If the Mets go on to win the World Series that year, this catch becomes one of the greatest moments in sports history. Now it only lives on in Mets history.
I believe that catch will live on forever. It was epic at the time. I really thought that was going to give the Mets the momentum to win that game and face the Tigers. I consider it like Pujol's 3 run homer off of Brad Lidge in the previous years nlcs game 5. The Cardinals were knocked out the next game, but most people will always remember that hit.
@@thomasjcox 06 in my opinion. It just seemed like it was the Mets year. They were great from the start and finished the season tied with the best record in baseball with the Yankees. I also think the Mets had one of the best starting lineups that year. The 2015 I wasn't expecting them to make the playoffs to begin with and then even making it to the world series was more shoking in my opinion.
Yes. I’m a Cardinals fan and I still have been saying that for years. It was historic. But the Mets lost and didn’t move on so in the end it was meaningless. If they would have won that game, and not even win the World Series, that play would go down as an all-time great. Now, it’s mainly just Met fans and a few die hards who remember it, and that’s sad.
@@ando2821 Idk.....considering the level of difficulty its up there for sure.....look where he caught the ball, it was already over/behind the fence....not to mention a good 2 feet over the wall, which was like 8 feet and a few inches high.....and Chavez only about 5'10....then to not only make the catch, but also complete the double play with a strong accurate throw to the infield
Lifelong Cards fan here. I thought that ball was gone, and when he snagged it, my heart sank. Still can't believe he caught it, that was a hell of a play.
Every Mets fan thought the game was ours after that catch. But baseball is a cruel game sometimes, and you guys were the better team that series. We just didn't play to our potential.
I was the first person at Shea to see that Endy made the catch. Because of the angle I had from my seat I knew he caught it before anyone else (even Endy - he had to look in the glove). Incredible night. Still hard to believe they didnt win.
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Umm idk bigcity didn't the cards sweep the tigers? I'm pretty sure the Tigers were very good in the beginning of that season than just barely hung on to make the postseason. If the mets would have made it I think they would have won but who knows look who was pitching in that clip. Speaking of the catch wow he went pretty far back for that. Anyway go mets.
+Will Roos I think the series ended 4-1 and the Cards were helped by a lot of freak errors on the Tigers' end. Hard to say whether they would have done the same against the Mets.
I was at this game too and I never heard a stadium shake like that double play caused. You couldn't tell me we weren't winning after this. And then Cliff Floyd pinch hitting I thought would be our Kirk Gibson moment then it was Beltran's turn the hottest hitter that playoffs and I still can't watch Wainwright
Imo, the best catch of all time considering the importance of the game, saved a homer, and made the double play. The athletic leap, height and distance going backwards, was not easy. He made catches like this, all during that season. One of the best underrated defensive outfielders off all time. He had the speed, instincts, leaping ability, and a cannon for an arm. If he hit for power and a bit higher average, he could have been the next Willie Mays.
And also remember he came in as a defensive replacement mid-way through the game. Defensive replacement indeed :) This is the best catch I have ever seen in baseball
Otis Nixon's catch against the Pirates in 1992 was a better pure catch...he scaled a wall twice the height. But this was the NLCS...it had greater importance.
As a cardinals fan I was 13 at the time of this happening and about cried when he made that play. I thought there is no way the mets won't win this game after that amazing catch.
Amazing that he "snow coned" it and was still able to keep the ball in his mitt, as he pulled it back! As a Cardinal fan, it was like a knife in my heart at the time, but wow that was one heck of a catch!
I'm a Yankee fan but can't believe the Cardinals beat the Mets that series. Me and most Yankee fans were rooting for the Mets to win that year. Cardinals sucked that year. 70-80 win team that barely won the World Series that year. If El Duque and Pedro werent injured for the Mets, Cardinals wouldn't have went 7 games on them. Even the Tigers should have beaten them in the World Series but they swept the As in the ALCS, so they had too much time off before the World Series, one of the biggest reasons Cardinals won that World Series and Tigers had the pitching too. And we almost had a Subway World Series that year. If the Yankees were able to had beat the Tigers, they would had beaten the As.
This was the greatest catch in MLB history. Not only did he rise high in the air, and thrust his entire arm over the wall, and bend it back, but he snow-coned the ball and still held on to it.
