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The Mets even made the lame and the halt rise from their pallets to perform. Willie Mays, 42, sidelined with cracked ribs and due to retire at the end of the season, was sent in as a pinch hitter during the final game and scratch singled in a run. Willie...
It was the twelfth inning of the second game of the World Series. The game was tied at six apiece. The Mets were threatening, with Harrelson on third and McGraw on first. There were two out and the immortal Willy Mays, the goat of the ninth inning, had a chance...
The Mets carried that 6-4 bulge into the bottom of the ninth. But Johnson reached second when Mays fell down trying to glove his fly ball and after McGraw retired the next two, Bando walked. Jackson and Gene Tenace delivered with singles to tie the game.
But Harrelson doubled to open the Mets' 12th and went to third on McGraw's scratch single. After loser and reliever Rollie Fingers got the next two batters, Willie Mays stepped into the box.
Mays, in his last season as a player, lashed a single to center to put the Mets ahead, 7-6. Two consecutive errors by second baseman Mike Andrews opened the way for three more runs and a Mets lead of 10-6.