Ultimate Mets Database: Game of July 19, 1980

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July 18, 1980
Reds 8, Mets 3 1980 Regular Season Game 89
July 19, 1980
Mets 13, Reds 3 Next Game:
July 20, 1980
Reds 4, Mets 3

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National League Standings, July 19, 1980

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JULY 19, 1980 GAME:

Bob P
March 14, 2005
This was the only game of a four game series that the Mets won in Cincinnati, and they banged out 20 hits off four Reds pitchers.

Roy Lee Jackson, making his first start of the 1980 season, and only the seventh start of his major league career, struck out twelve and retired the last nineteen batters he faced. Jackson allowed three runs and three hits in his first 2.2 innings, then was unhittable the rest of the game. He struck out at least one batter in every inning, and got Dave Concepcion, Dan Driessen, Ken Griffey, and Ron Oester twice each.

Larry’s Memories,40yrs Later
July 29, 2020
Exactly 5 weeks after the Saturday Night Miracle at Shea, probably the most memorable Mets pitching performance of 1980, by a perennial late 1970’s late season callup. In retrospect,it was the precursor to Mike Scott and Dwight Gooden (unfortunately,Scott with the Astros). Roy Lee and Mike were teammates for years. Whatever Roy Lee was throwing in Cincinnati on this early evening was similar to whatever Scott adopted with Houston. It is forever agonizing that for Roy Lee Jackson, this was his last Mets win, and for Mike Scott this level of performance with a strikeout pitch that was oblivious to him (I assume he was there that night) became routine years after the Mets gave up on him. RLJ should’ve shared that pitch (“forkball”?) with any other Mets pitcher who could throw it. Nonetheless, another slice of Mets history we won’t forget!

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