I was at this game, and it was probably the most amazing moment I've ever witnessed in person at a baseball game in my life. Despite the Mets losing which was unbelievably heartbreaking, it was almost unexplainable to see in person. The jumbotron showed the catch like 10 times in slow motion afterwards, and each time it was shown, the crowd cheered just as loudly as when we saw it live. No one could believe it!
That’s what us Mets fans remember. This catch doesn’t even matter to us because all we think of is Carpenter and that wicked curve and Beltran looking at it. Endy deserved better.
As a Cardinals fan I have to give it up for this catch. It pissed me off as it happened, but you have to respect that athleticism. Oh and the fact that we got the W and went on to win the World Series doesn't hurt either :)
he did this twice in one game for the mariners yesterday, first one bounced out of his grove and it turned into a double but the second one saved the game. he just ran back located it and mega jumped but he did not turn two on them but it was amazing. the funny thing was we where using jason bay with a .200 avg before endy and the first game we start him in a long time he gets an infield hit and two of these. sometimes i just don't get management endy is batting .275
I saw this live when I was 13 years old. I remember I was watching it on mute because I had a math test the next day and my mom would only let me watch the game in mute becuase I had to study. When this play happened I went nuts haha
recuerdo que yo estaba viendo el juego y pegue un grito de alegria y celebre fuerte para luego ponerme a llorar de felicidad por ese atrapadon de Endy Chavez... dure semanas hablando de ello y aun lo recuerdo como si fuese ayer
Remember these days when we had a decent team. Us In queens deserve another team like this. They fought hard and played with heart. Should of won the World Series that year. Best catch in postseason history if the mets win that game but still up there
I remember watching this sitting in the Loge level on the first base side about 5 rows from the back. I had to lean into the stairway and watch due to the overhang. Thought Shea was coming down that night. Never heard that place rock like it did that day. Should have won the World Series that year. That team was unreal. LFGM
god bless andy 2006 was magic truly the best catch i ever seen, real shame the mets lost. i felt they were destined to win it all after that catch. must props to st louis for playing their heart out equally as hard.
i was 11 years old and my mom was yelling at me to go to bed....she didn't understand my father and i literally loved the mets so much we watched every single game with each other from the years 2004-2018 (my ages 9-23) and right when i was actually really about to go to bed endy pulled this off!!!!! my mom saw it and im like mom if they win there gonna to go to the world series. She looks at me and said ok but as soon as its over ur going to bed. i'll never forget it...one of my best memories....i just wish the mets won the freaking game!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the most amazing things about this catch that I didn't appreciate at first is that he does it on the dead run. A lot of homerun-robbing catches take place with the outfielder getting to the track, feeling for the wall, watching the ball, timing his leap, using his throwing hand to brace himself against the fence, etc. Chavez didn't have time to do any of that here, he had to sprint back, locate the wall, relocate the ball, and then make a lunging, leaping grab. Oh. And in a tied Game 7.
Joe Buck ruins the moment. He narrates this as though it was a simple lineout. This is one of the best catches in the game's history and Buck simply is unable to express emotion. Imagine Matt Vasgersian calling this: "SAAAAANTA MARIAAAA!!!!!!"
Yea, fuck Joe Fuckin Buck, good for nothing hairplug addict. Also, Tim McCarver was formerly the Mets tv announcer before crossing town to be the Yankees tv announcer. So fuck this whole booth.
Even though the Cardinals did eventually win, this is one of the best catches of all time (and maybe the best ever; although Willie Mays would say something about that) given the circumstances and what was on the line in this one game.
2006 Mets were better overall than the 2015 Mets. The only advantage the 2015 Mets had was starting pitching. 2006 Mets lost El Duque and Pedro along with Sanchez who was maybe their best bullpen guy the whole year. That's what derailed that team. But they had the best record in baseball that year. 2015 Mets was more of a Cinderella run. They made it further but they weren't better than the 2006 Mets.
