four innings. In the top of the sixth, Keith Hernandez singled, one of the two hits he needed to complete the cycle, but umpire Terry Tata incorrectly ruled that his line drive to center had been caught by Dale Murphy. Eventually though, Hernandez would homer in the eighth and single in the 12th to complete the cycle. In the bottom of the eighth with the Mets leading 7–4, Dale Murphy hit a bases-clearing double off of Jesse Orosco to give the Braves the 8–7 lead. The Mets answered with a run in the ninth with consecutive singles from Howard Johnson, Danny Heep, and Lenny Dykstra against Bruce Sutter. The score would remain tied until the 13th, when Howard Johnson hit a two-run homer off of Terry Forster to put the Mets ahead 10–8. The Braves' Terry Harper tied it again with a home run in the bottom of the frame. In the top of 17th with the score was tied at 10, both Davey Johnson and Darryl Strawberry got ejected for arguing balls and strikes. The Mets however grabbed an 11–10 lead in the 18th on a Lenny Dykstra sacrifice fly. In the bottom of the 18th, Braves pitcher Rick Camp was batting against Tom Gorman and proceeded to hit the 0-and-2 pitch for a home run over the left field wall. Gary Carter led off the 19th with a single and after a sacrifice, pinch-hitter Rusty Staub was walked intentionally. Ray Knight, who had left the bases full three times already, came through with an RBI double to make it 12–11. The Mets would tack on four more runs in the 19th to go up 16–11. The Mets then called in Ron Darling, the seventh Mets pitcher, to close it out. Darling would allow two unearned runs before finally recording the final out, coincidentally by striking out Rick Camp. Once the game was over, even though the date/time was July 5, 3:55 a.m., the Braves' stadium crew shot off the scheduled Fourth of July post-game fireworks for the fans who endured to the end. This was the second latest any major league game has ever ended. In total, there were 46 hits, 22 walks, 37 runners left on base, five errors, and two ejections. The time of the game was 6 hours, 10 minutes, not counting the rain delays, which tacked on more than two hours. Linescore See also