The 9th inning of this game (top and bottom) is the best and most dramatic inning of baseball that I have ever seen and the fact that Al Michaels is at the top of his game just adds to its special quality.
Michael Chamberlain ....as a life long Sox fan Michael I just pretty much thought CA was going to come back in the bottom and get 2.....if Evans’ throw isn’t short hopped I think Jones is out
yes the 9th inning especially the bottom of the 9th. can you please explain to me of why didnt the idiot 3rd base coach send the runner from 3rd on that shallow sac fly?
I was crushed by the Dave Henderson home run when I saw this as a kid but looking back I'm glad that he had his moment of glory. He died in 2015.... too young. May he rest in peace.
Al Michaels sounded like a kid on Christmas morning from the 9th inning onward. You can really hear his love for the game of baseball and it's a shame that he didn't work for a network that covered baseball for the last 30+ years of his career.
I will always remember watching this game at my best friend’s house. The green carpet. The big, old wood console Zenith TV. By the top of the ninth inning the Red Sox were down 5-2. My friends had given up and gone into the backyard. I stayed. I had watched the whole season(my first season of baseball) and was at least going to see it end. I could hear my friends through the screen door at the picnic table outside. I was sitting in a leather easy-chair and holding a wooden container of drink coasters, for some reason. When Don Baylor hit a two-run homer to make it 5-4 I got excited, but decided I couldn’t move from the chair to let everyone know what happened. Before Gedman got plunked, my best friend looked through the screen door and asked if it was over. I said “No, it’s 5 to 4.” They all rushed in, asked what happened and sat down. We watched it unfold together in absolute silence until Dave Henderson’s’ home run. Then we just exploded. I jumped out of the easy chair and dropped the coasters which rolled all over the floor. I still remember my best friend being amazed by the clip of Henderson leaping vertically and spinning around on the first base line, kind of hanging there. Floating.
@ariananariel Rodriguez I was there too, nine years old with my dad. We were in left near the Red Sox bullpen, probably about 15-20 rows back of where Henderson hit the home run. I remember the ball coming toward our direction and thinking no no no stay away! Still the most heartbreaking moment I've ever expereinced as a baseball fan and I was there for it. Once the Angels went back to Boston I knew they were done. I remember Wally Joyner saying he may be able to play Game 7 and I was like why bother it's over.
Never gets old watching this classic homer. Put yourself in that situation with 65,000 screaming fans, down to your last strike and security people on the field and in the dugouts waiting for you to fail. Simply the best clutch hit that never gets old. RIP Mr. Henderson.
and also if it wasnt the help of the angels third base coach by not sending the runner from 3rd on the shallow sac fly in the bottom of the 9th hendersons homerun would of been an afterthought
@Will Pfeiffer not even close that game had comebacks only it wasn’t a clean game St Louis defense allowed a pop up to drop for gods sake. This game here had comebacks & great defensive plays Jim Rice off Gary Pettis & Brian Downing off Ed Romero. 2011 WS Game 6 wasn’t in this games radar.
I'm biased because I was a little kid who still played pony league baseball and was watching this live with my dad and a couple of his friends. I didn't see anyway that the Dodgers could beat that powerhouse of a club the Oakland A's! The young Phenom Canseco the other half of Bash Brothers Mark McGuire the nearly Cy Young winner as reliever Dennis Eckersly. Big Dave Stewart on the mound.
I'll never forget this game, watched it Sunday afternoon and thats all everyone was talking about the next day at school in Junior high as im from Los Angeles and we were all shocked.
Michael McCarrick Unforutunate. Game 7 of the World Series was great too. But Game 6 of the NLCS, 16 innings, Mets up 7-4, give up two runs, almost lose. Angels one out away from World Series, Henderson's homer changes it.
A shame as look who got the big lead off hit here to start the rally at all costs - fucking with the pitcher, stepping in and out, asking for a new ball, even screaming "fuck you" to Witt - Bill Buckner on broken ankles...he then drills one up the middle to get it going. RIP
And no idea to tell if it’s a ball or strike. It’s still hilarious these old time people still think they know what a strike is by watching a crooked camera angle. You don’t! I guarantee you wouldn’t get over 80% of the balls and strikes correct.
It’s sad knowing this game was the beginning of the unraveling of Donnie Moore’s life, but to blame him entirely for the Angels losing the 1986 ALCS is ridiculous.
And frankly even that isn’t really true. He’d had major red flags long before this game, and the truth is, he had beaten his wife for years before this game too. People forget that what he did was not a mere suicide. It was an attempted murder/suicide in the context of a domestic dispute. He shot his wife first, severely injuring her, though she survived, and then, thinking he had killed her, he killed himself in front of his ten-year-old son. Hate to say it, but I don’t have too much sympathy for the guy.
@@johnjamele - maybe so, but even after any of that he was STILL playing MLB at the highest level and was STILL the Angels #1 choice to close the most important game. The universal media/fan/organization blame he got for this loss was without a doubt the straw that broke the camel's back.
Agreed. The Angels had plenty of chances to close out the Red Sox in this game that didn’t involve Donnie Moore. Grich and DeCinces deserve as much or more blame for the loss for taking those feeble at bats in the 9th. Lucas hitting Gedman in that situation in the 9th was also unforgivable IMO.
A clutch ballplayer and a class act gone far too soon. Still remember him smiling and having fun with the fans in the bleachers at Fenway. He enjoyed his time in Boston after playing in front of only ushers and vendors in Seattle. Simply the greatest clutch moment in baseball when he saved the Red Sox from losing to the Angels with only one strike to go and smoked a fork ball for a red sox lead that would propel them to victory and an eventual series win in seven games. He hit .400 in the world series with two homeruns before it all fell apart.
I can't believe there has only been one other view of this video of this all time classic game. Disclaimer, I myself am responsible for watching it the other 123999 times! Lol. Never gets old. Omg
+Gameshowboy 92 your a douche. The man killed himself, it's not funny any more , may the man rip, you are one of the reasons why he killed himself, with stupid jokes like this. It's only a fucking game,, nothing more
First time ive ever seen this game, and what a stirring one it is! Made even better by having the legendary Al Michaels on play-by-play. This must be what baseball in heaven is like (or hell if you're an Angels fan or Donnie Moore).
@@ameerordimly1449 2:52:24 is the closest I could find to this quote, as Al says "And we go to the TENTH... if you can take it." He may have said the above quote at some other point but to comb through 3 and a half hours again would be a task, haha.
1986, I was 21 years old ,..working mowing lawns up in Beverly Hills Ca,.. I watched this unfold in like a slow motion I will NEVER FORGET ,..Al Michaels Call from "then" I can still hear ,.. This was UNREAL ,... RIP
I'll never forget this day !! I actually remember before this game ABC showing college football scores and the 3 teams in a row they showed were scored for Rice Baylor and Clemson. I turned Clemson to Clemens and thought it was a good sign !! It was :)
Yeah. 1986 was the first year I started baseball as a 12/13 year old. All the division winners won their divisions pretty handily, especially the Mets. But once the postseason began, all hell breaks loose!
Actually, that honor belongs to the Game 6 of the World Series that same year: Red Sox @ Mets, where the Sox let the series get away just as the Angels had. ruclips.net/video/B0jV_kNs2p0/видео.html
I was a huge Mets fan at the time waiting for their game later that night, so I watched the 9th inning with passive interest. It's always a novelty to watch a team win a playoff series because the fans still rushed the field back then. When Don Baylor hit the home run earlier in the inning (many people forget that HR...there's no Dave Henderson heroics if not for Don Baylor's heroics) I thought wow, this may be interesting. Then when Henderson hit his, I knew that I was watching a magical moment. The rest is history. People also forget that Dave Henderson almost won the World Series too with his homer in the 10th inning of game 6. But we all know how that game ended. 1986 post season...there will never be another like it.
