Rest in peace Bill Buckner. No matter what anybody else says about "the one that went right through your legs" in Game 6 of the 86 World Series, you were an outstanding individual who showed stability and great athleticism during your lifetime career as a Major League baseball player. We're gonna miss you. You will forever live in our hearts. ☁⛅☁
Roberto Lopez not to mention the fact that the game was already tied when he made that error--they had already blown a 2-run lead with only one out left to get. Blame is more appropriately assigned to Schiraldi, or truthfully more accurately, McNamara for not using his players properly. Schiraldi shouldn't even have still been in the game in the first place. It was his third inning of work, which is more than is ever supposed to be asked of a closer, particularly when Stanley had yet to allow an earned run in that series. He should have been in from the start of that inning, not brought in only with the tying run already at 3rd.
The entire 1986 postseason was one for the ages. Unbelievable talent, heartbreak, and resiliency throughout. As a 12 year old, that's when I became hooked.
Yep, you were at the perfect age to witness the greatest post season in MLB history. My personal fave is game five of the ALCS. Al Michaels said it best after Hendu's two run shot with two outs in the top of the ninth and down to their last strike, "You're lookin' at one for the ages here."
what a post season. Could've easily been Houston vs California in the World Series.....amazing how many times the MEts came back when defeat seemed only a strike away. What a post season run.
I swear this crowd is what sparked the win. They were full throat and full bore from the first pitch on. Even when the Mets were down. Impressive. These kinds of fans are priced out of todays sports.
There's a number of things that factor into that- first off, it IS still Game 7 of the World Series and even when they were down Sid Fernandez got the crowd back into the game back when middle relievers were not commonly used (Sid was normally a starter). However, just as important is the way the MLB parks are now. The game, whether you like it or not, is just part of the entertainment, now. And in some cases, if the team sucks, a very small part of it, actually. There are clubs, bars, restaurants, games for children to play, free wifi - you name it, it's in the confines of the stadium somewhere. When you have so much bullshit going on at the same time, it will detract away from the interest in the game (the game also hasn't kept up with TV and the times, as it should have, and those problems they've let fester will eventually have an adverse effect over the next 10-15 years, as millennials become the highest demographic, and that's part of it, too). Additionally, all of the fucking artificial noise that these speaker systems pump into the stadiums now, almost constantly, also has an adverse effect on crowd reaction/interest, perhaps somewhat counterintuitively. This involvement you're speaking about in 86' was organic and uninterrupted by "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!?!?!? .....THE HAPPY BUS IS COMING!!!!!!!.....WE WILL ROCK YOU 1,000,000,000 TIMES!!!!!!!!!........HEY NOW!!YOU"RE AN ALLSTAR, GET YOUR GAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!EXIT LIGHT, ENTER NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!....." and the endless motherfucking barrage of bullshit that's pumped into one's senses even at a meaningless game, much less a game on National TV for all the marbles. Sometimes I seriously want to go into the sound room of these places and just blow the guy at the CPU away, so the bullshit noise can stop invading my sense of sound, and so I can actually listen to the person next to me fucking talk. And yes, there are all the minions that want to live their lives through their cellphones, so when a big play/moment happens instead of being really into it, they go and reach for the Goddamned camera on their phones, as if anybody's going to want to watch their crappy 30 seconds of their perspective in the ballpark (Ah....hello?! Remember, the game's on TV!!!!!!!!) So there you have it, those are the myriad of reasons it's not usually like this, now. Not just about pricing people out (although that's a factor, as well).
My thoughts exactly! That's why it used to be SO HARD to win a game 7 on the road! Have you noticed now how many teams win Game 7's on the road in the playoffs? It happens ALL THE TIME!!! When I was growing up it almost NEVER Happened!
@@jpwjr1199 well put, totally agree with your assessment of how corporate america has ruined the games we love, and everything else. they have to put a price on everything these days, nothing is out of bounds, and as you say most people who haven't seen a decent raise in 40 years, now have to shell out over a days pay to watch a goddamn game. it's out of fucking control. we need to take america back from the greedy 1%.
@@tomitstube It's true what you're saying to a degree, and I agree with the sentiment. I also was trying to point out that some things were unavoidable, like the cellphones and wi-fi at the games. If I were to attack corporate America and how it affects pro sports, I'd look first to the taxpayer funded, tax free for the team owner's stadium/arena deals.
@@jpwjr1199 agree with that too, we must end corporate welfare for team owners, and do away with their anti-trust protections. why do billionaires and the companies they run have so many protections? i thought the "free market" was supposed to take care of that. it's all a scam by the 1% and the puppets they (s)elect. and this is across the board for numerous tax funded private subsidies, that almost *never* do what they promise as far as jobs and economic growth for the communities the *pretend* to serve. nyc rejecting to pay amazon 3 billion dollars just for coming there is a great start. pretty amazing how amazon wanted a headquarters in either d.c. or n.y. and when they can't get the billions in give aways, bezos decides to not to expand. i thought this was about jobs? nope it was all about getting more corporate welfare and not having to promise anything in return. but yeah, tax payers paying millions for stadiums that billionaire owners then use to gouge the (same) people who paid for the stadium? $10 beers, $5 sodas, parking? the average ticket in the nfl is $83. and that's before you're gouged at the stadium... and all this at the cost of not paying for schools, infrastructure, parks, and community projects?!?! and the people working there are making minimum wage? owners are literally taking out cheap seats to put in corporate suites. how is this scam allowed to continue? it amazes me how the rich blatantly rip us off and nobody bats an eye... ah yes, and then there's the corporate media controlling the narrative...
Very True. And Joe Gibbs is still on the podium trying to figure out how the 86 New York Giants beat the Redskins in the 86 NFC Champion Ship Game. He's in the Guinness Book for longest beard ever.
You want to laugh, i always wondered what happened to that glove ? Im not kidding. With all those cops im sure they got it. If you notice they all held on to their gloves.
I'm a Mets fan but to blame Buckner is to be clueless. So many other Sox blew chances to win the series. Buckner was a great player, and a class act. After game six (and seven) he patiently answered every reporter's question.
Oh yeah, I mean he was just the scapegoat. These Mets were my last "totally favorite" baseball team. I was a senior in HS when this happened and I had liked them since I was in 8th, when they were dead last. The team they had arranged over the next few years was so fun to watch on the old WOR. This was the crown jewel of all their accomplishments. I had watched them scrape back in many a game before this. I loooooved it when Jesse Orosco would come out in relief because they almost always won. Hardly EVER did he blow it for them. Calvin Shiraldi had actually been a Mets pitcher a couple years before this. The whole Sox pitching lineup blew this.
Lucas McCain Red Sox built an early 3-0 lead, Bruce Hurst - who would've been the World Series MVP had Boston won it - held the Mets scoreless through 5 innings. The Mets just simply refused to labor. Even early on when their bats were quiet, you had to sense that they would eventually get their bats in gear. The Mets won over 100 games that year & a lot of those in come-from-behind fashion, so they just didn't panic even when it took them until the 6th to finally get to Hurst & the Red Sox bullpen.
Migueltio Schiraldi was actually traded for Bob Ojeda the year BEFORE this Series, in 1985. How ironic that both pitchers would win up facing their former teams in the Fall Classic a year later.
Even after that devastating error, Buckner still went 2 for 4 this final game and even scored with one good leg. Just shows you that he was doing everything in his power to help his team win.
Yankees fan here. This Mets team was truly magical. Both my parents are Mets fans so they hold a special place in my heart. And they kept the curse going another 18 years
Then we clipped you down 3-0 and have won 4 times as many as you in the last 2 decades 😭 Don't give me that 27championship crap when exactly 20 of your championships have literally been before 1963 LMAO😭 You have 7 in the last 60 years. You have 1 in the last 24 years. We have 4 in the last 19 years.
