Mike Piazza's emotional post-9/11 home run | Relive that unforgettable night in Queens
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The home run didn't bring back any loved ones. It didn't erase anything that had happened 10 days earlier. But it did what sports are supposed to do: Provide a distraction and a little bit of joy in the midst of real-life struggles.
I was in both the north tower, then scared as shit to go anywhere huge but I'm a season ticket holder and had to go to the first game back. This temporarily healed a lot of friends, made smiles and the amount of wet eyes were everywhere. This was my most memorable moment at Shea besides 86. God bless and protect FDNY, and NYPD. Truest heroes of it all. 😢
Personally I wished sports shut down for the season because the sporting world wasn’t exactly in sync before the 9/11 terrorist incidents cast a pall on the seasons because it was still reeling from the deaths of Korey Stringer and Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Well said.
@@WhoGitDaBiscuit nothin like a homerun to cheer up people while we go over and kill a million. Tit for tat, American math lol
The best thing you can do after a tragedy is get back to normal as much as you can.
As a Braves fan, you never want your team to lose. As an American, this was a loss I'd take over and over again.
I just wish we could all come together and love one another like this each day we have left.
Yes, you did good New York. You took one on the chin for all the rest of us and 10 days later YOU lifted us all up.
For a moment, we were stronger than steel and unbeatable. We were neighbors no more, for a moment, we were brothers and sisters.
With much love and thanks...
North Carolina
Thank you! I was working in NYC that day for the airlines and will never forget what I saw. All Americans came together during those terrible times.
I get that - I'm a lifelong Braves fan and Yankee hater, but I was actually pulling for them - well, for the city of New York at least - during the WS that year.
Well said, that one was for everyone.
I was 9 years old in elementary school when 9/11 happened can’t believe it’s been 20 years since then RIP to the People who lost their lives that day
Me too.. missed school that day since my mom had a doctor's appointment in brooklyn. Was with my brother and mom and met people coming over the Brooklyn bridge covered in debree. My fireman uncle passed that day, and now I'm a fireman myself. Time flies.
@@alllivesmatter3561 congrats it was a sad day indeed
I turned 10 on the 13th two days after and remember being that young but still acknowledging that is as a city,state, and nation we were all hurt but we’re going to come out of this stronger and piazza’s home run was that sign of normalcy
@@alllivesmatter3561 bless you and your family
Watched the game, one of the proudest American moments in my life.
I'm not a big Mets fan, but I can honestly say that Mike Piazza's home run in New York less than ten days after the 9-11 tragedy not only lifted the spirits of the residents of New York City, but for baseball fans all over the country in general.
As a huge Mets fan. And New Yorker, I thank you
@@melimel2990You're welcome.
Never forget as a 11 year old kid spinning on the carpet downstairs in joy running upstairs to tell my parents. Strongest sports memory I have and it was 20 year ago.
The kid who threw the pitch was born and raised on Staten Island. I’ll always wonder if he grooved that to Mike. It really doesn’t matter. A magic moment
This is a MOVIE moment. That's how unreal it feels, watching it again after so long. I was in high school in Queens when this all happened. Never before, have I felt more proud to be a Met fan, and nothing will ever beat it.
I always thought Ortiz grand Slam against the Tigers in the 2013 ALCS was also a movie moment, he went out onto the field earlier that season to tell Boston and the world "This Is Our F***ing City" after the Boston bombings, the people in charge of sensoring what's said on TV gave Ortiz the go ahead to say whatever he needed, then they win the WS for Boston later that season, mostly because of that grand slam against the Tigers in game 2 of the ALCS.
@@bosoxfan131 Definitely agree on that. Something as (figuratively) silly as a baseball game can really help a lot of people get through some of the most difficult times.
Even as a diehard Braves fan I still get chills watching this moment what an incredible moment in sports history.
This is why baseball is the greatest game in the world. In the darkest of times, it found a way to help heal an entire city and make people feel some kind of hope again.
The one dislike was bin laden.
♥ fuckem
and Bush
@@anastege11 Yup turns out we've all been lied to about 9/11....Corruption is high
Bush was more in on 911 than bin laden.
