Expos @ Mets
April 8, 1969

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Bottom 9	R	H	E
Expos	11	12	0
Mets	10	15	3

Bottom 9	R	H	E
Expos	11	12	0
Mets	10	15	3

Rod Gaspar Season Stats

	Game	Season
Average	.500	.500
OBP	.600	.600
At Bats	4	4
Hits	2	2
• Singles	2	2
• Doubles	0	0
• Triples	0	0
• Home Runs	0	0
Walks	1	1
RBI’s	1	1

Carroll Sembera Season Stats

Wins	Losses	Saves
0	0	0

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Shea Stadium - April 8, 1969

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Strikeout

Carroll Sembera

John Bateman

Bob Bailey

Gary Sutherland

Coco Laboy

Maury Wills

Ty Cline

Don Bosch

Rusty Staub

Rod Gaspar

Tommie Agee

Amos Otis

Final Stats

	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Montreal Expos	11	12	0	11
New York Mets	10	15	3	10
Winning Pitcher	Don Shaw
Losing Pitcher	Cal Koonce
Save	Carroll Sembera
Game Winning RBI	Maury Wills
Attendance	44,541
Time of Game	3 hours 35 minutes

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Count: - , 2 Outs

Count: - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Gaspar strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:

Bottom 9 Agee takes first base on ball four. Otis moves to second.

Bottom 9 Carroll Sembera now pitching. Otis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wills fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.

Bottom 9 Duffy Dyer pinch hits for Ron Taylor. Dyer hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.

Bottom 9 Grote hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Jones scores. Charles moves to third.

Bottom 9 Weis hits a fly ball into right field. Staub settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 9 Charles takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 9 There goes Jones. The throw from Bateman and he is safe. Jones steals second.

Bottom 9 Jones hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

Bottom 9 Boswell is called out on strikes.

Top 9 Bosch strikes out.

Top 9 Staub takes first base on ball four.

Top 9 Sutherland hits a ball on the ground towards third. Charles fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 9 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Taylor fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 8 Gaspar hits a line drive towards third. Laboy reaches out and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 8 Agee hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Sutherland settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 8 Don Bosch now playing center field. Ty Cline now playing left field. Otis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Laboy fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 8 Cline hits a ball on the ground towards first. Jones scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Cline for the out.

Top 8 Shaw strikes out.

Top 8 Ron Taylor now pitching. Amos Otis now playing left field. Laboy hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.

Top 8 Bateman hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Bailey moves to third.

Top 8 Bailey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

Top 8 Jones strikes out.

Top 8 Al Weis now playing shortstop. Ron Swoboda now playing left field. Cleon Jones now playing first base. Al Jackson now pitching. Staub hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

Bottom 7 Ron Swoboda pinch hits for Bud Harrelson. Swoboda hits a ball on the ground towards third. Laboy fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.

Bottom 7 Al Weis pinch runs for Ed Kranepool. Grote takes first base on ball four. Weis moves to second.

Bottom 7 Kranepool takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 7 Charles strikes out.

Top 7 Sutherland hits a ball on the ground towards third. Charles fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 7 Wills hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Shaw scores. Cline moves to third. Wills moves to second.

Top 7 Cline takes first base on ball four. Shaw moves to second.

Top 7 Shaw takes first base on ball four.

Top 7 Laboy strikes out.

Top 7 Bateman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 6 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 6 Boswell strikes out.

Bottom 6 There goes Gaspar. The throw from Bateman and he is safe. Gaspar steals second.

Bottom 6 Gaspar takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 6 Ty Cline now playing center field. Don Shaw now pitching. Agee hits a popup, foul, towards first. Bailey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 6 Bailey hits a ball on the ground towards third. Charles fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 6 Jones hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Jones. Jones reaches second base with a double. Wills scores. Staub goes all the way around to score.

Top 6 Staub takes first base on ball four.

