Mets Calendar Classics - Mets Post Season Games Played On This Date: October 6th

 

1970 Topps Baseball Card

Mets win 1969 Playoffs with 3-Game Sweep, Reds take Game 1 of the '73 NLCS, and the Phillies and D'Backs get Game 2 wins.


Year: 2024; NLDS Game #2; Sunday; Oct 6, NYM 6 @ PHIL 7; boxscore; WP: Jeff Hoffman; LP: Tylor Megill; Time: 3:13; Day; Attendance: 45,679; Record: 1-1; L; 


Francisco Lindor SS: 2 for 5; 2 runs; 2 Ks; Mark Vientos 3B: 3 for 4; 2·HR,2B; 2 runs; 4 RBIs; 1 walk; 1 K; Brandon Nimmo LF: 2 for 5; HR; 1 run; 1 RBI; Pete Alonso 1B: 1 for 4; HR,SB; 1 run; 1 RBI; 1 walk; 1 K; Jose Iglesias 2B: 1 for 4; 2 Ks; J.D. Martinez DH: 1 for 4; Starling Marte RF: 0 for 4; 2 Ks; Tyrone Taylor RF: 0 for 0; Francisco Alvarez C: 1 for 4; 1 K; Harrison Bader CF: 0 for 4; 1 K; Luis Severino: 6 innings; 3 runs; 3 ERs; 6 hits; 2 HRs; 7 Ks; José Buttó, H (1): 0.2 inning; no runs; 1 hit; Edwin Díaz, BS (1): 0.2 inning; 3 runs; 3 ERs; 2 hits; 1 walk; 2 Ks; Tylor Megill, L (0-1): 1.1 innings; 1 run; 1 ER; 1 hit; 2 walks; 2 Ks; 


Mets took a 3-0 lead on a two run HR from Mark Vientos and a solo shot from Pete Alonso.  Phillies came back in the 6th on a 2 Run Homer from Bryce Harper and a Solo shot from Nick Castellanos. Mets came right back n the 7th as Brandon Nimmo homered to give the Mets a 4-3 lead.  Phils scored 3 runs off Edwin Diaz in the 8th to go up 6-4.  Mark Vientos tied it with a 2 Run Homer in the 9th,  Tylor Megill retired the first two batters before walking Trea Turner and Bryce Harper.  Nick Castellanous ended it with an RBI single.


Brian Joura Mets360: "It was great that the Mets remembered how to hit home runs in this game. But they went 0-7 with RISP, with five of those coming in the first two innings. They had a chance to put the game away early and didn’t capitalize."


Tim Healey Newsday: Mets lose wild NLDS Game 2 heartbreaker to Phillies on Nick Castellanos' walk-off single. "The pitch that changed the game, though, was a fastball from Luis Severino to Bryce Harper in the bottom of the sixth, when the Mets and their standout righthander were in control of the day and the series...Pitch five was a fastball, his hardest of the day at 99 mph. Severino tried to place it up and away. It ended up middle-middle. Harper crushed it an estimated 431 feet. It ricocheted hard off the ivy batter’s eye in centerfield...The batter immediately after Harper, Castellanos, blasted a solo shot to left-centerfield to tie it."


NY Post: "The Phillies’ go-ahead rally began with Harper drawing a one-out walk in the eighth against Diaz before Castellanos singled on a 98-mph fastball that put runners on the corners. Stott, on the sixth pitch of his at-bat, hammered a slider into the right-field corner for a two-run triple that put the Mets in a 5-4 hole. Diaz departed for Megill and J.T. Realmuto’s RBI fielder’s choice brought in the insurance run."


NY Post: "With one out in the ninth, and trailing the Phillies by two runs, Mark Vientos drilled a pitch over the left-center field fence to tie the game 6-6."


MLB YouTube Channel: Phillies 7 Mets 6 Game Highlights 10/6/24




More Reactions and Highlights:

Year: 1999; NLDS Game #2; Wednesday;  Oct 6, NYM 1 @ ARZ 7; boxscore; WP: Todd Stottlemyre; LP: Kenny Rogers; Time: 3:13; Night; Attendance: 49,328; Record: 1-1; L;


