If the Mets go on to win the World Series that year, this catch becomes one of the greatest moments in sports history. Now it only lives on in Mets history.

@DragoniteSpam

8 жыл бұрын

+Greg Francavilla Willie Mays, and Endy Chavez.

@Iamacardinalfan

5 жыл бұрын

I believe that catch will live on forever. It was epic at the time. I really thought that was going to give the Mets the momentum to win that game and face the Tigers. I consider it like Pujol's 3 run homer off of Brad Lidge in the previous years nlcs game 5. The Cardinals were knocked out the next game, but most people will always remember that hit.

@thomasjcox

5 жыл бұрын

In your opinion which Mets team was better? 2000, 2006, or 2015? Regardless of how deep each team went into the post season.

@alexc656

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomasjcox 06 in my opinion. It just seemed like it was the Mets year. They were great from the start and finished the season tied with the best record in baseball with the Yankees. I also think the Mets had one of the best starting lineups that year. The 2015 I wasn't expecting them to make the playoffs to begin with and then even making it to the world series was more shoking in my opinion.

@MasterGaryFan

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. I’m a Cardinals fan and I still have been saying that for years. It was historic. But the Mets lost and didn’t move on so in the end it was meaningless. If they would have won that game, and not even win the World Series, that play would go down as an all-time great. Now, it’s mainly just Met fans and a few die hards who remember it, and that’s sad.

an UNDERRATED aspect of this play... Chavez FIRES that ball back in. What a fucking throw.

Last playoff game at Shea

@shoukatsukai

6 жыл бұрын

07 and 08 with the late season collapses

if only the Mets won this would have to be the greatest play of all time considering its game 7.

@lyratorres8153

7 жыл бұрын

Very true.

@toonice7067

6 жыл бұрын

Jacob Spears absolutely

@stevebully

5 жыл бұрын

Jacob Spears without a doubt

@ando2821

3 жыл бұрын

Of all time? Um what? No, maybe all time for Mets . Nasty catch

@billsmith7642

3 жыл бұрын

@@ando2821 Idk.....considering the level of difficulty its up there for sure.....look where he caught the ball, it was already over/behind the fence....not to mention a good 2 feet over the wall, which was like 8 feet and a few inches high.....and Chavez only about 5'10....then to not only make the catch, but also complete the double play with a strong accurate throw to the infield

I'm not even a mets fan & this catch STILL gives me goosebumps!!!!

@mp8359

2 жыл бұрын

It was so unexpected like what did he just do 🤯

@matts6095

Жыл бұрын

Same wild

im a yankees fan but that was the mets year its a shame they lost it in 06 they should've won the ws that year

@loverboycc97

9 жыл бұрын

Same

@willroos8849

9 жыл бұрын

Umm idk bigcity didn't the cards sweep the tigers? I'm pretty sure the Tigers were very good in the beginning of that season than just barely hung on to make the postseason. If the mets would have made it I think they would have won but who knows look who was pitching in that clip. Speaking of the catch wow he went pretty far back for that. Anyway go mets.

@llamapenNHL

8 жыл бұрын

+Will Roos I think the series ended 4-1 and the Cards were helped by a lot of freak errors on the Tigers' end. Hard to say whether they would have done the same against the Mets.

@anepB

5 жыл бұрын

cometandcupids yeah like 7 years later ?? Dumbass

@johnnygunzfilmbuff7821

5 жыл бұрын

99tjpro. I'm a yankee fan to. This was a great lay. You would think with that catch the Mets were going to win.

Honestly one of the best catches in post season and definitely the best one I have ever seen, hahaha man was In shock!!!

Lifelong Cards fan here. I thought that ball was gone, and when he snagged it, my heart sank. Still can't believe he caught it, that was a hell of a play.

@tvscribe

Жыл бұрын

Every Mets fan thought the game was ours after that catch. But baseball is a cruel game sometimes, and you guys were the better team that series. We just didn't play to our potential.

Win or lose, this has gotta be in the top 10 of greatest catches of all time

The greatest moment in sports history to mean nothing relating to the game's outcome

@gabrielvazquez1691

Жыл бұрын

That and Alfonso Soriano's Game 7 HR in the 01 WS

@dzanier

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

@BNSF2184

11 ай бұрын

See thats the good thing about the Cardinals... They can make a miracle catch AND STILL WIN. 2011 WS GAME 7! Thank you Allen Craig!

