MLB Network Baseball Seasons 1986

[@Jiltedin2007]

R.I.P.: Bill Buckner, Gary Carter and Shea Stadium.

[@PrinceTron1]

I started following baseball in the late spring of 1986 as a 12 year old. Before 1986 I was mostly into G.I. Joe, Transformers, Star Wars, Robotech, etc. Then I started playing softball and I wanted to know more about the game of baseball. So I started watching as many games as possible between the Cubs, White Sox, ABC Monday night baseball and NBC's Saturday's game of the week. As a young kid on Chicago's west side I took more to the Cubs because they were on WGN tv every day and night. I was amazed at how the late great HOF announcer Harry Carey could make a last place Cubs team seen like they were in first place and gonna win the World Series. I learned real quick about how good the New York Mets were. A cocky, arrogant team loaded with talent. And they were constantly getting into fights with other teams! It was wonderful following and learning about the game of baseball in 1986. Then in October I'd come home from school and all hell breaks loose in the NLCS and ALCS. I was indifferent towards the Angels and Red Sox but I definitely wanted the Mets to lose. But everytime it seemed like the Mets were dead they'd find a way to come back and win. I'm about to turn 46 in two months and I've followed baseball for the last 33 years. I've experienced the ups, downs and ups with the Cubs and White Sox. I'm predominantly a Cubs fan but I carry a candle for the White Sox for my late dad who passed in 2008 at 71. I was so glad he got to see his White Sox win the World Series back in 2005. And I finally experienced my Cubs winning it all 3 years ago in 2016. I still can't believe it. But through all the years and experiences following major league baseball, I always come back to 1986.

[@chrisfarley4ever572]

RIP Bill Buckner!

[@DrLuke49]

R.I.P. Chris Farley too

[@jaycompany4886]

@MAN UTD You're right but it's boring.....just like golf......bowling now there's a winner

[@jameshughes6049]

I was a 17 year old high school senior in 1986 and a rabid, die hard Mets fan. I was at game 7 of the world series with my older brother. I will never ever forget that night!!

[@Drfiggy]

I was 17 in '86 and loved every minute, especially as a Mets fan! Let's Go Mets in 2023!

[@Jiltedin2007]

34 years, and 4 World Series Championships later, the Boston Red Sox have long put this World Series to bed! R.I.P.: Bill Buckner

[@adamsoboleski6857]

Bottom line, the Red Sox won the 86 American League pennant and there is a pennant flag up at Fenway forever.

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@adamsoboleski6857 Yes there is, like the ones before it in ‘46, ‘67, and ‘75.

[@adamdorgant9454]

True!!!

[@franksylva9031]

@@adamsoboleski6857 Pennant flags with no WS flag is meaningless. Like the Bruins with all those Adam's Div championship ones.

[@Jiltedin2007]

@Matterhorn55844 the same way Cubs Fans blamed Steve Bartman for 2003, and Rangers Fans blamed Nelson Cruz for 2011.

[@luisruizalvarez6860]

RIP Donnie Moore (Angels) , Gary Carter (Mets) , Gene Mauch (Angels) , Mel Stottlemyre (Mets) , Dave Henderson (Red Sox) , Dave Smith (Astros), Aurelio López (Astros).

[@michaelleroy9281]

Lopez was with the Tigers

[@michaelleroy9281]

Mel Stottlemyre never played for the Mets, he was with the Yankees his entire career

[@luisruizalvarez6860]

@@michaelleroy9281He was pitching coach for the Mets in the 80's.

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

You left out Terry Deurod

[@mpaulm]

These are so cool to watch. I’ve found the 1995 and 2000 seasons on KZbin.

[@theverminmediaareyourenemi5612]

I credit the '86 Mets for turning me onto baseball as a kid.

[@rustykuntz94]

Such an exciting team, cocky, tough, great ballplayers, no pussy cry baby shit like you see today, love the 86 Mets. Love your name too, LMFAO, FUCK COVID1984!

