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- 게시일 2016. 09. 21.
- 10/25/86: Listen to Vin Scully's call of Mookie Wilson's epic at-bat during the ending of Game 6 of the World Series
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I love that Scully knows when to stop commentating and allow the crowd noise to tell the story. Best broadcaster ever.
That was pure Vinnie.
And marketing "Farmer John" bacon
Yes Michele.
what a legend unlike Joe buck
Scully was like the Mozart of baseball broadcasters..growing up listening to him and Garagiola Saturdays on NBC made me a baseball fan.
People shouldn't forget how many pitches Mookie WIlson fouled off to keep his at bat alive. Mookie was an unsung hero.
Or The cardinals players before Freese that kept fouling off balls to keep the season alive in 2011
You're baseball cognoscenti.
Buckner might had dozed a bit. Mookie kept alive forever that at bat.
Not really. It's like not Stanley was throwing nasty stuff that painted the corners. Two pitches early in that at bat were grooved over the heart of the plate with nothing on them, and Mookie just fouled one off into the seats and dribbled the other one by his feet. He was bailed out by Stanley and by John McNamara leaving in a crippled guy to play first for the bottom of the inning.. Not once did he hit the ball remotely hard against a stiff pitcher with the game on the line
He fouled off six pitchers! not one swing and complete miss or called strike the at bat.
Vin passed today. I'm heartbroken. This is one of the best games I was fortunate enough to hear him call. We miss you Vin. Thanks a million.
Same.
100% agreed. Vin Scully is an absolute legend of a broadcaster. He (along with Jack Buck and a handful of others) are gone but will certainly never be forgotten. They made baseball come alive on the radio and that’s a gift that many current broadcasters will likely never fully grasp.
Turtle, we all know. You are acting like you are breaking this news. We all have access to news on the Internet. You’ve got to be kidding me with this. What’s next, JFK was assassinated? Give me a break
@@njdxnjdx you must be clairvoyant. Being how I got on here shortly after it happened. Lose the attitude.
I’m lucky I got to be the 3rd generation in my family to hear him call a game before he retired. His last season, I listened to every Dodger game I had the chance to..
Vin Scully had a billion amazing play calls, but as a Mets fan, this will always be my favorite one. God bless Vin Scully, and may he forever Rest In Peace.
The shockwave through NYC when he yelled Behind the Bag!! Remember it like yesterday. He was a pro
My grandfather was a Dodger fan before they moved, so glad I got to hear Vin call games before he passed. I’m really gonna miss him from baseball
I believe in the resurrection of the righteous and unrighteous, so he'll be awakened someday in a better world.
So true! I was 10 yrs old and at this game! Ill always remember scully and joe garagiola. I hope i get one more world series win in my lifetime
@@Johnnyrocks34 I hope you will too.....Always stay hopeful and loyal for your team(s).
RIP Bill Buckner 1949-2019 🙏
no u
You all love him now, but you ran him, and I did too, out of Boston
Too bad this error, and not what he did over his whole career, is what will define Bill Buckner's legacy. 😢 A batting title and an All-Star Game appearance with the Cubs. The most difficult batter to strike out for much of his career (and also one of the hardest to walk). A contact hitter with a decent career batting average, and a decent to above average fielder in the outfield and at first base, this error notwithstanding.
@@10Peter25 yeah the most times in a game he's struck out in his career was 2
RIP.
I was 8 years old and watching this with my dad. He was a Mets fan and I am a Mets fan. I remember him looking at me and saying you can go to bed this game is over. We watched until the end and I remember him saying “ other than you being born this is the greatest time in my life”. We watched the rest of the series together and created memories that I hold to this day. So glad he passed the love of this team and all the suffering on to me and I since passed it onto my son.
LETS GO METS!
me too... same exact story haha! LGM
I was also 8 years old, still remember it to this day thought me the lesson to never give up
Great story. Being a Cleveland Browns fan my dad never got a chance to share a moment like that with me. I'm 56 and running out of time to share a moment like that with my son. I was 16 for Red Right 88, in my early 20's for The Drive and The Fumble. To this day I don't know what's worse: the day the Browns announced the move to Baltimore or the first Ravens Super Bowl win. Even so, now and forever, GO BROWNS! (And of course, GO METS!)
