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Originally Posted by dsvitak
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Hey, did you hear about
that time DeLeon one-hit a last-place Mets team through 9 innings and got nothing for it? Mets won in 12 when Pittsburgh tried to set up an inning ending GIDP, but George Foster beat the relay to first and Mookie Wilson never stopped running and scored all the way from 2nd?
(In the first game of the double-header, the Mets trailed 6-1 entering the 7th, tied it up, and won that one in 12 as well. Yes, once upon a time, baseball had things called "double-headers" and "extra innings" and gosh! Games might go beyond their designated time-slots! Horrors!
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Unfortunately, I've never been able to find film of this Sunday double-header (which I didn't see but I recall listening to on the radio at our swim club), but
here's the game from the Friday before. Tom Seaver vs. John Candelaria, pretty good match-up.
ETA: during the Friday night telecast, Pittsburgh PbP man Lanny Frattare informs us that DeLeon will be starting on Sunday because Don "Caveman" Robinson has been scratched. So that was a pretty good audition in a spot start, not that he got the win, but still.