I've been fan for almost 40 years and the best team during that time was unquestionably 1986. Then comes 1988, 1985 (Gooden was a beast that year, and the pitching overall during those years was better than anything they've ever had), 2006, 1999, 2000, then 2015. I have 2000 so low because that team was basically the result of great managing by Bobby V (a starting outfield of Timo Perez, Benny Agbayani, and Jay Payton making it to the WS is incredible). 2015 is also at the end of the list because they basically were just fortunate to get hot at the right time.
When Endy Chavez went up into the air, to the stars and made that sensational catch and then sensational throw for an inning ending double play, I thought to myself: "It doesnt get any better than this" ...... And I was right. It didnt. From what I saw from the Mets starting in the bottom of the 6th inning until the game ended, was one of the biggest choking I have ever seen in a game. From having all the momentum in the world, at home, to then choking the way they did.
This is the greatest jawdropping catch I have ever seen. Too bad we didn't go on to win the game and series. I think that is why people forget it this catch.
I was at this game!! The way Shea was rocking was unbelievable...I could literally feel the ground shaking as if an earthquake was happening...if only the Mets would have won this game
I call that Yadier Molina HR the start of the apocalypse of the mets bullpen. Heilman just pisses me off. It's been 8 fucking years and the bullpen still sucks horse shit it's depressing.
***** gotmusic0915 Benitez was long gone by '06. Heilman had been a starter his whole career but that genius Omar Minaya pretty much insisted he be relegated to the bullpen, so blame him too. Agree with CNep99 that Heilman notwithstanding, our '06 bullpen was considered the best in the biz. So what did Professor Minaya do to our bullpen after the '06 season? He blew it up, getting rid of Chad Bradford, Heath Bell and Royce Ring, all of whom had great success with other teams. Instead we had impotent tools like Mota and Vargas leading us to collapse in '07. Heilman takes too much shit. He had few spectacular meltdowns but fans only seem to remember him for that. Benitez was a more chronic choker (and clubhouse cancer) but thankfully he was gone by summer of '03.
I get the chills every time I watch this catch.....I was at this game. It was the most incredible catch I will prob...ever see in my lifetime. The electricity in Shea was off the charts. Then......Molina hits the HR and dead silence. Shea was so quiet...I could hear the Cards celebrating in their dugout....and I was in the upper-deck on the 1st base side. It was horrible.....just horrible.
Had to watch this after Grandy's catch in Game 2. Grandy's was impressive, but this catch was on a whole other level (not even considering the stakes of a Game 7).
I’m a Yankee fan but I lost my mind when Endy made that grab. One of the best I’ve ever seen in a playoff game. Kinda hoped the Mets won it all that year. Fun team to watch
If the Mets go on to win the World Series that year, this catch becomes one of the greatest moments in sports history. Now it only lives on in Mets history.
+Greg Francavilla Willie Mays, and Endy Chavez.
I believe that catch will live on forever. It was epic at the time. I really thought that was going to give the Mets the momentum to win that game and face the Tigers. I consider it like Pujol's 3 run homer off of Brad Lidge in the previous years nlcs game 5. The Cardinals were knocked out the next game, but most people will always remember that hit.
In your opinion which Mets team was better? 2000, 2006, or 2015? Regardless of how deep each team went into the post season.
@@thomasjcox 06 in my opinion. It just seemed like it was the Mets year. They were great from the start and finished the season tied with the best record in baseball with the Yankees. I also think the Mets had one of the best starting lineups that year. The 2015 I wasn't expecting them to make the playoffs to begin with and then even making it to the world series was more shoking in my opinion.
Yes. I’m a Cardinals fan and I still have been saying that for years. It was historic. But the Mets lost and didn’t move on so in the end it was meaningless. If they would have won that game, and not even win the World Series, that play would go down as an all-time great. Now, it’s mainly just Met fans and a few die hards who remember it, and that’s sad.
I'm not even a mets fan & this catch STILL gives me goosebumps!!!!
It was so unexpected like what did he just do 🤯
Same wild
Last playoff game at Shea
07 and 08 with the late season collapses
if only the Mets won this would have to be the greatest play of all time considering its game 7.
Very true.
