October 12-19, 1999 The Braves defeat the Mets in 6 games to advance to the World Series against the New York Yankees NLCS MVP: Eddie Perez Thanks @espn
It was fun because it was about the players and their trash talking, and Shea Stadium. The rivalry started in 1997 and ended in 2002, after Bobby V got fired, and then the Mets stunk in 2003-2004.
Tom Glavine in Game 3 that's one of his best postseason performances. Obviously it's not the same as Game 6 of the 1995 World Series against a stacked Cleveland team but 1999 doesn't get much attention
I cant tell how many times Tom Glavine pitched a gem in a postseason game, where he got no run support and he had to either shut down the other team or keep em low. He was sensational in the postseason in his career.
@@hmhm856 www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=glavito02&t=p&post=1 Unfortunately a lot of these duds were so bad that they ballooned his career ERA to 3.30....which isn't BAD but it's surprising for a Hall of Famer
Damn I hate seeing this, if the Mets would have won game 6 they would have had the momentum going into game 7 and who knows what would have happened. Maybe it would have been the Mets that would have been the first MLB team to come from 0-3 down and not the Red Soxs of 2004.
With a Subway Series lurking in the dreams of New York fans, the upstart Mets faced a strong Atlanta Braves team that won 9 of 12 from them during the regular season, including 5 out of 6 in the last 2 weeks of the season. And in Game 1, Greg Maddux used his pitching and defense to stymie the Mets. His battery mate, Eddie Perez, collected two hits, including a HR, as the Braves won the opener, 4-2. The next afternoon, Melvin Mora hit his ML home run in the postseason to give the Mets an early lead. But in the 6th, 2-run blasts by Brian Jordan and Eddie Perez gave Atlanta all they needed for a 4-3 win as John Smoltz saved the win. Back in Shea Stadium for Game 3, the Mets, who made only 68 errors all year, committed two of them in the first inning, leading to an Atlanta run. Tom Glavine and the bullpen took it from there for the Braves' third straight win, 1-0. The Mets' were a loss away from being swept. And when Jordan and Klesko went back-to-back in the 8th, the Braves looked ready to sweep. But with the sacks full and two out, John Olerud--who homered earlier--bounced one up the middle for a single and a 3-2 Mets' lead, which was saved by Benitez. The fifth game would be a classic. Olerud's two run homer in the first put the Mets ahead. By the 6th, the Braves tied it at 2. And both teams got out of several jams, including the bases loaded in the 6th. It stayed tied going into extra innings. By the 15th inning, both teams were running out of players. In the top half, Octavio Dotel, the 9th pitcher the Mets used, surrendered an RBI hit to Keith Lockhart. Once again, the Mets were three outs away. But in the bottom half, they loaded the bases with one out, pinch-hitter Todd Pratt walked to force home the tying run. Then, against Kevin McGlinchy, Robin Ventura hit the longest "single" in baseball history for a 4-3 Mets' win. It cleared the wall for a Grand Slam, but Ventura didn't get to second base, and thus the "Grand Slam Single". It didn't matter to the Mets. All they knew was they became the second team ever to trail by three games and force Game 6. Back at Turner FIeld for Game 6, Al Leiter didn't get an out as the Braves scored five times in the first. A pinch-single by Jose Hernandez gave the Braves breathing room in the 6th to make it 7-3, or so it seemed. In the 7th, the Mets scored twice, and then, Mike Piazza went opposite field off Smoltz with a man on to tie at at 7. Hoping to force a sudden death 7th game, the Mets' went ahead in the 8th inning only for Atlanta to knot it up in the bottom half. In the 10th, Pratt's sacrifice fly put the Mets up 9-8. But in the bottom half, the Braves put two on for Ozzie Guillen, who singled off Benitez to drive in the tying run. Come the bottom of the 11th, the Braves loaded the bases with one out against reliever Kenny Rogers. On a 3-and-1 count, Rogers threw one high to Andruw Jones, who didn't swing. Ball four. Gerald Williams scores and the Braves escape, 10-9, for their 5th pennant in the 1990s. Bring on the Yankees. As for the Mets, tip your cap for an excellent ride through their most thrilling season since 1986.
