Astros @ Mets
August 26, 1974

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Bottom 9 R H E
Astros 4 11 1
Mets 4 9 2
Bottom 9 R H E
Astros 4 11 1
Mets 5 10 2

Rusty Staub Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .273
OBP .500 .362
At Bats 3 444
Hits 1 121
• Singles 1 85
• Doubles 0 21
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 15
Walks 1 63
RBI’s 0 64

Ken Forsch Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
5 5 5
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Shea Stadium - August 26, 1974
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Single
Ken Forsch
Cliff Johnson
Lee May
Larry Milbourne
Doug Rader
Roger Metzger
Wilbur Howard
Cesar Cedeno
Greg Gross
Rusty Staub
Felix Millan
Bud Harrelson

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Houston Astros 4 11 1 8
New York Mets 5 10 2 9
Winning Pitcher Jerry Koosman
Losing Pitcher Mike Cosgrove
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Rusty Staub
Attendance 15,104
Time of Game 2 hours 24 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Staub hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Harrelson scores. Millan moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Boswell hits a popup, foul, towards third. Rader settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Ken Forsch now pitching. Millan bunts towards the mound. Forsch fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Martinez scores. Harrelson moves to second.
Bottom 9 Harrelson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Ted Martinez pinch hits for Jerry Koosman. Martinez hits a line drive to left field. That will be extra bases. Howard chases after the ball, picks it up, and throws towards Metzger. Metzger fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on Metzger. Dyer goes all the way around to score. Martinez moves to third.
Bottom 9 Duffy Dyer pinch hits for Ron Hodges. Dyer hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 George Theodore pinch hits for Jim Gosger. Theodore hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Metzger hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Millan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards third. Garrett fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Garrett hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Kranepool hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Mike Cosgrove now pitching. Staub hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Ray Busse pinch hits for J.R. Richard. Busse is called out on strikes.
Top 8 There goes Milbourne. The throw from Hodges and he is safe. Milbourne steals second.
Top 8 Milbourne bunts into left field for a base hit. There goes Howard trying to get to home. Boswell throws the ball in to Hodges, who tags Howard for the out.
Top 8 Howard hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 8 Ken Boswell now playing left field. Rader hits a ball on the ground towards third. Garrett fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Ken Boswell pinch hits for Cleon Jones. Boswell hits a ball on the ground towards first. May scoops it up and throws to first, with Richard covering, for the out.
Bottom 7 Millan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rader fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Harrelson hits a ball on the ground towards first. May scoops it up and throws to first, with Richard covering, for the out.
Top 7 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Staub settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 May strikes out.
Top 7 There goes Cedeno. The throw from Hodges and he is safe. Cedeno steals second.
Top 7 Cedeno hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Gross scores.
Top 7 Metzger bunts towards the mound. Koosman fields it and throws to first for the out. Gross moves to third.
Top 7 Gross hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Jones. Gross reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Koosman hits a fly ball into left field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hodges takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Gosger hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Milbourne scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Kranepool moves to third.
Bottom 6 Garrett strikes out.
Bottom 6 There goes Kranepool. The throw from Johnson and he is safe. Kranepool steals second.
Bottom 6 Kranepool hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Richard strikes out.
Top 6 Milbourne hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Jones. Milbourne reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Howard hits a popup, foul, towards the right side of the infield. Millan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Rader hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Millan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Staub hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Jones strikes out.
Bottom 5 Millan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Johnson hits a popup towards short. Harrelson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 May strikes out.
Top 5 Cedeno hits a popup towards short. Harrelson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Harrelson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Richard fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Koosman strikes out.
Bottom 4 Hodges hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Milbourne scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Metzger hits a ball on the ground towards third. Garrett fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Gross bunts towards third. Garrett fields it and throws to first for the out. Howard scores. That run is unearned.
Top 4 Richard bunts towards the mound. Koosman picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Koosman. Rader scores. Howard moves to third. Richard moves to second.
Top 4 Milbourne hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Hodges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Howard hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Rader moves to second.
Top 4 Rader hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Gosger hits a ball on the ground towards first. May scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gosger for the out.
Bottom 3 Garrett hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Millan scores. Staub moves to third. Kranepool moves to second.
Bottom 3 Kranepool takes first base on ball four. Staub moves to second.
Bottom 3 Staub hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Millan moves to third.
Bottom 3 Jones hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Millan hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Harrelson hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Staub settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 May hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Metzger scores.
Top 3 Cedeno hits a line drive towards third. Garrett reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Metzger hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Jones. Metzger reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Koosman hits a fly ball into left field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Hodges hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 2 Gosger hits a ball on the ground towards first. May fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Garrett hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Richard bunts towards third. Garrett fields it, throws to second, with Harrelson covering, for one, and over to first, with Millan covering, for the double play.
Top 2 Milbourne takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Ron Hodges now catching. Howard hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Kranepool hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Milbourne scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Staub takes first base on ball four. Jones moves to second.
Bottom 1 Jones takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Millan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Milbourne scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Harrelson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Milbourne scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Rader hits a fly ball into right field. Staub settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Metzger moves to third. May moves to second.
Top 1 May takes first base on ball four. Metzger moves to second.
Top 1 Cedeno hits a fly ball into right field. Staub settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Cedeno hits a popup, foul, towards first. Kranepool settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Kranepool.
Top 1 Metzger hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 There goes Gross. The throw from Grote and he is out, Harrelson applying the tag.
Top 1 Gross takes first base on ball four.