With that HR, he beat the terrorists. Many lives were saved
I have been a Mets fan since I was born in 1967. I have seen it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly of the New York Mets. This was one of the defining moments in team history. No question, a top 10 highlight in the now 62-year history of the team. My cousin, Nicholas Rossomando, FDNY Staten Island, Ladder 5 was just killed days earlier. Mike Piazza was my favorite player then (and still is in my top 3 all time). And for him to hit THAT HR for my favorite sports franchise in my world, at THAT game still stands out as emotional as I have ever been since the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs on October 25th, 1986 in Game 6 of the World Series against the Red Sox. This is embedded in my mind as one of the greatest sports moments in my lifetime. I will never ever forget how I felt has that ball was hit by Mike. Absolutely amazing.
This moment is one greatest moments in the history of baseball.
I tear up. I grew up by Shea!.
Incredible moment……from our National Pastime…..
Something as simple as a homerun means something so powerful.
This was written in the wind. NYC was decimated on many levels. This moment was needed and so special. Supernatural.
Watching Mike Piazza hit that home run even now makes me tear up.... it came at such a perfect time with everyone so dazed & full of sadness & grief to hit that home run as if to say yep we're all still here & we're all going to get through this it was just great....
I will never forget this as long as I live Mike Piazza bringing back that sense of joy & happiness to us all who were feeling nothing but sadness & despair since the attacks.
I was only 12 years old for this moment, but I will always remember it. My dad made my brothers and I big Mets fans and when Mike hit that HR, my dad jumped out of his chair yelling and screaming with my brothers and I like we were at the game for us as kids we did that almost every homerun, but it’s something I know my dad never does wether he’s at home or at the game. Mike might not feel like a hero for that but that HR did so much more than win a game. It made the country realize we still have reasons to smile, the country was only injured not destroyed. Is and always will be the greatest moment in baseball history.
definitely one of the biggest moments in sports history. Mike got all of that pitch he had such power to all fields didn't have to pull it to get it over the fence he was a great player and well worthy of his 1st ballot Hall of Fame induction.
I was a year old, looking back at this I feel so sad for Americans now.
If only this country had this type of love and pride today.
According to everyone I know, nobody was a stranger for about a year after. America was one, and everyone was PROUD TO BE AMERICAN
Hero’s are remembered, but legends never die.
I'm a lifetime Yankees fan. But I also remember John Franco wearing his FDNY orange tee shirt. I believe his Dad was a firefighter.
His dad worked for the Department of Sanitation
I had the pleasure of meeting Mike when he was in the Dodger minor league system. He was a gentleman then and an even bigger gentleman now.
Nothing will ever match this moment.
Braves fan back then. Didn't care one bit about the rivalry. Such a great homer.
What an incredible moment, love mike piazza! Another great moment was when bush jr threw out the first pitch and it was a perfect strike.
As he says, Piazza gets personally uncomfortable when people thank him for this moment, insignificant as it is against the loss of life and the recovery efforts from Sept. 11. He has no idea what this means to the rest of us, and probably never will. That is the whole beauty of the moment. God Bless Mike Piazza, and God Bless America.
Never forget it WOW way to go Mike Piazza 🇺🇸🗽🇮🇹
I was there that evening, and to this day it remains just about the most thrilling night in my life. Piazza and the Mets brought joy -- and hope -- back into the city and from then on we knew we'd be okay.
Really proud to part of this great family, thanks for all the memories Mike. To all the firefighters and anyone lost on 9/11, you are not forgotten!
Tears to my eyes. I was working for the airlines n in my office that morning in NYC. MY next door neighbor I saw the day b4 gone, live in Middletown, NY. Our country came together which hasn't happened since. Mayor Guiliani showed true leadership.
WE HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN 9.11.01 🇺🇸❤💯☝👈😢
22 years later and it's still the most famous homerun in MLB history.
I hate to disagree, but I'd have to put Kirby Puckett's walk-off homer during game 6 of the '91 World Series at the top.
@@YouDontKnowMeSoYouDontKnowJackThe Babe's called shot? 715? McGwire #70? Maz? Fisk? Kirbies is nowhere close, and in terms of fame, Piazzas isn't either, but it is absolutely at the top in terms of "off the field" impact
That home run was for America. Probably the strongest and biggest home run in MLB history
This is why I'm a Mets fan for life
This event TRANSCENDED SPORTS!
