I was there. I framed my ticket stub. The crowd was in such a frenzy, I thought the upper decks were going to collapse. Perhaps the greatest game ever. At least in Mets history.
Love how Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola didn't talk after the winning run scored for a while. The crowd told us what happened and we got to just drink it in!!
No, they were professionals who didn’t have an allegiance either way. And how can you say that after listening to Scully’s call the moment the ball went under Buckner’s glove? If he was that indifferent toward the Mets it would have never been as legendary as it is.
I was 12 years old watching in Hickory, NC. I was the only Mets fan in my school. Became a fan in 85. After the second out I went to the top of the stairs and couldn’t watch any more, but listened. After the first run scored, I came back down stairs and watched very close to the screen. I am 50 years older now, and this is the best moment of my fandom in my life. #LGM
I was 22… and a Mets fan since 1975, watching with a buddy at his house after the Red Sox scored the second run I wanted to leave, convince me to stay with two out and nobody on again. I got up to leave only to be stopped. I was so determined not to watch the Red Sox celebrate in Shea, Stadium, and break their curse. Yeah, the Miller light player the game announcement. That’s when I was ready to go. My friend kept saying don’t leave until it’s over as soon as it’s over you can get outta here if you don’t wanna watch any of it, but not yet. One of the most incredible moments of good fortune of being in the right spot at the right time in my life of sports fandom
I had tickets for game 7 of this series sitting on my dining room table which I was about to tear up with two outs and nobody on base down two runs in the tenth inning. Thank God my wife talked me out of it. We ended up going to game 7 to watch the Mets win again in come from behind fashion. My only regret was that Tom Seaver was sitting in the opposing dugout instead of the Mets dugout.
This current squad had some shade of the 86 Mets. A better bullpen, some run support, and a little bit of luck will send them to the world series this upcoming season.
Can't believe it's been almost 40 Years! Remember that night so clearly. Had my friends over. Was asked to change the channel after first 2 outs. I can't imagine how the fans felt when they got to the car and listened to the game on the radio in the parking lot of Shea Stadium! Bet they never let before the last 3 outs again. Great game. Great memories.
I was there sitting all the way up in the heavens. I was 10 uears old. Dave Henderson's HR in the top of the 10th my dad says to me, my brother and mom let's go, so we left. By the time we got home the Mets had won. We missed the big comeback 😢
I was there with a few friends, as a former Mets player I can tell you Shea Stadium was going crazy, lots of people finished watching the game from the bridge on the way to the 7 train, it was AMAZING!
14:33....."here comes Knight, and the Mets win it!" then, SILENCE. Vin Scully doesn't speak again until 17:57, 3 minutes 24 seconds later. 204 seconds of pictures capturing a delirious crowd that has seen something close to a miracle. GOLDEN. If you ask why Scully is considered the greatest to ever do it, use this as guidance.
It was a magical season. The Mets were the talk of the town. They won 116 games total (regular and postseason) and it seemed every win was different from one another. The closest Mets team I've seen that rivaled the 86 team was probably the 2006 team, but that didn't even come close. I think the 2015 team rivaled the 69 team where they were underdogs the whole season.
We wer at my house having a holloween party with a bunch of friends, all of us were glued to the living room TV. watching game 6 tenth inning. we all went nuts.
Even though I wasn’t alive when this happened, I love watching Mookie’s lucky walk-off. It’s undoubtedly the greatest play I’ve ever seen in the sport. It’s moments like these that make me proud to have been raised a Met fan.
I just went to a reunion of the 86 Mets team and every single one of them were pure class and super nice, funny and great to be around… I met Gary 20 years prior and honestly meeting these guys has been nothing short of one of the more memorable moments in my life
My tears always come down when I see this. R.i.P Mets- Gary Carter, Bill Robinson (1st coach) Buddy Harrelson (3rd base coach) Red Sox- manager Joe Mc Namara, Dave Henderson,Bill Buckner, Joe Garagiola and Vin Scully one of the best announcer ever
I was lucky enough to be at this game Had season tickets 14 rows up over the Mets dugout When the Mets had 2 outs i asked my friend mike if he wanted to go We both didn’t want to see the Red Sox celebrating on our field But thankfully we hung in there After knight scored the stadium was actually shaking or so it seemed!!! Absolutely a moment I’ll never forget!!! LGM
I was was watching from the student union at Arizona State. I watched every post season Mets game there that year (I was too poor to afford a TV). I was the lone Mets fan during this game, surrounded by Red Sox fans I felt great depression turn to unbelievable happiness in just a few short minutes!
