I remember that autumn night on Oct. 25, 1986, sitting about a dozen rows from the top of Shea Stadium. The two couples from Boston sitting in front of me, clad in Red Sox regalia, popped the champagne bottle they had somehow sneaked past security and began to toast their team’s first World Series victory since 1918. The Mets were down by two runs in the 10th inning of Game 6 and their best hitter, Keith Hernandez, just made the second out. The scoreboard flashed, for a brief second, “Congratulations, Boston Red Sox, 1986 World Champions.”
Then, Gary Carter singled. Kevin Mitchell singled. Ray Knight singled, scoring Carter. Bob Stanley threw a wild pitch, scoring Mitchell, and all of a sudden that champagne lost its taste. Then the moment everyone remembers, as famously described by Mets announcer Bob Murphy: “Here’s the pitch to Mookie Wilson. It’s a ground ball…trickling…IT GETS BY BUCKNER! THE METS WIN! THEY WIN!”
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