Round 3–‘75 Amazin’s drop ‘57 Motown in 4

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Game One – The Mets get an RBI double from Joe Torre and RBI single from Felix Millan to erase a 2-0 deficit in the bottom of the seventh. The game goes to extras, where Rusty Staub leads off the bottom of the 14th with a homer to give the 75 Mets a 3-2 win.

Game Two – The Tigers get a solo homer from Al Kaline in the second and a sacrifice fly from Charlie Maxwell to take a 2-0 lead behind the pitching of Duke Maas. In the bottom of the ninth, Del Unser and Ed Kranepool hit back-to-back doubles to lead off the inning to chase Maas, but Lou Sleater and Jim Stump get the three outs needed as the Bengals knotted the series with a 2-1 win.

Game Three – The Mets take an early 3-0 lead, but a double by Frank House followed by a two-run homer by Jay Porter tied the game at 3. Dave Kingman leads off the top of the sixth with his sixth homer of the tournament to give the Mets a 4-3 lead, and Jon Matlack and Bob Apodaca make it stick to give the Mets a two games to one series lead.

Game Four – Detroit scores four runs in the first three innings off of Hank Webb to get a line forming back at Shea for a prospective Game Five, but the Mets wouldn’t quit. Down 4-2 going into the top of the ninth, the Mets string together a Wayne Garrett double, singles by Joe Torre, Unser, Kranepool and Staub; followed by a Kingman two-run homer for six runs. The Mets’ bench gets short-handed due to Yogi getting confused, resulting in Torre taking the field at shortstop in the bottom of the ninth, but the Mets win 8-5 to take the series in four games. The Mets complete their trip through the top of the Cos region, beating three teams from the 50’s to advance (52 Red Sox, 53 Senators and now the 57 Tigers).

--submitted by Chris Gotay--