[@davanmani556]

I feel for Donnie Moore’s family especially the kids.

[@koryclarke1991]

Ditto, I think that really it truly wasn't Donnie Moore's Fault for a number of reasons. 1. Gene Mauch, should've left Mike Witt in the game. 2. If Gary Lucas hadn't hit Rich Gedman with a pitch and gotten him out, Dave Henderson would've never come to bat. 3. Moore was pitching with a bad shoulder, 4. The Angels had a chance to win that game in the bottom of the 9th inning and bail Moore out. Rob Wilfong had tied the game at 6-6 with a single. Both Bobby Grich and Doug DeCinces swung at bad pitches and got Steve Crawford off the hook.

[@jamestepera3356]

Didn't he whack his wife as well?

[@jamestepera3356]

@A A whack as in mafioso. I don't recall all the details.....

[@dzanier]

The things that happened after the 86/playoffs to some of the players who participated were as compelling as those playoffs themselves. Donnie. Moore, Bill, Buckner, Dwight Golden, Darryl Strawberry.

[@Icecreamforcrowtoo]

@M "Soccer is the biggest sport on Earth!!! Soccer is massive in over 240 countries. Baseball is big in less than 15 countries tifj" And more people today watch the Kardashians on television and relate to that over Citizen Kane or Henry V. The Kardashians still suck and Citizen Kane and Shakespeare are timeless works of art. So what's your point, goober? That clueless people like yourself outnumber people who enjoy subtlety and depth? If that's what you're getting at, I won't argue with you.

[@turtle19dad]

I met Mike Witt at the Joe Maddon press conference and talked to him about 86 and still hate Boston to this day. He did say to me "2002 sure felt good though." I got the chance to tell him that team was my favorite Angels team. As an Angels fan Game 6 of the WS felt good.. And I can't stand how Buckner was treated. He didn't throw any wild pitches or give up hits. Buck was a good dude, solid player. RIP Buck. Well done with the video.

[@josecolon2201]

Nlcs and Alcs best playoffs gms ever

[@SuperMathewson]

Hell of a postseason

[@michaelleroy9281]

The ALCS and World Series went 7 games the NLCS could have done that too

[@robertcourson8002]

@@michaelleroy9281 True but for a 6gm series it had at much or more drama than any series I can remember. The Mets were willing to do anything to avoid game 6 against Scott who they were terrified of. Ive never seen a team before or since then in any sport more afraid of 1 man as the Mets were if Mike Scott

[@adamdorgant9454]

@@robertcourson8002 You’re right about that!!!!

[@100chuckjones]

I remember the day after that game 6 cursing out Buckner and my father overheard me, he almost gave me a whack. Explained to me in great detail about Bill, his knees, how that play didn't end the series, only the game. My father gifted me many lessons in life but this was a gem. 25 years later, after Welker dropped that pass in the Superbowl against the Giants, I gave my kid the same lesson. Funny how things go full circle like that.

[@marclaporte3710]

The 86 World Series was truly an Iconic Classic !

[@adamdorgant9454]

Agreed!!!

[@rustykuntz94]

I've ALWAYS HEARD THAT story too that Dwight Evans said. 2 out in the bottom of the 10th up by 2 in game 6 of the WS the Shea Stadium scoreboard flashed for a couple seconds "CONGRATULATIONS RED SOX-1986 WS CHAMPIONS". So it was the scoreboard that jinxed them that time I guess lol.

[@SirFamousNX]

Finally a 1986 upload of this, haven't watched it in years. Thank you!

[@mitshumarner5870]

Magic? Indeed. As a much younger fellow then, I recall being at the NL East clinching game against the Cubs at Shea, the crowds flowing onto the field, the chaos then and for many weeks afterwards. It was a magical year.

[@jaybirdjaybird9410]

Unreal playoff season… Crazy games in both leagues.

