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Mets Get 16 Hits Off Marichal but Giants Win, 9-5
New York Daily News, June 16, 1968
In 1968, Juan Marichal pitched a complete-game win over the Mets, giving up 16 hits while doing so. This was clearly an era before pitch counts. At the time the Mets were approaching a .500 record for the first time in their history, and Bill Gallo has a strange cartoon of Gil Hodges wearing a hideous necktie.
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Jack Fisher
Born: March 4, 1939
at Frostburg, Md.
Fisher
Years with Mets: 1964 - 1967

160 games. 38 - 73, 4.12
475 strikeouts, 0 saves


Mets vs. San Francisco Giants
1976 Game Results
06/11 Giants 5, Mets 0 Koosman (L, 6-4)
06/12 Mets 3, Giants 1 Swan (W, 3-6)
06/13 Mets 4, Giants 2 Lolich (W, 3-8)
06/13 Mets 4, Giants 1 Seaver (W, 6-5)
06/18 Mets 3, Giants 2 Seaver (W, 7-5)
06/19 Giants 5, Mets 0 Lolich (L, 3-9)
06/20 Giants 9, Mets 2 Matlack (L, 8-2)
08/24 Mets 4, Giants 0 Seaver (W, 10-9)
08/25 Giants 7, Mets 1 Espinosa (L, 2-3)
08/31 Mets 6, Giants 2 Lockwood (W, 7-7)
09/01 Mets 1, Giants 0 Koosman (W, 17-8)
09/02 Giants 10, Mets 7 Matlack (L, 14-8)
1976 totals: 7 wins, 5 losses



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