On May 8, 1973 — On a rainy night at Shea Stadium, with the bases loaded in the seventh-inning a line drive off the bat of Atlanta’s Marty Perez strikes Jon Matlack’s forehead so hard that the ball ricochets into the Mets dugout. All three runs will score and Perez scampers into second not sure of w
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Source: Historical record