[@robertguida8997]

Watching this makes me miss baseball in the 80s, a great season, & the World Series as incredible as it was, hearing Vin Scully call the Game 6 play makes me miss when announcers knew how to call a game. It also makes me happy that Bill Buckner was able to get his due & apologies when the Sox won in 2004 & 2007. Sports is a funny game, things can happen, but Bill Buckner should've never ever gotten the blame for that? RIP Buckner, as a Yankee fan, you deserved better

[@ApostolicInfluence]

As a baseball fan it's always fun watching the best play and how they played back in the day, but as an Astros fan that 16 inning game is tough to watch.

[@thema1998]

This documentary not only helped me gain a bigger appreciation for the 1986 Mets, but also the 1986 season as a whole. 🤓

[@adamdorgant9454]

You’re right about that!!!!

[@toptenguy1]

Imagine how much of a legend and hero Dave Henderson would have been, had the Red Sox closed out that game 6 against the Mets...

[@jamesbowman8138]

He would be a legend in boston

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

​​@@jamesbowman8138Would have? Born and raised in Beantown and Dave Henderson is a legend even though Sox choked in the world series thanks in part to Rich Gedman who imo should have caught that pitch by Bob Stanley but somehow it got by him, and Mcnamara was a stiff of a manager, he played a big part in it also

[@justinnardine8564]

Best post season ever!

[@matthewobrien534]

Yeah, the 86' Mets had a lot of swagger. But what they really had, most importantly, was A LOT OF TALENT!!! RIP Bill Buckner, Donnie Moore, Dave Henderson, et al.

[@krierp8]

And Gary Carter.

[@unkledoda420]

And a lot of cocaine

[@MrAitraining]

That Astros pitching staff was one of the best ever. Esp down the stretch and the playoffs. As a Met fan, I hoped the mets scored 2, maybe 3 runs in a game and prayed that would win it. Mike Scott was unhittable in the last month. Looked like wicked 95 mph Wiffle balls.

[@colleenross8752]

RIP Donnie, I hope you've found peace

[@dzanier]

Beyond tragic.

[@adamdorgant9454]

@@dzanier Agreed on that!!!

[@siyuanhuo7301]

​@@adamdorgant9454Donnie?

[@DrLuke49]

There was never anything for which to forgive Bill Buckner since baseball is a team sport. The 1986 Mets also had help and blind luck in getting to the World Series thanks to Wally Backman not being called out for running outside the first base line in the bottom of the 9th of Game Three of the 1986 NLCS plus Keith Hernandez and his obstruction of 1st base umpire Fred Brocklander's viewpoint in Game Five which led to Astros batter Craig Reynolds being incorrectly called out at first. Had he been correctly called safe then Houston would have won in 9 innings then the NLCS goes a full seven games. R.I.P. Bill Buckner, Gary Carter and Donnie Moore

[@RJLNetwork]

The 1986 PostSeason! Mookie Wilson had the greatest AT-BAT in World Series History! BEST! POSTSEASON! EVER! LGM!!!

[@brycemcneil4404]

My first year as a baseball fan and I can't think of a season since this one with such a discrepancy between how *un* exciting the regular season was (by July, the Mets had it in the bag, by August, the Astros did and the Sox/Angels got minor scares but had it on lock by the first week of September) and how *very* exciting the playoffs were. You really were watching the four best teams in baseball that postseason.

[@knightrdrx]

I was crying by the end. I became a mets fan the following year. I was 7 that year and I don't have any memories of watching the world series ..I know I watched alot in 87 but I know my friends dads always had thegame on that summer during a backyardbirthday party. Baseball sucks now. I could watch the whole season again.

[@Jiltedin2007]

1986, the year of improbability! “The Red Sox are trying to go from Last Rights to American League Champions”, as told by Al Michaels. But in the World Series, it was the New York Mets that came from “Last Rights” to Winning the World Series! There has never been A More Bizarre Season of Baseball than there was in 1986.