Suffering you are. Your team stinks
One thing I loved about Vin Scully that I haven't heard people talk about is his use of silence. He knew when to talk and when to let the moment play out. This call is a classic example of this. Thanks, Vin. You'll be missed.
Many of u talk about it and acknowledge it as magnificent, listen better - you're not alone.
I came here because I’m mourning the passing of Vin Scully. No one told the story or called a game like him. Rest In Peace to the best who ever had a microphone
A voice🗣 that was a "nightcap"🥃🍸and a cup of cocoa☕ and the same dayum time. #SleepWell, Sir. #SeeYaLater
me too
Best thing about Vince Scully was sometimes what he didn't say- He let the game and the crowd do it it for him.
Agreed. He knew how to let the game breath
I just posted the video of the Gibson HR from 1988 on my Facebook and said this same thing.
He had his ego and his mouth under control. He knew it was about the game, the players, the crowd. Brilliance is right!
Tahoedirt exactly. Vin knew when to let the crowd tell the story. So many announcers today just can't shut up.
One minute and 45 seconds of letting the crowd noise and the video images tell the story...a masterpiece from the greatest baseball announcer of all time!
4:21 “Little roller up along first..BEHIND THE BAG. IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER. HERE COMES KNIGHT AND THE METS WIN IT!” Absolute chills every time. This call is one of the greatest in all of sports.
My favorite call I've ever seen and heard.
Chic Anderson calling the '73 Belmont is right up there too. "He is moving like a tremendous machine"!!
And then Vin simply kept silent for almost two minutes letting us watch the replays and crowd without feeling the need to jabber on. Masterful job in what he said and didn't say!
@@JoeH0325 Same in his call of Gibson's walkoff in the 1988 World Series.
"High fly ball into right field, she is... GONE!"
Then a full minute of silence, letting us bask in the crowd noise.
Then the immortal line, "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!"
Chills
Because Vin was the best. Not like these motormouths today
2:30 Can we appreciate how Mookie Wilson threw his legs out of the way to ensure the ball got as far away from the home plate as possible?? Fantastic reaction time on these batters.
How would moving his legs make the ball go further?
@@Marc-io8qmBecause if the ball bounced off of him then it wouldn’t have gone that far and the catcher wouldn’t have been lured away from the plate.
One of the most epic at bats in a World Series game.... Mookie you were the man...
Hats off to Mookie Wilson showing class & friendship to Bill Buckner(RIP) all these years in defending him against the haters.
Lamont Burton Absolutely, Mookie was all class. Him and Gary Carter were about the only 2 who weren’t lunatic party animals on that 86 Mets team. One of the fastest men in baseball too.
@@rustykuntz94 my favorite players were, Dykstra, Doc, and Daryl
Such a nice sediment.
Also, I remember growing up such a mookie wilson fan. Strawberry was always my fav player (I know, hes very flawed... but i somehow always align with anti heroes lol)... but it was always me on the base paths vs my friends at recess or after school, and trying to imitate mookie wilson!!! I played these moments out as if I was the ballplayer AND the commentator daily hahahaha. I really was that kid playing baseball in the backyard, even when alone and pretending to play against ghosts hahahaha.
Honored to have been trying to emulate mookies style even if I was wearing strawberrys number!
Wanna know what's even funnier? I'm a life long phillies fan #1!!!!
That's how candid and awesome those mid to late'ish mets were!
Defending him from costing us the World Series? How very nice of him
Ryan C Still mad at him all of these years later? Oh gosh!
A few years later, Mookie said that he felt sorry for Buckner. "Yeah, I wanted to win, but that ruined his whole life. He didn't deserve to be blamed for losing the game like he was. Nobody should have to live with something like that."
Al Bundy Awww, Mookie.
Good baseball man, more so, a gentleman.
So true
Mookie was always an Ace.
Yes. That is a fabulous at-bat.
I blame the manager for leaving Stapleton on the bench !! Much better fielder!!
There will be no one as special in baseball as Vin was. You’ll forever be missed! Rest In Peace to the King of broadcasting. ❤️
The absolute greatest part of that call by Scully was the nearly 2 minutes of silence (where the announcers didn't say anything) he let happen right after the winning run scored - just letting the camera scan the crowd/stadium/dugout and just letting you take it all in. He knew not to try and fill in one of baseball greatest moments with talking.
Everyone blames Buckner but forgets Stanley's wild pitch that tied it and moved Knight to scoring position in the first place.