John Franco and Armando Benitez ruined the Mets in game 6. Benitez blew game 4 against the Dbacks (but Mets won). Benitez ALMOST blew game 4 against Atlanta when Ozzie Guillen almost hit a game tying solo home run in the top of the 9th inning (it missed by 5 feet from being fair). And then Benitez blew this game 6 in the bottom of the 10th inning with the Mets up by one. And John Franco blew the 1998 Wild Card chances the Mets had with his horrendous 1998 season. And this 1999 NLCS pretty much the final postseason success that Atlanta will have with Bobby Cox as their manager. With the exception of 2001 NLDS when a very weak Atlanta team beat the Astros (which says more about the Astros postseason chokes and not Atlanta), Atlanta will not win another postseason series under Cox. No one could beat the 1999 Mets. Only the 1999 Mets could beat the 1999 Mets, and they did
John Olerud is now a free agent, and he will sign with his home team in the offseason, the Seattle Mariners. Huge loss for my Mets Kenny Rogers is now a free agent, and he will sign and return to the Texas Rangers Bobby Bonilla (Mets) will be released in the offseason, and Bonilla will sign with the Braves in the offseason. Thus, this ends Bonilla's second stint with the Mets
@@cbod14 Was too young for that one, but this was my favorite series as a Braves fan at the time. Obviously plenty other more thrilling series overall.
NBC finally joins every other major TV network by introducing their own "Fox Box" score bug. Welcome to the late 1990s, NBC. Better late than never, I guess.
Not shown in game 4 = Armando Benitez almost blew the save in game 4, as Ozzie Guillen almost hit a solo home run to tie the game, but the ball at the end just barely went foul on the right field pole. It was like 3 feet from touching the pole.
This would have been the greatest LCS in history had the Mets hold on to that game 6. John Franco and Armando Benitez really broke my heart, they were more culpable than Kenny Rogers. Those Bobby Valentine Mets, specially in 1998 and 1999 really were something else when it came to drama. When Piazza hit that game tying home run in game 6, I really thought that the Mets were gonna be the first team ever to come down from an 0-3 hole. But nope, Franco and Benitez didnt want that to happen . And Eddy Perez, not Chipper Jones, destroyed my Mets in this series.
Folks around baseball were salivating at the prospect of a 'Subway Series' in October of '99, the Yankees pushed past the Red Sox in 5 games but the Mets had their hands full with their arch rivals from Atlanta. As it turned out, despite the Mets pushing the NLCS all the way to extra innings in Game 6( after their memorable 15-inning win in Game 5 thanks to Robin Ventura's famed 'Grand Slam Single' ), they just couldn't overtake the powerhouse Braves in the end. And to lose the series on a bases-loaded walk in extras...a brutal way to close out an exciting & memorable season for the Mets. But we wouldn't really have to wait that much longer for an eventual 'Subway Series' in New York to eventually happen though.
@@cdelano81 The Mets loading the bases in the 11th wasn't a crazy idea- there was 1 out and a runner at third. If anything, the problem was who came in to pitch- Octavio Dotel might have been a better choice.
and that 2001 alds of Astros losing to Atlanta (a very weak Atlanta team in 2001) says more about that Astros core players inability to win games in the postseason. This 1999 NLCS is basically the final playoff success of the Bobby Cox Atlanta team.
The Mets loading the bases in the 11th wasn't a crazy idea- there was 1 out and a runner at third. If anything, the problem was who came in to pitch- Octavio Dotel might have been a better choice.
From my vintage point, I would pick the home run he hit against Atlanta 10 days after 9/11 to lift the City in a HUGE way. This was for all of NY's finest (NYPD and NYFD).
I started hating them the year before in 1998 when they swept the Mets in Turner Field to close the regular season and ruining the Mets wild card chances.
Game 6 is probably the wildest postseason game I've ever watched.
Until 2004, this was as close as a team ever came from being down 0-3 to forcing a game 7.
What a series this was. NBC got plenty of bang for their buck.
This was a fun rivalry in the late 90s-early 2000s
It was fun because it was about the players and their trash talking, and Shea Stadium. The rivalry started in 1997 and ended in 2002, after Bobby V got fired, and then the Mets stunk in 2003-2004.
@@hmhm856 Both teams got worse (well I think the Mets were good again in the mid-2000s but fell off after that)
When Piazza hit that home run, I knew the Braves weren’t just losing the game but the whole series.
Tom Glavine in Game 3 that's one of his best postseason performances. Obviously it's not the same as Game 6 of the 1995 World Series against a stacked Cleveland team but 1999 doesn't get much attention
I cant tell how many times Tom Glavine pitched a gem in a postseason game, where he got no run support and he had to either shut down the other team or keep em low. He was sensational in the postseason in his career.
@@hmhm856 www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=glavito02&t=p&post=1 Unfortunately a lot of these duds were so bad that they ballooned his career ERA to 3.30....which isn't BAD but it's surprising for a Hall of Famer
game 6 is the 2nd toughest met loss ive ever experienced. that game was soul crushing. game 7 in 06 is #1.
What about when the Yankees beat the Mets in the World Series in 2000
I loved Mike Piazza's catcher stuff
0:47 Thats Pat Mahomes pitching for the Mets. He is the father of Chiefs QB Pat Mahomes
Yes sir, he had his best season that 1999 season.
Damn I hate seeing this, if the Mets would have won game 6 they would have had the momentum going into game 7 and who knows what would have happened. Maybe it would have been the Mets that would have been the first MLB team to come from 0-3 down and not the Red Soxs of 2004.