God bless your parents I want you to MedVed even though it's going across the street from Yankee stadium and I was hanging fell when I was going up anyway 1969 game truly call amazing
@@speakinfaxonly21 oh and guess what, those titles before 1963 still count the same. 86 years of losing and finally started to string a few together. Now Red Sox fans think they are the Yankees with all the championship gloating 🤣🤣
Movie matics same here. 9 yo. In Brooklyn. Troop and flushing ave, saw my dads friend shouting lungs out in excitement. Been a Mets fan since the. Wear my cap loose or win with pride
The good old days indeed. 1986 was my favorite year for so many different reasons. Mainly because I'm a die hard Boston Celtics fan and in my opinion, that was the best team ever. Also my Canadiens won the Cup over the Calgary Flames.
Yeah but they do keep that respectful silence now. After winning a really dramatic championship. I've seen many modern era World Series (post 2000s) where yes, Joe Buck shuts his mouth and lets the winners celebrate. Check out 2001. I think it was almost 4 minutes without a word after his call of "Floater, center field, the Diamondbacks are World Champions!" After Aaron Boone's homer clinched the ALCS in 2003 I don't think anything was said after Buck's homerun call until the on-field interview of Boone. It depends on the drama and the emotion involved. I think if it's an easily clinched title and the emotion and celebration is muted somewhat, Buck (or whoever is announcing) will talk again relatively quickly after his clincher call (he kept on talking right over the 2003 Marlins celebration in Yankee Stadium but that wasn't a wild celebration or moment either). But if its an ending that squeezes out all the emotion and suspense, particularly if the home crowd is thrilled, then he will keep it quiet for a while. Off memory, I am not sure about 2011 but that would be another good one to look at and compare considering that Cardinals team was also down to their final strike multiple times and then clinched at home.
Seeing Gary Carter embrace Keith Hernandez after the game game me chills. I'm 25 and a life long mets fan. I've dealt with disappointment for the vast majority of of those years. My dad was 25 when they won it all in 1986. I hope that history can repeat itself!
@Councilman Les Wynan if you like pitching duel s 91 was good the 86 w s BLOWS THAT AWAY I d put the 2001 like the 86 w s dramatic in almost every game ahead of that the 75 even 2016 would pass that BORING PITCHING DUEL IN 91
I know, right? What do they have now, about 30 different uniforms? This one was the best. I don't get all the alternate crap. At least the Yankees never do that.
That 1986 Met's team had it all. Great starting pitching, great bullpen, single hitters, power hitters, and an excellent defensive team. You don't win 108 games during the regular season if you are not a great team. Games 6 and 7 of this World Series were great games. The Red Sox were solid but not in the Met's class. To take the Mets to the 7th game and be leading in the middle of the game is a testament to their grit.
Kim Martin I agree Kim, I had a game going on the computer yesterday... I heard the voice announcing and realized it was Vin Scully. Was a Dodger game. I watched it just cause of him. :)
I don't have the actual game on VHS but months later MLB released a VHS of the Series, with key moments of every game. I still have it. Need to have it transfered to a disc.
Thirty years ago today, The Amazing Mets completed an awesome season. Comeback after comeback, everyone is always so quick to blame Bill Buckner, but the Red Sox had a 3-0 lead in game 7 and still couldn't find a way to win. Way to go Mets!!!
Rich Gedman was the bigger culprit. Though it was called a wild pich that scored the Kevin Mitchell tying run....it should have been scored a passed ball. That pitch was knee high and inside......but quite catchable. 8 of 10 catchers have that pitch in their mit. He simply took too long to react to it.
i was a huge mazzilee fan growing up, when they got him back in 86 it meant the world to me, then to see him contribute in the world series...wow!!!!! home is a time, not a place......
This was the year my family got cable so this was especially memorable for me, being a kid watching the Mets the entire season. This team is legend. I don't think any team can top this for me. This is up there with childhood Christmases & trips to Disneyland. Pure magic.
One of my greatest childhood memories. I was 5 and I remember that it was the first time I had ever felt complete elation. My house was in pandemonium for the end of game 6 and 7. Great team, wonderful personalities, one of a kind experience. America was a better place back then.
One of my worst. Told mom in game 6, "the Sox are finally going to do it!"...We know how that ended. By the time I saw Boggs crying on the bench in Game 7 I had to go upstairs and shed a few myself.
@@MaximusWolfe It only took 18 years for the pain to fully go away. 😉 Now, we're rather spoiled as Sox fans. But honestly, I still think of the drama of the '86 Series (and playoffs) the most.
That loud & crazy crowd (55K+) at Shea no doubt helped the Mets rally. With the COVID-19 situation I just have a really hard time picturing baseball, esp the World Series, being played with no fans.
I thought the key was Sid's pitching, especially blowing away Rice and striking out Evans with a mix of slow stuff and a fastball. It really set the crowd on fire.
They’ve had a bunch of captains since these days. Wright was an official captain, although he didn’t want the C on his jersey which I completely agree w/. John Franco was a captain for many years who did wear a C. And Hernandez and Carter weren’t captains until ‘87.
Cubs fan here. Not to mention Mookie Wilson, Wally Backman, Keith Hernandez, Ray Knight, Darryl Strawberry, Len Dykstra and Hubie Brooks. Jesse Orosco and Dwight Gooden also.
2:34:56 Gary looking for mex, it hits me in the heart. they werent the closest, but they respected the hell out of each others game. Keith really took kids death hard, and this was a nice little moment in their relationship.
I watched something about the Mets doc last year & they said the issue might have stemmed from Carter was supposed to be the leader of the team but it was really Keith's team something like that so maybe a bit of ego in who was the capt or guy the troops followed ? Winning is think heals a lot of that kind of stuff. Like I learned watching an interview that the Riley Knicks that took the 93 bulls to 7 & than lost to them the next year in 6 was large in part that mark Jackson was the leader of the team & was stupidly traded away plus the non signing of Xavier McDaniel. Anyway just b/c Ewing was the best player didn't make him the leader. Ewing was notoriously very quiet & media shy & yes he was a warrior top 50 player hof easy & tried to lead by example but sometimes u need that vocal guy in the clubhouse. Apparently Mark Jackson was it according to many Knicks & he was gone for the aging doc rivers who was hurt in early in their finals run & Derek harper became that guy. Maybe a pg is that if the franchise player isn't. Also having said that I can't believe Ray knight who literally was the spark for the Mets in the title win mvp for the series was only offered a measly 5k raise so he was offended ( Don't blame him for walking ) so in ur title defense year of 87 u take the field the very next season w/o the mvp. Knight made such a difference in the Mets last 2 do or die wins. He was the 3rd base hit in a row that scored Carter & got Mitchell to 3rd so that when the wild pitch came in Mitchell scored. Then he scored the famous winning run & is part of the greatest call ever by Vin scully " here comes knight & the Mets win it " then in game 7 he crushes a 3 run home run. W/o knight they don't win. It also annoys me that all people did was blame Buckner or the curse of babe Ruth instead of saying the Mets in a 99% chances they lose spot w/ 2 out nobody on base come back to win. So credit to the Mets in the biggest most epic comeback in a huge world series game where they were about to be eliminated win it. I still get chills watching it from the point of Keith making the 2nd out & literally the scoreboard at Shea congratulated the Sox & the locker room had the t shirts champagne & when it was tied they had to book everything out of there. So the Sox came as close to winning a title as u can. 5 x only 1 strike away. The Mets were just clutch city. Then they were down again in game 7 & came back. They refused to say die.
They should have let Oil Can Boyd start his regular rotation for game 7. It were pure discrimination against Oil Can Boyd. The Bible say's people will reap what they sow. They sowed discrimination and they reap a humiliating loss !!
