The New York Mets squared off against the New York Yankees in a battle of third place teams. The pitching matchup featured NL Cy Young winner Tom Seaver against AL Cy Young runner up Catfish Hunter. The game took place at Shea Stadium, the home ballpark for both teams in 1975 while Yankee Stadium was being renovated.
Not surprisingly, this contest started out as a pitchers' duel. Rusty Staub homered in the fourth to put the Mets up 1-0. Elliott Maddox and Ed Herrmann led off the Yankee fifth with singles and Fred Stanley laid down a sacrifice bunt to move the runners to second and third. With the Mets infield drawn in, Sandy Alomar grounded to third. Wayne Garrett fired to the plate, but Maddox slid under the tag with the tying run. The game remained deadlocked 1-1 until the bottom of the seventh. Maddox laced another single and advanced to third following a single by Alomar. With runners at the corners and two outs, Bobby Bonds connected for a deep fly that barely cleared the left field wall at Shea.
Hunter cruised the rest of the way to close out the 4-1 win. Aside from the one mistake to Bonds, Seaver was terrific like usual--racking up 11 strikeouts and surrendering only 7 hits. Hunter was just a little better on this day, tossing a four-hit complete game with 8 strikeouts.
Yankees 4, Mets 1
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