Jacob Spears absolutely
Jacob Spears without a doubt
Of all time? Um what? No, maybe all time for Mets . Nasty catch
@@ando2821 Idk.....considering the level of difficulty its up there for sure.....look where he caught the ball, it was already over/behind the fence....not to mention a good 2 feet over the wall, which was like 8 feet and a few inches high.....and Chavez only about 5'10....then to not only make the catch, but also complete the double play with a strong accurate throw to the infield
Lifelong Cards fan here. I thought that ball was gone, and when he snagged it, my heart sank. Still can't believe he caught it, that was a hell of a play.
Every Mets fan thought the game was ours after that catch. But baseball is a cruel game sometimes, and you guys were the better team that series. We just didn't play to our potential.
Win or lose, this has gotta be in the top 10 of greatest catches of all time
Honestly one of the best catches in post season and definitely the best one I have ever seen, hahaha man was In shock!!!
I’ve watched this video at least 1,000 times and it still gives me goosebumps. One of the greatest plays of all time.
I was the first person at Shea to see that Endy made the catch. Because of the angle I had from my seat I knew he caught it before anyone else (even Endy - he had to look in the glove). Incredible night. Still hard to believe they didnt win.
Gene Friedman
Here’s why they lost...look at the dude in the stands wearing a tie!
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im a yankees fan but that was the mets year its a shame they lost it in 06 they should've won the ws that year
Same
Umm idk bigcity didn't the cards sweep the tigers? I'm pretty sure the Tigers were very good in the beginning of that season than just barely hung on to make the postseason. If the mets would have made it I think they would have won but who knows look who was pitching in that clip.
Speaking of the catch wow he went pretty far back for that. Anyway go mets.
+Will Roos I think the series ended 4-1 and the Cards were helped by a lot of freak errors on the Tigers' end. Hard to say whether they would have done the same against the Mets.
cometandcupids yeah like 7 years later ?? Dumbass
99tjpro. I'm a yankee fan to. This was a great lay. You would think with that catch the Mets were going to win.
top 10 catches of all time for sure
Top 3
an UNDERRATED aspect of this play... Chavez FIRES that ball back in. What a fucking throw.
The greatest moment in sports history to mean nothing relating to the game's outcome
That and Alfonso Soriano's Game 7 HR in the 01 WS
Yeah
See thats the good thing about the Cardinals... They can make a miracle catch AND STILL WIN. 2011 WS GAME 7! Thank you Allen Craig!
Jermaine Kearse SB catch
Ahh man 06 was our year still can't believe they lost after that catch
I saw this live and remember thinking that was the greatest catch I've ever seen.
Twenty years later and I still think that.
I was at this game too and I never heard a stadium shake like that double play caused. You couldn't tell me we weren't winning after this. And then Cliff Floyd pinch hitting I thought would be our Kirk Gibson moment then it was Beltran's turn the hottest hitter that playoffs and I still can't watch Wainwright
I'm here because Brandon Nimmo's catch last night reminded me of this.
I watched this live in 2006. Best catch ever !!!
Here because Nimmos catch reminded me of this catch.
Amazing catch and the best throw...... power in his arm..... best play ever
Imo, the best catch of all time considering the importance of the game, saved a homer, and made the double play. The athletic leap, height and distance going backwards, was not easy. He made catches like this, all during that season. One of the best underrated defensive outfielders off all time. He had the speed, instincts, leaping ability, and a cannon for an arm. If he hit for power and a bit higher average, he could have been the next Willie Mays.
And also remember he came in as a defensive replacement mid-way through the game. Defensive replacement indeed :)
This is the best catch I have ever seen in baseball
The snow cone catch made it better
oldschoolfan guy had a walk off bunt single as well lol
Otis Nixon's catch against the Pirates in 1992 was a better pure catch...he scaled a wall twice the height. But this was the NLCS...it had greater importance.
Greatest catch I’ve ever seen
I was SO mad at this play when I watched it on TV. BUT...now I look back at one of the most incredible catches ever.
That catch is playoff baseball at its absolute best. Unreal.
As a cardinals fan I was 13 at the time of this happening and about cried when he made that play. I thought there is no way the mets won't win this game after that amazing catch.
Mets Fan, and I was ecstatic because I thought the same..
here after brandon nimmo’s catch
Amazing that he "snow coned" it and was still able to keep the ball in his mitt, as he pulled it back! As a Cardinal fan, it was like a knife in my heart at the time, but wow that was one heck of a catch!
