Ultimate Mets Database: Game of July 15, 1963

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July 14, 1963
Colt .45's 8, Mets 3 1963 Regular Season Game 90
July 15, 1963
Mets 14, Colt .45's 5 Next Game:
July 15, 1963
Colt .45's 8, Mets 0

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JULY 15, 1963 GAME:

Feat Fan
August 13, 2004
Carl Willey is the first Mets pitcher to hit a grandslam home run. His blast was off of Colt's 45 starter Kenny Johnson. Only one other Met hurler would replicate this feat 4 years later. That would turn out to be Jack Hamilton.

TracMet
July 6, 2012
I remember my brother got tickets for this game and we drove to the Polo Grounds from Brooklyn, which was daring for working class kids in 1963, and parked on a street along Coogan's Bluff and descended down into the Grounds which was interesting since I has never entered a ballpark in this fashion before. Although Hemingway said all good writing starts with geography, I digress. What I remember about the games was that the METS and .45s traded laughers and in the first game while intentionally walking Jim Hickman they tried to sneak pitch him with the catcher ducking back in but he smoked the pitch to deep left center and a run scored on the sac fly. We had seat behind the plate so it was startling to see this maneuver and had never seen it before and I can recall only seeing it once since. Loved Jim Hickman and he went on to have a solid career with he Cubs and Dodgers in better line-ups than in '63.

NYB Buff
July 7, 2023
Carl Willey hit a grand slam to help his own cause in this doubleheader opener. It put the Mets ahead to stay for a win that snapped the team's fifteen-game losing streak. Willey's slam was the first of two ever to be hit by a Mets pitcher. Jack Hamilton homered with the bases loaded four years later. These were, of course, back in the good old days of when pitchers took their own turns at bat like they should!

Another key point about this game is Jay Hook's relief pitching. Hook got credit for a save by hurling one-hit scoreless ball from the sixth inning to the ninth. Four innings is the maximum a reliever can pitch in order to get a save (he'd be the winning pitcher by going any longer since starters must pitch at least five innings to qualify for the win.) Jay was the first Met ever to record a four-inning save.

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