Was down to the last strike too. Always felt bad for Buckner, great player who was victim of a bad bounce.
Gedman was to blame. Stanleys pitch was catchable. Gedman was lazy
Exactly!
And, the catcher barely reaching for that pitch in a WS.
Mookie would have beaten Buckner to the bag as he was a left-handed batter flying out of the box. Mookie would have beaten Stanley to the bag
Scully was simply THE BEST! He lets the pictures do ALL the talking!
Yes, Joe Buck please shut up, and all the others
Scully with the perfect call on the most unlikely of circumstances
If one picture is worth 1,000 words, you’ve seen a million words....Vin Scully was amazing
God, this sounds just like the baseball I remember. Listening to the play-by-play on an AM radio on a warm summer night...those days were great!
freakjob0 agree
So, do you like beer at the ballpark? Games on Sundays? The extra talent brought to the game by black, latino, etc players? Do you know with conservatives we'd have none of that? You'd also have a lot harder time getting laid. Don't forget Cons were against birth control too.
@@bradkay You're wrong you millennial fuckstick.
You're funny. My kids are too old to be millennials.
Just go away Brad.
Scully’s call gives me goosebumps every time. “Here comes knight and the mets WIN IT!”.
Don't forget, "Behind the bag"!!!! I have heard that it was very rare for the usually calm Scully to have that much emotion in his voice.Also,"If a picture is worth a thousand words,you have just seen about a million of them.But more then that you have just seen an absolutely bizarre finish to game 6 of the 1986 world series.The mets are not only alive..,but they are well...,and they will play the Red Sox in game 7 tomorrow"!Really great call.Although long time hometown Met's radio announcer Bob Murphy's call is great as well. "Mookie Wilson still hopes to win it for New York....3-2 the count....and the pitch by Stanley,and a ground ball,trickling,it's a fair ball! ..It get's by Buckner!!! Rounding third Knight!!! The Met's will win the ball game! ....The Met's Win! ..THEY WIN!!!!" Also what made the Met broadcast of the call even better(which you don't hear a lot,but I sure will never forget) was after Murphy says "THEY WIN!!! the second time,and after a short pause,the other radio guy the Met's had at the time Gary Thorne says "Unbelievable!!! ... The Red Sox in "STUNNED DISBELIEF!!!"
Murphy's call on the radio was also epic.
A classic line.
😎
@@anthonybafundo3067 Sculy was younger then most of his good calls where with emotion until he started getting older
@@mayamanign Is there a clip of that somewhere?
The way Mr. Scully called this was a microcosm of his career. Understated perfect elegance.
Kirk Gibsons home run off Dennis Eckersley and Bucker’s error are two of the best moments in Vin Scully’s career.
I agree.
@@danielfoster3642 In my opinion, Mr. Vin Scully's best moments as an announcer was the call he made right after Hank Aaron slammed his 715th career MLB regular-season homerun.....which broke Babe Ruth's all-time homerun record. The two calls you consider as Vin Scully's best moments are DEFINITELY his most-well known calls. That's because those games were World Series games, and they were broadcasted worldwide. However, you are entitled to your opinions....Mr. Vince Scully was definitely the ABSOLUTE greatest announcer of all time!!!!!
Aaron breaking Ruth home run record up there too. But it was regular season.
Yes, and they were only a couple seasons apart. Great drama narrated by one of the greatest announcers
Don't forget Joe Montana to Dwight Clark-THE CATCH!
Possibly Vin’s finest moment. His ability to let the game’s atmosphere take center stage was unmatched, and it’s most evident here.
he was the second best baseball announcer the best ever was mel allen
Vin has so many great moments. Cant forget about Kirk Gibson's homer in 1988 either
@@robleto228 Nope. Scully is the best. Allen, Barber, Gowdy, Buck etc. all occupy the space in Vinny's long shadow.
@@davidbowman4259 your insane ask any real baseball historian about mel allen
Finest moment? Oh no, that would be the Kirk Gibson home run.
“A hitless at bat that had wizardry in it” - Gary Carter (1954-2012)
Agreed
I've applied those similar spells
You know, it's a shame, the luck the Mets have had since then. Missed in the early 2000s, a cats hair in 2006, Adam Wainright being that cat hair, and an even smaller cat hair in the '15 series. I like a lot of the Mets I grew up watching and the fans are for all its worth, stubborn. Like Cardinal fans. We aren't pals in a ballpark, but I did root with ya in that world series. I hate the Royals more.