I'm a Yankee fan but can't believe the Cardinals beat the Mets that series. Me and most Yankee fans were rooting for the Mets to win that year.
Cardinals sucked that year. 70-80 win team that barely won the World Series that year. If El Duque and Pedro werent injured for the Mets, Cardinals wouldn't have went 7 games on them. Even the
Tigers should have beaten them in the World Series but they swept the As in the ALCS, so they had too much time off before the World Series, one of the biggest reasons Cardinals won that World Series and Tigers had the pitching too. And we almost had a Subway World Series that year. If the Yankees were able to had beat the Tigers, they would had beaten the As.
A wonderful catch by Endy Chavez.
That was the greatest play that I ever saw with my own eyes. Incredible.
LOL @ Oliver Perez pitching a game 7. My how times have changed......
Richard mc dermott i still cant believe it was 8 years ago.
Richard mc dermott an 2 hour after that play i was crying my eyes out.
Funny how he turned out to be a solid bullpen piece for the D-backs now
@curragh 42 He had a 1.39 ERA out of the Cleveland bullpen last year.
@Olivares Silviano no way where is he playing nowadays?
This was the greatest catch in MLB history. Not only did he rise high in the air, and thrust his entire arm over the wall, and bend it back, but he snow-coned the ball and still held on to it.
I was at this game, and it was probably the most amazing moment I've ever witnessed in person at a baseball game in my life. Despite the Mets losing which was unbelievably heartbreaking, it was almost unexplainable to see in person. The jumbotron showed the catch like 10 times in slow motion afterwards, and each time it was shown, the crowd cheered just as loudly as when we saw it live. No one could believe it!
How do you STILL lose after this catch? One of the greatest catches ever
Beltran took strike 3 looking I will never let that go man. Mets had what it took to win the WS in 2006
That’s what us Mets fans remember. This catch doesn’t even matter to us because all we think of is Carpenter and that wicked curve and Beltran looking at it. Endy deserved better.
@@robhileman8890 Not Carpenter, it was a young rookie named Adam Wainwright.
In a game 7? Unreal.
I remember watching that play at home when I was 13 and I wasn't even a Mets fan. One of the most impressive plays I have ever seen.
The strength to be there.
I was at the game.... I had “the strength to be there” 😔
As a Cardinals fan I have to give it up for this catch. It pissed me off as it happened, but you have to respect that athleticism. Oh and the fact that we got the W and went on to win the World Series doesn't hurt either :)
It had started raining, I think the ball being wet helped as it stuck in his glove.
he did this twice in one game for the mariners yesterday, first one bounced out of his grove and it turned into a double but the second one saved the game. he just ran back located it and mega jumped but he did not turn two on them but it was amazing. the funny thing was we where using jason bay with a .200 avg before endy and the first game we start him in a long time he gets an infield hit and two of these. sometimes i just don't get management endy is batting .275
I saw this live when I was 13 years old. I remember I was watching it on mute because I had a math test the next day and my mom would only let me watch the game in mute becuase I had to study. When this play happened I went nuts haha
Considering the announcer that was a good choice.
Who’s here because you just watched Nimmo rob one from Turner? 🎺 LFGM!!! 🎺
Cardinals fan here. I love the Cardinals, but I also love good baseball.
And damn, was this some good baseball. What a spectacular play!
Still the greatest catch I've ever seen.
recuerdo que yo estaba viendo el juego y pegue un grito de alegria y celebre fuerte para luego ponerme a llorar de felicidad por ese atrapadon de Endy Chavez... dure semanas hablando de ello y aun lo recuerdo como si fuese ayer
damn shame they couldn't close out the game though... i have faith, one day our waiting will pay off!!!
Remember these days when we had a decent team. Us In queens deserve another team like this. They fought hard and played with heart. Should of won the World Series that year. Best catch in postseason history if the mets win that game but still up there
we had a great team. so many bats I miss those days, but our arms are looking amazin
2rad008 Yeah, But we can't win with just arms.
This is looking like our year
+gothamismine I hope so! I see glimpses of the 06' run and it's exciting to watch this year.
+Raul Rodriguez I hope it ends better than the 2006 run.
