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New York Mets signed free agent Endy Chavez on April 29, 1996.

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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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Tim Harkness
Born: December 23, 1937
at Lachine, Quebec, Canada
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Years with Mets: 1963, 1964

162 games. 12 hr, 54 rbi, 0.228
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Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
1997 Game Results
06/19 Mets 7, Pirates 6 Franco (W, 1-1)
06/20 Mets 1, Pirates 0 Jones (W, 12-3)
06/21 Mets 3, Pirates 2 Mlicki (W, 4-5)
06/22 Mets 12, Pirates 9 Kashiwada (W, 2-0)
06/27 Pirates 6, Mets 1 Mlicki (L, 4-6)
06/28 Mets 8, Pirates 3 Reynoso (W, 6-1)
06/29 Mets 10, Pirates 8 Jordan (W, 1-2)
07/14 Pirates 5, Mets 4 McMichael (L, 6-7)
07/15 Pirates 4, Mets 3 Acevedo (L, 1-1)
09/23 Pirates 5, Mets 4 Lidle (L, 7-2)
09/24 Mets 7, Pirates 5 Crawford (W, 3-3)
1997 totals: 7 wins, 4 losses



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