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Mets stun world Series over in 5
NEW YORK (UPI)—Wouldn't you know those New York Mets would find their inspiration for a world championship in something silly like a spot of shoe polish?
They were trailing the Orioles, 3-0, in the sixth inning and Dave McNally, the Oriole pitcher looked great. Then McNally tossed one that hit Cleon Jones on the foot. At least, Jones said it did.
Plate umpire Lou DiMuro called it a ball, but Jones insisted it had hit him.
"It was confusing," Jones said later in the jubilant New York clubhouse. "He (DiMuro) didn't really see the ball.
Met manager Gil Hodges brought it out to him and showed him the鞋 polish on the ball. It hit the instep of my right foot."
Hodges said. "I brought the ball to DiMuro and said, 'Lou, the ball hit him. Here's the ball and there is the black mark where it hit the shoe.' It was as simple as that."
Donn Clendenon followed with a two-run homer that brought the Mets to within 3-2 and the crowd of 57,397, the largest ever to see a baseball game at Shea Stadium, sensed they had a winner.
"I never saw the ball go in," said Weis, who had five hits in 11 at-bats during the Series.
Little Al Weis, who never before had hit a homer in Shea, and had only two during the season, then tied the game at 3-3 with a seventh-inning circuit to left field.
"Even if I hit a ball good, I can't tell how far it's going to go. I haven't had enough experience with that kind of thing."
Jones led off the winning eighth inning rally with a double and after Clendenon grounded out, Ron Swoboda drove in the biggest run of the New York Mets' history with a double to left.
Swoboda, who led all Series batters with six hits, said nothing the team ever did after this would be as sweet.
"We weren't supposed to do anything this year and we did it all," he said. "Nothing else will ever be as good as this. The only thing left for us to do is to go to the moon."
New York goes wild
NEW YORK (UPI) — When New York falls in love, it throws things. Like tickertape, rolls of tissue paper, computer cards and stationery. Out of skyscraper windows.
That's how Manhattan exploded with happiness over the Mets' first World championship. The streets were a mess and the Weather Bureau put out a special report:
"Cloudy and falling confetti."
The madness started at Shea Stadium when the last Baltimore
"It's the best thing that has happened to New York in a hundred years," said Patrolman Bob Hodgson as he watched the confetti, car lights blinking on and off, and strangers grinning at each other and listened to the cacophony of motor horns.
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Oriole went out in the top of the ninth. Crowds of fans rushed into the field like water into a funnel.
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