Same here. Born and raised in Los Angeles late 70s and the 80s but my team was always the California Angels (hated when they changed the name to Anaheim). Yes 2002 finally healed the wounds from the 86 ALCS and especially after the 95 season disaster. But this game is something I have never forgotten.
I was stationed in san diego california u.s. navy . I saw this game at the y.m.c.a. live as a 21 year old man and to this day i must say that was the greatest game i had ever seen. 37 years later and still cant believe how great of a game that was.
@@tommyparkerparker i remembered the constellation. That was a carrier right ? or a tender? I just know that it took up the whole pier. I was on active duty from 1984-1987 we made one westpac cruise in 1985. wow if we were both at the ymca watching that game on same day how amazing is that? I heard that the ymca is no longer there in downtown san diego. also san diego has changed alot. There is a stadium where the padres play and the gaslamp area is now a hot spot where people hang. Back during the 1980s san diego was dead. I always went to tijuana mexico for some entertainment.
@@mattyrock2467 The Constellation was an aircraft carrier. I did 2 West-Pacs on there. 1987 and 1988/89. I left in July 1989. Transferred to NAS Lenore up north. I graduated boot camp in October 1986. Then went to apprentice training from Oct to Nov 86. I used to hang out at the Y. I did not know it shut down. Sadly. Downtown San Diego used to be fun. The clubs and strip bars. I used to go watch the Padres and Chargers at the Old Jack Murphy Stadium in Mission Valley. That’s gone now too. Now there is a new stadium they built there that just opened this year for the San Diego St. college football team. I did visit the Padres new stadium Petco Park in the Gaslamp district back in 2004 when I was on reserve duty one weekend at 32nd St. I didn’t watch a game there I went on a tour of the stadium. Very nice. I’m a Dodgers fan in baseball. Football Raiders and NY Giants. Basketball Lakers.
I was watching this game at Filenes Dept Store on the 7th floor. I was on my knees PRAYING for at least a base hit. I got more than I bargained for. I was 19 years old at the time wearing my Red Sox cap. When Henderson hit hat home run, the electronics section of the store went berserk. I can still hear the screams of joy till this day. RIP Mr Henderson and Mr Moore.
Watching this on TV right now and it amazes me how much better the broadcasts were 30 years ago. No unnecessary graphics, no constant updating of the counts in the upper right corner. They gave people the chance to watch and pay attention and know the score and count.
I was 12/13 during the 1986 baseball season and a young Cubs fan. This was the first season I followed MLB. Up until 1986 I was still into G.I. Joe, Transformers, Robotech, Voltron, He-Man, Star Wars, etc. I missed the Cubs disappointment and heartbreak in 1984. But I heard and read all about it. The Cubs were a 5th place team in 1986 and well out of the mix. But I was fascinated by the other contending teams like the Mets, Astros, Giants, Angels, Red Sox, etc. Yes, that 1986 NLCS/ALCS was some of the most exciting, tense and dramatic sports theater I've seen to date.
I was at this game and was a huge Angels fan. This was the most emotional baseball game I've ever seen. We were one out away from the World Series, which I had bought tickets to and of course what happened is history. What was an embarrassment as an Angels fans was that fans booed Donnie Moore every time he came into a game after this. He of course later committed suicide and tried to kill his wife.
One of the best heartfelt moments as aRed Sox fan since age 6 to witness this on tv at age 18...I think I lost my breath as my Yankee fan Dad looked at me in complete silence!....I well knew of 75 and 78 by then...
Man.Just found this.My Dad and I were at this game.We were big Angel fans at the time .Unreal,insane ,roller-coaster of emotions game. Still an Angel fan.RIP Dad.
I actually watched this RUclips video. After the Sox load the bases in the top of the 11th, the video skips to the Rob Wilfong hitting lead-off in the bottom of the 11th. Didn't even get to see the winning run cross the plate! Perhaps MLB needs a copy from my video archive. I'm an Angel fan, so I don't know what I'm even doing putting myself through this misery.
David Muhs i feel you.. i have never watched a second of the 2008 Superbowl. i have never been so disappointed in my life as with that Patriots loss. it does suck that they cut out the winning run.
1986 post season was simply the best ever imo. It has 3 of the greatest games ever, one from each series. Too bad younger viewers may not realize it, but hopefully with you tube they can appreciate it
Obviously played in October, I was watching the Redskins beating the Cardinals, and during a commercial break , I changed channels as Bill Buckner was leading off the 9th. Never switched back to the football game. Hindu's homer here, and Gibson's two years later were the most riveting moments in my baseball life.
espn classic had this game on recently. That at bat by Henderson has to be one of the greatest at bats of all time in baseball history. What an epic game and epic series.
Al Michaels and Jim Palmer were great together. I watched this from Germany on Armed Forces Network. Sunday with the six hour time difference. Games six and seven began at 2:00 am.
@@KongKingman Now that had to be brutal. February 1986 worst hangover possibly of my life at 4:00 A.m. heading for eight days in the field at Graf as it was called. I'm thankful I was only 22 back then because today I would rather just have my head chopped off than go through that at my age today. Anyway, those baseball playoffs and World Series were so memorable - the beer too- in Germany. 1986. Thanks for sharing your memories.
Two days later they interviewed Henderson. He was still completely in a daze, and describing his frame of mind when he stepped out of the box just before the homer, he said, "I didn't have a clue." I'll never forget that.
Oh so there is another person who watched the entire video like myself. I wasn’t alive yet and needed to watch this game in it’s entirety just so I can tell people I remember this game like yesterday
And immediately thereafter bogs hit a bullet to the left of second base and I forgot who the second baseman was but he made a great play to end the inning...
It's crazy watching all of the security and police, as well as Angels fans ready to storm the field to celebrate winning the AL pennant and being denied; though I didn't see this series when it occurred-I did see the final two games of the 1986 World Series-as a three decades-plus Angels fan, it saddens me. Just so happy the franchise won it in 2002 and the joy and peace long-time Angels fans must've felt that night (I know I was happy as hell).
It’s in there. They skipped the Redsox go ahead run in the 10 or 11th though. Nobody else has mentioned it. I’m guessing nobody else has actually watched this entire game but me.
This game literally made me sick to my stomach. I was 14 years old at the time, an extremely emotionally committed Angels fan, who, just a few years before that, had to suffer through them blowing a 2-0 lead to Milwaukee (in a best of five). One strike away... Those were the only words I could articulate to myself over the course of the following two weeks. The Angels never emotionally recovered from that game either. When the series moved back to Boston, they all looked like zombies, just going through the motions of the inevitable total collapse. I watched both of those games, but to this day, I still cannot tell you one thing I remember about either Game 6 or Game 7... other than the empty dejected faces in the Angels dugout after it was all over. And of course, poor Donnie Moore took the brunt of the anger and disappointment. But rewatching this now for the first time in 27 years, I have to say, that 2-2 forkball was NOT badly located. For Henderson to be able to pull a pitch that was tailing down and away, and not pop it up to shallow left, is pretty remarkable really. I wasn't Donnie's fault at all. The truth is, Gene Mauch lost that game. Pulling Mike Witt with two outs and nobody on, immediately after getting Evans to pop out, made absolutely NO sense. Yeah I know Gedman seemed to have had Witt's number that day. But with all the adrenaline pumping, and the momentum back on your side, you stick with the guy who got you there for one more lousy out! Ugh... What a painful joy the game of baseball is. Thank God for 2002... haha
That wasnt a bad pitch by Moore, tho you could argue he had a ball to give and coulda put it in the dirt, Henderson just went out and got it. It happens
Excellent comment.... what a lot of Angels fans didn't realize is that the pitch was well off the plate - Donnie Moore didn't exactly through it right down the pipe Dave Henderson just reached out & nailed it... Could have happened to anybody... Besides Angels fans just wanted to use Moore as a scape goat for them gagging the 1986 ALCS... Even after losing that game they still had a 3-2 advantage & should have beat The Red Sox instead they just folded & got blown out in the last two games so people can say what they want about Moore but the reality is The Angels blew it.... Moore was to hard on himself...
ogrebattle22763 As an Angels fan who remembers that day too well, I have to 100% agree with you. Thank you for the words. Moore was indeed too hard on himself.
