted just 2/3 of an inning before being yanked for Jim Ray, who himself was pulled after issuing walks to the first 2 batters he faced. Wade Blasingame came on to get the last out of the inning.
In a wild contest, Mets starter Tug McGraw hit a wall in the 5th. After giving up a home run, single, and 2 walks in the inning, McGraw got the hook from manager Gil Hodges just one out shy of the requisite 5 innings to be credited with the win. Nolan Ryan got the last out in the 5th and then Cal Koonce pitched the final 4 innings to earn his first win of the season despite giving up 2 runs himself. Agee struck his second and third home runs of the doubleheader, while fellow Alabama native Cleon Jones went 2 for 2 and scored twice and catcher J. C. Martin drove in 2 runs on 2 hits of his own.
Astros 4, Mets 1 (1) W: Dierker (5-3) L: Cardwell (1-5)
Mets 11, Astros 7 (2) W: Koonce (1-3) L: Wilson (2-4)
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Ken Holtzman pitched a gem on Sunday at Wrigley.
The Cubs southpaw recorded his 5th win in 6 decisions by pitching a complete-game shutout against the San Francisco Giants. Holtzman struck out 10 and walked just one. Meanwhile, the Chicago strikers gave him more support than he needed. Billy Williams hit a 2-run blast in the 1st and Randy Hundley added a solo shot in the 5th. Hundley added a single in the 7th that plated 2 more runs in the blowout win. Cleanup hitter Ron Santo added 2 hits and 2 RBI.
Cubs 8, Giants 0 W: Holtzman (5-1) L: Sadecki (2-4)
NL EAST STANDINGS
Team Name W L PCT GB Chicago Cubs 20 11 .645 - Pittsburgh Pirates 16 13 .522 3.0 New York Mets 14 16 .467 5.5 Philadelphia Phillies 12 15 .444 6.0 St. Louis Cardinals 12 18 .400 7.5 Montreal Expos 11 17 .393 7.5
“RECREATING THE MIRACLE SEASON” is a look back at the storied division race between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets in 1969. Keep checking back throughout the 2009 season to get the game stories from 40 years ago to the day. This on-going feature is brought to you by the book 1969: The Year Everything Changed, available now from Skyhorse Publishing.
HOLTZMAN, CARDWELL HURL 6-HITTERS
Tuesday, May 6, 1969
The Cubs beat the Dodgers going away on Tuesday afternoon at Wrigley.
Chicago broke open a pitcher’s duel between Ken Holtzman and Los Angeles’s Don Sutton with a 3-run rally in the 6th, sparked by Don Kessinger’s leadoff double. In the 8th, Randy Hundley homered and Holtzman helped his own cause with a triple in another 3-run burst. The Cubs starter recorded 7 strikeouts and gave up just 6 hits and 1 walk in a complete game win. Kessinger had 3 hits in the contest, as did Al Spangler, who also homered and drove in 2.
Cubs 7, Dodgers 1 W: Holtzman (4-1) L: Sutton (3-3)
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Don Cardwell notched his first win of the season as the Mets greeted the visiting Reds rudely at Shea on Tuesday night.
The victim of some hard luck so far this season, Cardwell went the distance and allowed just one run on six hits and a walk while striking out 8 Cincinnati batters. The New York pitcher also shocked everyone by hitting a home run off reliever Wayne Granger with two men on in the 8th, the big hit in a 5-run rally that put the game away.
Wayne Garrett and Ken Boswell added round-trippers of their own, and Bud Harrelson had 3 hits for the Amazins. Reds starter Jim Maloney gave up just 1 run in 5 innings before the bullpen collapsed for Cincinnati. Gary Nolan took the loss.
Mets 8, Reds 1 W: Cardwell (1-4) L: Nolan (1-3)
NL EAST STANDINGS
Team Name W L PCT GB Chicago Cubs 19 9 .679 - Pittsburgh Pirates 15 11 .577 3.0 Philadelphia Phillies 12 11 .522 4.5 New York Mets 12 14 .462 6.0 St. Louis Cardinals 11 15 .423 7.0 Montreal Expos 10 15 .400 7.5
RECREATING THE MIRACLE SEASON is a look back at the storied division race between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets in 1969. Keep checking back throughout the 2009 season to get the game stories from 40 years ago to the day. This on-going feature is brought to you by the book 1969: The Year Everything Changed, available now from Skyhorse Publishing.
EXPOS SAVE FACE
Thursday, May 1, 1969
Montreal salvaged the final game of its series with the Mets.
Expos third baseman Coco Laboy hit a sacrifice fly with one out in the bottom of the ninth to beat Don Cardwell and the Mets 3-2. Montreal’s Roy Face got the win in relief after starter Bill Stoneman allowed 12 Mets to reach base but yielded just 2 runs through 6 2/3 innings.
Cleon Jones continued his torrid hitting for the Mets, going 3 for 3 to raise his average to .432. He also accounted for New York’s only 2 runs. He led off the 2nd with a single and later scored on Jerry Grote’s bases-loaded walk, and Jones followed in the next inning with a home run.
