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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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Bob Johnson
Born: March 4, 1936
at Omaha, Neb.
Died: November 9, 2019 at St. Paul, Minn.
Johnson
Years with Mets: 1967

90 games. 5 hr, 27 rbi, 0.348
26 runs, 1 stolen bases


Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies
2001 Game Results
05/28 Phillies 5, Mets 3 Benitez (L, 3-2)
05/29 Phillies 7, Mets 3 Cook (L, 1-1)
05/30 Phillies 6, Mets 3 Franco (L, 1-1)
06/05 Mets 9, Phillies 0 Reed (W, 6-2)
06/06 Phillies 6, Mets 1 Rusch (L, 3-5)
06/07 Mets 6, Phillies 5 Franco (W, 2-1)
07/20 Phillies 10, Mets 1 Reed (L, 8-5)
07/21 Mets 6, Phillies 3 Trachsel (W, 4-10)
07/22 Phillies 3, Mets 2 Franco (L, 4-2)
07/26 Phillies 3, Mets 2 Reed (L, 8-6)
07/27 Mets 6, Phillies 1 Trachsel (W, 5-10)
07/28 Mets 4, Phillies 3 Benitez (W, 4-3)
07/29 Mets 6, Phillies 5 Benitez (W, 5-3)
08/28 Phillies 9, Mets 6 Wall (L, 0-4)
08/29 Mets 7, Phillies 5 Chen (W, 3-1)
08/30 Mets 6, Phillies 2 Trachsel (W, 8-11)
09/03 Mets 10, Phillies 7 Nitkowski (W, 1-0)
09/04 Mets 5, Phillies 3 Trachsel (W, 9-11)
09/05 Mets 7, Phillies 4 Leiter (W, 11-10)
2001 totals: 11 wins, 8 losses



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