It got more of the plate than not. But the Angels had their chance in the bottom of the inning. They had the pennant 90 feet away with less than two outs. Get it done.
Fans were too hard on him. I went to a lot of games in the couple of seasons after that game - Angels' fans booed Moore every time he was brought into the game.
I was 12 years old when I was at this game, getting ready to run on the field to celebrate with my Angels. Still a little bit of heartbreak watching this after all these years.
I love going back and hearing the broadcaster in this case Al Micheals talk about how great of a game this is even before the great shit starts happening !! Like hold on you ain't seen nothing yet !!
That was a great game. The Angels have not had much to cheer about over the last 33/34 years. They do have the best player Mike Trout on their current team. Little did the Red Sox know, that one of the most exciting innings in baseball history was coming their way during the 1986 playoffs. Thanks for the video.
The unbelievable thing about this truly great baseball game was that ABC begins this broadcast with Highlights of Game 4 the night before that was also a fantastic game that the Angels won. No one today remembers Game 4 because this game was even better. In my estimation this was the greatest playoff game in baseball history. Certainly it was the greatest in the Division era of baseball that began in 1969. It is part of baseball history. A game for the ages.
At 3:17:40 the plug is yanked and fast forwarded to the bottom of the 11th. We are deprived of seeing Brian Downing's extraordinary back crashing against the wall line drive catch, off the bat Of Ed Romero. This was indeed one of the most sensational plays of the entire game.
+MrDownslider Game 5, Phillies/Astros 1980 for my money. I count World Series separately from postseason games because Gm 6 of the 2011 World Series is in another league.
Brian Leetch Perhaps the Angels should have faced the Mets in the World Series, instead. I could imagine in Game 6 when the ball would get in between Wally Joyner’s Legs as it’s rolling into Right Field.
Like in 1982, I was in the Army and in Germany and could not watch the last few games of the series. I was (still am) an Angels fan. In retrospect, probably the better team won if Wally Joyner did not play in games 5 -7. The Angels had their chances and their home run in the game as a result of a Boston mishap created a different context than being one strike away from winning the ALCS. To this day, my feeling is if the Angels beat the Red Sox either in the season series or the ALCS (like in 2009), the year is a success. Also, after he hit the home run in the 6th inning, thought Grich was too jubilant - in a game that was close with a few innings to go.
No doubt. This is the greatest game because the Angels were that close. Hurst at first seemed in control, then the Angels come back, the Red Sox come back and seem to have pulled off a miraculous last at bat home run with Henderson. Then the Angles in the Bottom of the Ninth come back, Red Sox get out of it. Rice robbing Pettis. The ebb and flow of seeing a home crowd go from happy to silent in the top of the ninth, then the same thing but reversed in the bottom of the ninth. Incredible, hasn't been topped since.
RIP to the great Don Baylor. Without his 2-run HR in the 9th, Hendu's iconic homer a few batters later never would've happened. And he scored the go-ahead run in the 11th on Henderson's sac fly. (which strangely isn't shown here)
What I also liked what ABC did (which would never happen now)is in the middle of the 9th inning after the Henderson historic home run, THEY NEVER WENT TO COMMERCIAL. The Producers and Execs smartly stayed with Micheals and Palmer for their immediate reactions to that HR.
@@Bob31415 85 was a wild ride, with the Royals the last team standing after posting TWO 3-1 comebacks. Unbelievable. NLCS was a very exciting 6 gamer between Cards and L.A. 92 was tremendously exciting. That Classic NLCS, with that frantic finish. Sid Bream creaking across home plate in front of Bond's throw. The Jays won 2 taught 6 game series over the A's and Braves. 97 had the Indians win 2 crazy series against the Yankees and Orioles. Then lose a wild World Series to the Marlins, in extra innings of Game 7, who themselves had won an even stranger NLCS against the Braves. 2003 had 2 unbelievable LCS'. The Cubs losing the Bartmann series, and Aaron Booooooone hitting an improbable homer to beat the LAST cursed Red Sox team that blew a 3 run lead with 5 outs to go. The Sox won a GREAT division series against the A's. The Marlins prevailed in a very exciting 6 gamer over Yankees. Beckett with some of the greatest pitching ever done in a World Series. But.....86 DOES take the cake. My Metsies ❤staggered across the finish line to finish one of the greatest seasons in baseball history. So proud that the Mets were the survivors of the greatest baseball postseason yet.
I can't remember a season that had two more entertaining championship series than 1986. The Mets-Astros series was every bit as dramatic as the Sox vs. the Angels. Just terrific baseball.
Simply the most exciting playoff game as a lifetime long Red Sox fan. Sure the sox have won 3 world series in 10 years, but to comeback in this fashion when the game was over in everyone's mind was simply incredible. Even Al Michaels said it was the greatest baseball game he has ever broadcast. One pitch before the epic homerun Jim Palmer says "Henderson with 15 homeruns on the season is a dangerous hitter." Talk about prophetic.
+thomas connery To this day arguably the best LCS/Playoff games in MLB History. And I am a Yankee fan. If this classic occurs in any other year(being overshadowed by the '86 world series)this would be talked in same breath as the '75 WS Game 6, '91 WS Game 7 etc. You right Thomas Micheals not only called this the best baseball game he ever broadcasted he ranks it #2 (of course behind the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" game)in his brilliant career of best sporting event he ever broadcasted. As the only broadcaster to do Play-Play on a super bowl, world series, nba finals and the Olympic Hockey Tournment that saying a lot.
@Will Pfeiffer 2011 WS game 6 is probably the best Fall Classic game in last 15-20 years. The only thing that keeps the game 6 thriller in ‘11 from reaching say game 7 in 1991 or Game 6 in 1975 as The GOAT is that there was several big errors in that classic of ‘11. With that said, this 1986 ALCS game 5 I would rank as easily the best Non World Series playoff games of all time.
I remember seeing this game live. I was crushed by the Dave Henderson homer as I thought the Angels had finally put together a team that had everything necessary to go to the World Series. It wasn't to be. May the great Donnie Moore rest in peace.
Game 7 of the 1991 Series was a classic, but neither championship series was one for the ages. The 1992 NLCS will always be about Francisco Cabrera's Game 7 heroics, but neither the ALCS or the Series were particularly memorable. Game 6 of the '86 NLCS was just as good as the game we've been watching here. The Mets rallied from 3-0 in the ninth against Bob Knepper to tie the game and eventually win (and the series) in 16 innings. One of the all-time great games. For me, nothing can top 1986.
I'm not sure if I agree with Al Michaels' assertion that Dave Henderson's homerun "ranks second only to Fisk." If Fisk didn't come through in Game 6 of the '75 Series vs. the Reds, the game simply would have continued on. Conversely, had Henderson failed here, the Red Sox would have been heading home, losers in five games.
What, Dave Hendersons sac fly for the go ahead run in the 11th is cut out and missingb along with Ed Romero's deep drive to left where Brian Downing makes a remarkable catch crashing face first into the wall to keep the game close. What a huge disapointment to miss two huge plays in this historic game.
Many people say that, but it's interesting to note that in 1982, in the bottom of the 7th of Game 5 of the LCS versus Milwaukee, Mauch left in Luis Sanchez, a right, to face Cecil Cooper with two outs. He had Andy Hassler, who was death to lefties, ready and didn't bring him in. Cooper singled in the tying and winning runs. That was unquestionably the wrong move and close to unforgivable. So, in 86 he makes the move he should've made in 82 and it doesn't work out.
