National League Standings, June 4, 1970
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Feat Fan
June 14, 2004
Pat Jarvis goes the distance. Rico "Beeg Boy" Carty hits home run number 15 and is hitting an incredible .435! He maintains this torrid pace throughout June making it to June 10 with a .420 average before tailing off. He will wind up with an incredible .366 mark.
Imagine this hard hitting free swinger in Coors Field? .400 a strong probability!
Dave VW
October 14, 2024
Despite a middle of the lineup of Hank Aaron (.298, 38 HR, 118 RBI), Rico Carty (.366, 25 HR, 101 RBI) and Orlando Cepeda (.305, 34 HR, 111 RBI), the Braves finished the 1970 season 10 games under .500, which I find unbelievable. You would think it must have been the pitching that stunk, and while that may have been true by in large, on this night Pat Jarvis was just dandy. After the Mets got a run on an RBI single by Bud Harrelson in the 3rd, they managed just 3 more hits the remainder of the game, and collected just 1 extra-base hit all night -- an Art Shamsky double to lead off the 9th. That still meant the Mets sent the tying run to the plate 3 times in the inning, but Ken Boswell, Ron Swoboda and Joe Foy all came up empty. On the night, the Mets #5 through #9 hitters went a combined 0-for-18.
Foy came into the contest having drawn a walk in 12 straight games, which they said on the broadcast was a National League record. He failed to extend it, and I tried to look up on Baseball Reference if that streak still stands as the benchmark, but the website doesn't want to cooperate :(
Meanwhile, Tom Seaver lost his 4th straight game, a span in which the offense criminally scored just 2 runs total. The lack of support has seen Tom Terrific drop from a 6-0 start to 7-5.
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