Ultimate Mets Database: Game of August 28, 1971

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August 25, 1971
Mets 5, Giants 1 1971 Regular Season Game 128
August 28, 1971
Mets 9, Dodgers 2 Next Game:
August 28, 1971
Mets 2, Dodgers 1

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE AUGUST 28, 1971 GAME:

Stu Baron
February 26, 2002
I attended this game (the first of a Saturday afternoon twinbill) as an 11-year-old, and I remember the Mets scoring 6 first-inning runs off Claude Osteen (a pretty fair lefty) and Richie (not yet known as Dick) Allen playing 3B for the Dodgers IN A BATTING HELMET!!!

Mike Telford
June 12, 2009
I am incredibly lucky enough to have just picked up an almost mint copy of the program from this game. It is scored through all nine innings so I have all of the player names and what they did PLUS...it is signed by Sandy Koufax on the front!!

Stu Baron
April 27, 2010
Returning to this page to reminisce about the last time the Mets swept a twinbill from the Dodgers until tonight - April 27, 2010...I was 11 then and 49 now!

Vince Egan
May 10, 2013
My dad took me to this, my first major league game (I was 7), and it turned out to be a doubleheader due to a rain out the night before. Some great names involved that day: Gil Hodges as manager, Seaver starting for the Mets. Walter Alston as manager, and Maury Wills, Willie Davis, Richie Allen, and 48-year-old Hoyt Wilhelm in relief for the Dodgers, who also had youngsters like Bill Buckner, Steve Garvey and Bobby Valentine. I remember Cleon Jones won the nightcap with a walk-off homer before they were known as walk-offs.

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