I damn near lost my mind as an 8 year old Met fan watching this live, what a rollercoaster of emotionns now at 47 every single time I watch it a part of me still feels like the outcome will somehow change and they'll lose, that's how improbable this was might sound corny but taught me a valuable lesson as a kid to never give up
I remember this as though it were yesterday. With two outs, I said out loud, "It'll take a miracle now." Little did I know. When Knight scored the winning run, I must have yelled a dozen times, "Can you believe it?!?" I also remember the '69 Miracle Mets very well.
Before DVD’s I wore out my VHS tape not exaggerating I’ve watched this at least a thousand times. As a 10 year old jumping up & down on my dads arm RIP DAD LET’S GO METS
As Garagiola mentioned, I always wondered why Backman didn't try to bunt to get on base when he led off the inning. The Mets needed base runners, and getting on was Wally's bread and butter all season long.
Just realized after almost 40 years that Sinatra's "New York, New York" is briefly played during Ray Knight's at bat...talk about timing...an epic song seconds before an epic Mets moment!!!
Nearly 40 years, and I still can't believe Mookie Wilson was able to hit a total of 6 foul balls in a ten-pitch at-bat and not strike out. Wow! Never give up.
Legendary game, series, and team, but celebrating 86 every waking moment is getting so tiring. Really hope the mets can win the big one soon so we can appreciate 86 again without being a reminder of the last time the mets were champions
The Mets grabbed the Bambino thing from the Red Sox exactly due to this game. The Sox went on to finally win the series in 2004, plus 3 more times while the Mets have been waiting 38 years. Now it is called the Buckner thing
Rich Gedman doesn't get enough blame for Boston's collapse. The WP to score Mitchell and move Knight into scoring position really should have been a PB.
Scully with two out and nobody on he was talking about the Red Sox winning share and then the camera panned to oil can Boyd and said at least for the moment…he has tomorrow night off…. “For the moment” like it wasn’t over, really??? with two outs, a two run lead and nobody on base… Quite remarkable
The Bob Murphy call was and is better....“And the pitch by Stanley, and a ground ball, trickling, it’s a fair ball. It gets by Buckner!!! Rounding third Knight!!! The Mets will win the ballgame!! The Mets win!!!!!”
I often wondered why McNamara went to Stanley instead of Sambito? Mookie, HoJo and Mazzilli were the following batters. All switch hitters, but much better from the left side. They were all fast runners, but Sambito would have made them all bat right handed
@@packersauburneric3625 originally he thought he would start but a rainout pushed game 7 to Monday, so McNamara decided to ride the hot hand in Hurst. Oil Can, disgusted he wouldn't start, drowned his sorrows rendering him unusable in game 7.
Marty Barrett player of the game before the game's even over? What ever happened to 'It ain't over till it's over'? Cut me a break on that one. Roger Clemens sitting in the dugout thinking about champagne? That was a beautiful sight to see live on tv.. It was one of my favorite moments iin MLB history. He looked excatly like he is. A knucklehead.. Even better than seeing Wade Boggs crying in the dugout after game seven.. lol
100% with Clemens. They’re all on the top step of the dugout waiting to come on the field that never happened. Getting their hearts ripped out in the most brutal way in the process. Clemens didn’t or couldn’t stay in the ball game with a blister….saving it for spring training or something I guess, odd behavior for the ace of the staff….I wonder how he felt when Bob Stanley started trundling in from the bullpen.
One of the best things I’ve seen about this is actually Boston’s reverse the curse coming back against the Yankees down three games to none and ultimately winning the World Series in 2004 . It’s here on UA-cam and it goes over all the historical Boston, collapses and bad brakes of course highlighting the 86 series from a Boston perspective. It’s great stuff. Check it out if you haven’t already.
@@BufordTGleason Absolutly. But by 1986 I was like 30 and I knew it wasn't the curse that got the The Red Sox at those games. It was Mets Magic coming in all directions inflicted on them. Mets Magic. Pretty funny I substituted one curse for another. But I saw The Red Sox beat the hell out of The Yankees a bunch of times at The Stadium in the 60s when I was a kid. My dad hated The Red Sox and The Tigers. Why Dad? So he only took me to Sox and Tiger games. I felt bad for The Red Sox for decades because I believed they always had great teams. But I was a Met fan so I'm glad they won in '86 . Those 1986 games were like a thermo nuclear explosion. Pure kick ass NY City entertainment. But I was thrilled when The Red Sox finally won it all in 2004. Thrilled to death, and real happy for them. I'm glad my dad ain't around to hear me say this. lol frankny66yroldwhitekid
I was there. I framed my ticket stub. The crowd was in such a frenzy, I thought the upper decks were going to collapse. Perhaps the greatest game ever. At least in Mets history.
