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HtoMets Snap Record-Tying Loss Skein as 73rd Birthday Gift to Old ProfNEW YORK, N. Y.—The Mets’ 22-game road losing streak, tying theall-time major league record set by the Pirates of 18.90, came to an end the night of July 30 when Tracy Stallard pitched a four-hitter to stop the Dodgers, 5-1, in Los Angeles.Fittingly enough, it happened on Casey Stengel’s seventy-third birthday and the elated manager termed it 4ia very nice present.”The Mets’ last previous triumph on foreign soil was June 15, when they beat the Reds 4-1. Stallard also pitched that game.While on their skid, the Mets broke two modern records for ineptness on the road—the National League mark of 17 straight losses by the 1061 Phillies and the American League’s 19-game record by the 1916 Athletics. The Pirates’ record of 1890 was set the year that Stengel was born.I
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St Louis Sporting News
St Louis, Missouri, US
Sat, Aug 10, 1963
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