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Fewest Batters Faced by a Mets Pitcher Pitching a Complete Game
1. John Maine July 27, 2007 16 Batters Faced (5 IP)
2. Pat Zachry May 30, 1980 17 Batters Faced (5 IP)
3. Frank Lary June 7, 1964 19 Batters Face (5 IP)

Fewest Batters Faced by a Mets Pitcher Pitching a 9-Inning Complete Game
7 tied at 28 Batters Faced:
Shawn Estes, 2002 (1 H, 1 BB, 1 CS)
Terry Leach, 1987 (2 H, 2 BB, 2 CS, 1 GIDP)
Jerry Koosman 1976 (3 H, 1 BB, 2 CS, 1 runner out on the base path)
John Matlack 1973 (1 H, 2 BB, 1 CS, 1 GIDP)
Tom Seaver 1971 (1 H, 1 BB, 1 R, 1 GIDP)
Tom Seaver 1969 (1 H)
Carl Willey 1963 (2 H, 2 GIDP)

That Koosman game was a 1-0 win for the Mets; the Giants ran themselves right out of that one. In the third inning, the Giants' flamboyant young pitcher John (the Count of) Montefusco singled and the leadoff man Larry Herndon followed with another single -- but Dave Kingman in right field gunned down the Count trying to go to third on Herndon's hit, and Herndon was then thrown out trying to steal second, ending the inning. Marty Perez, who'd been left at the plate on Herndon's CS, came up to start the Giants' fourth inning, got the Giants' third consecutive hit and then he was thrown out stealing on a strike him out/throw him out DP with Gary (Sarge) Matthews at the plate. Koosman then mowed down the Giants in order the rest of the game.The Seaver '69 game was the famous Jimmy Qualls game in which the rookie Qualls, playing in his fourteenth career game, broke up Seaver's perfect game with one out in the ninth. Qualls' total career stats: 31 H, 144 PAs, 0 HRs, .238 OBP, .302 SLG.