IMHO, the BEST WORLD SERIES EVER. I didn't see the 75' Series, except through vintage classics thanks to UA-cam or MLB Network. Some say the 91' Series, but how can you give any series that type of credit when no one won on the road? This series had everything, from Boston coming in and winning the first two, to Davey Johnson giving his team a day off, thus coming back to win two in Boston. After it look like the Red Sox was about to win, Carter said he was not making the final out. Mitchell too, then Knight and then Mookie, wild pitch and Bill Buckner. Classic! Great post season for every baseball fan!
Gary Street Yeah. That 16 inning classic in the NLCS Mets vs Stros and the ALCS where the Red Sox themselves down to their last out when Henderson played hero and clubbed a home run.
Mets/Astros NLCS was actually 6 games, but felt like 7. If you count all the extra innings in that series though, it adds up to about 7 games. Probably the most intense and greatest series EVER that didn't go the full 7 games.
I remember watching the Mets on, channel 9 (WOR tv) I believe, I was six years old when my mother bought her first house on 43st n Queens Blvd,about a dozen stops before the Shea Stadium #7train stop. Those where great days n after that, going to the stadium with my Grammer school friends n seeing the Mets play at Shea the following year n paying a $1.50 for a general admission bleecher ticket n sneaking down to c the players n Yogi Berra. The NYJETS won the SUPER BOWL THAT YEAR TOO! I was 6yrs old in 1969,beautiful women,great music n fast muscle cars!! Papa...
i was doing security that night in a Condo in Manhattan and was watching the game, that was a dream team, they had all the right players at the right time, i will never forget that night.
After Game 6, I remember having no doubt about winning 7. I went to the '86 season Mets home opener which they won and then watched so many comebacks that year. They had the talent and the will to win that was unmatched to this day.
It was my 1st time in the US in 1986 (I was 17 yrs old)and I lived in Queens NY. This was part of my childhood and the Mets winning the world series was part of my New York experience and I loved it. I watched the ticker-tape parade with my Uncle back then. He passed away 20 yrs ago. Those were good times. 30 plus years later, (Im now 53) living in Houston. Seeing this video brings back memories. I miss those times.
Strawberry took a long time circling the bases after that homer. Some might remember that he got beaned by Nipper the following pre season for that very reason.
I keep thinking that was why Ray Knight got in Strawberry's face after Darryl touched home plate. Looks like he gave him a good tongue lashing and told him to smarten up. I could be wrong, but that's what it seemed like to me.
30 years after that, the Chicago Cubs broke a 108-year curse by winning their first World Series in over a century, and no one Cubs fan could be more happier: one of childrens' TV's most beloved, and one of WGN-TV's most beloved personalities Bozo the Clown!
In retrospect this was one of the happiest times of my life I was 12. It was an exciting series and New York teams had not been champions yet in my lifetime.
What a series. This game is, among other things, a tribute to the greatness of Keith Hernandez, one of the greatest defensive first basemen in history. Too bad he had a tinge of scandal - rumored cocaine use - early in his career. To me, a Hall of Famer. Not just all the Gold Gloves. But those HUGE clutch hits in two winning Game Seven efforts = 82 and 86. KEITH!!!!!
It wasn't rumored. He admitted to using cocaine in the early 1980's to a grand jury during the Pittsburgh Pirate drug investigation in 1985 and he also he admitted in a book he wrote on the 1985 season "If at First"
@@paulsonj72 I still have the updated paperback of that book. He includes the 1986 season in it. Glad he kicked it because he was a huge part of the '86 season.
The cocaine habit is why the Cardinals traded him. It was a confusing trade that made no sense at the time. Only later was the real reason for the trade reveled. That being said, I agree with your assessment of Hernandez’s abilities. Also, when the Cardinals traded him they sat in 1st pace, they ended the season in 4th.
Statistically speaking, the 1986 NY Mets were the greatest National League team of all time. Even better than the Big Red Machine Reds of 1975, and that's saying something. Just dominant from start to finish.
One of my most fortunate times ever. To be there and win it in Game 7. It was tremendous. The crowd was so electric throughout and it was a pulse like never before or since. The whole game here, really nice because there that night, even better. Game 6 was sick. For all of us who had tickets or the next one, it was an elixir we'll never see or experience again. Unreal. Love you Mex and Fid, the damn game MVP who kept us in there when it looked rough down 3.
this makes me proud and sad that they haven't won again. but this was one of those once in a lifetime stars aligned moments. yankee fan forever but you cant not like this gritty mets team. r.i.p. #8
My tears still come down when I see this... i grew up 5 minutes away from Shea Stadium ✌️from Elmhurst, Queens, New York baby, Let's go Mets let's do it again....⚾️⚾️⚾️
You got that right. Darling struggled and the Mets weren't scoring. It was some dire times when Sid Fernandez came in. Fernandez handled his biz and the Mets were better for it.
Yes indeed Lord Artec -- I nearly broke down in tears when I first read in the local newspapers back in the summer of 2011 that Gary Carter was diagnosed with four tumors in his brain, because I KNEW IN MY GUT that he was eventually going to die. ;-(
And I would think that Gary is boasting to Jesus that he won the World Series for the Mets and not the Expos. He was certainly a class act for America's pastime.
I was born 6 years after this series, but I'm a die hard mets fan. I grew up hearing the stories but it's so cool to actually be able to watch these guys, they are as good as advertised. What a game.
I'm really LOVING the lady in the white flat brimmed hat rolling her arms to try to distract the Boston pitchers -- I swear it's almost every pitch. You go girl! :-)
Scully was good, but if you want to hear some real pros listen to any game of the 1979 WS. The Baltimore games were done by Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, and Don Drysdale. For the Pittsburgh games, they swapped out Keith Jackson for Al Michaels because Jackson had to work some college football games. They were the best broadcasting team that ever did it. The knuckleheads that call baseball today make the game unwatchable so I stopped watching.
My aunt and uncle were at my home when this game was played and after the Sox took the lead early in the 2nd inning, my aunt said to my uncle, "Come on, it's all over, let's go home." But I said, "It's only the 2nd inning!" The rest is history. It's hard to compare the '86 Mets team and season with the '69 Miracle Mets, but the '86 Mets were incredible all year long. It's sad that they faltered in '87 and lost to L.A. in the NLCS in '88 but they were great teams. I was sorry to see Ray Knight leave after the '86 season.
Can't compare a 108 win team to the 69 Mets who defeated the virtually invincible Baltimore O's (that were WS champs 3 years earlier and one year later). In both cases it was pitching, Bobby Ojeda shut the Sox down the same way Jerry Koosman shut the O's down.
I wrote a silly limerick that was spoken on the radio (WNEW) before the game..."There once was a pitcher named Hurst; His forkball, they say, was the worst...But game seven at Shea just wasn't his day, as the Red Sox' bubble was burst."
I remember that day in Manhattan working my night job watching the game on tv the place went crazy banging pots and pans out he window that was the dream team Mets back then, all the right players came together on one team, amazing.
i remember that too.was outside that pub on 33rd second ave.couldnt get in so grabed some brews and so the game from out side so glad i did.the real pulse came from out side.that i wont forget.the cars honking and folks banging pots out there windows..that was something...........
How strange was it to see Tom Seaver sitting eating sunflower seeds in a Red Sox uniform at Shea Stadium in the W.S. The Franchise should've always been in the other dugout
And it was The Franchise's last game, ironically enough, watching the Mets celebrate. So in essence, Seaver was a part of both Mets championships; one as a Met and one as a visitor.
Every announcer can take a page from Vin Scully. Let the crowd and the scene tell the story. No way could McCarver/Buck/Morgan keep their mouths shut for a few seconds, let alone minutes, to let the scene sink in. Scully did it masterfully at the end of Games 6 and 7.
Was at this game, despite a math test the next morning and Game 6 laryngitis. Upper deck, first base line. I remember studying on the train going to the game. I aced the exam, but long forgot whatever I studied for. However, I will never forget this game.