Rickey Henderson LF: 2 for 3; 3·SB; 1 run; 1 walk; Edgardo Alfonzo 2B: 0 for 4; John Olerud 1B: 0 for 3; 1 RBI; 1 walk; Mike Piazza C: 1 for 4; 2 Ks; Robin Ventura 3B: 0 for 2; 2 walks; Darryl Hamilton CF: 0 for 2; 1 walk; Benny Agbayani PH-RF: 0 for 1; Roger Cedeño RF-CF: 1 for 3; GDP; 1 K; Shawon Dunston PH: 0 for 1; 1 K; Rey Ordóñez SS: 1 for 4; 2B,SB; 2 Ks; Kenny Rogers P: 0 for 2; 1 K; Bobby Bonilla PH: 0 for 1; Todd Pratt PH: 0 for 1; Kenny Rogers, L (0-1): 4.1 innings; 4 runs; 4 ERs; 5 hits; 2 walks; 6 Ks; Pat Mahomes: 1.2 innings; 1 run; 1 ER; 3 hits; 1 K; Octavio Dotel: 0.1 inning; 2 runs; 2 ERs; 1 hit; 2 walks; John Franco: 1.2 innings; no runs; 1 K; 


Diamondbacks bounced back from the Game 1 loss with a 7-1 win over Kenny Rogers and the Mets.  A Rogers' bases loaded walk tied the game at 1 and the next batter, Steve Finley, singled in two more.  Finley doubled in two more in the 6th to make it 5-1 and was walked in the 6th with the bases loaded to make it 6-1.  Mets were not able to solve D'backs starter Todd Stottlemyre who allowed just 1 run over 6.2 innings on 4 hits and 5 walks as the Mets went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position.


Year: 1973; NLCS Game #1; Saturday; Oct 6, NYM 1 @ CIN 2; boxscore; WP: Pedro Borbón; LP: Tom Seaver; Time: 2:00; Day; Attendance: 53,431; Record: 0-1; L;


Wayne Garrett 3B: 1 for 4; Félix Millán 2B: 0 for 3; SH; Rusty Staub RF: 0 for 2; 2 walks; John Milner 1B: 1 for 3; 1 walk; 1 K; Cleon Jones LF: 0 for 4; GDP; 1 K; Jerry Grote C: 0 for 4; 1 K; Don Hahn CF: 0 for 3; 2 Ks; Bud Harrelson SS: 0 for 2; 1 run; 1 walk; Tom Seaver P: 1 for 3; 2B; 1 RBI; 1 K; Tom Seaver, L (0-1): 8.1 innings; 2 runs; 2 ERs; 6 hits; 2 HRs; 13 Ks; 


Tom Seaver K's 13 and doubled in the games only run as the Mets took a 1-0 lead into the 8th.  Pete Rose's Homer tied it in the 8th and Johnny Bench's homer gave the Reds a Walk-Off win in the 9th.





Year: 1969; NLCS Game #3; Monday;  Oct 6, NYM 7 Vs ATL 4; boxscore; WP: Ryan; LP: Jarvis; Time: 2:24; Day; Attendance: 54,195; Record: 3-0; W; Mets win series 3-0;  


Tommie Agee CF: 3 for 5; HR,2B; 1 run; 2 RBIs; 1 K; Wayne Garrett 3B: 1 for 4; HR; 1 run; 2 RBIs; 1 K; Cleon Jones LF: 2 for 4; 2B; 1 run; 1 K; Art Shamsky RF: 1 for 4; 1 run; 1 K; Rod Gaspar PR-RF: 0 for 0; Ken Boswell 2B: 3 for 4; HR; 1 run; 3 RBIs; Al Weis 2B: 0 for 0; Ed Kranepool 1B: 1 for 4; 2B; Jerry Grote C: 1 for 4; 2B; 1 run; 3 Ks; Bud Harrelson SS: 0 for 3; SH; Gary Gentry P: 0 for 0; Nolan Ryan P: 2 for 4; 1 run; 1 K; Gary Gentry: 2 innings; 2 runs; 2 ERs; 5 hits; 1 HR; 1 walk; 1 K; Nolan Ryan, W (1-0): 7 innings; 2 runs; 2 ERs; 3 hits; 1 HR; 2 walks; 7 Ks; 


Mets win the first ever National League Championship Series (back then simply called the Playoffs) with a 3-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves.  Hank Aaron hit his 3rd homer of the series off Gary Gentry in the 1st to give the Braves a 2-0 lead.  After it looked like the Braves would score two more in the 3rd after a Tony Gonzalez single and Hank Aaron double, Nolan Ryan relieved Gentry to stifle the threat and go on to throw 7 innings allowing just two runs.  Meanwhile the Mets scored 7 to support Ryan on a Tommie Agee solo homer and 2-run homers by Ken Boswell and Wayne Garrett.  






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