Top 6 Sutherland hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Boswell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 6 There goes Wills. The throw from Grote and he is safe. Wills steals second.

Top 6 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson fields it and throws to second for the out.

Top 6 Cal Koonce now pitching. Ty Cline pinch hits for Jerry Robertson. Cline takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 5 Kevin Collins pinch hits for Tom Seaver. Collins hits a popup, foul, towards third. Laboy settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 5 Harrelson is walked intentionally.

Bottom 5 Grote hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Bateman fields it and throws to first for the out. Charles moves to third.

Bottom 5 Kranepool hits a line drive into right field. Staub settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 5 Charles hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wills fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.

Top 5 Hahn is called out on strikes.

Top 5 Laboy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boswell misplays the ball. That's an error on Boswell.

Top 5 Bateman strikes out.

Top 5 Bailey hits a fly ball into right field. Gaspar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 4 Jerry Robertson now pitching. Jones hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Staub. Jones reaches second base with a double. Gaspar scores. There goes Boswell trying to get to home. Hahn throws the ball in to Sutherland who relays the ball to Bateman who tags Boswell, who came all the way from first, for the out.

Bottom 4 Boswell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Agee scores. Gaspar moves to third.

Bottom 4 Gaspar hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Grote scores. Agee moves to second.

Bottom 4 Agee takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 4 Seaver hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. McGinn fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 4 Harrelson strikes out.

Bottom 4 The umpire calls a balk on McGinn Grote moves to second.

Bottom 4 Grote takes first base on ball four.

Top 4 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boswell scoops it up and throws to first, with Seaver covering, for the out.

Top 4 Staub is walked intentionally.

Top 4 Sutherland hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 4 Wills hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Gaspar. Wills reaches second base with a double.

Top 4 McGinn hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

Top 4 Hahn hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 3 Kranepool strikes out.

Bottom 3 Charles is called out on strikes.

Bottom 3 Jones hits a fly ball into center field. Hahn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 3 Laboy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson fields it and throws to second for the out.

Top 3 Bateman strikes out.

Top 3 Bailey is walked intentionally.

Top 3 Jones hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Gaspar. Jones reaches second base with a double. Staub moves to third.

Top 3 Staub hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Wills scores.

Top 3 Sutherland hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boswell scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Wills moves to third.

Top 3 Wills hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Gaspar. Wills reaches second base with a double.

Bottom 2 Boswell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sutherland scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 2 There's a wild pitch. Gaspar moves to second.

Bottom 2 Gaspar hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

Bottom 2 Dan McGinn now pitching. McGinn spins and fires to second, with Wills covering, and Agee is picked off.

Bottom 2 Agee hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Jones. Agee reaches second base with a double. Kranepool scores. Grote scores. Harrelson goes all the way around to score.

Bottom 2 Seaver is called out on strikes.

Bottom 2 Harrelson takes first base on ball four. Kranepool moves to third. Grote moves to second.

Bottom 2 Grote hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kranepool moves to second.

Bottom 2 Kranepool hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

Top 2 Grant hits a fly ball into center field. Agee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 2 Hahn strikes out.

Top 2 Laboy hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Grote settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Charles hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Bateman fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 1 Jones hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Boswell moves to third.

Bottom 1 Boswell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.

Bottom 1 Gaspar hits a line drive towards short. Wills catches it and throws to first to double up Agee.

Bottom 1 Agee hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

Top 1 Bateman hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Boswell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 1 Bailey hits a line drive to right field. That will be extra bases. Gaspar chases after the ball, picks it up, and throws towards Boswell. Boswell fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on Boswell. Sutherland scores. Jones goes all the way around to score. Bailey moves to third. Two runs are unearned.

Top 1 Jones takes first base on ball four. Sutherland moves to second.

Top 1 Staub hits a popup towards third. Charles settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 1 Sutherland hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boswell misplays the ball. That's an error on Boswell.

Top 1 Wills is called out on strikes.

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