@WavyKid13

6 ай бұрын

Jermaine Kearse SB catch

Ahh man 06 was our year still can't believe they lost after that catch

I was the first person at Shea to see that Endy made the catch. Because of the angle I had from my seat I knew he caught it before anyone else (even Endy - he had to look in the glove). Incredible night. Still hard to believe they didnt win.

@treatmentbound

4 жыл бұрын

Gene Friedman Here’s why they lost...look at the dude in the stands wearing a tie! cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e36a8ba-d54e-487b-84c2-893f8c78699b_677x850.jpeg

Beltran took strike 3 looking I will never let that go man. Mets had what it took to win the WS in 2006

@robhileman8890

6 ай бұрын

That’s what us Mets fans remember. This catch doesn’t even matter to us because all we think of is Carpenter and that wicked curve and Beltran looking at it. Endy deserved better.

@scottiei

2 ай бұрын

@@robhileman8890 Not Carpenter, it was a young rookie named Adam Wainwright.

I’ve watched this video at least 1,000 times and it still gives me goosebumps. One of the greatest plays of all time.

Imo, the best catch of all time considering the importance of the game, saved a homer, and made the double play. The athletic leap, height and distance going backwards, was not easy. He made catches like this, all during that season. One of the best underrated defensive outfielders off all time. He had the speed, instincts, leaping ability, and a cannon for an arm. If he hit for power and a bit higher average, he could have been the next Willie Mays.

@mikes3858

8 жыл бұрын

And also remember he came in as a defensive replacement mid-way through the game. Defensive replacement indeed :) This is the best catch I have ever seen in baseball

@ericdunn8168

4 жыл бұрын

The snow cone catch made it better

@arthurcooperman3106

3 жыл бұрын

oldschoolfan guy had a walk off bunt single as well lol

@manuginobilisbaldspot424

2 жыл бұрын

Otis Nixon's catch against the Pirates in 1992 was a better pure catch...he scaled a wall twice the height. But this was the NLCS...it had greater importance.

I saw this live and remember thinking that was the greatest catch I've ever seen. Twenty years later and I still think that.

@BigPoppaFlood

Жыл бұрын

I was at this game too and I never heard a stadium shake like that double play caused. You couldn't tell me we weren't winning after this. And then Cliff Floyd pinch hitting I thought would be our Kirk Gibson moment then it was Beltran's turn the hottest hitter that playoffs and I still can't watch Wainwright

I watched this live in 2006. Best catch ever !!!

top 10 catches of all time for sure

@gomez3357

2 жыл бұрын

Top 3

Who’s here because you just watched Nimmo rob one from Turner? 🎺 LFGM!!! 🎺

How do you STILL lose after this catch? One of the greatest catches ever

Amazing catch and the best throw...... power in his arm..... best play ever

Greatest catch I’ve ever seen

As a cardinals fan I was 13 at the time of this happening and about cried when he made that play. I thought there is no way the mets won't win this game after that amazing catch.

@J-Burgerz

8 ай бұрын

Mets Fan, and I was ecstatic because I thought the same..

I saw this live when I was 13 years old. I remember I was watching it on mute because I had a math test the next day and my mom would only let me watch the game in mute becuase I had to study. When this play happened I went nuts haha

@JC-hi8fk

3 жыл бұрын

Considering the announcer that was a good choice.

I remember this like it was yesterday, I've never heard a stadium louder then at that moment

LOL @ Oliver Perez pitching a game 7. My how times have changed......

@thinkingofHim.

9 жыл бұрын

Richard mc dermott i still cant believe it was 8 years ago.

@thinkingofHim.

9 жыл бұрын

Richard mc dermott an 2 hour after that play i was crying my eyes out.

@peterrusso1950

9 жыл бұрын

Funny how he turned out to be a solid bullpen piece for the D-backs now

@noahp7546

5 жыл бұрын

@curragh 42 He had a 1.39 ERA out of the Cleveland bullpen last year.

@elvecinodeltio5960

4 жыл бұрын

@Olivares Silviano no way where is he playing nowadays?

The strength to be there.

@nevincaulfield

2 жыл бұрын

I was at the game.... I had “the strength to be there” 😔

As a Cardinals fan I have to give it up for this catch. It pissed me off as it happened, but you have to respect that athleticism. Oh and the fact that we got the W and went on to win the World Series doesn't hurt either :)

@ulphil08

9 жыл бұрын

It had started raining, I think the ball being wet helped as it stuck in his glove.