I nearly hit my head on my sister’s ceiling when that ball went through Buckner’s legs.. Greatest sports moment in my life
who else is coming here after hearing about the legend passing😔 forever goated because of this at bat and many others. rest in paradise🧡💙
Kirk Gibson was my first stop, but there's no wrong place to start. Bo Jackson's asg homer is next.
best to ever do it
U beat me to it lol
@@12345673581 My first stop was Jerry Reuss’s no hitter
My “Top News” here on YT is always a mixture of politics, shootings (lately) and other goings on of the day. Tonight, it is filled with stories of Vin. For once, YT has done the right thing. Thanks, Vin. For everything.
Vince Scully the greatest baseball announcer ever
So true
Scully certainly was the best....Always remained calm; this was the Only time in his career broadcasting that I can remember that he ever lost his voice
Jack buck
Ahad Nazir chaudhary Jack Buck was also excellent. Too bad he didn’t pass his genes to his son.
He was solid best ever Bill King Holy Toledo! Lets Go Oakland Always
Baseball just isn't the same since Vin Scully retired. He was one of a kind and can never be replaced.
Chad Quick i
Chad Quick Cary Cohen and company are fun to listen to
I always thought he was kind of boring
Good voice but he'd tell random stories
I'm with you!
Thorin Jordan you have no sense of baseball history
1 of the most underrated ABs in World Series history. That was a 10 pitch AB by Mookie
Ah, Shea. “It was a dump, but it was OUR dump” Damn, I love it.
Don’t do that! Don’t make me sad! 🥺😢😭
I miss Shea.
😕
The Beatles' first full U.S. concert was at that 'dump'.
Yep I miss Shea & the Beatles that played there
Yes, I miss Shea Stadium, too. Hearing Jane Jarvis playing the Irish Jig and the Tarantella on the organ, respectively, whenever Tug McGraw and Danny Frisella entered the game, seeing Karl Erhardt displaying his wonderful signs (Channel 9 didn’t show Mr. Erhardt, when he flashed signs that were critical of the Mets), catching a glimpse of the three greatest Met announcers of all time, Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson, up there in the broadcasting booth, all great memories.
Man, I miss Shea. That stadium would shake went it got going.
Best stadium in baseball
Give it time, Citi Field will get there. It's the fans that make a stadium, nothing else.
Shea was an underrated stadium, reviled by many and loved by few. (we're one of the few)
Shea was our back yard. None of our opponents liked coming into it. Doc on the mound, the planes coming in to La Guardia, 57.000, yep, it was the greatest. The Mets for a brief time were the punks of baseball, winded everyone up the wrong way, such a swagger. And then they traded Nails for Juan Samuel and that was that.
Now they play a form of "baseball" in a giant video arcade named after a bank. No thanks.
In 2019, I'm STILL watching this. It never gets old...
Same here man.
@@polarbear3589: one thing that most people fail to forget.......Mookie was FLYIN' down the first base line! Buckner wasn't going to beat him to 1st base anyway!!
Yeah that's a big reason as to why Buckner booted the ball too. Because he was rushing. The real goat of this game was Bob Stanley. But the Red Sox get no sympathy from me because Davey Johnson almost blew this game by not having Hojo bunt in the 9th inning. Mets should have won it then, it should never have gone to extra innings!
I know, right? I watch this at least once a week... Greatest at bat EVER!! Mookie would have beaten that ball to ,1st, I'm sure of it.. Stanley never did cover 1st for Buckner.. end of story! I screamed and jumped on my seat until I lost voice on this at bat!
2020 here.
No one quite says "palm ball" like Scully. What an awesome sequence.
If you like hearing him say "palm ball" you'd love "Alejandro Pena"
Had to come here after Vin’s passing. Guy was a true legend. I’m a huge Dodger fan, but these Mets were Metsmerizing xD
Well, they were a bunch of cokeheads, alcohol and beer drinkers, pill poppers, and lucky to have beat my Astros in the 86' National League Championship Series.
@@randy74989you're right. If my 1986 Mets were completely sober, we should've swept your Astros in four. Guess you couldn't beat us while playing buzzed and high.
Let's Go Mets
@@jonp341 You have to admit, it was a great championship series! And, your Mets won the World series.