3:04 - this would not be the last time John Rocker would be under fire for something he said...I just have a feeling.
As a Yankee fan this made me happy
At least we beat the Mets the following year
With a Subway Series lurking in the dreams of New York fans, the upstart Mets faced a strong Atlanta Braves team that won 9 of 12 from them during the regular season, including 5 out of 6 in the last 2 weeks of the season.
And in Game 1, Greg Maddux used his pitching and defense to stymie the Mets. His battery mate, Eddie Perez, collected two hits, including a HR, as the Braves won the opener, 4-2. The next afternoon, Melvin Mora hit his ML home run in the postseason to give the Mets an early lead. But in the 6th, 2-run blasts by Brian Jordan and Eddie Perez gave Atlanta all they needed for a 4-3 win as John Smoltz saved the win. Back in Shea Stadium for Game 3, the Mets, who made only 68 errors all year, committed two of them in the first inning, leading to an Atlanta run. Tom Glavine and the bullpen took it from there for the Braves' third straight win, 1-0.
The Mets' were a loss away from being swept. And when Jordan and Klesko went back-to-back in the 8th, the Braves looked ready to sweep. But with the sacks full and two out, John Olerud--who homered earlier--bounced one up the middle for a single and a 3-2 Mets' lead, which was saved by Benitez.
The fifth game would be a classic. Olerud's two run homer in the first put the Mets ahead. By the 6th, the Braves tied it at 2. And both teams got out of several jams, including the bases loaded in the 6th. It stayed tied going into extra innings. By the 15th inning, both teams were running out of players. In the top half, Octavio Dotel, the 9th pitcher the Mets used, surrendered an RBI hit to Keith Lockhart. Once again, the Mets were three outs away. But in the bottom half, they loaded the bases with one out, pinch-hitter Todd Pratt walked to force home the tying run. Then, against Kevin McGlinchy, Robin Ventura hit the longest "single" in baseball history for a 4-3 Mets' win. It cleared the wall for a Grand Slam, but Ventura didn't get to second base, and thus the "Grand Slam Single". It didn't matter to the Mets. All they knew was they became the second team ever to trail by three games and force Game 6.
Back at Turner FIeld for Game 6, Al Leiter didn't get an out as the Braves scored five times in the first. A pinch-single by Jose Hernandez gave the Braves breathing room in the 6th to make it 7-3, or so it seemed. In the 7th, the Mets scored twice, and then, Mike Piazza went opposite field off Smoltz with a man on to tie at at 7. Hoping to force a sudden death 7th game, the Mets' went ahead in the 8th inning only for Atlanta to knot it up in the bottom half. In the 10th, Pratt's sacrifice fly put the Mets up 9-8. But in the bottom half, the Braves put two on for Ozzie Guillen, who singled off Benitez to drive in the tying run.
Come the bottom of the 11th, the Braves loaded the bases with one out against reliever Kenny Rogers. On a 3-and-1 count, Rogers threw one high to Andruw Jones, who didn't swing. Ball four. Gerald Williams scores and the Braves escape, 10-9, for their 5th pennant in the 1990s. Bring on the Yankees.
As for the Mets, tip your cap for an excellent ride through their most thrilling season since 1986.
John Franco and Armando Benitez ruined the Mets in game 6.
Benitez blew game 4 against the Dbacks (but Mets won). Benitez ALMOST blew game 4 against Atlanta when Ozzie Guillen almost hit a game tying solo home run in the top of the 9th inning (it missed by 5 feet from being fair). And then Benitez blew this game 6 in the bottom of the 10th inning with the Mets up by one.
And John Franco blew the 1998 Wild Card chances the Mets had with his horrendous 1998 season.
And this 1999 NLCS pretty much the final postseason success that Atlanta will have with Bobby Cox as their manager. With the exception of 2001 NLDS when a very weak Atlanta team beat the Astros (which says more about the Astros postseason chokes and not Atlanta), Atlanta will not win another postseason series under Cox.
No one could beat the 1999 Mets. Only the 1999 Mets could beat the 1999 Mets, and they did
"I AM KING OF THE DIAMOND! BRING ME THE FINEST MEATS AND CHEESES THROUGHOUT THE LAND!" 😂
Can't forget, "Let there be an abundant clubhouse feast!!" Damn. What a call.