This was the greatest catch in MLB history. Not only did he rise high in the air, and thrust his entire arm over the wall, and bend it back, but he snow-coned the ball and still held on to it.

damn shame they couldn't close out the game though... i have faith, one day our waiting will pay off!!!

I'm here because Brandon Nimmo's catch last night reminded me of this.

Here because Nimmos catch reminded me of this catch.

Remember these days when we had a decent team. Us In queens deserve another team like this. They fought hard and played with heart. Should of won the World Series that year. Best catch in postseason history if the mets win that game but still up there

@2rad008

9 жыл бұрын

we had a great team. so many bats I miss those days, but our arms are looking amazin

@TheReviewScientist

9 жыл бұрын

2rad008 Yeah, But we can't win with just arms.

@michaelmango23

9 жыл бұрын

This is looking like our year

@rrd-tt6zw

9 жыл бұрын

+gothamismine I hope so! I see glimpses of the 06' run and it's exciting to watch this year.

@hadmiar8

8 жыл бұрын

+Raul Rodriguez I hope it ends better than the 2006 run.

i was 11 years old and my mom was yelling at me to go to bed....she didn't understand my father and i literally loved the mets so much we watched every single game with each other from the years 2004-2018 (my ages 9-23) and right when i was actually really about to go to bed endy pulled this off!!!!! my mom saw it and im like mom if they win there gonna to go to the world series. She looks at me and said ok but as soon as its over ur going to bed. i'll never forget it...one of my best memories....i just wish the mets won the freaking game!!!!!!!!!!!

remember watching this on the couch with my pops and brother. we lost our minds haahahahaha

Amazing that he "snow coned" it and was still able to keep the ball in his mitt, as he pulled it back! As a Cardinal fan, it was like a knife in my heart at the time, but wow that was one heck of a catch!

@Melbester9

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a Yankee fan but can't believe the Cardinals beat the Mets that series. Me and most Yankee fans were rooting for the Mets to win that year. Cardinals sucked that year. 70-80 win team that barely won the World Series that year. If El Duque and Pedro werent injured for the Mets, Cardinals wouldn't have went 7 games on them. Even the Tigers should have beaten them in the World Series but they swept the As in the ALCS, so they had too much time off before the World Series, one of the biggest reasons Cardinals won that World Series and Tigers had the pitching too. And we almost had a Subway World Series that year. If the Yankees were able to had beat the Tigers, they would had beaten the As.

Cardinals fan here. I love the Cardinals, but I also love good baseball. And damn, was this some good baseball. What a spectacular play!

recuerdo que yo estaba viendo el juego y pegue un grito de alegria y celebre fuerte para luego ponerme a llorar de felicidad por ese atrapadon de Endy Chavez... dure semanas hablando de ello y aun lo recuerdo como si fuese ayer

here after brandon nimmo’s catch

When Endy Chavez went up into the air, to the stars and made that sensational catch and then sensational throw for an inning ending double play, I thought to myself: "It doesnt get any better than this" ...... And I was right. It didnt. From what I saw from the Mets starting in the bottom of the 6th inning until the game ended, was one of the biggest choking I have ever seen in a game. From having all the momentum in the world, at home, to then choking the way they did.

A wonderful catch by Endy Chavez.

Still the greatest catch I've ever seen.

I remember watching this sitting in the Loge level on the first base side about 5 rows from the back. I had to lean into the stairway and watch due to the overhang. Thought Shea was coming down that night. Never heard that place rock like it did that day. Should have won the World Series that year. That team was unreal. LFGM

2006 was our year man. I was certain we were gonna win the World Series. Many tears were shed. I will forever loathe the cardinals.

One of the most underrated fielders in my opinion

Possibly the best catch in baseball history.

That is one of the single greatest catches of all time. Hands down.

The best, from Venezuela :D .

Even though the Cardinals did eventually win, this is one of the best catches of all time (and maybe the best ever; although Willie Mays would say something about that) given the circumstances and what was on the line in this one game.

YYYYYYYY.... ayer acaba de hacer otra jugada parecida en un Caracas- Magallanes. Hay cosas que nunca cambian

That was the greatest play that I ever saw with my own eyes. Incredible.

This is so cool! I remember watching this with my mom when I was super young and then Molinas homerun to make up for it.