[@adamdorgant9454]

You’re right about that!!!!

[@red-stapler574]

Although it was a heartbreaking season for me, I became a lifelong Angels fan, thanks to Wally Joyner. When Mike Trout started with the Angels, the excitement reminded me a lot or "Wally world".

[@egraber22]

Great to see this but there are obvious issues with the editing. As someone pointed out there is a shot of ANA for the California Angels. Also they show the dugout with Ray Knight batting at the end of Game 6 and you see Keith Hernandez. Everyone knows Keith went to the clubhouse and them didn't move once Carter and Mitchell singled.

[@davidgreenshield2505]

People talk about Game 6 of the World series. One of two greatest baseball games I have seen was Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS. The other game would be game 7 of the 1991 World series.

[@JayWhiteMadden]

16:18 - Thanks for playing. Sheesh! 😲

[@darrendoyle568]

Anaheim has probably yet to forgive Henderson for that home run

[@Tyrunner0097]

Can't fault Donnie for the HR. That was a great swing by Henderson.

[@Jiltedin2007]

Dwight Gooden was somewhere Doing Drugs while the Mets had their Victory Parade.

[@jarnold3415]

So sad

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@jarnold3415 You’re telling me! To the mind of a Horse’s Ass like Dwight Gooden, His Precious Little Line of Cocaine, or whatever Narcotics he was taking must’ve been more important that seeing and appreciating all those people that has been cheering and adoring you all through your run for The World Series.

[@raypratt-bw9ib]

Mike Scott had a great yr,but aren't we forgetting bout ROGER CLEMENS?!?!LOL!!

[@Lawomenshoops]

Mike Scott winning Game 7 of the 1986 NLCS? Looks like a lock, right? Just like Bob Gibson Game 7 68 WS? Sut in Game 5 84 NLCS? Mariano Game 7 2001 WS- yes, that was a relief appearance, but the point is the same. It's baseball, anything can happen!!

[@iamhungey12345]

True but it seems the Mets didn't want to leave things to chance to they gave everything they had to win it in 6.

[@robertcourson8002]

Agree. But they weren't touching Scott.0.50 ERA in 18 innings against lineup says all I need to know

[@mjisthegoat88]

corey kluber gm 7 2016 too then again mike scott was in their heads. i wouldn’t have bet against him

[@Maxwell1901]

I met Bill Buckner about three, four years ago. When I did, I handed him a note which contained only four words, "It wasn't your fault."

[@williamrogers9004]

Î'm sure he cared what some dork writes down and hands him. Get over yourself, dipshit

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Jesus, you went full Good Will Hunting on him years before that movie came out.

[@hectorlopez1069]

It was that sick freak Bob Stanley. It was his fault.

[@hectorlopez1069]

That is so nice.

[@wilsonb1121]

I’m sure he forgot your name the second you left

[@peachsangria8704]

the 86 Mets were the Motley Crue of baseball.

[@thezenitsufan1249]

Had it not been for Dwight and Daryl's drug problems the Mets could have easily won several World Series titles

[@benedettomansueto4016]

God 🙏✝️❤️ Bless New York Mets Baseball ⚾🇺🇸❤️🙏✝️ ...... Love my New York Mets World Series Champions 1969,.1986 🏆🏆💍💍

[@wsf92]

“Sometimes, when the air goes out of the balloon, you can’t pump it back up.” That's an interesting statement.

[@adamdorgant9454]

True!!!!

[@joshuaguste6883]

After reading a lot about the Mets of the 80s, it doesn’t surprise me that they didn’t win more. Personal troubles aside, when you have many big personalities and hell raisers on the same team its no longer a team. It’s a time bomb.

[@moonoink]

That was not Buckner's fault the Red Sox Lost in 1986, if anyone should be blamed, it should be Bob Stanley for throwing that wild pitch that allowed the tying run, Calvin Schiraldi, for giving up those base hits and John McNamara for leaving Buckner in there when he was hobbled.