Cardwell pitched decently but gave up home runs to Donn Clendenon and Mack Jones before surrendered the game-winning run in the ninth. The luckless pitcher is now winless in four starts for New York.
Expos 3, Mets 2 W: Face (1-0) L: Cardwell (0-4)
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The Cubs were off on Thursday.
NL EAST STANDINGS AFTER MAY 1
Team Name W L PCT GB Chicago Cubs 16 7 .696 - Pittsburgh Pirates 13 9 .591 2.5 St. Louis Cardinals 10 12 .455 5.5
New York Mets 9 12 .429 6.0 Philadelphia Phillies 8 11 .421 6.0 Montreal Expos 8 13 .381 7.0
RECREATING THE MIRACLE SEASON is a look back at the storied division race between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets in 1969. Keep checking back throughout the 2009 season to get the game stories from 40 years ago to the day. This on-going feature is brought to you by the book 1969: The Year Everything Changed, available now from Skyhorse Publishing.
CUBS HAND IT TO METS, 9-3
Saturday, April 26, 1969
Chicago jumped on ex-Cubs pitcher Don Cardwell and original Met Al Jackson to give the visiting team an 8-0 lead after 5 1/2 innings at Shea Stadium. The first two batters in the Cubs lineup, Don Kessinger and Al Spangler, were on the bases all day, combining for 6 hits in 10 at bats. And Ron Santo, Ernie Banks, and Randy Hundley kept driving them in. Each of the three sluggers tallied 2 hits and totaled 7 RBI. Cubs starter Bill Hands pitched efficiently and allowed 9 runners across 9 full innings to earn the win. Bud Harrelson and Jerry Grote each collected 2 hits for the Mets.
Cubs 9, Mets 3 W: Hands (3-1) L: Cardwell (0-3)
NL EAST STANDINGS AFTER APRIL 24
Team Name W L PCT GB Chicago Cubs 13 5 .722 - Pittsburgh Pirates 12 5 .706 0.5 St. Louis Cardinals 7 10 .412 5.5 Philadelphia Phillies 6 9 .400 5.5 New York Mets 6 10 .375 6.0 Montreal Expos 6 11 .353 6.5
RECREATING THE MIRACLE SEASON is a look back at the storied division race between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets in 1969. Keep checking back throughout the 2009 season to get the game stories from 40 years ago to the day. This on-going feature is brought to you by the book 1969: The Year Everything Changed, available now from Skyhorse Publishing.
RECREATING THE MIRACLE SEASON – APRIL 17, 1969
CHICAGO ‘HANDS’ LOSS TO CARDS
The Cubs took their show on the road and continued their winning ways Thursday night in St. Louis.
Chicago starter Bill Hands was a bit wild and walked 5 but only gave up 3 hits through 8 shutout innings. The Cubs scored in the 3rd when Don Kessinger reached on a fielder’s choice, stole second, and scored on Al Spangler’s single into left. A 2-out rally in the 8th plated 2 insurance runs when Kessinger and Spangler reached on a walk and single and Billy Williams doubled them both home. Phil Regan came on to pitch a scoreless 9th for the save. Spangler and Randy Hundley both went 2 for 4, as did Cardinals third baseman Mike Shannon. Dave Giusti was charged with all 3 runs in 7 2/3 innings and took the loss for the defending National League champs.
Jim Qualls went 0 for 4 subbing in for second baseman Glenn Beckert, who sat out today following his injury in Wednesday’s game. The victory gave Chicago 9 in its 10 games this season.
Cubs 3, Cardinals 0 W: Hands (2-0) L: Giusti (1-1) SV: Regan (1)
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BUCS SHUT OUT PUNCHLESS METS
The Mets managed only 3 hits in a loss to the Pirates.
Pittsburgh starter Jim Bunning pitched 6 scoreless innings and struck out 9. New York’s Don Cardwell pitched well and gave up only 4 hits through 7. But he threw 2 wild pitches past backup catcher J. C. Martin, allowing Richie Hebner to score the first run of the game. Cal Koonce came on and pitched a rocky 8th inning. With Hebner again on second with one out, the Mets walked slugger Willie Stargell to set up a possible double play. But Al Oliver made them pay by sending a Koonce pitch over the Forbes Field fence to break the game open. Reliver Ron Kline pitched 3 hitless innings in relief for the Pirates.
Pirates 4, Mets 0 W: Bunning (1-0) L: Cardwell (0-2) SV: Kline (1)
NL EAST STANDINGS AFTER APRIL 17
Team Name W L PCT GB CHICAGO CUBS 9 1 .900 - Pittsburgh Pirates 7 3 .700 2.0 Montreal Expos 4 5 .444 4.5 St. Louis Cardinals 4 6 .400 5.0 NEW YORK METS 3 7 .300 6.0 Philadelphia Phillies 2 7 .222 6.5