I remember watching Game 7 like it was yesterday. I remember the guy who parachuted in, and you knew right then and there Bruce Hurst wasn’t going to stop. It was like the parachutist lit up the stadium. Great memories
Watching Keith's reaction after his two run single gives me chills!!! Knights home run there was no fucking showboating, no bullshit around the bases. Just pure excitement. These kids nowadays can take a lesson that type of class.
I loved the Mets and never blamed Buckner for the Sox losing the Series. I think that the blame he received wasn't so much for the misplay itself, but for standing there helplessly as the Mets finished their miraculous comeback. It's unfortunate how he was blamed and not forgiven for it. A true class act throughout his career and life.
That pitch from El Sid at 1:14:24 was downright nasty. I watched this game at my college recreation hall TV lounge and remember so well how Sid kept the game from getting further out of reach until the Mets' bats woke up. He was truly the MVP of this game.
Fue una serie mundial espectacular por ambos equipos.Yo la vi por televisión en Puerto Rico 1986 por wapa tv.Que pena hayan fallecidos algunos jugadores.Amigos estadounidenses no continuemos con la injusticia Al GRAN PETE ROSE este pelotero esssss un HALL OF FAME .Una GLORIA para el BASEBALL de LAS GRANDES LIGAS.SALUDOS A TODOS LOS FANÁTICOS DEL BASEBALL.
As amazing as this series was, the League Championships Series' between the Mets and Astros and the Angels and Red Sox were both as dramatic and mind-blowing. Perhaps the greatest all-around playoffs I've seen in my lifetime.
I was at the Giantvs Redskin game this night . It is one of the most crazy nights I have seen in my life......and that is saying something , as I have been to nearly 70 concerts/shows in my life. Giant stadium was total pandemonium. People brought portable t.v.`s and small radio`s. When the Mets won the game we were all up screaming and high 5 ing our neighboring seat holders. The football game stopped and the players were looking up in amazement. The Giants kicked ass too and then went on to crush Denver in Super bowl 21.
1:23:50 Keith Hernandez's bases-loaded two-run single was probably the biggest hit of his MLB career. Certainly as a Met. 1:35:04 And certainly that homer was THE biggest moment of Ray Knight's career. I think Boston manager John McNamara cost his team much more than Bill Buckner. Why was Calvin Schiraldi even in that situation?
@@alanpeel1981It wasn't an intentional walk, but it was strange that Boston starter Bruce Hurst was pitching Tim Teufel too carefully, what with Keith Hernandez up.
Rest in peace Bill Buckner. No matter what anybody else says about "the one that went right through your legs" in Game 6 of the 86 World Series, you were an outstanding individual who showed stability and great athleticism during your lifetime career as a Major League baseball player. We're gonna miss you. You will forever live in our hearts.
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And a genuinely nice guy. I'm a lifelong Mets fan who met Buckner several years before he passed away, and he couldn't have been nice. RIP.
Roberto Lopez not to mention the fact that the game was already tied when he made that error--they had already blown a 2-run lead with only one out left to get. Blame is more appropriately assigned to Schiraldi, or truthfully more accurately, McNamara for not using his players properly. Schiraldi shouldn't even have still been in the game in the first place. It was his third inning of work, which is more than is ever supposed to be asked of a closer, particularly when Stanley had yet to allow an earned run in that series. He should have been in from the start of that inning, not brought in only with the tying run already at 3rd.
Amen!
@@2010metsfan yes
He wouldn't have had time anyway if he caught it. Too far away.
RIP Joe Garagiola, Bill Buckner, Don Baylor, Dave Henderson, and Gary Carter. God bless your souls.
I didn't know Don Baylor and Dave Henderson were dead.
Yes Hendu died in 2015, and Baylor in 2017. Bill Robinson the Mets first base coach also passed in 2007.
And Bob Murphy as well.
Dave henderson died?
@@conpop6924 On december of 2015
The entire 1986 postseason was one for the ages. Unbelievable talent, heartbreak, and resiliency throughout. As a 12 year old, that's when I became hooked.
tYup, Angels, Red Sox and Astros mets series were both epic. The Astros Mets series was really good. game 6 went 16 innings.
Yep, you were at the perfect age to witness the greatest post season in MLB history. My personal fave is game five of the ALCS. Al Michaels said it best after Hendu's two run shot with two outs in the top of the ninth and down to their last strike, "You're lookin' at one for the ages here."
Who hit the homer for the Red Sox that gave them the lead in game 7 of the 1986 world series?
what a post season. Could've easily been Houston vs California in the World Series.....amazing how many times the MEts came back when defeat seemed only a strike away. What a post season run.
@@robertjacobs2796Dwight Evans I believe or Rich Gedman
I swear this crowd is what sparked the win. They were full throat and full bore from the first pitch on. Even when the Mets were down. Impressive. These kinds of fans are priced out of todays sports.
There's a number of things that factor into that- first off, it IS still Game 7 of the World Series and even when they were down Sid Fernandez got the crowd back into the game back when middle relievers were not commonly used (Sid was normally a starter).
However, just as important is the way the MLB parks are now. The game, whether you like it or not, is just part of the entertainment, now. And in some cases, if the team sucks, a very small part of it, actually. There are clubs, bars, restaurants, games for children to play, free wifi - you name it, it's in the confines of the stadium somewhere. When you have so much bullshit going on at the same time, it will detract away from the interest in the game (the game also hasn't kept up with TV and the times, as it should have, and those problems they've let fester will eventually have an adverse effect over the next 10-15 years, as millennials become the highest demographic, and that's part of it, too).
Additionally, all of the fucking artificial noise that these speaker systems pump into the stadiums now, almost constantly, also has an adverse effect on crowd reaction/interest, perhaps somewhat counterintuitively. This involvement you're speaking about in 86' was organic and uninterrupted by "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!?!?!? .....THE HAPPY BUS IS COMING!!!!!!!.....WE WILL ROCK YOU 1,000,000,000 TIMES!!!!!!!!!........HEY NOW!!YOU"RE AN ALLSTAR, GET YOUR GAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!EXIT LIGHT, ENTER NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!....." and the endless motherfucking barrage of bullshit that's pumped into one's senses even at a meaningless game, much less a game on National TV for all the marbles. Sometimes I seriously want to go into the sound room of these places and just blow the guy at the CPU away, so the bullshit noise can stop invading my sense of sound, and so I can actually listen to the person next to me fucking talk.
And yes, there are all the minions that want to live their lives through their cellphones, so when a big play/moment happens instead of being really into it, they go and reach for the Goddamned camera on their phones, as if anybody's going to want to watch their crappy 30 seconds of their perspective in the ballpark (Ah....hello?! Remember, the game's on TV!!!!!!!!)
So there you have it, those are the myriad of reasons it's not usually like this, now. Not just about pricing people out (although that's a factor, as well).
My thoughts exactly! That's why it used to be SO HARD to win a game 7 on the road! Have you noticed now how many teams win Game 7's on the road in the playoffs? It happens ALL THE TIME!!! When I was growing up it almost NEVER Happened!
@@jpwjr1199 well put, totally agree with your assessment of how corporate america has ruined the games we love, and everything else. they have to put a price on everything these days, nothing is out of bounds, and as you say most people who haven't seen a decent raise in 40 years, now have to shell out over a days pay to watch a goddamn game. it's out of fucking control. we need to take america back from the greedy 1%.
@@tomitstube It's true what you're saying to a degree, and I agree with the sentiment. I also was trying to point out that some things were unavoidable, like the cellphones and wi-fi at the games. If I were to attack corporate America and how it affects pro sports, I'd look first to the taxpayer funded, tax free for the team owner's stadium/arena deals.
