National League Standings, September 23, 1969
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE SEPTEMBER 23, 1969 GAME:
Quality Met
April 3, 2013
This game ended with Bud Harrelson hitting a single to drive home Ron Swoboda with the winning run in the 11th inning. On the "Miracle Mets" vinyl disc record that came out after the season, Bob Murphy's voice is heard describing the hit. I don't know if the broadcast was a re-enactment or not, but Bob did not mention Harrelson's name in it. It must have been about five or six years after I heard this record that I found out that Bud was the one who got that single.
Bob Immerman
March 7, 2015
I attended this game with my dad and one of his pals. We had great seats field level halfway between third base and left field. The crowd was raucous through out, back in the days when cigar and cigarette smoke filled the air at sporting events. This was the night before the clincher and even though the Mets had been hapless for their entire existence, success seemed inevitable on this night. I would love to see a pitcher pitch eleven innings again. I also had the Miracle Mets Album referenced by quality Met. I haven't heard it in years. There were some highlights that seemed re created based on the crowd noise. This was one of them. I also think that Harrelson's single went through Curt Floods legs which enable Swoboda to score.
Scoey
June 3, 2021
Bob, I recently came across both Mets and Cardinals radio broadcasts of Bud Harrelson's winning single from this game. Lindsey Nelson and Harry Caray each called the hit by saying that Curt Flood made a throw to the plate in an attempt for a play on Ron Swoboda, who slid in safely. The ball did not get through Flood's legs.
As for the re-enacted call of Bud's hit on the "Miracle Mets" album, it was badly written. Bob Murphy not only failed to identify Harrelson, but he also said that Swoboda scored the run by standing up instead of sliding as Nelson indicated. The tie-clinching moment from the '69 season was screwed up on that terribly-made record.
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