National League Standings, September 23, 1979
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE SEPTEMBER 23, 1979 GAME:
Bob P
September 25, 2003
With one out in the top of the fifth inning of this game, Lou Brock walked. He then stole second base and came all the way around to score when John Stearns' throw went into the outfield.
The stolen base was the 928th of Brock's career. At that point he broke Billy Hamilton's record for most career steals. Hamilton had played mainly in the 1890s. Of course, years later Rickey Henderson passed Brock and Rickey is still going as of this writing!
The Cards won the game 7-4 in ten innings. Mets pitchers allowed just five hits in the game but they walked 11 batters, threw a wild pitch and committed a balk..and the fielders pitched in with 3 errors. Aaah, the late seventies at Shea!
Doug B.
December 10, 2006
I do know that after this mind-numbing loss, their record over the last 48 games was, I believe, 9-39. An absolute low point in Mets history during this time. In a few short months, Wilpon, Doubleday and Cashen came into the picture to begin salvaging this wreck of a franchise.
Ed K
August 31, 2011
This was the end of the worst homestand in Mets history as they went 0-9 including four doubleheaders swept in less than a week.
The sad part was that the pitching wasn't all that bad (35 runs given up in 9 games) but the offense was anemic as they could only score 15 runs.
I don't recall the exact attendance number for the 5 playing dates but I doubt it was more than 30,000 combined.
Christopher Hagee
July 29, 2012
Well this home game for the Mets would be not just their last of the 1979 season, but it would also be the last home game for that club under the Payson family ownership as well as the last one for the late Mrs. Jane Jarvis as its Shea Stadium home game organ player. This would be the late Mrs. Jarvis' swan song Met Shea Stadium home game as its organ player where in the hundreds and hundreds and of Met Shea Stadium home games prior, dating back to that club's first season in Shea, 1964 with the hundreds and hundreds of playings of the Mexican Hat Dance music during the 7th Inning Stretch along with her hundreds of playings of the "Star-Spangled Banner" (the U.S. National Anthem) at the outsets of Met Shea Stadium regular season home games, particularly during the 1970s in A Major. She (the late Mrs. Jarvis) would be terminated from her organ-playing duties with the Mets during the 1979/1980 off-season period when the Payson family sold that franchise to the Doubleday/Wilpon team. But for many seasons after that her recording of "Charge!" was played at Shea Stadium home games.
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