METS STILL SEEK FIRST COMPLETE GAME.(Sports)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: July 30, 1999 | Copyright information

Al Leiter isn't asking to be a modern-day Old Hoss Radbourn. The New York Mets pitcher would just like to get one chance to complete what he started.

One hundred fifteen years after Radbourn completed all 73 games he started - and finished two in relief as well - Leiter and the Mets are still looking for their first complete game.

``I get sick and tired that we don't have a complete game,'' said Leiter, who had four last year but hasn't gone past the eighth inning this season. ``There are other teams that have one. But when you just have the goose egg up there, it's ...

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