@@jpwjr1199 agree with that too, we must end corporate welfare for team owners, and do away with their anti-trust protections. why do billionaires and the companies they run have so many protections? i thought the "free market" was supposed to take care of that. it's all a scam by the 1% and the puppets they (s)elect.
and this is across the board for numerous tax funded private subsidies, that almost *never* do what they promise as far as jobs and economic growth for the communities the *pretend* to serve.
nyc rejecting to pay amazon 3 billion dollars just for coming there is a great start.
pretty amazing how amazon wanted a headquarters in either d.c. or n.y. and when they can't get the billions in give aways, bezos decides to not to expand. i thought this was about jobs? nope it was all about getting more corporate welfare and not having to promise anything in return.
but yeah, tax payers paying millions for stadiums that billionaire owners then use to gouge the (same) people who paid for the stadium? $10 beers, $5 sodas, parking? the average ticket in the nfl is $83. and that's before you're gouged at the stadium... and all this at the cost of not paying for schools, infrastructure, parks, and community projects?!?! and the people working there are making minimum wage? owners are literally taking out cheap seats to put in corporate suites. how is this scam allowed to continue? it amazes me how the rich blatantly rip us off and nobody bats an eye...
ah yes, and then there's the corporate media controlling the narrative...
it has been over 30 years and Jesse Orosco's glove STILL hasn't come down yet!
I coached youth baseball with Jessie in San Diego several years back, he's a great guy, great family.
@@eightinches6094 He Pitched One hell of a Game in this World Series Win etc.
Very True. And Joe Gibbs is still on the podium trying to figure out how the 86 New York Giants beat the Redskins in the 86 NFC Champion Ship Game. He's in the Guinness Book for longest beard ever.
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You want to laugh, i always wondered what happened to that glove ? Im not kidding. With all those cops im sure they got it. If you notice they all held on to their gloves.
I'm a Mets fan but to blame Buckner is to be clueless. So many other Sox blew chances to win the series. Buckner was a great player, and a class act. After game six (and seven) he patiently answered every reporter's question.
The Sux also had a 3-0 lead in the 6th inning of Game 7, they could've held that lead but didn't
Oh yeah, I mean he was just the scapegoat. These Mets were my last "totally favorite" baseball team. I was a senior in HS when this happened and I had liked them since I was in 8th, when they were dead last. The team they had arranged over the next few years was so fun to watch on the old WOR. This was the crown jewel of all their accomplishments. I had watched them scrape back in many a game before this. I loooooved it when Jesse Orosco would come out in relief because they almost always won. Hardly EVER did he blow it for them. Calvin Shiraldi had actually been a Mets pitcher a couple years before this. The whole Sox pitching lineup blew this.
They lead 2 games to 0 after Game 2, but couldn't do anything with that either.
Lucas McCain Red Sox built an early 3-0 lead, Bruce Hurst - who would've been the World Series MVP had Boston won it - held the Mets scoreless through 5 innings. The Mets just simply refused to labor. Even early on when their bats were quiet, you had to sense that they would eventually get their bats in gear. The Mets won over 100 games that year & a lot of those in come-from-behind fashion, so they just didn't panic even when it took them until the 6th to finally get to Hurst & the Red Sox bullpen.
Migueltio Schiraldi was actually traded for Bob Ojeda the year BEFORE this Series, in 1985. How ironic that both pitchers would win up facing their former teams in the Fall Classic a year later.
Rest in Peace Gary Carter #8!
the kid!
Yep the 2nd best catcher in the history of the Mets next 2 ONLY MIKE PIAZZA!
@@bobbenbrown123 Right on
The missing piece. After they got him signed, it was destiny!
@@bobbenbrown123 taking carter over piazza carter was a fantastic hitter to and A GREAT CATCHER piazza couldn't catch a cold
Even after that devastating error, Buckner still went 2 for 4 this final game and even scored with one good leg. Just shows you that he was doing everything in his power to help his team win.
I'm a Mets fan but I really respected Bill. He was a classy guy who played hard. Thankfully years later he was honored by the Red Sox.
There's a long list of people to blame and Buckner is nowhere near the top.
Also, he was on deck when the final out happened
The score was tied when that ground ball was hit - the bullpen lost Games 6 and 7.
@@EdTracey347 McNamara is the one who should take the blame. I can think of about a half a dozen of them off the top of my head.
Yankees fan here. This Mets team was truly magical. Both my parents are Mets fans so they hold a special place in my heart. And they kept the curse going another 18 years
Denver Bronco fan here. A very enjoyable series.
Then we clipped you down 3-0 and have won 4 times as many as you in the last 2 decades 😭
Don't give me that 27championship crap when exactly 20 of your championships have literally been before 1963 LMAO😭
You have 7 in the last 60 years.
You have 1 in the last 24 years.
We have 4 in the last 19 years.
God bless your parents I want you to MedVed even though it's going across the street from Yankee stadium and I was hanging fell when I was going up anyway 1969 game truly call amazing
@@speakinfaxonly21 you bums have 4 in the past 105 years and you’re trying to talk shit?!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🖕🏻
@@speakinfaxonly21 oh and guess what, those titles before 1963 still count the same. 86 years of losing and finally started to string a few together. Now Red Sox fans think they are the Yankees with all the championship gloating 🤣🤣
RIP Gary Carter, team leader/captain and the ONLY member of that club that made it in the HOF!!!! GREATEST WORLD SERIES EVER RIGHT HERE!!!
It’s a crime that Keith Hernandez has not been added to the Hall of Fame too
This season is essentially what got me into Baseball, into the Mets and into Sports in general as a 9 yr old kid in Brooklyn.
me too!
Movie matics same here. 9 yo. In Brooklyn. Troop and flushing ave, saw my dads friend shouting lungs out in excitement. Been a Mets fan since the. Wear my cap loose or win with pride
Movie matics I was 10 in QUEENS a Nuyorican kid who loves baseball and his METS FOREVER
Same here, I was 7. I remember game 6 and 7 like it was yesterday
It is sooo strange to see all those people in the stands and not a single cell phone , good'ol times people talking to real people :)
***** Yeah no selfie sticks there LOL!!!
The good old days indeed. 1986 was my favorite year for so many different reasons. Mainly because I'm a die hard Boston Celtics fan and in my opinion, that was the best team ever. Also my Canadiens won the Cup over the Calgary Flames.
How can a Boston Celtics fan be a fan of the Montreal Canadiens? Real Boston sports fans hate the Canadiens.
LOL, yea back then it was magazines, newspapers, notice how none of the guy's on the field had tattoos, earrings..
Right on the good old Days give me them any time etc
so great to See Gary Carter in happier times. He was the heart and soul of that team. A great series by both teams
Darling had some nasty stuff back in the day.
R.I.P.
Bill Buckner
Dave Henderson
Don Baylor
Gary Carter
Still can't believe Bill Buckner died..
...And Joe Garagiola.
And Bob Murphy, the longtime voice of the Mets.
Vin Scully also
Vin Scully: "Got him" then silence for a while, I wish they'd do that now
Why dont you time it. They would never do that now. Never !!
Agree. Buck, no way
Yeah but they do keep that respectful silence now. After winning a really dramatic championship. I've seen many modern era World Series (post 2000s) where yes, Joe Buck shuts his mouth and lets the winners celebrate. Check out 2001. I think it was almost 4 minutes without a word after his call of "Floater, center field, the Diamondbacks are World Champions!" After Aaron Boone's homer clinched the ALCS in 2003 I don't think anything was said after Buck's homerun call until the on-field interview of Boone.
It depends on the drama and the emotion involved. I think if it's an easily clinched title and the emotion and celebration is muted somewhat, Buck (or whoever is announcing) will talk again relatively quickly after his clincher call (he kept on talking right over the 2003 Marlins celebration in Yankee Stadium but that wasn't a wild celebration or moment either). But if its an ending that squeezes out all the emotion and suspense, particularly if the home crowd is thrilled, then he will keep it quiet for a while. Off memory, I am not sure about 2011 but that would be another good one to look at and compare considering that Cardinals team was also down to their final strike multiple times and then clinched at home.