Well finally got to witness final innings of this most classic game. Rocky Roe strike zone really shrunk in the top of Boston's ninth inning, Witt had 2 perfect strike in which Roe failed to ring Don Baylor up,then 2 run homer on the next pitch. WHY did Lacheman NOT Gene Mauch make pitching changes to bring in Lucas and Moore?? Wish they shown Henderson GW sac fly top of 11th.
I remember watching this game with my dad. Without question, one of the greatest baseball games I have ever seen. We thought the Red Sox were done & they get 4 in the 9th, then eventually win in extra's. It was a very sad story about what happened to Donnie Moore later on though.
That pitch didn't kill Donnie Moore. Yes, it was a very dramatic and heartbreaking moment. But the Angels almost came back to win that game. The point is, it wasn't like Donnie Moore's life up to the point of that pitch was all heavenly and roses. He had personal demons even before that and it was unresolved. On July 18, 1989, Moore had an argument with his wife Tonya and shot her three times with a .45 pistol. Over 2 1/2 years after that homerun and he shoots his wife and himself over a pitch and homerun?
DONNIE Moore must have blown like 20 games or more for the Angels, every time they brought him in,..it was nervous time,..as chicky baby would call it,..
i watched this game also with my dad also. and we lived in New England at the time i was only 8. first year i remember watching sports period. was wearing my little league glove and covering my face until henderson hit the go-ahead homer, i remember jumping off of the ground. it was the highest high and sure enough a week or so later followed by the lowest low's with the buckner game along with game 7 at shea
This game is so memorable I actually gave a speech as a sophomore in high school in 1987 during which I reenacted the Hendu near-catch and all the highs and lows of the world series. In Red Sox Lore this ranks very high. There was to be no neutral ground for Schiraldi or Moore. They'd be heroes or goats. Relief pitching was the difference in every series. I don't know what happened to the winning run footage but it's not here. It takes a team to win or lose. No one player is responsible.
Dave Henderson's homerun notwithstanding, a couple of other crucial moments come to mind. The first--as someone alluded to earlier--was the 2-2 pitch to Baylor in the top of the ninth that was called a ball. It could very easily have been strike three, resulting in two outs and Dwight Evans subsequently popping up to end the game. And Steve Crawford came very close to going 3-0 to Bobby Grich in the bottom of the inning with score tied and the bases loaded.
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The 9th inning of this game (top and bottom) is the best and most dramatic inning of baseball that I have ever seen and the fact that Al Michaels is at the top of his game just adds to its special quality.
Michael Chamberlain ....as a life long Sox fan Michael I just pretty much thought CA was going to come back in the bottom and get 2.....if Evans’ throw isn’t short hopped I think Jones is out
Dramatic? No. Exciting? Yes!
Al Michaels needs to be put out to pasture.
yes the 9th inning especially the bottom of the 9th. can you please explain to me of why didnt the idiot 3rd base coach send the runner from 3rd on that shallow sac fly?
nobody should of blamed donnie moore everyone should of blamed the 3rd base coach for not sending the runner in the bottom of the 9th on the sac fly
I was crushed by the Dave Henderson home run when I saw this as a kid but looking back I'm glad that he had his moment of glory. He died in 2015.... too young. May he rest in peace.
boo he ruined my childhood im so glad the mets humbled him
Al Michaels sounded like a kid on Christmas morning from the 9th inning onward. You can really hear his love for the game of baseball and it's a shame that he didn't work for a network that covered baseball for the last 30+ years of his career.
Amen to that
@@edkiziorAbsolutely! He was one of the best. I miss the old school announcers.
Michaels’s excitement at times makes him sound like a Muppet
@@TankHank-kd2iq Yes in his younger years he sometimes did
On top of that, Keith Jackson was doing the NLCS. We were spoiled for the ‘86 postseason.
RIP Dave Henderson one of the late inning clutch players in postseason history.
I will always remember watching this game at my best friend’s house. The green carpet. The big, old wood console Zenith TV. By the top of the ninth inning the Red Sox were down 5-2. My friends had given up and gone into the backyard. I stayed. I had watched the whole season(my first season of baseball) and was at least going to see it end. I could hear my friends through the screen door at the picnic table outside. I was sitting in a leather easy-chair and holding a wooden container of drink coasters, for some reason. When Don Baylor hit a two-run homer to make it 5-4 I got excited, but decided I couldn’t move from the chair to let everyone know what happened. Before Gedman got plunked, my best friend looked through the screen door and asked if it was over. I said “No, it’s 5 to 4.” They all rushed in, asked what happened and sat down. We watched it unfold together in absolute silence until Dave Henderson’s’ home run. Then we just exploded. I jumped out of the easy chair and dropped the coasters which rolled all over the floor. I still remember my best friend being amazed by the clip of Henderson leaping vertically and spinning around on the first base line, kind of hanging there. Floating.
Nice story. Good times. And baseball will never be this great again.
@ariananariel Rodriguez I was there too, nine years old with my dad. We were in left near the Red Sox bullpen, probably about 15-20 rows back of where Henderson hit the home run. I remember the ball coming toward our direction and thinking no no no stay away! Still the most heartbreaking moment I've ever expereinced as a baseball fan and I was there for it. Once the Angels went back to Boston I knew they were done. I remember Wally Joyner saying he may be able to play Game 7 and I was like why bother it's over.
What a priceless memory.
1986 Ranks as the most exciting mlb playoffs and world series for me ever, unbeliveable theater, the highs and lows for the players were unreal
And a heartbreaker if you're an angels fan
Ian Thomas But the Angels winning their WS title in 2002 eases the pain.
+Ian Thomas Same as an Astro or Red Sox fan
@@nancydenton7496 Im a Mets fan.
I DON'T want to remember him.
Yes and the Mets Astros series too
Without question. Two of the five best LCS's and then an absolutely outrageous World Series.
Never gets old watching this classic homer. Put yourself in that situation with 65,000 screaming fans, down to your last strike and security people on the field and in the dugouts waiting for you to fail. Simply the best clutch hit that never gets old. RIP Mr. Henderson.
Well said!
and also if it wasnt the help of the angels third base coach by not sending the runner from 3rd on the shallow sac fly in the bottom of the 9th hendersons homerun would of been an afterthought
@@robertosso5210 Dewey Evans one of the best outfield arms in history though.
And the crazy thing he is he might not even have been at the plate if Armas didnt get injured earlier in the game.
This might have been the best MLB game ever played. RIP Don Baylor, Dave Henderson, Donnie Moore and Bill Buckner. God bless your souls.
Bill Buckner could have been MVP on the Red sox 1986
@@stevstevhoov8288 he, BILL BUCKNER should be in the HOF. with MORE career HITS, than 70% of players who's in the Hall.
@Will Pfeiffer not even close that game had comebacks only it wasn’t a clean game St Louis defense allowed a pop up to drop for gods sake. This game here had comebacks & great defensive plays Jim Rice off Gary Pettis & Brian Downing off Ed Romero. 2011 WS Game 6 wasn’t in this games radar.
@Will Pfeiffer Nope.
I get chills watching the cops with their brown uniforms, preparing for a pitch invasion. That's the 80's for ya!!
Greatest sports call I've ever heard ! I remember watching this and it still rings after thirty years.Pure Classic !
"...and what a catch by Downing!!!!!!!!!!!"---got cut out.