Joe Buck ruins the moment. He narrates this as though it was a simple lineout. This is one of the best catches in the game's history and Buck simply is unable to express emotion. Imagine Matt Vasgersian calling this: "SAAAAANTA MARIAAAA!!!!!!"

@adhamakel5842

7 жыл бұрын

Dude you gotta listen to Gary Cohen announce the catch

@mslewin

6 жыл бұрын

Yea, fuck Joe Fuckin Buck, good for nothing hairplug addict. Also, Tim McCarver was formerly the Mets tv announcer before crossing town to be the Yankees tv announcer. So fuck this whole booth.

@thatdude169

6 жыл бұрын

Cohen is god. He should call the World Series

@marcrap1865

6 жыл бұрын

I can't figure out how he gets paid to be a sports announcer

@JRockLoyal

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gnd4pNeSd5STj7A.html bettah, much bettah

Beltran and Verlander, 2 excellent players who got beat this year, finally got their first rings as teammates in 2017.

when you consider the situation (close game, game 7, NLCS). THIS is the greatest play of all time

god bless andy 2006 was magic truly the best catch i ever seen, real shame the mets lost. i felt they were destined to win it all after that catch. must props to st louis for playing their heart out equally as hard.

Greatest catch in MLB playoff history

Best catch that took place in New York since Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series in my opinion

One of the Best catch ever

he did this twice in one game for the mariners yesterday, first one bounced out of his grove and it turned into a double but the second one saved the game. he just ran back located it and mega jumped but he did not turn two on them but it was amazing. the funny thing was we where using jason bay with a .200 avg before endy and the first game we start him in a long time he gets an infield hit and two of these. sometimes i just don't get management endy is batting .275

Finally back to the NLCS. Time to finish this.

We had an an assembly with this guy last year and he seemed like such a gunuine guy

One of the best double plays in NLCS History

Just hearing the roar of the crowd is amazing, makes me want the playoffs back in Queens. We've hung in there, let's see if we can make a push.

I was there and I still cannot believe the Mets lost that damn game. That was, by FAR, the loudest I have ever heard Shea or Citi Field.

Baseball was amazing in the 00s

And of course a fitting advertisement on the wall “the strength to be there”.

Had to watch this after Grandy's catch in Game 2. Grandy's was impressive, but this catch was on a whole other level (not even considering the stakes of a Game 7).

Look at the wall endy leaped over “The strength to be there”

Not that this isn't considered one of the best catches of all-time, but it may have been considered THE BEST if the Mets had won this game. That ball was clearly over the fence and would've given the Cards a 3-1 lead in the 6th instead of the 9th after Yadier's homer.

I cried after this game.

We are gonna finish what we started 9 years ago.

@the430movie

8 жыл бұрын

+TheIrishPinata98 Skippy!!!!

@ChrisSennello

8 жыл бұрын

+TheIrishPinata98 Granderson just made a similar catch (although no double play)

@serialexperimentspain

8 жыл бұрын

Chris Sennello I know! Let's fucking goooo

@Airplane299

8 жыл бұрын

+Tony C Now you guys need to finish what you started 16 years ago

I get the chills every time I watch this catch.....I was at this game. It was the most incredible catch I will prob...ever see in my lifetime. The electricity in Shea was off the charts. Then......Molina hits the HR and dead silence. Shea was so quiet...I could hear the Cards celebrating in their dugout....and I was in the upper-deck on the 1st base side. It was horrible.....just horrible.

Mets shouldve won the WS this year, frack me.

@gotmusic0915

9 жыл бұрын

I call that Yadier Molina HR the start of the apocalypse of the mets bullpen. Heilman just pisses me off. It's been 8 fucking years and the bullpen still sucks horse shit it's depressing.

@CNep99

9 жыл бұрын

gotmusic0915 That's not entirely true. Bullpen was one of the better parts of the team this year.

@gotmusic0915

9 жыл бұрын

+CNep99 you have a point. Maybe this is the turn of the corner but all before now was atrocious lol.

@oggassaggaoggaffa

9 жыл бұрын

***** gotmusic0915 Benitez was long gone by '06. Heilman had been a starter his whole career but that genius Omar Minaya pretty much insisted he be relegated to the bullpen, so blame him too. Agree with CNep99 that Heilman notwithstanding, our '06 bullpen was considered the best in the biz. So what did Professor Minaya do to our bullpen after the '06 season? He blew it up, getting rid of Chad Bradford, Heath Bell and Royce Ring, all of whom had great success with other teams. Instead we had impotent tools like Mota and Vargas leading us to collapse in '07. Heilman takes too much shit. He had few spectacular meltdowns but fans only seem to remember him for that. Benitez was a more chronic choker (and clubhouse cancer) but thankfully he was gone by summer of '03.