He doesn’t feel like a hero cause he’ll never feel what I felt that night. watching my favorite player come up at bat and crush a home run that we so desperately wanted and needed. A Symbol of hope for the broken New York, showing we CAN come back! Let’s go Mets!
I remember watching on tbs this game.
Atlanta and NYC have always been rivals, but we have been on the same side so many times. During the revolution we fought for our independence. During WW2 we fought the uboats off our shores and sent troops to Europe and Oceania. And that game united us after such a tragedy. We may be enemies in baseball but Atlanta and NYC are friends off the field
MP hit what would otherwise be, by all accounts, a pedestrian homerun. Yet, on that day, at that time, was the most meaningful homerun of his career.
Shot heard around the world 🌍
The best memory in the history of New York baseball belongs to the New York Mets....class and dignity when the world needed it the most!
I’m a Phillies fan and hate both the Mets and Braves but what a moment by Piazza! I may not like the Braves or Mets but I love New York and Atlanta. USA!!!
funny stuff. I hate the phillies, braves, nats and fish.. i dont like the yankees either. The dodgers are annoying too.
Hardcore New York Sports Moment.....Simply Hardcore.....
I remember this very well
Couldn’t have scripted this any better. This is EXACTLY what America needed at this moment. GOD BLESS AMERICA 😇🙏🏾🇺🇸
"“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”
― Jaques Barzun, Professor of History (later Dean and Provost), Columbia University, 1954.
Mike Piazza was clutch! No doubt about it! When the chips were down, Mike was there..throughout his time with the Mets.
I cried watching this because.... What happened to our country now? Why can't we all feel this United again? Instead of just being hateful at every turn for any little thing that happens. What happened to our Unity? There is NO excuse for it.... I pray to GOD it doesn't take another Tragedy for us Americans to be United again. But it looks like it will have to..... Those in power now would NOT want that to happen.
I miss our country's Unity. Dear God I Miss it Soo Much!
The human spirit on full display
“THIS ONE HAS A CHANCE”
My dad was a hardcore Yankees fan but even he went to the Mets game that night, with me, my younger brother, and mi abuela at home watching on TV.
Right there as the Biggest Home Run in Mets history
Tom and mike my favorites
I feel personally of all the sports moments that happened in the wake of September 11th 2001 Mike Piazza hitting the game winning home run for the Mets 10 days later while I was watching the America A Tribute To Heroes telethon is the one that sticks with me the most
It was a special day when NY city held their first baseball game after 9-11-01. It was special that the Mets were able to pull out the victory with a Mike Piazza blast to centerfield.
You may
Lose people here on Earth but you never really lose me there always a part of you and you can make them apart of your celebration that's what they would have wanted
he was a conduit that day for the people of new york to experience victory, despite all they'd lost,
You got 100th likes!🤗😇👋, thanks Piazza!
Literally one of the most important moments in the history of American sports.
Love him or hate him, Bush’s pitch after that tragedy was similar in emotional catharsis.
I don’t remember the game but there was another baseball game when they got Bin Laden and the audience was literally jumping for joy.
COME AND TAKE IT.
There are some moments in history after major disasters or events, that almost feel like it it was destiny to happen, like there was nothing else that could’ve happen in those moments. This is one of those times.
Love mike piazza
When Howie yelled "homerun!" You can tell there were tears behind it.
This has to be the biggest home run piazza hit in his career
Piazza may not have had the best overall numbers but I still believe he was the most *_valuable_* player to his team during several of his Mets seasons.
This is why the World Series was played in November for the first time. Knowing this, someone decided to make a sign called Mr. November and didn’t forget to bring it to Game 4 in case the game goes past midnight. And it did. That’s when he saw Derek Jeter batting and predicted he should be Mr. November. His prediction came true, as minutes later, Jeter hit a walk-off home run to give the Yankees the win and tie the series. And Michael Kay exclaimed in excellent fashion “He is Mr. November!”
The only problem with that is the Yankees lost. The true Mr. November really is two. The true Mr. Novembers are Curt the Hurt and Randy Dandy. Think about it.
@@Brooklyn3955 But if you ask a Yankee, what will be their answer?