@M i told you to STFU
Nobody called a game like Vin
Seeing Gary Carter embrace Keith Hernandez after the game game me chills. I'm 25 and a life long mets fan. I've dealt with disappointment for the vast majority of of those years. My dad was 25 when they won it all in 1986. I hope that history can repeat itself!
One of the greatest world series of all time.
Arizona vs. Yankees in 2001 was pretty epic as well with the Brosius and Tino homers in last at bats. Mariano losing in game 7 as well
I remember the Win in 69' Seems like only Yesterday.
top 5 in no order: 1975, 1986, 1991, 2001, 2016
@Councilman Les Wynan if you like pitching duel s 91 was good the 86 w s BLOWS THAT AWAY I d put the 2001 like the 86 w s dramatic in almost every game ahead of that the 75 even 2016 would pass that BORING PITCHING DUEL IN 91
1991 stands as the greatest of all time according to Historians but 1986 is in the top 5
That mets uniform was legit!!
I wish they wore that as an alternate uniform. It would be awesome!
+FrankaDankus327 They will now!! Every Sunday home game.
Andy Ohr i know! im so pumped.
I know, right? What do they have now, about 30 different uniforms? This one was the best. I don't get all the alternate crap. At least the Yankees never do that.
Glory Days !!! They are comming !!!
I was there. What a great game. Orosco's hit was one of the most amazing things that ever happened.
How old were u?
How was you experience at this game? My guess that you had a great thrill.
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1:52:55: Do you see the NYPD's horsemen on their steeds? There's a white horse in the NYPD's midst.
That 1986 Met's team had it all. Great starting pitching, great bullpen, single hitters, power hitters, and an excellent defensive team. You don't win 108 games during the regular season if you are not a great team. Games 6 and 7 of this World Series were great games. The Red Sox were solid but not in the Met's class. To take the Mets to the 7th game and be leading in the middle of the game is a testament to their grit.
I still have this on VHS lol. SO many memories. Great upload
Kim Martin I agree Kim, I had a game going on the computer yesterday... I heard the voice announcing and realized it was Vin Scully. Was a Dodger game. I watched it just cause of him. :)
Really did they have VHS back then
John Windsor My dad paid $1,000 for a VCR in 1981
I don't have the actual game on VHS but months later MLB released a VHS of the Series, with key moments of every game. I still have it. Need to have it transfered to a disc.
I tear up seeing good ol’ Gary. RIP, Gary. I remember this series clearly, though I was a kid. Thanks for sending me down memory lane!😊
The 86 Mets will always be my favorite Met team.
Thirty years ago today, The Amazing Mets completed an awesome season. Comeback after comeback, everyone is always so quick to blame Bill Buckner, but the Red Sox had a 3-0 lead in game 7 and still couldn't find a way to win. Way to go Mets!!!
Rich Gedman was the bigger culprit. Though it was called a wild pich that scored the Kevin Mitchell tying run....it should have been scored a passed ball. That pitch was knee high and inside......but quite catchable. 8 of 10 catchers have that pitch in their mit. He simply took too long to react to it.
i was a huge mazzilee fan growing up, when they got him back in 86 it meant the world to me, then to see him contribute in the world series...wow!!!!! home is a time, not a place......
2019 and I'm still thrilled by this game and great Mets team. There was never a Mets team with this many characters.
This was the year my family got cable so this was especially memorable for me, being a kid watching the Mets the entire season. This team is legend. I don't think any team can top this for me. This is up there with childhood Christmases & trips to Disneyland. Pure magic.
One of my greatest childhood memories. I was 5 and I remember that it was the first time I had ever felt complete elation. My house was in pandemonium for the end of game 6 and 7. Great team, wonderful personalities, one of a kind experience. America was a better place back then.
One of my worst. Told mom in game 6, "the Sox are finally going to do it!"...We know how that ended. By the time I saw Boggs crying on the bench in Game 7 I had to go upstairs and shed a few myself.
@@TheocratOfPoontang
I can only imagine how it felt to be on the losing end in that series. Despondent and gut wrenching no doubt.
@@MaximusWolfe It only took 18 years for the pain to fully go away. 😉 Now, we're rather spoiled as Sox fans. But honestly, I still think of the drama of the '86 Series (and playoffs) the most.
Watching this game and seeing all those people in the stands, wondering how many are still alive.
That loud & crazy crowd (55K+) at Shea no doubt helped the Mets rally. With the COVID-19 situation I just have a really hard time picturing baseball, esp the World Series, being played with no fans.
@@2010metsfan Here we are 2 years later, & the Mets are rocking, again!
One of my favorite events ever I will always be a Mets fan for life
I thought the key was Sid's pitching, especially blowing away Rice and striking out Evans with a mix of slow stuff and a fastball. It really set the crowd on fire.
One Of The Greatest World Series In MLB History !!!
Probably the greatest post season in baseball history. Mets/ Astros, Red Sox/ Angels, Mets/ Red Sox
Wish the Mets could have team captains again like Hernandez and Carter.
Sad about great SS Bud Harrilson Suffering with Dementia, Wish him well also etc.
Right on
Well they had David Wright and Jose Reyes kind of like co captains in my opinion😳
They’ve had a bunch of captains since these days. Wright was an official captain, although he didn’t want the C on his jersey which I completely agree w/. John Franco was a captain for many years who did wear a C. And Hernandez and Carter weren’t captains until ‘87.
Cubs fan here. Not to mention Mookie Wilson, Wally Backman, Keith Hernandez, Ray Knight, Darryl Strawberry, Len Dykstra and Hubie Brooks. Jesse Orosco and Dwight Gooden also.
2:34:56 Gary looking for mex, it hits me in the heart. they werent the closest, but they respected the hell out of each others game. Keith really took kids death hard, and this was a nice little moment in their relationship.
I watched something about the Mets doc last year & they said the issue might have stemmed from Carter was supposed to be the leader of the team but it was really Keith's team something like that so maybe a bit of ego in who was the capt or guy the troops followed ? Winning is think heals a lot of that kind of stuff. Like I learned watching an interview that the Riley Knicks that took the 93 bulls to 7 & than lost to them the next year in 6 was large in part that mark Jackson was the leader of the team & was stupidly traded away plus the non signing of Xavier McDaniel. Anyway just b/c Ewing was the best player didn't make him the leader. Ewing was notoriously very quiet & media shy & yes he was a warrior top 50 player hof easy & tried to lead by example but sometimes u need that vocal guy in the clubhouse. Apparently Mark Jackson was it according to many Knicks & he was gone for the aging doc rivers who was hurt in early in their finals run & Derek harper became that guy. Maybe a pg is that if the franchise player isn't. Also having said that I can't believe Ray knight who literally was the spark for the Mets in the title win mvp for the series was only offered a measly 5k raise so he was offended ( Don't blame him for walking ) so in ur title defense year of 87 u take the field the very next season w/o the mvp. Knight made such a difference in the Mets last 2 do or die wins. He was the 3rd base hit in a row that scored Carter & got Mitchell to 3rd so that when the wild pitch came in Mitchell scored. Then he scored the famous winning run & is part of the greatest call ever by Vin scully " here comes knight & the Mets win it " then in game 7 he crushes a 3 run home run. W/o knight they don't win.
It also annoys me that all people did was blame Buckner or the curse of babe Ruth instead of saying the Mets in a 99% chances they lose spot w/ 2 out nobody on base come back to win. So credit to the Mets in the biggest most epic comeback in a huge world series game where they were about to be eliminated win it. I still get chills watching it from the point of Keith making the 2nd out & literally the scoreboard at Shea congratulated the Sox & the locker room had the t shirts champagne & when it was tied they had to book everything out of there. So the Sox came as close to winning a title as u can. 5 x only 1 strike away. The Mets were just clutch city. Then they were down again in game 7 & came back. They refused to say die.
