National League Standings, May 7, 1972
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE MAY 7, 1972 GAME:
tony k
May 22, 2004
I am 38, and this was the first ballgame I ever attended. Tommie Agee hit a walk off homer if I remember correctly.
Bob P
June 1, 2004
Tony, you are correct! Agee's two-out homer in the bottom of the tenth after Bud Harrelson reached on an error gave the Mets an 8-6 win in this game.
The Mets were down 6-0 going to the bottom of the eighth but they scored five in that inning and one more in the ninth before Agee won it in extra innings. The Padres made six errors in the game, including four over the last three innings when the Mets scored all eight of their runs.
San Diego OF Johnny Jeter had two homers in the game.
Dave VW
December 11, 2024
The Mets were on the brink of getting swept at home by the lowly Padres, and things looked bleak when they went to bat in the 8th down 6-0, having managed just 3 singles vs. Fred Norman to that point. But the Mets' first 5 batters reached to start the 8th as they went on to score 5 in the inning. In the 9th, Agee brought home Ted Martinez with an RBI single to tie it, and the Mets would load the bases in the inning with 2 out, but Jerry Grote grounded into a force out to take the game to extras.
Tug McGraw retired all 6 batters he faced in the 9th and 10th, and then, with 2 down in the 10th, Agee hit a blast to left to win it. It was his second and final walk-off home run of his career, the other coming in 1969 when he broke a scoreless tie in the 14th inning off San Francisco's Juan Marichal.
Rube Walker served as the Mets manager in this game, as Yogi Berra was away from the team in St. Louis attending the funeral of his brother.
The Padres connected for 3 home runs themselves. Johnny Jeter hit 2 for his only career multi-homer game, while rookie Derrell Thomas launched the first of his ML career. But when you commit 6 errors in a game, you don't deserve to win no matter how many home runs you hit.
Gary Gentry started for the Mets. It was his 100th career start, becoming the 5th in franchise history to reach that milestone, joining Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Al Jackson and Jack Fisher. The other thing I discovered about Gentry is that he never lost vs. the Padres as a member of the Mets: In 11 starts, he was 6-0 with 5 no decisions.
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