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Starting with their 42nd game, the Mets went 82–39 (a .678 winning percentage), including an astonishing 38–11 in their last 49 games. [ 8 ] Despite that performance, the Mets suffered two mid-season three-game series sweeps at the hands of the Houston Astros , who manhandled the Mets all season, taking 10 of the 12 games the teams played.
The Orioles offense only managed four extra-base hits off Mets pitching in the five-game series, all in the first and last games. The Mets won despite below-average performances from Jerry Grote, who went 4-for-19, Tommie Agee, who went 3-for-18, Cleon Jones, who went 3-for-19, Bud Harrelson, who went 3-for-17 and Ed Charles, who went 2-for-15.
The Mets would also go on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, four games to one. It was the first of five NL pennants for the Mets. The first two came in the only two NL series between 1969 and 1980 that did not feature a Pennsylvania team (the other being 1973. [1] [2]).
Over the years, I’ve had 100,000 people tell me they were there in the last game, Oct. 16, 1969. The ballpark (Shea Stadium) held just 53,000. But it doesn’t make a difference.
Grote was a first-time All-Star in 1968, starting for the NL in the All-Star Game at Houston's Astrodome and batting .282. He hit .252 with six homers and 40 RBIs in 1969, starting 100 games ...
The National League, on the other hand, was very dramatic. The Chicago Cubs won 35 of their first 50 games, and on August 16, they led the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals by 9 games. But the Mets proceeded to win 37 of their last 48 games while the Cubs went 20–28 in the same time period and the Mets won the division by 8 games.
There from the inaugural season and part of the 1969 World Series team, Ed Kranepool represented the history of the New York Mets.
Game 2 was an offensive duel - the Mets jumped out to an 8–0 lead, and while the Braves cut their lead to as low as three, the Mets still held on to win by an 11–6 score. When the series shifted to Queens, Nolan Ryan helped lead the Mets' to the pennant in Game 3 with a solid seven-inning performance, winning his first postseason game.