They should have let Oil Can Boyd start his regular rotation for game 7. It were pure discrimination against Oil Can Boyd. The Bible say's people will reap what they sow. They sowed discrimination and they reap a humiliating loss !!
Why couldn't oil can pitch game 7
Doc Goodrn switch hit game 6 😂
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IMHO, the BEST WORLD SERIES EVER. I didn't see the 75' Series, except through vintage classics thanks to UA-cam or MLB Network. Some say the 91' Series, but how can you give any series that type of credit when no one won on the road? This series had everything, from Boston coming in and winning the first two, to Davey Johnson giving his team a day off, thus coming back to win two in Boston. After it look like the Red Sox was about to win, Carter said he was not making the final out. Mitchell too, then Knight and then Mookie, wild pitch and Bill Buckner. Classic! Great post season for every baseball fan!
Gary Street Yeah. That 16 inning classic in the NLCS Mets vs Stros and the ALCS where the Red Sox themselves down to their last out when Henderson played hero and clubbed a home run.
MetsGiantsRangersKnicksNYSports Rarely do you see the 3 biggest post-season series all go to game 7. Both the ALCS and the NLCS were insane
Mets/Astros NLCS was actually 6 games, but felt like 7. If you count all the extra innings in that series though, it adds up to about 7 games. Probably the most intense and greatest series EVER that didn't go the full 7 games.
I remember watching the Mets on, channel 9 (WOR tv) I believe, I was six years old when my mother bought her first house on 43st n Queens Blvd,about a dozen stops before the Shea Stadium #7train stop. Those where great days n after that, going to the stadium with my Grammer school friends n seeing the Mets play at Shea the following year n paying a $1.50 for a general admission bleecher ticket n sneaking down to c the players n Yogi Berra. The NYJETS won the SUPER BOWL THAT YEAR TOO! I was 6yrs old in 1969,beautiful women,great music n fast muscle cars!! Papa...
Robert Schalk the train stop is/was Willets Point/Shea Stadium.
i was doing security that night in a Condo in Manhattan and was watching the game, that was a dream team, they had all the right players at the right time, i will never forget that night.
Just watched game six, what a game! Now I have to watch game 7!! Thank you for posting.
Not a Mets fan, but Vin Scully was magnificent during this whole series.
After Game 6, I remember having no doubt about winning 7. I went to the '86 season Mets home opener which they won and then watched so many comebacks that year. They had the talent and the will to win that was unmatched to this day.
It was my 1st time in the US in 1986 (I was 17 yrs old)and I lived in Queens NY. This was part of my childhood and the Mets winning the world series was part of my New York experience and I loved it. I watched the ticker-tape parade with my Uncle back then. He passed away 20 yrs ago. Those were good times. 30 plus years later, (Im now 53) living in Houston. Seeing this video brings back memories. I miss those times.
Strawberry took a long time circling the bases after that homer. Some might remember that he got beaned by Nipper the following pre season for that very reason.
I keep thinking that was why Ray Knight got in Strawberry's face after Darryl touched home plate. Looks like he gave him a good tongue lashing and told him to smarten up. I could be wrong, but that's what it seemed like to me.
Watching Mets baseball that year was pure joy.
30 years ago when the Mets won the world series!
Where has time gone!WHAT A NERVE BITING SERIES IT WAS!
Tom Ok their first was in 1969
30 years after that, the Chicago Cubs broke a 108-year curse by winning their first World Series in over a century, and no one Cubs fan could be more happier: one of childrens' TV's most beloved, and one of WGN-TV's most beloved personalities Bozo the Clown!
Yeah, the Mets haven't done shit since the Berlin Wall fell!!!
2:33:48-2:33:55, "Now the pitch on the way. HE STRUCK HIM OUT! STRUCK HIM OUT! THE METS HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES!"-Bob Murphy.
In retrospect this was one of the happiest times of my life I was 12. It was an exciting series and New York teams had not been champions yet in my lifetime.
For me as well. I was 28 & recently married. I was happy & watched every game on WOR TV. I would love to time travel back.
Three months later you got to see the Giants win the Super Bowl!
@altoM40: but you've been spoiled since lol!!!
What a series. This game is, among other things, a tribute to the greatness of Keith Hernandez, one of the greatest defensive first basemen in history. Too bad he had a tinge of scandal - rumored cocaine use - early in his career. To me, a Hall of Famer. Not just all the Gold Gloves. But those HUGE clutch hits in two winning Game Seven efforts = 82 and 86. KEITH!!!!!
It wasn't rumored. He admitted to using cocaine in the early 1980's to a grand jury during the Pittsburgh Pirate drug investigation in 1985 and he also he admitted in a book he wrote on the 1985 season "If at First"
@@paulsonj72 I still have the updated paperback of that book. He includes the 1986 season in it. Glad he kicked it because he was a huge part of the '86 season.
@@2010metsfan I had a copy of the same book but lost it over the years with many moves.
The cocaine habit is why the Cardinals traded him. It was a confusing trade that made no sense at the time. Only later was the real reason for the trade reveled. That being said, I agree with your assessment of Hernandez’s abilities. Also, when the Cardinals traded him they sat in 1st pace, they ended the season in 4th.
Statistically speaking, the 1986 NY Mets were the greatest National League team of all time. Even better than the Big Red Machine Reds of 1975, and that's saying something. Just dominant from start to finish.
@War Productions Too lazy to look into it yourself moron?
One of my most fortunate times ever. To be there and win it in Game 7. It was tremendous. The crowd was so electric throughout and it was a pulse like never before or since. The whole game here, really nice because there that night, even better. Game 6 was sick. For all of us who had tickets or the next one, it was an elixir we'll never see or experience again. Unreal. Love you Mex and Fid, the damn game MVP who kept us in there when it looked rough down 3.
this makes me proud and sad that they haven't won again. but this was one of those once in a lifetime stars aligned moments. yankee fan forever but you cant not like this gritty mets team. r.i.p. #8
They have a good chance this year.
Man I was 11 months old win the Mets won, being a Mets fan since 96 I’ve had lots of ups and downs, but man I need to watch the 86 series in full
World Series MVP should have gone to the crazy witch lady in orange behind the plate hexing all the Red Sox pitchers.
DISTRACTING the Red Sox pitchers....😋
She annoyed the hell out of me! What a weirdo! She must have the biggest, strongest arms in the world!
2:33:45 is the moment of glory you came here to see
35 year old Met fan. Watched this game more than any other in my life
More than game 6?
My tears still come down when I see this... i grew up 5 minutes away from Shea Stadium ✌️from Elmhurst, Queens, New York baby, Let's go Mets let's do it again....⚾️⚾️⚾️
Sid saved this WS for the Mets.
You got that right. Darling struggled and the Mets weren't scoring. It was some dire times when Sid Fernandez came in. Fernandez handled his biz and the Mets were better for it.
Rest In Peace Gary Carter!!!
Yes indeed Lord Artec -- I nearly broke down in tears when I first read in the local newspapers back in the summer of 2011 that Gary Carter was diagnosed with four tumors in his brain, because I KNEW IN MY GUT that he was eventually going to die. ;-(
And I would think that Gary is boasting to Jesus that he won the World Series for the Mets and not the Expos. He was certainly a class act for America's pastime.
what a dumb comment. He loved
Montreal and would of loved to win a world series with them. Yes he was a class act, but apparently you're not
1:01:00 Sid Fernandez pitching against Rice and Evans like a BOSS. Love it.
El Sid was the momentum change the Mets needed in this game.
rm1133 exactly correct
R.I.P.Gary Carter.
I was there! Have Shea seats in my house and the tickets in a safe place. There for Game 1, 2, 6, 7. Seems like yesterday! Go Mets!
I was born 6 years after this series, but I'm a die hard mets fan. I grew up hearing the stories but it's so cool to actually be able to watch these guys, they are as good as advertised. What a game.
