Pitching in his Cy Young year, Whitey Ford struck out 10 in a quality start, but for the second straight game the Yankees had to rally from behind in the 8th and 9th innings. To give an idea of how tough a feat 10 strikeouts was in past eras, Ford got the 10 strikeouts in 6 1/3 inning, while the other 10 pitches used by the two teams in two games registered a total of 15 strikeouts n 29 innings.
In game 1 in Shea Stadium the Yankees put on a great rally for two runs in the 9th and the winning run on base, but the inning ended with Joe DiMaggio on deck and two on base in a 5-4 loss.However, this time they Yankees cut it to 3-3 in the 8th, and in the 9th inning the bench came through.
| Tommy Henrich pinch hit, walked and stole second base to start an inning to start the inning and later the Yankees had 2nd and 3rd with just one out to draw in the infield. The hero was then Atley Donald, who hit what would have been a base clearing triple, but was scored a single since Henrich scored form third base and the Yankees won 4-3 to split the series with two 1-run games. |
| Game 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 New York Yankees | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 0 | |||
| 1961 New York Mets | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Game 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||
| 1961 New York Mets | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | |||
| 1939 New York Yankees | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
Here are the combnied batting stats for the two games, followed by the pitching stats.
| New York Mets 1969 | AB | R | H | BI | BB | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF | Cleon Jones | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | sb |
| 1B | Donn Clendenon | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| RF | Art Shamsky* | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | hr |
| CF | Tommie Agee | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2B | Ken Boswell* | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| SS | Bud Harrelson# | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2b,3b |
| C | Jerry Grote | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 3B | Wayne Garrett* | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | bb |
| P | Pitchers 1969 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2b |
| 67 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 0.224 | ||
| New York Yankees 1939 | AB | R | H | BI | BB | Other | |
| LF | George Selkirk* | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2-2b |
| 2B | Joe Gordon | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | sb |
| CF | Joe DiMaggio | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| RF | Charlie Keller* | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3B | Red Rolfe* | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| C | Bill Dickey* | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1B | Babe Dahlgren | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | hr |
| SS | Frankie Crosetti | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| P | Pitchers 1939 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | sb |
| Atley Donald* | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | gw-rbi | |
| Joe Gallagher | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | sb | |
| Bump Hadley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tommy Henrich* | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3b,sb | |
| Monte Pearson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Red Ruffing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 65 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 0.231 | ||
| New York Mets 1969 | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | |
| G1 | Tom Seaver (W) | 8.7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Tug McGraw (S) | 0.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| G2 | Gary Gentry | 6.3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Jack DiLauro | 1.7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jim McAndrew (L) | 0.3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Totals | 17.3 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | |
| New York Yankees 1939 | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | |
| G1 | Bill Stafford (L) | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Hal Reniff | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Johnny James | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| G2 | Whitey Ford | 6.3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Luis Arroyo | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Bud Daley (W) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Totals | 17 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
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