[@adamdorgant9454]

moonoink That’s true!!

[@nycdweller]

Bill Buckner deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. He had terrific numbers! Pete Rose should be in there too! Donnie Moore got the shaft from the Angels

[@Surfer041]

Great quote by the Strawman. "They had it, but they didn't get it. "

[@jumbostorm887]

Damn no NL team hasn’t won 108 since that’s pretty impressive tbh.

[@jumbostorm887]

David Dolan Lmao you’re trolling cuz they didn’t even win 100

[@PrinceTron1]

Yeah, and no other team National or American league has topped the Mets 120 losses back in 1962. To be fair of course.

[@lonniemontgomery9988]

Jumbo Storm What are you talking about? 86 Mets won 108 games pal.

[@iamhungey12345]

Then the 2022 Dodgers wins 111 games. However lets just say 108 has a much better "ring" to it.

[@georgehedden8239]

Please someone tell me where I can find this full video?? The only one I can find is the midsummer classic montage. Where is the full Epic Moments????

[@luisvaldes1568]

At 24:00 Fenway scoreboard has ANA for Angels. At time they where California Angels.

[@notoriouseagle1074]

That shot was from 2004, when we played them in the ALDS.

[@adamdorgant9454]

Now they’re the Los Angeles Angels!!!!!

[@adamdorgant9454]

@@notoriouseagle1074 Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!

[@Jiltedin2007]

25 years later, verses the St. Louis Cardinals, the Texas Rangers would experience the exact same fate the Boston Red Sox did in this World Series.

[@MrAitraining]

Whitey Herzog publicly concedes the division to the mets before June.

[@elmascavidal1797]

The 1986’ Mets my father’s team!!!!!! 💪🏻

[@Jiltedin2007]

The 1986 New York Mets was a train wreck waiting to happen!

[@adamdorgant9454]

You’re right about that!!!!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Well, that train 🚂🚂 stayed on the tracks to win the World 🌍 Series

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@michaelleroy9281 And how about post 1986? That Mets team only deteriorated. Only one Division Championship in 1988, then lost in 7 games to the Dodgers.

[@adamdorgant9454]

More like the Guys From the Movie Animal House, where they were out of control!!!!

[@alexanderestrada2499]

I hope you can get the rest.

[@lonniemontgomery9988]

The Mets were lucky to even get into the series. Houston choked on one for the ages!

[@iamhungey12345]

The Mets were the favorites to win it however, had they lost that would have been a choke job on their part.

[@jameshughes6049]

Mets beat them in 6, how did Houston choke? A choke would be Houston leading the series 3 games to none and then losing 4 straight.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Jose Canseco rookie season

[@cameratrapdc1124]

Wally Joyner today looks like Jeff Bezos

[@Lawomenshoops]

No mention of the Red Sox getting Don Baylor? I know stat nerds will say chemistry is overrated, but you can't tell me; if the Red Sox don't get Baylor, they will the AL!!

[@randyfailinger2290]

so many similarities between the 1986 and 2011 world series.

[@adamdorgant9454]

True!!!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Game 7 in both of them

[@koryclarke1991]

I blame Schiraldi, Stanley and McNamara for Boston's Meltdown in game 6 of the 1986 ALCS. Not Bill Buckner.

[@ajsports4450]

McNamera in general

[@adamdorgant9454]

@@ajsports4450 Agreed!!!!

[@shevyj8805]

Lmaooo little do they know the retro jerseys actually cold just imagine the Nike sign on em 🥱🤫. They didn’t even know them bitches was raw fr 💯😂

[@williamsnyder5616]

To the author: Where's "Baseball Seasons, 1984?" A team starts out 35-5, goes wire-to-wire and wins the World Series in 5 games and I can't find it anywhere. Oh, that's right. Detroit isn't New York.