@@randy74989 If it had gone to a seventh game, I don't think we could've beat Mike Scott. He handled us and the Mets didn't want to face him again.
I am so happy I got to listen to both Vin Scully and Keith Jackson. Two legends.
Curt Gowdy
Harry Kalas, and I'm a Mets fan.
Whoa Nelly!!
I remember when Mookie was at bat, I had gone to my room and was so distraught that we were going to lose. My parents stuck it out, and when the tying run came in, my mother came running up the hall, yelling "They tied the score, they tied the score!!!" At that point, I came back to the living room, because I decided to go down with the ship lol. When that ball rolled through Bill Buckner's legs, my whole house exploded. Even the dogs and my elderly cat were hollering! 😂 The whole neighborhood exploded. What a night! One of the best moments in baseball. ❤
Dipperpines9089's Mom That’s so awesome!
Happy for your family and pets but as a Red Sox Fan, I still can't believe this happened. Sadly, my Mother didn't live to see the Red Sox ever win it all.
Fair weather
Wish I could experience something like that
What a great memory. I also remember where I was that night.
Thank you for posting the whole at-bat. This is a perfect example of "taken out of context" - anyone that solely blames Buckner for this debacle needs to see this whole at-bat of Stanley vs Wilson. Stanley had two strikes on Wilson with 2 out, then throws a wild pitch, Mitchell scores and now all the pressure is off Wilson. He could have struck out at that point and we're simply going one more inning (at least). Anyone that shows Buckner's error all by itself is a pea-wit.
the mets scored all of their runs with 2 outs, it absolutely was a bullpen collapse but Buckner gets somewhat unfairly blamed because his error was the last play of the game
Plus the red Sox still had game 7 & blew a lead.
Mookie was also fast enough that there was a chance he would’ve made it to first even if Buckner grabbed it
@@privacyplease1556if that happened the winning run wouldn’t have scored
Rich Gedman should have blocked the pitch that Mitchell scored on.
I grew in LA loving the Dodgers and listening to Vinnie. He was the best, no doubt about it!
VINCE SCULLY WAS MEANT TO CALL THE GAME OF BASEBALL. GREATEST ANNOUNCER EVER!!!
Well, that's YOUR opinion. I won't give mine, except to say over rated.
*Vin
Born to it.
i guess i'm just biased, but "holy cow", i'd go with scooter
Agreed
RIP Bill Buckner. And a big F-You to all you people in Boston who made this guy's life miserable for this honest error!
Craig Jones 🤣🤣🤣funny cause it's true!R.I.P Bill Buckner I never did blame you for 86
Right. The media had nothing to do with this. Those dang Boston fans are all to blame. It's obvious he singlehandedly lost the world series. Fuck you John Nastrom.
Should've been Bob's fault for the wild pitch💯
Agree. You shouldn't have a figurative tattoo on your arm for less than a second of your life and be forced to pay for it. ESPECIALLY from Boston baseball fans.
@ConkeyCrack ...or worse, Jim Rice..
Rest in peace Mr Scully, thank you for this memory
RIP Bill Buckner, Dave Henderson, Don Baylor, Gary Carter, and Joe Garagiola. God bless your souls. You’re all deeply missed.
AMEN
I remember this like yesterday. I was only 10 years old but still remember the moment vividly, RIP Bill Buckner...
justinjae1527 I was 10 yrs old as well!!
For sure, only thing that came close in 45 years was the Card's game 6 win
I was 11. I thought my dad was gonna cause our house to collapse he was going so berserk
Respect to Vin Scully. The best to ever do it.
SLEEP PEACEFULLY VIN 🎙💙⚾️🙏🏾🕊
Rest in Peace Vin Scully, thanks for everything!
Still give me chills as a met fan,31 yrs later
😂😂 I feel bad for ya!! It’s been a long 30 years!!
kyle Messineo it has been for us Mets fans
Hopefully, With Our New Stars, We'll Have A World Series Win Soon. I Still Haven't Gotten To See My Mets Win One Yet.
That was the best 10-pitch at-bat I’ve ever seen. Mookie staying alive whatever it takes
I agree!!! CRAZY VINTAGE ENDING
@K Mookie's at bat created conditions for the wild pitch and error. The best non hit at bat ever.
Mookie was batting the way I play tennis. Just don't miss the ball and wait for the other guy to screw up. And they did. Twice.