I like the silence from Vin Scully when injured Kirk Gibson gets the Pinch Hit Home Run in 9th inning 1988 Dodgers vs Oakland
I'm biased because I was a little kid who still played pony league baseball and was watching this live with my dad and a couple of his friends. I didn't see anyway that the Dodgers could beat that powerhouse of a club the Oakland A's! The young Phenom Canseco the other half of Bash Brothers Mark McGuire the nearly Cy Young winner as reliever Dennis Eckersly. Big Dave Stewart on the mound.
That's the best baseball game I've ever seen still to this day & I'm a Reds fan
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I’m a mariners fan. And damn this entire 1986 postseason was crazy good!
Even as a Yankee fan, this is one of the best games I've ever watched.
I'll never forget this game, watched it Sunday afternoon and thats all everyone was talking about the next day at school in Junior high as im from Los Angeles and we were all shocked.
I had no idea how awesome the 1986 ALCS & NLCS were, It's too bad everyone else just remembers what happen in Game 6 of the World Series that year
Michael McCarrick
Unforutunate. Game 7 of the World Series was great too. But Game 6 of the NLCS, 16 innings, Mets up 7-4, give up two runs, almost lose.
Angels one out away from World Series, Henderson's homer changes it.
The 1986 playoffs have been considered the best ever by some.
those who actually watched in 1986 didn't forget
I haven't forgotten this game.
A shame as look who got the big lead off hit here to start the rally at all costs - fucking with the pitcher, stepping in and out, asking for a new ball, even screaming "fuck you" to Witt - Bill Buckner on broken ankles...he then drills one up the middle to get it going. RIP
no cell phones, no graphics splashed all over the screen, just awesome. The good old days.
And no idea to tell if it’s a ball or strike. It’s still hilarious these old time people still think they know what a strike is by watching a crooked camera angle. You don’t! I guarantee you wouldn’t get over 80% of the balls and strikes correct.
It’s sad knowing this game was the beginning of the unraveling of Donnie Moore’s life, but to blame him entirely for the Angels losing the 1986 ALCS is ridiculous.
And frankly even that isn’t really true. He’d had major red flags long before this game, and the truth is, he had beaten his wife for years before this game too. People forget that what he did was not a mere suicide. It was an attempted murder/suicide in the context of a domestic dispute. He shot his wife first, severely injuring her, though she survived, and then, thinking he had killed her, he killed himself in front of his ten-year-old son. Hate to say it, but I don’t have too much sympathy for the guy.
@@ADEAL918 his problems with drug use long preceded this game, too, and certainly played a big part in his mental state.
@@johnjamele - maybe so, but even after any of that he was STILL playing MLB at the highest level and was STILL the Angels #1 choice to close the most important game. The universal media/fan/organization blame he got for this loss was without a doubt the straw that broke the camel's back.
agreed. sure he did give up the home run but california had plenty of opportunities to win that game. They were up 3-2 . no excuses.
Agreed. The Angels had plenty of chances to close out the Red Sox in this game that didn’t involve Donnie Moore. Grich and DeCinces deserve as much or more blame for the loss for taking those feeble at bats in the 9th. Lucas hitting Gedman in that situation in the 9th was also unforgivable IMO.
A clutch ballplayer and a class act gone far too soon. Still remember him smiling and having fun with the fans in the bleachers at Fenway. He enjoyed his time in Boston after playing in front of only ushers and vendors in Seattle. Simply the greatest clutch moment in baseball when he saved the Red Sox from losing to the Angels with only one strike to go and smoked a fork ball for a red sox lead that would propel them to victory and an eventual series win in seven games. He hit .400 in the world series with two homeruns before it all fell apart.
Before David Ortiz, there was Big Dave!
I can't believe there has only been one other view of this video of this all time classic game. Disclaimer, I myself am responsible for watching it the other 123999 times! Lol. Never gets old. Omg
Al Michaels legendary call: To left field and deep and Downing goes back and it's gone unbelievable you're looking at one for the ages
- Imagine if Social Media existed back in 1986, these playoff games in the ALCS & NLCS would've blown up Twitter LOL :-o :-)
ckendall67 And Moore would have killed himself much earlier.
+Gameshowboy 92 your a douche. The man killed himself, it's not funny any more , may the man rip, you are one of the reasons why he killed himself, with stupid jokes like this. It's only a fucking game,, nothing more
First time ive ever seen this game, and what a stirring one it is! Made even better by having the legendary Al Michaels on play-by-play. This must be what baseball in heaven is like (or hell if you're an Angels fan or Donnie Moore).
"THIS GAME IS SO GREAT, I CAN'T TAKE IT!" - Al Michaels
A time stamp would help here
@@ameerordimly1449 that comment was 4 yrs ago
@@dominiclee1794 i do see it was 4 years ago..
Why do u point it out?
@@ameerordimly1449 2:52:24 is the closest I could find to this quote, as Al says "And we go to the TENTH... if you can take it." He may have said the above quote at some other point but to comb through 3 and a half hours again would be a task, haha.
1986, I was 21 years old ,..working mowing lawns up in Beverly Hills Ca,.. I watched this unfold in like a slow motion I will NEVER FORGET ,..Al Michaels Call from "then" I can still hear ,.. This was UNREAL ,... RIP
RIP DAVE HENDERSON...GRET PLAYER GREAT MEMORIS
Very clutch player...
I'll never forget this day !! I actually remember before this game ABC showing college football scores and the 3 teams in a row they showed were scored for Rice Baylor and Clemson. I turned Clemson to Clemens and thought it was a good sign !! It was :)
This is in my opinion the greatest postseason game ever played.
I think Game 6 of the 75 Series would have something to 'say' about that.
Yeah. 1986 was the first year I started baseball as a 12/13 year old. All the division winners won their divisions pretty handily, especially the Mets. But once the postseason began, all hell breaks loose!
Olive Branch I always thought the same 👍
There are so many great moments in baseball history, it's hard to say. This one is right up there.
Actually, that honor belongs to the Game 6 of the World Series that same year: Red Sox @ Mets, where the Sox let the series get away just as the Angels had. ruclips.net/video/B0jV_kNs2p0/видео.html
Both the ALCS and NLCS were crazy insane and the best advert for baseball
I was a huge Mets fan at the time waiting for their game later that night, so I watched the 9th inning with passive interest. It's always a novelty to watch a team win a playoff series because the fans still rushed the field back then. When Don Baylor hit the home run earlier in the inning (many people forget that HR...there's no Dave Henderson heroics if not for Don Baylor's heroics) I thought wow, this may be interesting. Then when Henderson hit his, I knew that I was watching a magical moment. The rest is history. People also forget that Dave Henderson almost won the World Series too with his homer in the 10th inning of game 6. But we all know how that game ended. 1986 post season...there will never be another like it.
This game broke my heart into a million pieces. I carried on in life, the 2002 season aided the healing process, but I never recovered.
I’m a Red Sox fan, but Grich was my hero. I felt for him.
Same here. Born and raised in Los Angeles late 70s and the 80s but my team was always the California Angels (hated when they changed the name to Anaheim). Yes 2002 finally healed the wounds from the 86 ALCS and especially after the 95 season disaster. But this game is something I have never forgotten.
I was stationed in san diego california u.s. navy . I saw this game at the y.m.c.a. live as a 21 year old man and to this day i must say that was the greatest game i had ever seen. 37 years later and still cant believe how great of a game that was.
Me too. I was stationed there watching it at the Y. I may have watched it with you there and may not have known. Coincidence.
@@tommyparkerparker wow. what ship were you on? I was on the uss brooke ffg1
@@mattyrock2467 USS Constellation 1986 to 1989.
@@tommyparkerparker i remembered the constellation. That was a carrier right ? or a tender? I just know that it took up the whole pier. I was on active duty from 1984-1987
we made one westpac cruise in 1985. wow if we were both at the ymca watching that game on same day how amazing is that? I heard that the ymca is no longer there in downtown san diego. also san diego has changed alot. There is a stadium where the padres play and the gaslamp area is now a hot spot where people hang. Back during the 1980s san diego was dead. I always went to tijuana mexico for some entertainment.
