Notes On Mets/Braves Game 3/1969 NLCS

I love “Baseball Reference” (baseball-reference.com) and am enthralled by the work they have done to preserve baseball history.

Now maybe, some new type statistics caused a two run home run by the eventual losing team, that put said team up by a run to be placed ahead of a similar two run home run in importance, with the big difference being it put the eventual winning team ahead to stay. 

Their order of game’s important plays below:

r Pitcher wWPA wWE Play Description
t5 2-3 2 1– RR ATL Orlando Cepeda Nolan Ryan -29% 39% Home Run; Carty Scores
b5 3-4 1 1– RR NYM Wayne Garrett Pat Jarvis 29% 70% Home Run; Ryan Scores
b4 1-2 0 1– RR NYM Ken Boswell Pat Jarvis 23% 69% Home Run; Shamsky Scores
t1 0-0 1 1– RR ATL Hank Aaron Gary Gentry -18% 32% Home Run; Gonzalez Scores
b3 0-2 1 — R NYM Tommie Agee Pat Jarvis 11% 40% Home Run

Same 5th inning “Cha Cha’s” (Cepeda) blast put Atlanta (Braves) down (2-0) in that ’69 NLCS, ahead by 1 (4-3), while Wayne Garrett’s homer put the Mets ahead (5-4) in an eventual (7-4) pennant clinching win, en route to the title.

Clearly Garrett’s 2RHR was more important than Cepeda’s. Far more clear, Baseball Reference (baseball-reference.com) did a superb job and I, for one, though citing the above, am very grateful.

Wayne Garrett, pictured above, homered to put the Mets ahead to stay in their pennant clinching game 3 win vs the Atlanta Braves in the 1969 NLCS.