Lucky you. I was in Alphabet City NYCHA projects on Losaida Avenue in Pedro Ibizu Campos plaza. I was leaping and jumping in my apartment.
What other lies would you like to share?
Awesome you lucky guy.
Love how Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola didn't talk after the winning run scored for a while. The crowd told us what happened and we got to just drink it in!!
Um…the TV screen showed us.
They both didn't like the Mets
No, they were professionals who didn’t have an allegiance either way.
And how can you say that after listening to Scully’s call the moment the ball went under Buckner’s glove?
If he was that indifferent toward the Mets it would have never been as legendary as it is.
I was 12 years old watching in Hickory, NC. I was the only Mets fan in my school. Became a fan in 85. After the second out I went to the top of the stairs and couldn’t watch any more, but listened. After the first run scored, I came back down stairs and watched very close to the screen. I am 50 years older now, and this is the best moment of my fandom in my life. #LGM
I was 22… and a Mets fan since 1975, watching with a buddy at his house after the Red Sox scored the second run I wanted to leave, convince me to stay with two out and nobody on again. I got up to leave only to be stopped.
I was so determined not to watch the Red Sox celebrate in Shea, Stadium, and break their curse.
Yeah, the Miller light player the game announcement. That’s when I was ready to go. My friend kept saying don’t leave until it’s over as soon as it’s over you can get outta here if you don’t wanna watch any of it, but not yet.
One of the most incredible moments of good fortune of being in the right spot at the right time in my life of sports fandom
I still get chills all these years later! I wonder if you would consider posting the Bob Murphy call on radio too? Thanks for this!!
Never. Gets. Old.
I had tickets for game 7 of this series sitting on my dining room table which I was about to tear up with two outs and nobody on base down two runs in the tenth inning. Thank God my wife talked me out of it. We ended up going to game 7 to watch the Mets win again in come from behind fashion. My only regret was that Tom Seaver was sitting in the opposing dugout instead of the Mets dugout.
Tom Terrific sighting at 10:05.
want to thank whoever edited this for not cropping it down to 16:9 and maintaining its original aspect ratio
I agree. I would have left out the blurred panels though.
This current squad had some shade of the 86 Mets. A better bullpen, some run support, and a little bit of luck will send them to the world series this upcoming season.
WE GOT THE TEAM WORK TO MAKE THE DREAM WORK LET’S GO METS GO 💙🧡
This is what my friends and I have on our brick in front of Citi Field!
@ love it :)
Can't believe it's been almost 40 Years! Remember that night so clearly. Had my friends over. Was asked to change the channel after first 2 outs. I can't imagine how the fans felt when they got to the car and listened to the game on the radio in the parking lot of Shea Stadium! Bet they never let before the last 3 outs again. Great game. Great memories.
Greatest comeback in WS history!!!
I remember this very well, love watching it anyway
Vin Scully is such a legendary broadcaster. More than just a Dodger icon.
Whoever runs this channel needs a raise and promotion
It’s the Mets!
This... never... gets... old #LFGM
I was there sitting all the way up in the heavens. I was 10 uears old. Dave Henderson's HR in the top of the 10th my dad says to me, my brother and mom let's go, so we left. By the time we got home the Mets had won. We missed the big comeback 😢
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! Never leave the Mets game LFGM
I was there with a few friends, as a former Mets player I can tell you Shea Stadium was going crazy, lots of people finished watching the game from the bridge on the way to the 7 train, it was AMAZING!
nice, which player are you?
cap
Yes We need to know who you is!!!
14:33....."here comes Knight, and the Mets win it!" then, SILENCE.
Vin Scully doesn't speak again until 17:57, 3 minutes 24 seconds later.
204 seconds of pictures capturing a delirious crowd that has seen something close to a miracle.
GOLDEN.
If you ask why Scully is considered
the greatest to ever do it,
use this as guidance.
Wish I was alive at the time to experience this
It was a magical season. The Mets were the talk of the town. They won 116 games total (regular and postseason) and it seemed every win was different from one another. The closest Mets team I've seen that rivaled the 86 team was probably the 2006 team, but that didn't even come close. I think the 2015 team rivaled the 69 team where they were underdogs the whole season.
There won't be another 1986.
Thing I remember most is that no one wanted to leave.
We wer at my house having a holloween party with a bunch of friends, all of us were glued to the living room TV. watching game 6 tenth inning. we all went nuts.