[@lonniemontgomery9988]

It’s there Bill, right between 1983 and 1985. You can find it I am sure.

[@ckendall67]

Looking for this....? kzbin.info/www/bejne/in3WiGdrqtabj9U

[@vazz22]

A Jose Canseco Bat????

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Back when baseball wasn't all about homeruns, but defense, base stealing, and pitching were the focal points of the game.

[@keithherr5572]

Gary Carter went home every night and read his bible just like Strawberry does now ironically

[@78bcat]

I can't help but think Mike Scott is one of those great untold stories: So his first 8 years, he's an avg pitcher...then suddenly he's a strikeout machine for his last few years in the league. There HAS to be an explanation. Whether it's above board or fucking with the ball, it would still be a great story...even if the sanctimonious "baseball people" want to gloss over it.

[@knightrdrx]

He started throwing a splitter. He was the first pitcher to throw it i think..maybe just him and bruce sutter

[@Icecreamforcrowtoo]

@@knightrdrx Exactly. He ditched his slider which did nothing when he pitched for New York. The splitter is a devastating pitch but you have to have large hands to throw it anywhere close to how Scott threw it. Plus, it's a dangerous pitch for your elbow. Scott didn't have a long career as a result. Mets' propaganda I've seen online wants to act like Scott had zero talent. Like he was only successful because every ball he threw was first deposited into a concrete mixer full of thumbtacks. I won't deny possible 'gamesmanship' on Scott's part, but the guy had legit talent and wasn't doing anything that other pitchers around the league weren't doing themselves. Strawberry's attitude about it -- "whatever he was doing, he was beating us...bottom line" -- is more admirable than Gary Carter's constant whining about it.

[@NeoNero83]

Buckner was not the goat in game 6. It was Calvin Schraldi.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Bob Stanley

[@erwinraymond]

At 23:38 first base umpire steals a baseball cap

[@Jiltedin2007]

The Cubs should’ve done the same thing for Steve Bartman on Opening Day, 2017(After the Cubs won the World Series) what the Boston Red Sox did for Bill Buckner having him Throwing Out The First Pitch on Opening Day 2008.

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Difference being that Buckner felt he had to forgive the media more than the fans. If I was Steve Bartman, I'd tell Cubs fans to take a hike.

[@Icecreamforcrowtoo]

Yeah, if I was Bartman, I'd tell Cubs fans the same thing as David. They could piss off for all I care. I think it's rich that Boston took the tone of 'forgiving' Buckner to the extent that they did. (I know some in Boston were correctly asking for HIS forgiveness towards them.) Buckner was definitely the one who should have been handing out the forgiveness. Buckner had NOTHING to be sorry for.

[@seamusboyle6930]

You don’t even mention Sid Fernandez? Wow!

[@nycdweller]

I don’t miss McCarver

[@steve_etzel]

Arch rivals :)

[@hectorlopez1069]

Astros had the Mets beaten. They screw it up really bad in the 9th. Astros should have won that game 6.

[@willmack5909]

All I can say is METSY METSY METSY METSY METSY METSY METSY METSY....Not Mama, Not Papa, METSY!!! METSYMETSYMETSY

[@jasondiaz8792]

The Red Sox got robbed by the Great Bambino that year. However 86 year drought end 2004 and the rest is history. Red Sox 4 curse 0

[@michaelleroy9281]

And then 2007 2013 2018 yes the curse of the Babe was over

[@treybear8174]

I still can’t get over the fact that if the Red Sox got just one more out Dave Henderson would be GOD in Boston. Not Bird. Not Brady. Dave Henderson

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Bobby Orr still exists

[@treybear8174]

@@notoriouseagle1074 not him either…one more strike and it would have been Henderson

[@hectorlopez1069]

Mets crying like babies thinking Mike Scott is cheating. Mike Scott was not cheating.

[@oscarpenna283]

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[@conniebauer4128]

Please take your medication

[@goofballer-mf4pl]

i love u