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New York Mets 4 – 7 Atlanta Braves

24 September 1968 · ATL01

The three rarest things in this game

Rarity	What	Who	Rate
41	Steal of Home	Bob Tillman	1 in 107 games
21	final score 7–4		1 in 58 games
9	10 hits allowed	Phil Niekro	1 in 23 pitcher-games

Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York Mets	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	10	1
Atlanta Braves	2	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	–	7	12	2

Box score

New York Mets batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Ken Boswell	4	1	2	0	0	1
Cleon Jones	4	2	2	1	0	1	2B
Art Shamsky	4	0	2	0	0	0
Ed Charles	4	1	2	2	0	0	HR
J.C. Martin	3	0	0	1	0	0
Ron Swoboda	4	0	0	0	0	2
Tommie Agee	4	0	1	0	0	0
Bob Heise	4	0	1	0	0	0
Jerry Koosman	2	0	0	0	0	1
Larry Stahl	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Jorgensen	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	35	4	10	4	0	5

New York Mets pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Jerry Koosman	6.0	9	5	5	2	2
Dick Selma	0.1	2	2	1	1	1
Cal Koonce	1.2	1	0	0	2	0

Atlanta Braves batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Felipe Alou	4	0	1	0	1	0
Felix Millan	4	1	2	1	0	1
Hank Aaron	4	1	2	0	1	0	2B
Deron Johnson	4	2	1	2	1	1	HR
Tommie Aaron	4	2	3	0	0	0
Mike Lum	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Tillman	2	0	1	1	1	0
Marty Martinez	3	0	1	1	0	1
Gil Garrido	2	1	1	1	1	0
Phil Niekro	2	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	30	7	12	6	5	3

Atlanta Braves pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Phil Niekro	9.0	10	4	4	0	5

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