I remember this moment like it was yesterday. I was 11 yrs old and I knew then like I know now, baseball ⚾️ is a game of inches and the best stories are made on the field.
A definite top 5 call in MLB history.
Bob Stanley threw the wild pitch that allowed the game to be tied and put ray knight in scoring position, but all everybody remembers is Buckner
Jim Rice was thrown out at the plate by a mile earlier in the game also. Carter almost fell asleep waiting to tag him.
Even being a Mets fan since childhood, I found the grudge against Buckner to be pretty shabby and unfair. In slow-mo, I could see that the ball didn't take the kind of hop you'd expect; it stayed down and almost flattened out. If this had occurred during some non-consequential season game, there wouldn't have been much of a row over it.
Bottom line is this....... Bob Stanley did his part in this collapse and so did Bill, but one fact that many people wasn't paying attention to was the fact that Mookie was FLYIN' down the 1st base line!! Buckner wasn't going to beat him to the bag anyway!!!
@@bobbym.2130 Yep. I came to that same conclusion after watching the Wilson/Buckner play over and over again. Buckner (flat-footed) was not that much closer to 1st base than Wilson (full steam) was when the ball got near Buckner's glove.
You have to give Mookie credit, for fouling off all those pitches; he really battled
What I love about this game is how it proves how the Mets earned the nickname “The Amazins.” Vin Scully, who is know to be a very calm announcer, is in absolute shock when he says “BEHIND THE BAG!...” Even he couldn’t believe what was going on in this inning. You never can count the Mets out and never know whether they’ll win big or lose big. That’s why I’m proud to call myself a die hard Mets fan.
"Even he couldn’t believe what was going on in this inning."
That's right-- just before Mookie did what he did, Vin said, quite rightly, "Can you believe this ball game at Shea!" and Joe Garagiola summed it up perfectly: "Oh, brother!"
Scully was pure poetry with the call, and the Shea crowd provided the background vocals
I was stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. and I was watching the game in my quarters. I was just in disbelief watching this moment. What a great call by Vin Scully. May he rest in peace.
Rest in Paradise tio Vin😭
I don't know if there ever had been before or will ever be again, but the sound of the Shea crowd when everyone instantly realizes it's gone through the legs... Just a collective joyful shocking feeling of catharsis. Amazin'!
Scully was a classic voice for baseball. I watched this game and remember it well. What an exciting ending it was! Game 7 was even more exciting!
As a lifelong Mets fan I always felt Buckner really got the short end of the stick considering the score was tied BEFORE the error. Also, the Red Sox blew a 3 run lead in the 6th inning the following day in GM 7. If anything it was a team collapse
Only Vin could call this so perfectly.
Baseball is a beautiful game.
It sure is! Not so much when it comes to this play when you're a Red Sox fan though. LOL!!! Oh, and by the way, I gave your comment a "thumbs up."
Best team sport in America
michael gardiner so right. Best team sport in America, period. I long for the days of my youth when baseball, not the National Felons League was America's pastime.
One of the Greatest calls Ever Made "BEHIND THE BAG!"
“It gets through BUCKNER!”
Just 4 pitches in and Mookie is one strike away from losing the series. At home. He then stays alive just making contact over and over again. What an amazing at bat this is.
RIP Buckner. Sad to hear the news just now :(
He blew the entire series
Marcellis Robinson nope. He couldn’t hack a routine slow
Ground ball
AMEN!!!!!
At least Boston eventually broke the curse
One great Person , A man amongst Men.Team Effort Spells Victory , The Only losers Are Ones who give in.If a game were continuous Would anyone be to blame. He's a great Ballplayer who did not deserve to be Blamed for A great seasons End.
Still one of the biggest moments in sports history
Down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier
Well, yes, especially if you're a Mets fan.
@@Finarphin or a Red Sox hater 😈
Rest peacefully Vince Scully. Baseball misses you.
When baseball was absolutely perfect.
I, we, were very fortunate to have grown up in Los Angeles listening to such a great man like Vin Scully.
Mookie should have his own statue in citi field. The greatest clutch ab in MLB history!
Agreed. One of my favorite players of all time. People forget that Mookie was playing for the Mets long before they started to turn things around in 84. He gave us Mets fans something to watch from 80-83.