I remember watching this sitting in the Loge level on the first base side about 5 rows from the back. I had to lean into the stairway and watch due to the overhang. Thought Shea was coming down that night. Never heard that place rock like it did that day. Should have won the World Series that year. That team was unreal. LFGM
That is one of the single greatest catches of all time. Hands down.
This is so cool! I remember watching this with my mom when I was super young and then Molinas homerun to make up for it.
remember watching this on the couch with my pops and brother. we lost our minds haahahahaha
2006 was our year man. I was certain we were gonna win the World Series. Many tears were shed. I will forever loathe the cardinals.
One of the most underrated fielders in my opinion
YYYYYYYY.... ayer acaba de hacer otra jugada parecida en un Caracas- Magallanes. Hay cosas que nunca cambian
god bless andy 2006 was magic
truly the best catch i ever seen, real shame the mets lost. i felt they were destined to win it all after that catch. must props to st louis for playing their heart out equally as hard.
AMAZING!!!!
i was 11 years old and my mom was yelling at me to go to bed....she didn't understand my father and i literally loved the mets so much we watched every single game with each other from the years 2004-2018 (my ages 9-23) and right when i was actually really about to go to bed endy pulled this off!!!!! my mom saw it and im like mom if they win there gonna to go to the world series. She looks at me and said ok but as soon as its over ur going to bed. i'll never forget it...one of my best memories....i just wish the mets won the freaking game!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the most amazing things about this catch that I didn't appreciate at first is that he does it on the dead run. A lot of homerun-robbing catches take place with the outfielder getting to the track, feeling for the wall, watching the ball, timing his leap, using his throwing hand to brace himself against the fence, etc. Chavez didn't have time to do any of that here, he had to sprint back, locate the wall, relocate the ball, and then make a lunging, leaping grab. Oh. And in a tied Game 7.
One of the Best catch ever
Greatest catch in MLB playoff history
Baseball was amazing in the 00s
when you consider the situation (close game, game 7, NLCS). THIS is the greatest play of all time
Just hearing the roar of the crowd is amazing, makes me want the playoffs back in Queens. We've hung in there, let's see if we can make a push.
Possibly the best catch in baseball history.
Beltran and Verlander, 2 excellent players who got beat this year, finally got their first rings as teammates in 2017.
The best, from Venezuela :D .
Back in the #NLCS!! 9 years in the making!!!!!
1 of the top 10 best moments in playoff baseball history!!!
seriously one of the most clutch catches i’ve ever seen considering the circumstances.
makes me smile every time
Have to admit, that was pretty sweet
Finally back to the NLCS. Time to finish this.
Still one of the best catches I've ever seen. Go Braves!
Joe Buck ruins the moment. He narrates this as though it was a simple lineout. This is one of the best catches in the game's history and Buck simply is unable to express emotion. Imagine Matt Vasgersian calling this: "SAAAAANTA MARIAAAA!!!!!!"
Dude you gotta listen to Gary Cohen announce the catch
Yea, fuck Joe Fuckin Buck, good for nothing hairplug addict. Also, Tim McCarver was formerly the Mets tv announcer before crossing town to be the Yankees tv announcer. So fuck this whole booth.
Cohen is god. He should call the World Series
I can't figure out how he gets paid to be a sports announcer
ua-cam.com/video/PCDBuYG1-_M/v-deo.html bettah, much bettah
I get chills every time I see this!
Even though the Cardinals did eventually win, this is one of the best catches of all time (and maybe the best ever; although Willie Mays would say something about that) given the circumstances and what was on the line in this one game.
Amazing performance
The 2006 Mets were perhaps the best team in mets history besides the 86 team. sad they lost...
I disagree, maybe 3rd best after the 1988 team. 88 had better pitching.
Krisrocksz1 '15 mets?
2006 Mets were better overall than the 2015 Mets. The only advantage the 2015 Mets had was starting pitching. 2006 Mets lost El Duque and Pedro along with Sanchez who was maybe their best bullpen guy the whole year. That's what derailed that team. But they had the best record in baseball that year. 2015 Mets was more of a Cinderella run. They made it further but they weren't better than the 2006 Mets.
