A more fitting highlight was the pitching of the Yanks' veteran lefty Whitey Ford, who had been sidelined by a sore elbow for over a month. The canny portsider tossed three perfect innings, inducing six weak ground balls while striking out two and retiring the other on a foul pop. Met hurler Larry Bearnarth bore the brunt of the Yankee attack and was pasted with the loss.
Scoring commenced in the second inning as the Yanks scratched out a run on a single by Elston Howard, a double by Lou Clinton, and a sac fly from Roger Maris. But the Mets stormed back in their half of the frame, thanks mainly to some Yankee ineptness in the field. Ed Kranepool's Baltimore Chop put him on first. He hardly had time to catch his breath before a wild pitch saw him trot gamely to second. Ed Bressoud produced a towering pop into medium-left field for which shortstop Dick Schofield gave chase; he nabbed the pill but then dropped it, allowing Kranepool to steam across the plate with the tying run.
In the fourth, errors by Schofield and third-sacker Ray Barker preceded a Kranepool single which brought in another Met tally, making it 2-1. But goat Barker redeemed himself in the fifth with a solo round-tripper to tie the game yet again.
With the score still 2-2 in the top of the seventh, Bill Bryan brought the visiting Yank fans to life as he lifted a solo homer off Bearnarth. Not to be outdone, colorful teammate Joe Pepitone smacked a two-run round-tripper off Dick Selma one inning later that all but sealed the Mets' fate. Pepitone's homer was a prodigious blast and possibly one of the longest home runs ever hit at Shea. After that, the Met bats went more or less quietly as the men in the black pinstripes retained the Mayor's Trophy for another season's cycle.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Yankees | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
| Mets | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |