MILLAN'S 6-HIT EFFORT FEATURED IN METS' ROUT
N.Y. Sets Season Club Marks in Runs and Hits
ATLANTA, July 11 (AP) – Felix Millan became the first major league player to
amass six hits in a single game this year and the New York Mets went on to pound
the Atlanta Braves, 15-4, at Fulton County Stadium. The 15 runs
represented a new season high for the Mets, who also set a new mark for hits in
a single game with 20 and tied a high water mark for the year with four home
runs. New York closed out the first half of the season in style as five
different players accrued multiple hits.
Millan, of course, set the tone, going 6-for-6, including a pair of doubles,
scoring three runs and driving in two. Bruce Boisclair, John Milner, Dave
Kingman and Wayne Garrett all homered for the Mets.
New York took firm command of the game with a six-run second inning, driving
Braves starter Dick Ruthven (6-9) from the hill in the process. Bud
Harrelson’s sacrifice fly and Boiclair’s two-run single gave the Mets a 3-0
lead but it was Milner’s long home run to right field—a two-out, three-run
shot—that supplied the coup de grace.
If there was any doubt about the outcome of the game the Mets put an end to it
with a three-run sixth. Boisclair’s bases loaded sacrifice fly was
followed immediately by Millan’s two-run double to give New York a 9-0
advantage and a stranglehold on the contest.
Dave May’s pinch hit two-run homer off Mets starter Jon Matlack (9-4) in the
bottom of the fifth put the Braves on the board but New York immediately got the
runs back on Garrett’s two-run shot in the top of the sixth. The Mets
added a run on Ed Kranepool’s sacrifice fly in the eighth and then poured it
on in the ninth with three more tallies. Boisclair’s solo home run came
first and Kingman capped the New York scoring with his league-leading 26th long
ball of the year, a two-run bomb, off Mike Marshall.
Biff Pocoroba and May contributed consolation scoring for Atlanta in the ninth
but it was just a delay of the inevitable.
15 major league players had accumulated five hits in a single game—13 of them
in a nine-inning contest—this season prior to Millan’s six-hit outburst
against the Braves. Millan is the first Mets player to surpass four hits
in a single game this year.
7/11/1976, NYN76-Atl76, Fulton County Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1976 Mets 0 6 0 0 3 2 1 0 3 15 20 0 10 2 1976 Braves 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 10 1 7 1 Mets AB R H BI AVG Braves AB R H BI AVG Boisclair cf 5 2 2 4 .262 Royster 3b 5 0 1 0 .278 Millan 2b 6 3 6 2 .277 Gilbreath 2b 5 0 0 0 .270 Milner lf 5 1 1 3 .255 Wynn cf 4 0 0 0 .192 Brown,L ph 1 0 0 0 .111 Montanez 1b 2 0 1 0 .311 Kingman rf 6 1 3 2 .225 LaCorte p 0 0 0 0 .167 Kranepool 1b 4 2 1 1 .287 Gaston ph 1 0 1 0 .471 Garrett,W 3b 5 3 3 2 .234 Paciorek lf 4 0 1 0 .324 Hodges c 5 2 2 0 .281 Henderson,K rf 2 0 0 0 .253 Harrelson ss 3 1 1 1 .227 Marshall p 0 0 0 0 .000 Seaver p 0 0 0 0 .163 Beard p 0 0 0 0 .000 Myrick p 0 0 0 0 .000 Chaney ph 1 1 1 0 .271 Matlack p 2 0 1 0 .233 Pocoroba c 4 2 2 1 .241 Torre ph 1 0 0 0 .337 Robinson,C ss 4 0 1 0 .182 43 15 20 15 Ruthven p 0 0 0 0 .237 Dal Canton p 1 0 0 0 .500 May,D lf 2 1 2 3 .231 35 4 10 4 Mets INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Matlack W 9-4 7.0 6 2 2 1 5 86 54 2.69 Seaver 1.0 3 2 2 1 0 25 12 2.83 Myrick 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 12 7 8.64 9.0 10 4 4 2 5 123 73 Braves INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Ruthven L 6-9 1.2 8 6 6 0 1 43 30 4.46 Dal Canton 3.0 3 3 3 3 1 61 32 4.99 LaCorte 1.1 3 2 2 0 2 26 15 3.94 Marshall 2.1 5 4 4 1 1 44 26 3.99 Beard 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 13 7 1.65 9.0 20 15 15 4 5 187 110 NYN: Torre batted for Matlack in the 8th Garrett,W moved to ss in the 8th Torre moved to 3b in the 8th Brown,L batted for Milner in the 9th Boisclair moved to lf in the 9th Brown,L moved to cf in the 9th Atl: Paciorek moved to 1b in the 5th May,D inserted at lf in the 5th Gaston batted for LaCorte in the 6th Gaston moved to lf in the 7th May,D moved to rf in the 7th Chaney batted for Beard in the 9th E-Royster. 2B-Millan 2(17), Kingman(6), Pocoroba(8), Chaney(17). HR-Boisclair(3), Milner(11), Kingman(26), Garrett,W(5), May,D(4). RBI-Boisclair 4(20), Millan 2(30), Milner 3(35), Kingman 2(56), Kranepool(32), Garrett,W 2(20), Harrelson(22), Pocoroba(12), May,D 3(19). K-Boisclair, Kingman 2, Matlack, Brown,L, Royster, Gilbreath, Montanez, Robinson,C, Dal Canton. BB-Garrett,W, Hodges, Harrelson, Matlack, Henderson,K, Gaston. SH-Matlack. SF-Boisclair, Kranepool, Harrelson. HBP-Kranepool, May,D. HB-Matlack, LaCorte. WP-Matlack, Seaver. GWRBI: Harrelson Temperature: 90, Sky: cloudy, Wind: none. Attendance: 10,264 Game Time: 3:08