Even though I wasn’t alive when this happened, I love watching Mookie’s lucky walk-off. It’s undoubtedly the greatest play I’ve ever seen in the sport. It’s moments like these that make me proud to have been raised a Met fan.
Mookie would have beat Buckner to to bag He was flying down the line LFGM!
Let’s Go Mets! 😁❤️
I just went to a reunion of the 86 Mets team and every single one of them were pure class and super nice, funny and great to be around… I met Gary 20 years prior and honestly meeting these guys has been nothing short of one of the more memorable moments in my life
My GREATEST Mets moment! Was in my 2nd year at College in North Carolina and the ENTIRE campus went ABSOLUTE BANANAS!!!!!
My tears always come down when I see this. R.i.P Mets- Gary Carter, Bill Robinson (1st coach) Buddy Harrelson (3rd base coach) Red Sox- manager Joe Mc Namara, Dave Henderson,Bill Buckner, Joe Garagiola and Vin Scully one of the best announcer ever
My heart goes out to the late Bill Buckner. He was a fantastic baseball player with this blot ever characterized on his career.
Mookie had that beat out anyway!
I don't blame Buckner half as much as the pitchers for that loss. Not sure why he became the scapegoat.
I was pulling for Red Sox but almost 40 years later, I remember it as great moment in baseball history. What a game!
I was lucky enough to be at this game
Had season tickets 14 rows up over the Mets dugout
When the Mets had 2 outs i asked my friend mike if he wanted to go
We both didn’t want to see the Red Sox celebrating on our field
But thankfully we hung in there
After knight scored the stadium was actually shaking or so it seemed!!!
Absolutely a moment I’ll never forget!!!
LGM
12:36 Gets away! Gets away! Here comes Mitchell! Here comes Mitchell! Tie game! The call of the great Bob Murphy!
I was was watching from the student union at Arizona State. I watched every post season Mets game there that year (I was too poor to afford a TV). I was the lone Mets fan during this game, surrounded by Red Sox fans I felt great depression turn to unbelievable happiness in just a few short minutes!
As a Yankees fan born in 1986, this lives rent free in my head.
Also, Vin Scully being on the call is absolute perfection.
LFGM!!
this was the one time Yankees and Mets fans could agree on winning a WS. No Yankee fan wanted Boston to break the "Curse".
The Red Sox were the college graduates while the Mets were the drop out kids that won the WS that year 😮😮😮😮
I damn near lost my mind as an 8 year old Met fan watching this live, what a rollercoaster of emotionns now at 47 every single time I watch it a part of me still feels like the outcome will somehow change and they'll lose, that's how improbable this was might sound corny but taught me a valuable lesson as a kid to never give up
I remember this as though it were yesterday. With two outs, I said out loud, "It'll take a miracle now." Little did I know. When Knight scored the winning run, I must have yelled a dozen times, "Can you believe it?!?" I also remember the '69 Miracle Mets very well.
2024 was full of those moments too So cool Just those ef’n Dodgers Again
Buckner's famous ground ball illusion 😮😮😮😮
Before DVD’s I wore out my VHS tape not exaggerating I’ve watched this at least a thousand times. As a 10 year old jumping up & down on my dads arm RIP DAD LET’S GO METS
What other lies would you like to share?
As Garagiola mentioned, I always wondered why Backman didn't try to bunt to get on base when he led off the inning. The Mets needed base runners, and getting on was Wally's bread and butter all season long.
14:41 grimace spotted
Just realized after almost 40 years that Sinatra's "New York, New York" is briefly played during Ray Knight's at bat...talk about timing...an epic song seconds before an epic Mets moment!!!
I also believe that Mookie would have beat that play at first base
Nearly 40 years, and I still can't believe Mookie Wilson was able to hit a total of 6 foul balls in a ten-pitch at-bat and not strike out. Wow! Never give up.
Legendary game, series, and team, but celebrating 86 every waking moment is getting so tiring. Really hope the mets can win the big one soon so we can appreciate 86 again without being a reminder of the last time the mets were champions
The Mets grabbed the Bambino thing from the Red Sox exactly due to this game.
The Sox went on to finally win the series in 2004, plus 3 more times while the Mets have been waiting 38 years.
Now it is called the Buckner thing
How pitching rules have changed. Bob Stanley balked on every pitch.
TIL the day I die I have never experienced anything like this. From Boston fan
This is a half inning, not a full inning
Go Mets! 😁❤️
Rich Gedman doesn't get enough blame for Boston's collapse. The WP to score Mitchell and move Knight into scoring position really should have been a PB.