@CNep99

9 жыл бұрын

oggassaggaoggaffa I'm not sure what you're getting at with that.

Still one of the best catches I've ever seen. Go Braves!

1 of the top 10 best moments in playoff baseball history!!!

I’m a Yankee fan but I lost my mind when Endy made that grab. One of the best I’ve ever seen in a playoff game. Kinda hoped the Mets won it all that year. Fun team to watch

The 2006 Mets were perhaps the best team in mets history besides the 86 team. sad they lost...

@arnyjk

10 жыл бұрын

I disagree, maybe 3rd best after the 1988 team. 88 had better pitching.

@yoboyedges4910

6 жыл бұрын

Krisrocksz1 '15 mets?

@Leetchie_2_94

6 жыл бұрын

2006 Mets were better overall than the 2015 Mets. The only advantage the 2015 Mets had was starting pitching. 2006 Mets lost El Duque and Pedro along with Sanchez who was maybe their best bullpen guy the whole year. That's what derailed that team. But they had the best record in baseball that year. 2015 Mets was more of a Cinderella run. They made it further but they weren't better than the 2006 Mets.

@tylerstephens7152

6 жыл бұрын

What about that 99 team that squared off against my Bravos in the NLCS? I hate the Mets and I will say that team was pretty damn good!

@UncleJunSushi

5 жыл бұрын

I've been fan for almost 40 years and the best team during that time was unquestionably 1986. Then comes 1988, 1985 (Gooden was a beast that year, and the pitching overall during those years was better than anything they've ever had), 2006, 1999, 2000, then 2015. I have 2000 so low because that team was basically the result of great managing by Bobby V (a starting outfield of Timo Perez, Benny Agbayani, and Jay Payton making it to the WS is incredible). 2015 is also at the end of the list because they basically were just fortunate to get hot at the right time.

Tremenda jugada aun recuerdo como si fue ayer ese juego, ese partido fue tenso de principio a fin!

@psouth100

8 жыл бұрын

Oliver Perez is so good. He got the Cards to hit into the double play to end the inning. BOSS.

One of the most amazing things about this catch that I didn't appreciate at first is that he does it on the dead run. A lot of homerun-robbing catches take place with the outfielder getting to the track, feeling for the wall, watching the ball, timing his leap, using his throwing hand to brace himself against the fence, etc. Chavez didn't have time to do any of that here, he had to sprint back, locate the wall, relocate the ball, and then make a lunging, leaping grab. Oh. And in a tied Game 7.

AMAZING!!!!

I get chills every time I see this!

He probably would have caught that freese hit in game 6 in the 9th of the 2011 world series and had an iconic catch of all time if they made a defensive sub

Amazing performance

I was at this game!! The way Shea was rocking was unbelievable...I could literally feel the ground shaking as if an earthquake was happening...if only the Mets would have won this game

makes me smile every time

@AriSaks

10 жыл бұрын

Have to admit, that was pretty sweet

I feel this is much akin to Albert's home run off Brad Lidge the year prior. Albert's home run carries the Cardinals to game 6, but they would ultimately lose the series and the Astros advanced. In this situation, the Endy saves a home run and potentially the game, but So Taguchi hits a go ahead home run, and Wainwright closes it out in the 9th, and the Cardinals advance. Two amazing moments, that would have been even greater if each team respectively went all the way each year.

If The Mets won that game that play would be considered a top 10 playoff defense play in baseball history history

What a catch Endy!!!!

This is the greatest jawdropping catch I have ever seen. Too bad we didn't go on to win the game and series. I think that is why people forget it this catch.

THE BEST CATCH IN POSTSEASON PERIOD.....

The best play of all time

That roar… Shea was something else

The catch was amazing! I still remember watching it on tv live,,, too bad that Beltran didn't take the bat off his shoulder!

All my years watching the Mets this was the heartbreaking season.

Back in the #NLCS!! 9 years in the making!!!!!

That is the epitome of a poster.

If the Mets won this game, then that's the greatest catch of all time

We should have won the World Series that year. We should have won that game. This reminded me of the 94 Knicks NBA finals. So close.

The strength to be there... hell yeah