@@Brooklyn3955 I'm a Sox fan but Yankees should have won that one for 9/11
@@Brooklyn3955 Jeter hitting one of the most iconic home runs of his career after the bell tolled for midnight, November 1st, with the Mr. November guy holding up his sign, was cooler than anything else that happened in a series full of magic moments. That’s why he’s Mr. November. It doesn’t matter that the yanks lost. Doesn’t matter that Curt and Randy were electric. Doesn’t matter that Gonzalez walked off game 7 against Mo (which was the only other true candidate for the “coolest thing that happened that series”, much to my dismay).
It's also why the Super Bowl is now in February and not the last Sunday of January.
I was there, I don’t remember any of it sadly. Too young and too many poor choices later on erased it from my memory.
I miss you Uncle Leo 😢
This makes the mets even more epic: they became the first baseball team to play in New York after 9/11/2001
everyone in the video: that homerun was so great for America
Atlanta Braves team and fans: uh..........
are you an actual braves fan? Im a mets fan, we hated each other back then, but I always wondered if that braves team ACTUALLY wanted to win.. im not questioning their competitive integrity, im sure they competed and tried but did they REALLY want to win that game and send that crowd and city feeling even worse?.. that said MOST braves fans say they glad they lost this game.
How did our country go from this type of unity, to where we are today, all in the span of 23 years?
Crazy that it was the leader of their own country that was the mastermind behind this tragic event
that home run was the kicker that put him in the HoF
I know “This one has a chance” on the surface may seem like a bad call because it was a no-doubter of moonshot, but Howie Rose’s use of “has a chance” goes much deeper for me. It almost sounds like he can’t believe it himself, and is saying “Maybe we actually have a chance to recover.” That’s how I choose to see it. As a New Yorker, I never thought I’d have the chance to be happy again, and Rose’s call touches a chord with me.
Or maybe it’s just a bad call…
It makes me sad knowing people don’t love America like this
'this one has a chance'. Heck, that ball went at least 450 feet.
Back when we were united
Strange that a home run is heroic considering . It's just baseball right? But it's our game. Also Americans like to see things done well.
Mike Piazza was drafted 1390th overall in his draft class. HOF.
It was like the United States was cheering even the people in Atlanta Georgia were cheering too
That wasn't a homerun for baseball that was for New York and America
What is the background music at the 2:28m mark forward?
Steve Phillips wow
it happened 9/11 and the top culprit died 9 years after in 2011 (9/11)
Yeah I get that it was a emotional night and an emotional moment but still just a baseball game. Still kind of feel like people are making it more than it is. As a Met fan and a NYker, didnt really do much for me.
Oh “SohnTroll” guess youre not a real new yorker then . This was the most joy people felt since the days after 9/11 , you have to understand that . and it was a homerun for America, not just New York .
I agree. I always felt like it was the media trying to latch on to a feel good moment to manufacture a deeper story than what it really was.
If the Yankees had gone on to win the World Series that year, they would of been pumping the same narrative that they helped heal the city.
@@King-hq6wf ehh just a baseball game
You don't understand human emotion then. For you things just come and go huh.
@@mistersunshine1330 So we won a baseball game dramatically. Wow
The Mets blow
A true Dodger
I was packing my flight bag and getting ready to deploy to the desert. As a life long Mets fan and a kid who could see the twin towers from my area in Jersey, I needed that.
Still laughing about it to this day.
Remember you Mother…
The only time I’ve ever rooted for the Mets
Imagine during the national anthem
I miss Shea
I've was a piazza fan since he was a dodger. Shame he left but apparently fate had other plans.
"...with terrorism and stuff", emphasis on the stuff.
PED user.
Who wasn’t from this era? Griffey and Thome, maybe.
Frig the Mets !
You miss the point. I don’t know how old you are , but this was about America , not the Mets. If you were too young to remember 9/11 that’s one thing , if you were an adult when it happened, than your response to this video is disgraceful .
Grow up.
@@Eli-ss9gj MYOB
@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0 nah. EAD.
mike gave this trucker and family something to cheer about.and to the 343 firefighters and their families you are gone but damn well not forgotten not by a longshot. and that goes for the civilians port police and their families yall are not forgotten not by a damn sight or longshot either.
imagine if he would have walked back out of the dugout with an american flag after the homerun