Oh how times have changed!

So I was at this game 50 years ago with my dad and a friend. I was talking to my friend and we were trying to remember the details and the only thing we could agree on was that Gaylord Perry threw a complete game victory so I said no problem we'll look it up on Baseball Reference and I was in for a surprise. First of all note three things: The attendance (this was a Saturday afternoon), the playing time, and who got the game winning RBI (its in the scoring summary all the way at the bottom). Well you might see attendance that low in Miami on a weekday, but you'll never see a time to play a nine inning game like that again, and the person who got the game winning RBI will never get that opportunity in the bottom of the ninth.....or ever.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN197004110.shtml

I met Jim Merritt. He retired in Desert Hot Springs. Nice guy!

So I was at this game 50 years ago with my dad and a friend. I was talking to my friend and we were trying to remember the details and the only thing we could agree on was that Gaylord Perry threw a complete game victory so I said no problem we'll look it up on Baseball Reference and I was in for a surprise. First of all note three things: The attendance (this was a Saturday afternoon), the playing time, and who got the game winning RBI (its in the scoring summary all the way at the bottom). Well you might see attendance that low in Miami on a weekday, but you'll never see a time to play a nine inning game like that again, and the person who got the game winning RBI will never get that opportunity in the bottom of the ninth.....or ever.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN197004110.shtml

So Clyde King PH for Hal Lanier and let Gaylord bat. It paid off.

So I was at this game 50 years ago with my dad and a friend. I was talking to my friend and we were trying to remember the details and the only thing we could agree on was that Gaylord Perry threw a complete game victory so I said no problem we'll look it up on Baseball Reference and I was in for a surprise. First of all note three things: The attendance (this was a Saturday afternoon), the playing time, and who got the game winning RBI (its in the scoring summary all the way at the bottom). Well you might see attendance that low in Miami on a weekday, but you'll never see a time to play a nine inning game like that again, and the person who got the game winning RBI will never get that opportunity in the bottom of the ninth.....or ever.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN197004110.shtml

So Clyde King PH for Hal Lanier and let Gaylord bat. It paid off.

Lanier couldn't have been happy with that.
So Perry bats in the bottom of the 9th with bases loaded...The Giants must have had a bunch of $.5M relievers (Strat-O $, not 1970 $).