WELL after this game thousands and THOUSANDS of us went outside SCREAMING “WE WANT OIL CAN!!!” And we never got him!!!
Scully with two out and nobody on he was talking about the Red Sox winning share and then the camera panned to oil can Boyd and said at least for the moment…he has tomorrow night off….
“For the moment” like it wasn’t over, really??? with two outs, a two run lead and nobody on base… Quite remarkable
You’ve got the Miracle Mets against the most cursed team in baseball at the time. It was destiny
If not for curse being over as sox fan i would be more haunted but i still respect & root for Mets since al leiter days lmao
The 1986 New York Mets had CHUTZPAH!🇺🇸⚾
It got old need it in 2025
The Bob Murphy call was and is better....“And the pitch by Stanley, and a ground ball, trickling, it’s a fair ball. It gets by Buckner!!! Rounding third Knight!!! The Mets will win the ballgame!! The Mets win!!!!!”
Never noticed this before but if Boggs charges that dribbler at 7:50 I bet he throws out Knight, who was not exactly a speedster. Game over.
I often wondered why McNamara went to Stanley instead of Sambito? Mookie, HoJo and Mazzilli were the following batters. All switch hitters, but much better from the left side. They were all fast runners, but Sambito would have made them all bat right handed
Weak bullpen.
13:43 should’ve been a balk, Stanley never came to a stop before throwing the pitch
Commentators:
Vin Scully & Joe Garagiola.
Um…”walk off” wasn’t INVENTED until 1988!!!
LFGM!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤😢😢 poor Buckner but Mookie would have beat him to the bag!!!😢😢😢
But, there was still game seven to play. In those days game seven was a source of anxiety…. Not that time… everybody knew, even the players.
Did they ever end up changing the player of the game from Marty Barrett to Mookie? LOL
Luckiest gift win in history of baseball red sox total choke job
Only the red sox could lose that series
what a bum Bob Stanley was
Oil Can Boydd was such a piece of crap. 4:17 about to win the series and screaming and cursing yelling swing the bat so glad he lost
Didn't know Dennis was such a menace.
You hear oil can was too drunk to play game 7 & players locked him in clubhouse lol on mlb network greatest games they explained it
@@packersauburneric3625 never heard that but not surprised
@@packersauburneric3625. Because after HE got rained out Sunday night they skipped him pitching Game 7!!!
@@packersauburneric3625 originally he thought he would start but a rainout pushed game 7 to Monday, so McNamara decided to ride the hot hand in Hurst. Oil Can, disgusted he wouldn't start, drowned his sorrows rendering him unusable in game 7.
Marty Barrett player of the game before the game's even over? What ever happened to 'It ain't over till it's over'? Cut me a break on that one. Roger Clemens sitting in the dugout thinking about champagne? That was a beautiful sight to see live on tv.. It was one of my favorite moments iin MLB history. He looked excatly like he is. A knucklehead.. Even better than seeing Wade Boggs crying in the dugout after game seven.. lol
100% with Clemens. They’re all on the top step of the dugout waiting to come on the field that never happened. Getting their hearts ripped out in the most brutal way in the process. Clemens didn’t or couldn’t stay in the ball game with a blister….saving it for spring training or something I guess, odd behavior for the ace of the staff….I wonder how he felt when Bob Stanley started trundling in from the bullpen.
One of the best things I’ve seen about this is actually Boston’s reverse the curse coming back against the Yankees down three games to none and ultimately winning the World Series in 2004 . It’s here on UA-cam and it goes over all the historical Boston, collapses and bad brakes of course highlighting the 86 series from a Boston perspective. It’s great stuff. Check it out if you haven’t already.
@@BufordTGleason Absolutly. But by 1986 I was like 30 and I knew it wasn't the curse that got the The Red Sox at those games. It was Mets Magic coming in all directions inflicted on them. Mets Magic. Pretty funny I substituted one curse for another. But I saw The Red Sox beat the hell out of The Yankees a bunch of times at The Stadium in the 60s when I was a kid. My dad hated The Red Sox and The Tigers. Why Dad? So he only took me to Sox and Tiger games. I felt bad for The Red Sox for decades because I believed they always had great teams. But I was a Met fan so I'm glad they won in '86 . Those 1986 games were like a thermo nuclear explosion. Pure kick ass NY City entertainment. But I was thrilled when The Red Sox finally won it all in 2004. Thrilled to death, and real happy for them. I'm glad my dad ain't around to hear me say this. lol frankny66yroldwhitekid
Go Mets! 😁❤❤🔥