Melvin Mora was sensational for the Mets in the postseason
That was one of the best series not to go to game 7. Mets and Braves always had have epic battles. NL EAST was and still is the toughest division
Other great LCS series to end in 6 games:
Mets-Astros 1986 NLCS
Cleveland-Seattle 1995 ALCS
Cleveland-Baltimore 1997 ALCS
This was one of the best NLCS’s of all time for sure. Every game was great
John Olerud is now a free agent, and he will sign with his home team in the offseason, the Seattle Mariners. Huge loss for my Mets
Kenny Rogers is now a free agent, and he will sign and return to the Texas Rangers
Bobby Bonilla (Mets) will be released in the offseason, and Bonilla will sign with the Braves in the offseason. Thus, this ends Bonilla's second stint with the Mets
Favorite all-time postseason series. That Klesko swing in game 4 and Andruw's walkoff walk in game 6...loved it all
Klesco did have a nice yet extremely fierce swing
I guess you weren't around for the 86 NLCS
@@cbod14 Was too young for that one, but this was my favorite series as a Braves fan at the time. Obviously plenty other more thrilling series overall.
NBC finally joins every other major TV network by introducing their own "Fox Box" score bug. Welcome to the late 1990s, NBC. Better late than never, I guess.
No wonder why they lost the AFC contract to NBC almost two years prior
Not shown in game 4 = Armando Benitez almost blew the save in game 4, as Ozzie Guillen almost hit a solo home run to tie the game, but the ball at the end just barely went foul on the right field pole. It was like 3 feet from touching the pole.
Between 86 & 99 The Mets have played in two amazing NLCS'. I mean The Braves tried like hell to give them this series
88 NLCS between Mets-Dodgers was amazing as well, mainly cause of the drama.
A rematch of the 1969 NLCS
Game 5 started at 4:00pm and ended at 9:40pm Eastern Standard time
This would have been the greatest LCS in history had the Mets hold on to that game 6. John Franco and Armando Benitez really broke my heart, they were more culpable than Kenny Rogers. Those Bobby Valentine Mets, specially in 1998 and 1999 really were something else when it came to drama.
When Piazza hit that game tying home run in game 6, I really thought that the Mets were gonna be the first team ever to come down from an 0-3 hole. But nope, Franco and Benitez didnt want that to happen .
And Eddy Perez, not Chipper Jones, destroyed my Mets in this series.
“And depression sets in” it can’t be said enough how elite sportscenter highlights used to be
What was a daily ritual I don't think anyone watches anymore
exactly@@knightrdrx
If only they had a big game closer.
Man the strike zones were generous in those days.
Pat Mahomes.... Heard his son is pretty good
I was at game 2
I watched again hoping for a different ending
Folks around baseball were salivating at the prospect of a 'Subway Series' in October of '99, the Yankees pushed past the Red Sox in 5 games but the Mets had their hands full with their arch rivals from Atlanta. As it turned out, despite the Mets pushing the NLCS all the way to extra innings in Game 6( after their memorable 15-inning win in Game 5 thanks to Robin Ventura's famed 'Grand Slam Single' ), they just couldn't overtake the powerhouse Braves in the end. And to lose the series on a bases-loaded walk in extras...a brutal way to close out an exciting & memorable season for the Mets.
But we wouldn't really have to wait that much longer for an eventual 'Subway Series' in New York to eventually happen though.
A series losing WALK?!
Yep. The Mets took the WALK of shame. And the Braves took a WALK on the pennant winning side.
@@cdelano81 The Mets loading the bases in the 11th wasn't a crazy idea- there was 1 out and a runner at third.
If anything, the problem was who came in to pitch- Octavio Dotel might have been a better choice.
I knew a Mets fan in college and he still curses about game 6
Other than the 2001 ALDS, the Braves only had 1 post season series win until 2020.
and that 2001 alds of Astros losing to Atlanta (a very weak Atlanta team in 2001) says more about that Astros core players inability to win games in the postseason.
This 1999 NLCS is basically the final playoff success of the Bobby Cox Atlanta team.
@@hmhm856 It also says a lot about how the Phillies were unable to overtake said weak ATL team in the NL East (finished 2 games out)
@@hmhm856 until 2021 when they won it all
The Braves relished ruining the lives of Mets fans.
If Benitez and Franco don't choke in game 6, the Mets come back from 0-3.
Good times!!!...excellent series
2:48 complain more about Eric Gregg in 1997 though
The Mets loading the bases in the 11th wasn't a crazy idea- there was 1 out and a runner at third.
If anything, the problem was who came in to pitch- Octavio Dotel might have been a better choice.
with a free swinger like A. Jones, I wanted Kenny Rogers in there.
@@hmhm856 sounds like good original idea, but with bad execution
8:30 In my opinion, Piazza's most iconic moment as a Met
From my vintage point, I would pick the home run he hit against Atlanta 10 days after 9/11 to lift the City in a HUGE way. This was for all of NY's finest (NYPD and NYFD).
"Tied at 7, hoping for game 7!"
@@chrisuncleahmad Great Costas quote
I will always forever hate the braves starting with this series
I started hating them the year before in 1998 when they swept the Mets in Turner Field to close the regular season and ruining the Mets wild card chances.