Rich Daley he was really the only guy on the roster who was there for whole ride from the bottom to the top. Mookie Wilson #1
Nah, Kirk Gibson
Uh, ok
It might have been, although I would personally choose Francisco Cabrera and maybe David Freese ahead of it.
Goodbye Vin Scully...his definitive Non Dodger Call. What an unreal and amazing career he had in broadcasting.
Rest In Peace Scully
Gotta love Scully. The friggin GOAT.
You never hear him that excited. I wonder how much coffee he had during this game?
I'm surprised actually that he didn't "Mets down to their last strike/Red Sox one strike away" call it. KInda blew it I think.
Sky Blylevin Scully's insistence on doing games alone ruins it for me. I prefer the back and forth between an analyst and the play by play announcer.
yep him along with Mel Allen, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Dick Enberg and Bob Murphy.
Robert Brown Bob Murphy: "Fasten your seat belts." Hate the Mets, love their announcers...Murphy, Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson, and now, Ron Darling. Keith Hernandez I could live without. He gets bugs up his ass and harps on them all game.
For you younger fans out there, I want to remind you that this game...this series... everyone watched it. 44.5 million viewers saw this sequence unfold. The 1986 WS averaged 36 million viewers per game. These days, MLB would be ecstatic to average 15 million viewers per game in a World Series. In a country whose population increased by about 100 million people since this broadcast. That's how big this game and this series was in American popular culture.
The whole rally is perfect by Vin! Masterpiece the way he was building each moment
I was on the #2 train with the conductor giving the play by play. Everyone on the train went crazy. The best time to be from N.Y. I will never forget that moment in time.
"If a picture's worth a thousand words, then you've just saw a million words."
1000 words = 1 picture. one million words = 1000 pictures. 1000 divided by 24 frames per second = 41 seconds of individual pictures. you're right. It actually works out.
not the quote but good try?
usssanjacinto1 that actually wasn't a great line lol. He had way better ones then that
Chrisman77 like u could do better under pressure in the heat of battle announcing a game? I DONT THINK SO PAL!
Robert Brown i didn't say i could. Just said it wasn't as great as it could have been.
By far, the greatest professional sports moment of my life!!! I was 16, and I was at a friends house watching the game. The friend wanted to go to bed so my other friend and I had to find a place to get to quickly to watch the 10th inning. Well we ended up at a near by bar called the Town Pub. The bartender (wearing a red sox hat) was willing to bet anybody 100 to one that the SOX were going to win and the Mets were done after the top of the 10th. Nobody made a wager with him but what a finish and fun place to watch the amazing comeback.
GREAT STORY !!!!
One of the most epic moments in all of sports history. 2 outs and 2 strikes and down 1 run. 55,000 thousand fans looking on..wow nerves of steel by Mookie.
🙏 the goat
Greatest call ever because he shut his trap when all the excitement was happening
Exactly. But...it is only the SECoND greatest call. The greatest was his call of Kirk Gibson's homerun for the Dodgers, where Vinnie did the same thing, let the crowd roar. That one was just a little better because 1. he was calling for his own home team, the Dodgers, and 2. it was supposed to be impossible for Gibson, hobbling on TWO bad knees, to do what he did. You hit with your legs as much as anything else... That home run made Gibbie a legend as much as Buckner's fielding ruined his reputation...
That's why Scully is the best
Vin wasn't just the great dodger announcer he was a great baseball announcer..period
@steve b You're an idiot. He was so fucking good there simply was never a need to have a partner in the booth. You have NO IDEA how hard it is to do what he did. I've done baseball play by play..... solo and with a partner. It's ridiculous how good Vin was.
Phil Rizzuto..sorry
I heartily agree there, and I'm a Giants fan. Some things just go beyond rivalries like that.
@@TR-vr5pz I love Phil Rizzuto too, and I respect your opinion....But Mr. Vince Scully is the greatest, all-time announcer ever! Both Mr. Scully and Mr. Phil 'Scooter' Rizzuto were amazingly wonderful!!!
Vin Scully's silence after Knight touches home plate is golden.
😀😀😂😂😍😍🙂🙂
Multiple generations of us Dodgers fans listened to him use that same technique a COUNTLESS AMOUNT of times.........
The total disbelief in Vin Scully's voice as Ray Knight crosses the plate gets me every time
I love how that dude skipped all the way home and then jumped and landed both feet on home plate.