@@mattyrock2467 The Constellation was an aircraft carrier. I did 2 West-Pacs on there. 1987 and 1988/89. I left in July 1989. Transferred to NAS Lenore up north. I graduated boot camp in October 1986. Then went to apprentice training from Oct to Nov 86. I used to hang out at the Y. I did not know it shut down. Sadly. Downtown San Diego used to be fun. The clubs and strip bars. I used to go watch the Padres and Chargers at the Old Jack Murphy Stadium in Mission Valley. That’s gone now too. Now there is a new stadium they built there that just opened this year for the San Diego St. college football team. I did visit the Padres new stadium Petco Park in the Gaslamp district back in 2004 when I was on reserve duty one weekend at 32nd St. I didn’t watch a game there I went on a tour of the stadium. Very nice. I’m a Dodgers fan in baseball. Football Raiders and NY Giants. Basketball Lakers.
I was watching this game at Filenes Dept Store on the 7th floor. I was on my knees PRAYING for at least a base hit. I got more than I bargained for. I was 19 years old at the time wearing my Red Sox cap. When Henderson hit hat home run, the electronics section of the store went berserk. I can still hear the screams of joy till this day. RIP Mr Henderson and Mr Moore.
did u goto STRAWBERRYS RECORDS after?
Watching this on TV right now and it amazes me how much better the broadcasts were 30 years ago. No unnecessary graphics, no constant updating of the counts in the upper right corner. They gave people the chance to watch and pay attention and know the score and count.
@@mizztery2994 the point is how about watching an inning and pay attention to the game. They will tell you the score
I was 12/13 during the 1986 baseball season and a young Cubs fan. This was the first season I followed MLB. Up until 1986 I was still into G.I. Joe, Transformers, Robotech, Voltron, He-Man, Star Wars, etc. I missed the Cubs disappointment and heartbreak in 1984. But I heard and read all about it. The Cubs were a 5th place team in 1986 and well out of the mix. But I was fascinated by the other contending teams like the Mets, Astros, Giants, Angels, Red Sox, etc. Yes, that 1986 NLCS/ALCS was some of the most exciting, tense and dramatic sports theater I've seen to date.
I was at this game and was a huge Angels fan. This was the most emotional baseball game I've ever seen. We were one out away from the World Series, which I had bought tickets to and of course what happened is history. What was an embarrassment as an Angels fans was that fans booed Donnie Moore every time he came into a game after this. He of course later committed suicide and tried to kill his wife.
One of the best heartfelt moments as aRed Sox fan since age 6 to witness this on tv at age 18...I think I lost my breath as my Yankee fan Dad looked at me in complete silence!....I well knew of 75 and 78 by then...
1986 was the best postseason in the history of Major League Baseball. Period. End of story. It's not even close.
If your a Mets fan certainly yes, Astros gavem a helluva 6 game series
Al Michaels: you’re looking at one for the ages here!
Vin Scully “Behind The Bag!”:
Hold My Beer!
Man.Just found this.My Dad and I were at this game.We were big Angel fans at the time .Unreal,insane ,roller-coaster of emotions game. Still an Angel fan.RIP Dad.
I remember this so well because I was stuck in the hospital for the entire series and watching the games were the high points of each day.
I actually watched this RUclips video. After the Sox load the bases in the top of the 11th, the video skips to the Rob Wilfong hitting lead-off in the bottom of the 11th. Didn't even get to see the winning run cross the plate! Perhaps MLB needs a copy from my video archive. I'm an Angel fan, so I don't know what I'm even doing putting myself through this misery.
David Muhs i feel you.. i have never watched a second of the 2008 Superbowl. i have never been so disappointed in my life as with that Patriots loss. it does suck that they cut out the winning run.
Downing and Wilfong both made GREAT plays that got cut out of this video.
Oh, but they kept every second of the Reagan-Gorbachev “summit”!
1986 post season was simply the best ever imo. It has 3 of the greatest games ever, one from each series. Too bad younger viewers may not realize it, but hopefully with you tube they can appreciate it
Donnie Moore would beg to differ ,..
Obviously played in October, I was watching the Redskins beating the Cardinals, and during a commercial break , I changed channels as Bill Buckner was leading off the 9th. Never switched back to the football game.
Hindu's homer here, and Gibson's two years later were the most riveting moments in my baseball life.
espn classic had this game on recently. That at bat by Henderson has to be one of the greatest at bats of all time in baseball history. What an epic game and epic series.
Al Michaels and Jim Palmer were great together. I watched this from Germany on Armed Forces Network. Sunday with the six hour time difference. Games six and seven began at 2:00 am.
Was watching it also Neu Ulm Germany Was in Army at a bar called “Uncle Sams”
@@KongKingman It was memorable for sure. But games six and seven were broadcast so late as was the World Series with the Red Sox and Mets.
Carnival Soul I remember those 6 am PT hungover PT drills in 20 degrees and the Dykstra walk off while on the crapper at the combat alert site lol
@@KongKingman Now that had to be brutal. February 1986 worst hangover possibly of my life at 4:00 A.m. heading for eight days in the field at Graf as it was called. I'm thankful I was only 22 back then because today I would rather just have my head chopped off than go through that at my age today. Anyway, those baseball playoffs and World Series were so memorable - the beer too- in Germany. 1986. Thanks for sharing your memories.
lol we might have been at Graf same time I was at 1/81 FA Pershing missile unit thanks for serving!
1986 mlb playoffs among the best ever, alcs, nlcs, and World Series!
Two days later they interviewed Henderson. He was still completely in a daze, and describing his frame of mind when he stepped out of the box just before the homer, he said, "I didn't have a clue." I'll never forget that.
One of the greats catches of all time by Brian Downing off of Ed Romero is unfortunately omitted in the top of the 11th.
Oh so there is another person who watched the entire video like myself. I wasn’t alive yet and needed to watch this game in it’s entirety just so I can tell people I remember this game like yesterday
ruclips.net/video/E-IwiBTyfY4/видео.html
And immediately thereafter bogs hit a bullet to the left of second base and I forgot who the second baseman was but he made a great play to end the inning...
@@gerrieburke9886 Bobby Grich
You can see it at 13:30 of this video: ruclips.net/video/srcLYW8HQHA/видео.html
It's crazy watching all of the security and police, as well as Angels fans ready to storm the field to celebrate winning the AL pennant and being denied; though I didn't see this series when it occurred-I did see the final two games of the 1986 World Series-as a three decades-plus Angels fan, it saddens me. Just so happy the franchise won it in 2002 and the joy and peace long-time Angels fans must've felt that night (I know I was happy as hell).
Great series, thanks for sharing these games.
The '86 postseason was the best in the history of baseball. I can't think of any year that topped it.
1988 Go Doyers!
1991 was pretty good
You skipped the best line: "If you're just tuning in, too bad!"
I watched this game Homecoming Weekend with a bunch of my buddies and we repeated that line for years!
It’s in there. They skipped the Redsox go ahead run in the 10 or 11th though. Nobody else has mentioned it. I’m guessing nobody else has actually watched this entire game but me.
@@iverbure what do u mean "skipped?
@@ameerordimly1449 the sac fly that ended up being the winning run is not here.
This game literally made me sick to my stomach. I was 14 years old at the time, an extremely emotionally committed Angels fan, who, just a few years before that, had to suffer through them blowing a 2-0 lead to Milwaukee (in a best of five). One strike away... Those were the only words I could articulate to myself over the course of the following two weeks.
The Angels never emotionally recovered from that game either. When the series moved back to Boston, they all looked like zombies, just going through the motions of the inevitable total collapse. I watched both of those games, but to this day, I still cannot tell you one thing I remember about either Game 6 or Game 7... other than the empty dejected faces in the Angels dugout after it was all over.
