Pittsburgh-- The Mets proved that which needed no proving in dropping a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field.
You can't win when you don't score any runs.
The Bucs shutout the Mets, 2-0, to sweep their Sunday doubleheader. In game one, the Pirates won 6-0.
Spot starter Don Schwall worked seven innings for Pittsburgh, giving up five hits.
Tracy Stallard, on two days' rest, kept the Mets in the game, throwing seven innings and giving up just the two runs.
But the offense was again non-existent.
The Pirates' Schwall was the latest opposing starter to confound the Mets
The Mets have been shutout four times in their first 10 games. The Pirates are already 7-0 against them in 1964.
"You boys might as well put me on a 45 and make the needle stick," Mets manager Casey Stengel said to reporters afterward. "Because I sound like a broken record, and we've only played 10 games."
The Mets got one runner as far as third base in the nightcap.
The Pirates scored both their runs in the seventh inning. Pinch-hitter Jerry Lynch doubled, and came home on a Dick Schofield single. After Schofield went to second on the throw home, Bill Virdon singled him home.
And that was still one run more than the Bucs would need in subduing the Mets, who have lost nine straight games.
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Mets record: 1-9, .100 (Last 10: 1-9; streak: L-9); Actual: 2-8
Home: 0-4; Away: 1-5
Runs scored: 26
Runs against: 63
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