Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night for a date. I've had one date since mid-summer, and it was on a Sunday night. Two outs, bottom of the ninth, the A's have the tying and winning runs on base, Mets up, 6-5. And I had a date. And I went. Business before pleasure...
Willie Mays keyed the 12th inning rally with a run-scoring single to put the Mets ahead, 7-6. Earlier, in the ninth frame, Mays's failure to track what turned into Deron Johnson's double allowed the A's to tie the game and send it into extra innings...
...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...
Harvard harriers also placed sixth, seventh, ninth and tenth, dousing Andover's hopes...
Behind righthander Tom Seaver, with ninth-inning relief from Tug McGraw, the Mets exploded a 2-2 deadlock with a four-run fifth inning to win the best of five game series, three...