And of course, poor Donnie Moore took the brunt of the anger and disappointment. But rewatching this now for the first time in 27 years, I have to say, that 2-2 forkball was NOT badly located. For Henderson to be able to pull a pitch that was tailing down and away, and not pop it up to shallow left, is pretty remarkable really. I wasn't Donnie's fault at all.
The truth is, Gene Mauch lost that game. Pulling Mike Witt with two outs and nobody on, immediately after getting Evans to pop out, made absolutely NO sense. Yeah I know Gedman seemed to have had Witt's number that day. But with all the adrenaline pumping, and the momentum back on your side, you stick with the guy who got you there for one more lousy out!
Ugh... What a painful joy the game of baseball is. Thank God for 2002... haha
That wasnt a bad pitch by Moore, tho you could argue he had a ball to give and coulda put it in the dirt, Henderson just went out and got it. It happens
Excellent comment.... what a lot of Angels fans didn't realize is that the pitch was well off the plate - Donnie Moore didn't exactly through it right down the pipe Dave Henderson just reached out & nailed it... Could have happened to anybody... Besides Angels fans just wanted to use Moore as a scape goat for them gagging the 1986 ALCS... Even after losing that game they still had a 3-2 advantage & should have beat The Red Sox instead they just folded & got blown out in the last two games so people can say what they want about Moore but the reality is The Angels blew it.... Moore was to hard on himself...
ogrebattle22763 As an Angels fan who remembers that day too well, I have to 100% agree with you. Thank you for the words. Moore was indeed too hard on himself.
ogrebattle22763 you lose as a team u win as a team
It got more of the plate than not. But the Angels had their chance in the bottom of the inning. They had the pennant 90 feet away with less than two outs. Get it done.
Fans were too hard on him. I went to a lot of games in the couple of seasons after that game - Angels' fans booed Moore every time he was brought into the game.
remember this like it was yesterday. What a freaking game. Just like Al Michaels said. Astonishing
I was 12 years old when I was at this game, getting ready to run on the field to celebrate with my Angels. Still a little bit of heartbreak watching this after all these years.
At Least Troy Glaus Got You A Ring In 2002 Glaus Shuddered At The Painful Memory That Was The 1986 ALCS
After watching for three hours, thanks for inexplicably editing out the Red Sox going ahead with the bases loaded in extra innings.
I love going back and hearing the broadcaster in this case Al Micheals talk about how great of a game this is even before the great shit starts happening !! Like hold on you ain't seen nothing yet !!
That was a great game. The Angels have not had much to cheer about over the last 33/34 years. They do have the best player Mike Trout on their current team. Little did the Red Sox know, that one of the most exciting innings in baseball history was coming their way during the 1986 playoffs. Thanks for the video.
They won the World Series in 2002.
My bad, I was off by 11-12 years of them having no success.@@bluebird925
Baylor and hendu saved our ass, red Sox fan. One of best games I ever saw....rip to both
Baylor is still here
@@fenderguitars6050 Baylor died at age 68 of multiple myeloma
The unbelievable thing about this truly great baseball game was that ABC begins this broadcast with Highlights of Game 4 the night before that was also a fantastic game that the Angels won. No one today remembers Game 4 because this game was even better. In my estimation this was the greatest playoff game in baseball history. Certainly it was the greatest in the Division era of baseball that began in 1969. It is part of baseball history. A game for the ages.
Hendu RIP, one of my favorites!
At 3:17:40 the plug is yanked and fast forwarded to the bottom of the 11th. We are deprived of seeing Brian Downing's extraordinary back crashing against the wall line drive catch, off the bat Of Ed Romero. This was indeed one of the most sensational plays of the entire game.
I completely agree. Great call by Costas on that play.
@@chrisod22 Costas? You mean Al Michaels
@@paulpatane2439 Yup. I'll take a lap.
Rip Dave Henderson
I was driving to Wimpy Burgers when Henderson hit his HR. Still remember that.
Steve Crawford was nails in the 9th inning. Amazing for a guy who was low on the totem pole for the 86 Red Sox even with their questionable bullpen.
They won in spite of him
In my opinion, the greatest MLB postseason game ever played.
I think Game 6 vs the Mets was better (same year).
Also, Game 6 Mets/Astros 1986 was also a game often thought of as the greatest ever. Man, 1986 sure had some great post season games eh? :)
+MrDownslider I agree this is underrated at least in modern MLB playoff era(since 1969) among best post season games ever.
+MrDownslider Game 5, Phillies/Astros 1980 for my money. I count World Series separately from postseason games because Gm 6 of the 2011 World Series is in another league.
How about Game 7 of the 2016 WS?
wow, an LCS..or for that matter any postseason baseball game played during the day????!!! ah the good ole days... great upload!!!
2:19:35 - Boston should owe a lot to Bill Buckner as without his leadoff single here, the Red Sox wouldn't have made it to the World Series.
So, so true!!!!
Eh if it was somebody else, could have been a leadoff homerun
Considering what happened later, maybe it would have been better if Bill never got that single.
He was really solid all year, in spite of playing hurt.
Brian Leetch
Perhaps the Angels should have faced the Mets in the World Series, instead.
I could imagine in Game 6 when the ball would get in between Wally Joyner’s Legs as it’s rolling into Right Field.
Like in 1982, I was in the Army and in Germany and could not watch the last few games of the series. I was (still am) an Angels fan. In retrospect, probably the better team won if Wally Joyner did not play in games 5 -7. The Angels had their chances and their home run in the game as a result of a Boston mishap created a different context than being one strike away from winning the ALCS. To this day, my feeling is if the Angels beat the Red Sox either in the season series or the ALCS (like in 2009), the year is a success. Also, after he hit the home run in the 6th inning, thought Grich was too jubilant - in a game that was close with a few innings to go.
The best MLB playoff game at least in my lifetime.
Perhaps the greatest game ever. Period.
Game 6, 1975 World Series! THAT was baseball at its best!!!
No doubt. This is the greatest game because the Angels were that close. Hurst at first seemed in control, then the Angels come back, the Red Sox come back and seem to have pulled off a miraculous last at bat home run with Henderson. Then the Angles in the Bottom of the Ninth come back, Red Sox get out of it. Rice robbing Pettis. The ebb and flow of seeing a home crowd go from happy to silent in the top of the ninth, then the same thing but reversed in the bottom of the ninth. Incredible, hasn't been topped since.
it was a greater outcome of game 6 of the 1986 world series which exemplified karma.
@@Dean-em7jb and in 1975 the Reds were that close .....until Bernie Carbo and then Fisk
RIP to the great Don Baylor. Without his 2-run HR in the 9th, Hendu's iconic homer a few batters later never would've happened. And he scored the go-ahead run in the 11th on Henderson's sac fly. (which strangely isn't shown here)
What I also liked what ABC did (which would never happen now)is in the middle of the 9th inning after the Henderson historic home run, THEY NEVER WENT TO COMMERCIAL. The Producers and Execs smartly stayed with Micheals and Palmer for their immediate reactions to that HR.
I just noticed that too. Great decision.
THE best overall playoff year in MLB history.......!
+The Scatman By far....There isn't even a close second!
By far.
@@Bob31415 Wrong, wrong, wrong.
@kyokogodai - Right, right, right.
@@Bob31415 85 was a wild ride, with the Royals the last team standing after posting TWO 3-1 comebacks.
Unbelievable.
NLCS was a very exciting 6 gamer between Cards and L.A.
92 was tremendously exciting.
That Classic NLCS,
with that frantic finish.
Sid Bream creaking across home plate in front of Bond's throw.
The Jays won 2 taught 6 game series over the A's and Braves.
