When the Mets needed somebody to take over a game on July 19, 1970, Joe Foy was the last name most people would have circled. He spent just one season in New York, hit .236, and is usually remembered as the player the Mets got in the trade that sent Amos Otis to the Kansas City Royals.
Otis went on to become an All-Star multiple times. Foy, though, had one afternoon that made the deal look a lot different.
The Mets were in the middle of a twin bill against the San Francisco Giants, and after dropping the first game 5-3, they came back for the nightcap with Foy starting at third base and batting sixth. What followed was a 5-for-5 performance in a 10-inning win, the kind of line that jumps off the page before you even get to the details.
And the details were wild. His second-inning double didn’t lead to a run, but in the fourth he turned on a two-run homer that pulled the Mets within 4-3.
One inning later, he singled with two outs to tie it at 4-4. Then, in his next trip, a single and an error brought in two more runs, and New York moved ahead 6-4.
That lead didn’t survive the ninth. A two-out, two-run single tied the game at 6-6 and sent it to extras. Foy came up first in the 10th and immediately answered, launching a leadoff home run that put the Mets back in front for good.
For all the damage he did with the bat, Foy also had a rough night in the field. He committed three errors at third base, including one in the first inning that allowed the second run of the game to score.
So yes, this was the Joe Foy game in every sense: huge hits, a messy glove, and a performance that briefly made one of the Mets’ most infamous trades feel like it had a different ending.
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