What about that 99 team that squared off against my Bravos in the NLCS? I hate the Mets and I will say that team was pretty damn good!
I've been fan for almost 40 years and the best team during that time was unquestionably 1986. Then comes 1988, 1985 (Gooden was a beast that year, and the pitching overall during those years was better than anything they've ever had), 2006, 1999, 2000, then 2015. I have 2000 so low because that team was basically the result of great managing by Bobby V (a starting outfield of Timo Perez, Benny Agbayani, and Jay Payton making it to the WS is incredible). 2015 is also at the end of the list because they basically were just fortunate to get hot at the right time.
The best play of all time
I love Tim McCarver's reaction!
So much better than Joe Buck’s call
We should have won the World Series that year. We should have won that game. This reminded me of the 94 Knicks NBA finals. So close.
When Endy Chavez went up into the air, to the stars and made that sensational catch and then sensational throw for an inning ending double play, I thought to myself:
"It doesnt get any better than this" ...... And I was right. It didnt.
From what I saw from the Mets starting in the bottom of the 6th inning until the game ended, was one of the biggest choking I have ever seen in a game. From having all the momentum in the world, at home, to then choking the way they did.
I cried after this game.
That is the epitome of a poster.
We had an an assembly with this guy last year and he seemed like such a gunuine guy
one of the best ever.. if they won maybe #1
Greatest catch of all-time.
This is the greatest jawdropping catch I have ever seen. Too bad we didn't go on to win the game and series. I think that is why people forget it this catch.
I was at this game!! The way Shea was rocking was unbelievable...I could literally feel the ground shaking as if an earthquake was happening...if only the Mets would have won this game
What a catch Endy!!!!
Mets shouldve won the WS this year, frack me.
I call that Yadier Molina HR the start of the apocalypse of the mets bullpen. Heilman just pisses me off. It's been 8 fucking years and the bullpen still sucks horse shit it's depressing.
gotmusic0915
That's not entirely true. Bullpen was one of the better parts of the team this year.
+CNep99 you have a point. Maybe this is the turn of the corner but all before now was atrocious lol.
***** gotmusic0915 Benitez was long gone by '06. Heilman had been a starter his whole career but that genius Omar Minaya pretty much insisted he be relegated to the bullpen, so blame him too. Agree with CNep99 that Heilman notwithstanding, our '06 bullpen was considered the best in the biz. So what did Professor Minaya do to our bullpen after the '06 season? He blew it up, getting rid of Chad Bradford, Heath Bell and Royce Ring, all of whom had great success with other teams. Instead we had impotent tools like Mota and Vargas leading us to collapse in '07. Heilman takes too much shit. He had few spectacular meltdowns but fans only seem to remember him for that. Benitez was a more chronic choker (and clubhouse cancer) but thankfully he was gone by summer of '03.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at with that.
I get the chills every time I watch this catch.....I was at this game. It was the most incredible catch I will prob...ever see in my lifetime. The electricity in Shea was off the charts. Then......Molina hits the HR and dead silence. Shea was so quiet...I could hear the Cards celebrating in their dugout....and I was in the upper-deck on the 1st base side. It was horrible.....just horrible.
Came here after Janikowski's catch today just to see this absurd one. Still the greatest catch I've ever seen
best catch ever
Had to watch this after Grandy's catch in Game 2. Grandy's was impressive, but this catch was on a whole other level (not even considering the stakes of a Game 7).
I was at this game. After this play I was sure the Mets would win. Nooooope!
I was there too... the contrast to Beltran’s strike out was night and day
Goosebumps.
no i have never seen better. period
I’m a Yankee fan but I lost my mind when Endy made that grab. One of the best I’ve ever seen in a playoff game. Kinda hoped the Mets won it all that year. Fun team to watch
I was there and I still cannot believe the Mets lost that damn game. That was, by FAR, the loudest I have ever heard Shea or Citi Field.
We are gonna finish what we started 9 years ago.
+TheIrishPinata98 Skippy!!!!
+TheIrishPinata98 Granderson just made a similar catch (although no double play)
Chris Sennello I know! Let's fucking goooo
+Tony C Now you guys need to finish what you started 16 years ago
Best catch that took place in New York since Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series in my opinion
The strength to be there... hell yeah