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Monday, September 30th,2024: On this cloudy afternoon in Atlanta, the Mets (88-72) & Braves (88-72) played a double header with each team needing to win a game to get to the post season. If any team swept the twin bill, the other team would be eliminated & the idle Arizona Diamondbacks would get in.  These games were make-up games after Hurricane Helene postponed two games last week. The MLB regular season officially ended for everyone else yesterday. Carlos Mendoza went with Tylor Megill (4-5 / 3.98 ERA). Since August 29th, Megill was 2-0 with a 1.78 ERA & 28 strike outs in 25.1 innings over five starts.)   Braves skipper, Brian Snitker went with Spencer Schwellenbach (8-7 / 3.35 ERA).  Schwellenbach was 3-0 in his last three starts, allowing four runs in 19 inns, beating the Mets just five days ago, allowing one run in seven innings of work. Mets Trivia: It was 51 years ago today; the 1973 Mets clinched a playoff spot in a scheduled double header at rainy Wrigley Field.

October 1st, 1973: The crazy 1973 New York Mets season, all came down to the last games of the regular season which had ended for the rest of the league the previous day. After the previous rain outs earlier in the weekend, a double header was scheduled between the Mets & Cube at Wrigley Field to close out the season. All the Mets had to do was win one game in order to clinch the N.L. East. as both the St. Louis Cardinals & Pittsburgh Pirates lost their final games of the season on Sunday. In recapping, most of the Mets regular players were struggling through injuries most of the season, not getting healthy as a team until the final month. Also, they had the best pitching staff in the league & everyone stepped up from starters to relievers. The Mets had won 22 of their last 31 games dating back to August 27th when they were still in last place, six & a half games of first place. They had won eight of their last ten games as well. They took over first place on Friday Se

Lee William Capra was born October 1, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. Nickname of Buzz:  "I had a little wooden bat & my father would throw the ball to me right outside our building when I was six. I would swing & start spinning around & there was an older man watching us all the time & he told me that I looked like a buzz saw. The Buzz part stuck." In 1969 he helped Illinois State University win the college championship.   The five-foot eleven righty was selected by the New York Mets in the 27th round of that year's draft.  Quotes- Buzz Capra: "The scout is in my home trying to sign me & my father, a proud Italian is trying to get me a few more dollars. But the scout said take it or leave it & I was thinking, please stop talking Dad. I took it." Capra became a favorite of Minor League Director Whitey Herzog. He was another highly touted pitching prospect for the early 1970’s Mets. In his minor league career Capra was 44 -18 with a 2.86