Ultimate Mets Database: Game of August 24, 1975

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August 24, 1975
Mets 9, Giants 5 1975 Regular Season Game 128
August 24, 1975
Giants 6, Mets 0 Next Game:
August 25, 1975
Mets 4, Padres 0

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National League Standings, August 24, 1975

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE AUGUST 24, 1975 GAME:

Ken Akerman
April 2, 2003
Ed Halicki of the Giants pitched a no-hitter against the Mets in this game. I recall seeing it on TV.

rht
September 7, 2007
I guess I wasn't aware the Halicki was throwing a no-hitter until the very last out and Halicki was celebrating wildly like he had just won the World Series.

For some reason I recall Halicki walking more people than I see in the box score. (I'm sure the box score is correct!) If I remember correctly, he was getting into some deep counts. There was a point in the game where the Mets had runners on first and second and were threatening, but obviously Halicki got out of that jam.

I recall Rusty Staub beating out a throw by the Giants secondbaseman on a slowly hit groundball that I think he bobbled momentarily. The play was subsequently scored an error. There was some question of whether it should have been scored a hit.

They showed a replay of the Rusty "hit" on the nightly news with the sportscaster (I don't remember who or what station) berating the Mets' offense in the game.

Incidently, I believe this was during Mike Vail's 23-game hitting streak. He was a pinch-hitter in the game and worked out a walk. Because he didn't make an out, the streak was kept intact.

Quality Met
April 24, 2010
This was the first no-hitter I ever saw. Even though it was against the Mets, I was still excited to see it. It was the second game of a doubleheader. The Mets won the first game, but they couldn't do anything against Ed Halicki, a New Jersey native.

One other thing I remember about this game was Jesus Alou pinch-hitting in the ninth. This appearance gave him and his brothers, Felipe and Matty, a combined total of 5,000 games played. A family milestone was reached, but overshadowed by something bigger.

Witz
June 10, 2015
This was the first no-hitter I saw (albeit on tv) and I recall how hard I was rooting for Wayne Garrett to break it up with two outs in the 9th. I feel he may have hit a loud foul ball before making the final out...

The "last" no-hitter I've seen, was last night. First one in person, and again a seemingly mediocre Giants pitcher turned the trick. I guess I've mellowed as I've gotten older. I wasn't rooting nearly as hard for the Mets to break it up in the 9th...and nothing close to a loud foul ball, just some meek called third strikes.

Flitgun Frankie
November 12, 2020
Watched this game on WOR. It was the first no-hit game I ever saw on TV. Our family was moving to a new house at the end of the month, a few days after this game, so I was helping pack stuff up and had this game on the TV in the background and wasn't paying much attention to it till it got to the late innings and the no-hitter was still going.

My only previous no-hit experience was hearing the last couple of innings of Rick Wise's no-hitter a couple of years before, which we caught on the radio from Philadelphia. I did also watch the famous Tom Seaver almost perfect game vs. the Cubs in 1969.

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