The vibes were through the roof at and all around PNC Park after the Pirates destroyed the New York Mets 14-2.

Pittsburgh tied a franchise high with seven home runs, which they have only ever accomplished on four other occasions in this team’s nearly century and a half history.

It was a historical night in many ways for the Pirates, and the looking back on all of the last times the kind of offense that took place last night has happened before was too much for one article. So, if you’re interested in reading about the home runs side of things, you can check that out here.

Rowdy Tellez and Bryan Reynolds made history both for the team and for the league tonight as well. Per OptaStats, they became the first teammates in Major League Baseball history to each hit multiple homers including a grand slam in the same game.

Tellez had 5 RBI in this game, one behind Reynolds’ 6. A very cool stat relating to thus was brought up on Sportsnet Pittsburgh’s postgame show. I believe it was Rob King that read it: last night was the first time in over 50 years that two Pirates players recorded 5+ RBI in a game.

Indeed, the last time that two Pirates brought in five or more runs in a ballgame was all the way back on June 9th, 1974, when the Pirates were in San Francisco to take on the Giants.

On a Sunday afternoon at Candlestick Park, which is a cool name but is very ironic in the daytime, the Pirates were in town looking to take the series from the Giants.

The legendary Willie Stargell was playing left field, and longtime big leaguer Richie Zisk was over in right field.

Zisk started the scoring off for the Pirates in the first inning; after the first two batters in the Pirate order were walked, he smacked a three run homer to bring to make it a 3-0 game before a single out was recorded.

Things were pretty quiet for a solid stretch after that. Giants starter Ron Bryant was taken out midway through the second inning, and his replacement Jim Barr hadn’t given the Pirates anything to work with.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh’s starter Jerry Reuss was making real quick work of the Giants. Efficient in his innings, Reuss would go on to pitch a complete shutout game for the Pirates. It was his only shutout of the 1974 season, although he had 39 in total over his 22-year major league career.

Pittsburgh would get some offense going again in the fifth inning, when Manny Sanguillén and Richie Hebner each batted in a run. Ironically, Zisk and Stargell were the two runners who got home, but they didn’t have any runs batted in during this inning.

In the sixth, however, Stargell got his bat going. Facing a bases load situation with two outs against San Francisco’s Jim Willoughby, Stargell pulled off a grand slam to give the Pirates a 9-0- lead on the Giants. That was Willoughby’s last batter, being replaced by Don McMahon.

McMahon promptly surrendered a solo shot to Bob Robertson right afterwards, making it 10-0.

Reuss had held the Giants to just a single run heading into the top of the ninth, where Zisk and Stargell capped off their historic game. Facing Charlie Williams, Rennie Stennett had doubled to right field, followed by a Gene Clines walk, which set Zisk up to bat with two outs and two men on.

Zisk was able to rip a triple to center field, scoring both Stennett and Clines to give him a 5-RBI game.

Then, with Zisk standing on third base, Stargell hit his second home run of the game, netting him his fifth and sixth RBI of the game.

The Pirates would win 14-1.

(Featured photo by Gene J. Puskar/AP)