I'm really LOVING the lady in the white flat brimmed hat rolling her arms to try to distract the Boston pitchers -- I swear it's almost every pitch. You go girl! :-)
I could care less about both teams but speaking as an impartial viewer those people rolling thier arms should've been kicked out of the stadium
@@clanshepard you must be fun at parties
RIP Vin Scully the GOAT. What a pleasure compared to Buck who talks the entire game including during the celebrations.
Scully was good, but if you want to hear some real pros listen to any game of the 1979 WS. The Baltimore games were done by Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, and Don Drysdale. For the Pittsburgh games, they swapped out Keith Jackson for Al Michaels because Jackson had to work some college football games. They were the best broadcasting team that ever did it. The knuckleheads that call baseball today make the game unwatchable so I stopped watching.
@@zephead843the ultimate “real pro” is vin scully. he is the undisputed greatest announcer for a reason.
Gary Thorne is good too regardless of what others say
My aunt and uncle were at my home when this game was played and after the Sox took the lead early in the 2nd inning, my aunt said to my uncle, "Come on, it's all over, let's go home." But I said, "It's only the 2nd inning!" The rest is history. It's hard to compare the '86 Mets team and season with the '69 Miracle Mets, but the '86 Mets were incredible all year long. It's sad that they faltered in '87 and lost to L.A. in the NLCS in '88 but they were great teams. I was sorry to see Ray Knight leave after the '86 season.
Can't compare a 108 win team to the 69 Mets who defeated the virtually invincible Baltimore O's (that were WS champs 3 years earlier and one year later). In both cases it was pitching, Bobby Ojeda shut the Sox down the same way Jerry Koosman shut the O's down.
I wrote a silly limerick that was spoken on the radio (WNEW) before the game..."There once was a pitcher named Hurst; His forkball, they say, was the worst...But game seven at Shea just wasn't his day, as the Red Sox' bubble was burst."
I remember that day in Manhattan working my night job watching the game on tv the place went crazy banging pots and pans out he window that was the dream team Mets back then, all the right players came together on one team, amazing.
i remember that too.was outside that pub on 33rd second ave.couldnt get in so grabed some brews and so the game from out side so glad i did.the real pulse came from out side.that i wont forget.the cars honking and folks banging pots out there windows..that was something...........
How strange was it to see Tom Seaver sitting eating sunflower seeds in a Red Sox uniform at Shea Stadium in the W.S. The Franchise should've always been in the other dugout
And it was The Franchise's last game, ironically enough, watching the Mets celebrate. So in essence, Seaver was a part of both Mets championships; one as a Met and one as a visitor.
Tom Sever was a great Met Pitcher Who helped the Win in 69' etc.
@@UncleClaudeSportsandThangsand davey johnson had the opposite experience, making the last out in 1969, flying out to cleon jones
Definitely one of the best celebration pileups of all-time
Every announcer can take a page from Vin Scully. Let the crowd and the scene tell the story. No way could McCarver/Buck/Morgan keep their mouths shut for a few seconds, let alone minutes, to let the scene sink in. Scully did it masterfully at the end of Games 6 and 7.
Man I miss the 80's. What a time
Was at this game, despite a math test the next morning and Game 6 laryngitis. Upper deck, first base line. I remember studying on the train going to the game. I aced the exam, but long forgot whatever I studied for. However, I will never forget this game.
I am now 56 & THIS, was the last of a GREAT era !!
I am 57 n what u say is true indeed. Have a good one to All.
I'm a Jets and Mets fan. We don't have the most championships, but man, we have arguably the 2 best!
RIP Gary Carter You are Sadly missed by all of your Fans ETC Who is watching this in 2019.?
I remember watching Game 7 like it was yesterday. I remember the guy who parachuted in, and you knew right then and there Bruce Hurst wasn’t going to stop. It was like the parachutist lit up the stadium. Great memories
Mets squad was d@mn good that year!!! Won 108 games en route to the title!!!
Orosco’s reaction always gives me chills.
LETS GO METS!!!!!!!!!!!!
That first-inning standing ovation for Billy Bucks was epic. I was 12 at the time and well-remember it.
THIS IS BASEBALL!!! god I love this. Lets go Mets!!!
Thank You 1986 METS it was a Special time in this City and I'll NEVER FORGET IT
No, this is Patrick! Lol
P.S. I was six months old when this game took place.
Vin Scully & Joe Garagiola - fantastic memories ... thx for this.
One of the happiest nights of my life.
Watching Keith's reaction after his two run single gives me chills!!! Knights home run there was no fucking showboating, no bullshit around the bases. Just pure excitement. These kids nowadays can take a lesson that type of class.
I loved the Mets and never blamed Buckner for the Sox losing the Series. I think that the blame he received wasn't so much for the misplay itself, but for standing there helplessly as the Mets finished their miraculous comeback. It's unfortunate how he was blamed and not forgiven for it. A true class act throughout his career and life.
Im a red sox fan born and raised, but i hope the mets take the world series this year.. you mets fans deserve it!
That pitch from El Sid at 1:14:24 was downright nasty. I watched this game at my college recreation hall TV lounge and remember so well how Sid kept the game from getting further out of reach until the Mets' bats woke up. He was truly the MVP of this game.
No cell phones. No muscle batters. Everyone in to the game.. Times were different not to long ago...Amazing!
Fue una serie mundial espectacular por ambos equipos.Yo la vi por televisión en Puerto Rico 1986 por wapa tv.Que pena hayan fallecidos algunos jugadores.Amigos estadounidenses no continuemos con la injusticia Al GRAN PETE ROSE este pelotero esssss un HALL OF FAME .Una GLORIA para el BASEBALL de LAS GRANDES LIGAS.SALUDOS A TODOS LOS FANÁTICOS DEL BASEBALL.
Unbelievable series. The Mets were never truly ahead in the series until Knights homer in the 7th inning of game 7.
As amazing as this series was, the League Championships Series' between the Mets and Astros and the Angels and Red Sox were both as dramatic and mind-blowing. Perhaps the greatest all-around playoffs I've seen in my lifetime.
Yes,all the series that year were classic.
they say that to this day, Orosco's glove never landed
One of the most amazing World Series ever
I was at the Giantvs Redskin game this night . It is one of the most crazy nights I have seen in my life......and that is saying something , as I have been to nearly 70 concerts/shows in my life. Giant stadium was total pandemonium. People brought portable t.v.`s and small radio`s. When the Mets won the game we were all up screaming and high 5 ing our neighboring seat holders. The football game stopped and the players were looking up in amazement. The Giants kicked ass too and then went on to crush Denver in Super bowl 21.
1986 one of the best World Series no doubt
I'm a Mets fan, but a very classy interview by Bruce Hurst after the game.
At 2:33:48, Orosco gets the final strike and throws his glove in the air, but it never comes down. One of the great mysteries of our time.
No words from the booth for minutes! Brilliant! No one would do that today.
My dads so lucky he got to live during this time
I was watching from my couch biting my nails! ⚾️🏆
Let's Go Mets Baseball ❤️⚾🇺🇸❤️🙏✝️ .... New York Mets World Series Champions 💍💍🏆🏆 1969, 1986 .... Forever
I used to pitch with Jesse Orosco on the original RBI Basbeball for NES
Cluez31 he and Jeff Reardon were nearly impossible to hit with that sidearm delivery!!!
1:23:50 Keith Hernandez's bases-loaded two-run single was probably the biggest hit of his MLB career. Certainly as a Met.
1:35:04 And certainly that homer was THE biggest moment of Ray Knight's career.
I think Boston manager John McNamara cost his team much more than Bill Buckner. Why was Calvin Schiraldi even in that situation?
Pitching around Tuefel to pitch to Keith Hernandez = Expert managing (not!)
@@alanpeel1981It wasn't an intentional walk, but it was strange that Boston starter Bruce Hurst was pitching Tim Teufel too carefully, what with Keith Hernandez up.