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July 13, 1963
Dodgers 11, Mets 2 1963 Regular Season Game 89
July 14, 1963
Colt .45's 8, Mets 3 Next Game:
July 15, 1963
Mets 14, Colt .45's 5

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JULY 14, 1963 GAME:

Russ E
March 14, 2003
This was my first met game attanded and I've been hooked on them ever since, good or bad. I was 10 years old and my older brother suprised me that Sunday morning by telling that he was taking me to the game. I vividly remember a lot this game. It was a scheduled doubleheader against the Colt 45's. Galen Cisco started and never got out of the first inning! The Colt 45's scored 7 runs in the first of the first game. The first Colts batter hit a ground ball to 2nd base and it went right through Larry Burright's legs! A rookie, Rusty Staub was batting 3rd for Colt 45's and was hit right in the head by Cisco and left the game I beleive. Anyway, in the bottom of the 8th, Frank Thomas hit a 2 run home run off the upper deck left field facade of the Polo Grounds to make it 8-3 and then the game was called due to rain and they never played the 2nd game. I also remember that this was the day I found out my older brother (17) was smoking! What a day!

Steve Miyamoto
March 26, 2003
This was my first Mets game too. I don't remember much but I do remember it was raining and that someone was hit in the head. The game seemed to be held up for quite a while. I didn't know it was Rusty Staub!

Flitgun Frankie
September 27, 2020
Just listened to a recording of this game, and Houston scored six runs before the Mets got their first out. This got me to wondering what was the record for most runs allowed by a team in the first inning of a game before the first out was made. Apparently the record is 10, scored by the Red Sox vs. Florida in a game vs. Florida before Florida got the first out on June 27, 2003, but couldn't find what the record was at the time this Mets game was played. I say "apparently" because this doesn't seem to be an official MLB record.

By the way, the home run hit by Jim Wynn was the first of many in his big league career.

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