Buckner may not even beat Wilson to the bag if he does field it. What happened to Buckner is a disgrace. Credit Wilson with a great at-bat and blame the dozen or so Red Sox players who vastly contributed to that meltdown. RIP to a great player who deserved so much more from an entitled fanbase
They forgave him after 2004
If Buckner fields it, does Stanley make it to first base in time? Apparently he only stopped moving towards first when he saw the ball go between Buckner’s legs
@@MrCubFan415 doubt it
@Elaine Apthorp Yes but Buckner never deserved the hate either way. He shouldn't even have been in the game at that point. Everyone knew his knees were shot at that point in his career
@@MrCubFan415 I always figured if Buckner fields it, he sees Wilson will beat Stanley and he holds the ball to keep Knight at third. Then they walk Johnson to load the bases.
Never forget. Mookie did a good job fighting off those pitches to keep the inning alive
I was eleven years old watching this electrifying World Series game with my Grandma. Vin Scully was magically during the amazing Mets comeback. We were both on the edge of our seats, hoping, praying for a miracle. And it happened! Vin Scully ended it beautifully 🎙
Simply the BEST ever!!
if you watch the full game 6 boston needed 1 strike to win world series..i always wondered by bill buckner was blamed... he didn't cause the mets to tie it up and then win game 6...remember the mets were 1 strike from losing and boston 1 strike from winning their first world series since 1918..i always blamed the pitcher bob stanley and the manager
Not only should they blame the pitcher but Boston also had the chance to win in game 7 and didn’t capitalize..
For sure! But even in this at bat, once he threw the wild pitch it was blown! It’s all on Stanley. Buckner never deserved to be the scape goat.
Because through it all that was a routine play and a spectacular error. Wild pitches happen almost every game. Managerial decisions backfire almost every playoff series. How often do you see a gentle ground ball 5 hole a professional infielder, especially at so crucial a moment?
And yes he absolutely did cause them to lose this game. Maybe not tie it up, but if he makes that play (which again you would expect a little leaguer to make) they live to fight another inning.
The fact is you win as a team and you lose as a team. But if you can’t see why this is called the “Buckner play” I don’t know what else to tel you.
No. It’s not Buckner who is to blame. McNamara should have had Stapleton in the game as it was. Oh and I blame Gedman more than Stanley. That should have been a Passed Ball not a Wild Pitch. Oh, and even if Buckner fields the ball cleanly, he wasn’t beating Mookie Wilson to that bag.
I don't need to watch it. I still feel the pain today just thinking of it. The most horrific loss I ever saw as a life long Red Sox Fan. Just BRUTAL. Plus they blew the lead in game 7. Worse than ,75 and '78 by a million miles. But.... then there was 2004. Ahhhhh..... the redemption was so sweet.
I was 25 at the time. I watched this with my parents at the time, I was still living at home at the time. I'm from Long Island. My parents were big baseball fans, my late father was from NYC, my mother was from Brooklyn, so you know who they used to see. But to see how this whole game unfolded and then of course the ending. The 11: 00 news shows had their lead story. All one of the anchors had to say was, " You'll never guess what is coming up next. " See the replays over and over again. And now to be able to see this again and again on You Tube, the best. Thanx for posting this.
This is one of baseballs all time incredible and greatest moments in a game with so many... what an at bat by Mookie.
It's odd that with two strikes on Wilson, Scully never once mentions that the Sox are one strike away from their first World Series in almost 70 years. Today's announcers would try to wring every last ounce of drama out of the situation and create a profound narrative. Scully trusted his viewers.
Wow
Yeah. People were more expected to know stuff and pay attention back then. Nowadays they would talk it to death even though the score, count, pitchcount, runners on etc. would all be showing at the top of the screen 100% of the time.
Vin is so great on this call. Stays quiet and lets the scene do it all. Legend.
One of the many things that made Vin Scully the greatest is he didn’t feel like he had to talk all of the time. He goes silent at 4:35 and the rest is history. He did the same when Gibby hit that dinger off of Eckersley in the bottom of the night in the WS, and he lets the crowd do the talking.
Rest In Peace Vin.
What can we say? Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola had such awesome chemistry together when they called games for NBC in the 1980s. :D
Who’s here after seeing Vin Scully passed?
Buonanima.
The way Ray Knight jumps on home plate with both feet will never not be adorable.
Scully was great at silence and letting the mood and atmosphere sink in without talking. Especially with his Gibson call.