Ultimate Mets Database: Game of April 8, 1975

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Phillies 3, Mets 2 1975 Regular Season Game 1
April 8, 1975
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Phillies 3, Mets 2

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National League Standings, April 8, 1975

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE APRIL 8, 1975 GAME:

Jon
January 29, 2001
Seaver outduels Carlton on opening day. I went to this game with my dad. It was cloudy. That's about all I remember.

Dennis Black
August 19, 2002
In January 1975 I had met a wonderful girl on a ski trip, and being the romantic that I am, I told her that I would take her to Opening Day at Shea. We went, and Tom Seaver won as usual. We went to six more games that year, and the Mets won them all. I could not let this beautiful woman get away! We were married in September 1978 and are the proud parents of four lovely Met fans.

LenDog
September 9, 2004
Hey Dennis (the poster above me): that may be the best post I've seen on the UMD.

Hey Jon (also a poster above: I too attended this game with my Dad. Can still see Kingman's bomb as it appeared from our upper deck seats. What a drive.

Can also see Torre's basehit to win it in the ninth.

What a great box score - Seaver and Carlton pitching cowboy-style before the days of slavish devotion to pitch counts.

billy a
August 11, 2006
If I'm not mistaken, Joe Torre had the game winning hit in this one, the only good thing he did as a Met.

JFK
April 9, 2011
The first Met game I ever went to see. It was cold. I got into trouble next day in school because I skipped school to go to the game.

Frank the Met
July 7, 2020
I played hooky from 8th grade on this very cold Opening Day afternoon game. In Kingman's first game as a Met, he homers to tie it. In Torre's first game as a Met, he wins it with a single in the bottom of the ninth off Carlton. Gene Clines, in his first game as a Met, starts in left field for the injured Cleon Jones, giving Seaver the win. Seaver would win his third Cy Young this year; Torre would be washed up; Cleon would barely return this season, in what proved to be his final year as a Met. And Rusty Staub would play his last game as a Met (though they got him back six years later). Lots of off-season moves before this year, resulting in a mediocre 82-80 record.

NYB Buff
September 21, 2023
Frank, the off-season moves you mentioned actually improved the Mets' record by eleven games from what it was the previous year. Two of the players acquired provided all the scoring needed in support of Tom Seaver. Dave Kingman slugged a solo homer and Joe Torre hit a run-scoring single in the bottom of the ninth inning for the win. It would be the first of nine consecutive Opening Day victories for the Mets.

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