97 had the Indians win 2 crazy series against the Yankees and Orioles.
Then lose a wild World Series to the Marlins, in extra innings of Game 7, who themselves had won an even stranger NLCS against the Braves.
2003 had 2 unbelievable LCS'.
The Cubs losing the Bartmann series, and Aaron Booooooone hitting an improbable homer to beat the LAST cursed Red Sox team that blew a 3 run lead with 5 outs to go.
The Sox won a GREAT division series against the A's.
The Marlins prevailed in a very exciting 6 gamer over Yankees.
Beckett with some of the greatest pitching ever done in a World Series.
But.....86 DOES take the cake.
My Metsies ❤staggered across the finish line to finish one of the greatest seasons in baseball history.
So proud that the Mets were the survivors of the greatest baseball postseason yet.
I can't remember a season that had two more entertaining championship series than 1986. The Mets-Astros series was every bit as dramatic as the Sox vs. the Angels. Just terrific baseball.
Simply the most exciting playoff game as a lifetime long Red Sox fan. Sure the sox have won 3 world series in 10 years, but to comeback in this fashion when the game was over in everyone's mind was simply incredible. Even Al Michaels said it was the greatest baseball game he has ever broadcast. One pitch before the epic homerun Jim Palmer says "Henderson with 15 homeruns on the season is a dangerous hitter." Talk about prophetic.
+thomas connery To this day arguably the best LCS/Playoff games in MLB History. And I am a Yankee fan. If this classic occurs in any other year(being overshadowed by the '86 world series)this would be talked in same breath as the '75 WS Game 6, '91 WS Game 7 etc. You right Thomas Micheals not only called this the best baseball game he ever broadcasted he ranks it #2 (of course behind the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" game)in his brilliant career of best sporting event he ever broadcasted. As the only broadcaster to do Play-Play on a super bowl, world series, nba finals and the Olympic Hockey Tournment that saying a lot.
@Will Pfeiffer 2011 WS game 6 is probably the best Fall Classic game in last 15-20 years. The only thing that keeps the game 6 thriller in ‘11 from reaching say game 7 in 1991 or Game 6 in 1975 as The GOAT is that there was several big errors in that classic of ‘11. With that said, this 1986 ALCS game 5 I would rank as easily the best Non World Series playoff games of all time.
AL MICHAELS CLASSIC CALL..ONE OF HIS BEST EVER..~~
Fascinating how Henderson called time and stepped out of the box right before the homer. Very cool.
RIP Donnie Moore and Dave Henderson, the highs and lows in sports moments
Hendu yes…..Moore no
@@thefrase7884 Moore was still a human being, sure he was flawed but Hendu wasn't perfect, either.
I remember seeing this game live. I was crushed by the Dave Henderson homer as I thought the Angels had finally put together a team that had everything necessary to go to the World Series. It wasn't to be. May the great Donnie Moore rest in peace.
Game 7 of the 1991 Series was a classic, but neither championship series was one for the ages. The 1992 NLCS will always be about Francisco Cabrera's Game 7 heroics, but neither the ALCS or the Series were particularly memorable.
Game 6 of the '86 NLCS was just as good as the game we've been watching here. The Mets rallied from 3-0 in the ninth against Bob Knepper to tie the game and eventually win (and the series) in 16 innings. One of the all-time great games.
For me, nothing can top 1986.
This was one of the greatest games I seen in my life.... well at least ALCS championship games!
There is a separate video of the run scoring on the sacrifice fly
I heard him clarify this in an interview; it was his favorite baseball game to call, but Lake Placid is the #1 overall moment for him.
I'm not sure if I agree with Al Michaels' assertion that Dave Henderson's homerun "ranks second only to Fisk."
If Fisk didn't come through in Game 6 of the '75 Series vs. the Reds, the game simply would have continued on. Conversely, had Henderson failed here, the Red Sox would have been heading home, losers in five games.
They lost in ‘86 though so same diff
Fisk homerun in 75 is massively overated,the Red Sox didn't even win the series.
Bernie Carbo’s homerun made Fisk’s possible
@@thefrase7884 Yep, very true.
What, Dave Hendersons sac fly for the go ahead run in the 11th is cut out and missingb along with Ed Romero's deep drive to left where Brian Downing makes a remarkable catch crashing face first into the wall to keep the game close. What a huge disapointment to miss two huge plays in this historic game.
Many people say that, but it's interesting to note that in 1982, in the bottom of the 7th of Game 5 of the LCS versus Milwaukee, Mauch left in Luis Sanchez, a right, to face Cecil Cooper with two outs. He had Andy Hassler, who was death to lefties, ready and didn't bring him in. Cooper singled in the tying and winning runs. That was unquestionably the wrong move and close to unforgivable. So, in 86 he makes the move he should've made in 82 and it doesn't work out.
Well finally got to witness final innings of this most classic game. Rocky Roe strike zone really shrunk in the top of Boston's ninth inning, Witt had 2 perfect strike in which Roe failed to ring Don Baylor up,then 2 run homer on the next pitch.
WHY did Lacheman NOT Gene Mauch make pitching changes to bring in Lucas and Moore?? Wish they shown Henderson GW sac fly top of 11th.
Great playoff game and series wow
The ninth inning is one of the best in baseball history.
Anyone else think Al Michaels looks like Ted Bundy? Or is it just me? lol
And DAYTIME league championship series's! Those were the days!
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I remember watching this game with my dad. Without question, one of the greatest baseball games I have ever seen. We thought the Red Sox were done & they get 4 in the 9th, then eventually win in extra's. It was a very sad story about what happened to Donnie Moore later on though.
When I see this, all I remember watching the ESPN special The pitch that killed Donnie Moore.
That pitch didn't kill Donnie Moore. Yes, it was a very dramatic and heartbreaking moment. But the Angels almost came back to win that game. The point is, it wasn't like Donnie Moore's life up to the point of that pitch was all heavenly and roses. He had personal demons even before that and it was unresolved. On July 18, 1989, Moore had an argument with his wife Tonya and shot her three times with a .45 pistol. Over 2 1/2 years after that homerun and he shoots his wife and himself over a pitch and homerun?
DONNIE Moore must have blown like 20 games or more for the Angels, every time they brought him in,..it was nervous time,..as chicky baby would call it,..
i watched this game also with my dad also. and we lived in New England at the time i was only 8. first year i remember watching sports period. was wearing my little league glove and covering my face until henderson hit the go-ahead homer, i remember jumping off of the ground. it was the highest high and sure enough a week or so later followed by the lowest low's with the buckner game along with game 7 at shea
Outstanding blue blazers for the ABC guys.
Where is the rest of the top of the 11th?
1986 had some great playoff games.
Bases loaded Angels with DeCinces and the series winner is on third. And Donnie Moore got all the blame....!
The Scatman, exactly!
There was Curt Gowdy....there was Dick Enberg...there was Dick Stockton...There was Jack Buck....But in my heart there will forever be Al Michaels!
Al Michaels Was Also The Voice In Hardball
This game is so memorable I actually gave a speech as a sophomore in high school in 1987 during which I reenacted the Hendu near-catch and all the highs and lows of the world series. In Red Sox Lore this ranks very high. There was to be no neutral ground for Schiraldi or Moore. They'd be heroes or goats. Relief pitching was the difference in every series. I don't know what happened to the winning run footage but it's not here. It takes a team to win or lose. No one player is responsible.
Dave Henderson's homerun notwithstanding, a couple of other crucial moments come to mind. The first--as someone alluded to earlier--was the 2-2 pitch to Baylor in the top of the ninth that was called a ball. It could very easily have been strike three, resulting in two outs and Dwight Evans subsequently popping up to end the game. And Steve Crawford came very close to going 3-0 to Bobby Grich in the bottom of the inning with score tied and the bases loaded.