Davey Johnson, the last out for the Orioles. Wow, who would've thought he'd be managing the mets to a title in 86!

@jeffreyjurney2013

2 жыл бұрын

Koosman gets Dave Johnson for the last out of the 1969 Series.10 years later in 1979 , Jesse Orosco is traded for Jerry Koosman . In 1986 , Orosco would close out game 7 of the 1986 W.Series for the Mets - his manager being Dave Johnson.

@carolchappell1441

Жыл бұрын

That was the main trivia question in 86

@Rhatid-mon

Жыл бұрын

Yup!

@innertubez

Ай бұрын

That still blows my mind

@sludge8506

9 сағат бұрын

@@innertubez Someone had to do it, champ. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

It was a great moment to be a kid in 1969. Especially if you were from New York!

One of the most understated factoids of this game was that the Mets played the entire game with just nine men. Imagine clinching a WS with zero player substitutions. Wow.

Winning your first World Championship is special and given their history up to that point made it even more special. Wonderful memory.

@charlessanfilippo498

3 жыл бұрын

Complete game by Koosman. Those were the days

@sludge8506

9 сағат бұрын

It was quite an achievement!! 120 losses in 1962, to a world championship seven years later!! Oh, chucky wucky, ooooh ooooh, a complete game. Ooooooh, yeah, chucks, the game has changed. Oooooh, I guess chucky didn’t notice. Old men are actually pretty pathetic.

Memories flash of an 8-year-old kid opening up the window in Brooklyn yelling we won yes that kid was me and this Mets 69 team will always have a special place in my heart.

@StacheBigote

2 жыл бұрын

Love that! Reminds me of 1996 when I was 8. Except it was the Yankees and I was in Queens (I know.. it’s not my fault. I was BORN a Yankees fan). Though a bit different than the Amazin’ Mets, I’d say. Objectively they might hold the title of “coolest win in WS history”. I’m truly a sucker for an underdog.

Jerry Koosman going the distance in a World Series game. wouldn't happen today. Curt Gowdy calling a game on Channel 4 (NBC). That was a treat. Also great seeing the woman responsible for the Mets, Mrs. Joan Payson. I miss baseball.

Let’s Go Mets!!! They are the greatest!!! RIP Tom Terrific Seaver!!!

The Miracle Mets

@sallyboy5418

3 жыл бұрын

Not a miracle, they won 100 games with arguably the best pitching staff in baseball and playing in the NL. Never could understand the "Miracle" tag? It was expected..

@josephhenderson5800

3 жыл бұрын

After seven losing seasons, they finally snapped out of it And began a Miracle Run

I was a 12 year old kid from Queens in 69 and the world couldn't get any better.

@stephensonbrookswhitestone1672

4 ай бұрын

I was a nine-year-old kid (Orioles fan), and I was inconsolable. But we did much better the next year. 🙂

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

@@stephensonbrookswhitestone1672 The Orioles won the World Series in '70, the Colts the Super Bowl in '71. The Bullets didn't the NBA title until they were in Washington (well, Landover) in '78. So redemption for all three in the decade ahead.

@donnagreen4506

Ай бұрын

I was a ten-year-old from Long Island. All was right with the world!

The Mets were the Underdogs and the Orioles the favorite. Orioles had the big names and power bats. Still the Mets manage to beat them "Amazing Mets" Flashbacks...turning back the hands of time into yesteryear 69

Watching Cleon Jones catch the final out still sends shivers up my spine … the 1969 Mets were truly Amazin’!!

@pac401

22 күн бұрын

He squeezed that ball so hard in his glove I thought he would crush it. Then the slight knee bend. It's forever in my brain. It will never be the same because I'm not 13 and it was their first.

A great time to be a Mets fan , Terrific Tom was my favorite RIP 💙 !

I was not yet 11 years old, one of the happiest times of my life. Love the 69 Mets!

@jamessollazzo4860

2 жыл бұрын

i was 8 and it was a great 3 years for ny sports fans 68'jets 69'mets 70'knicks rangers made me wait another 25 years!

@rayroren6293

7 ай бұрын

​@@jamessollazzo48603:00 I I I had thought all 4 NY teams had won their respective championships. Tell me if I'm right or wrong. I was only 10 myself. Lol

@jamessollazzo4860

7 ай бұрын

rangers had good teams with 4 hall of famers in their prime(giacomin,park,ratelle,and gilbert), but they always would come up short. had to wait until 1994@@rayroren6293

This is real baseball. I love watching the games from the late sixties. Not the faded facade of today. 😢

You want your mind blown....koosman got Davey Johnson to fly out for the last out.....koosman was traded in 1978 for a player to be named later....the player jessie orosco.....so check this out the manager and future closer were "involved" in one play in the 69 world series

@flipflopmcgurt3403

2 жыл бұрын

I say that all the time

One of my dad's favorite moments in MLB history. R.I.P. Pops. Born and raised in N.Y.C.

I was in science class at John Adams High School in Ozone Park, NY. There were about four minutes left to class when the teacher turned on the transistor radio to get the update on the game. There were one or two outs left to the game and we listened breathlessly, hoping against the clock that the final call would come before class ended. When it did, the class burst into cheers. I sat in the middle of the room but could hear the cheers coming from other classes. Then the bell rang and class was over. My final class was gym where the teacher made the announcement that the Mets had won the series. It wasn't until I got home and saw the television report with the fans running onto the field.

The Mets had great pitching, timely hitting, INCREDIBLE defense--(Agee's catches in Game 3 saved 5 runs--Swoboda's catch in Game 4 held the O's to 1 run)--when you have all of those elements working for you in a short series you're going to come out on top.

It never gets old watching this!😎

I would turn 9 years old within a day or two of this... living in Rochester, upstate but the Mets were my team and I'd stay up late some nights listening to west coast games in bed in the dark on my newfangled digital display clock radio. Tom Seaver was my idol and I was so excited they won it all. It's funny all the memories that come back. That was a magical time for this boy.

It's so cool when Robinson slid into second base for the takeout slide and Curt Gowdy said that's how you're supposed to run the bases. In today's game that play would have been illegal and Robinson would have faced a suspension and a hefty fine. Ugh. Smdh

@Surfzy

2 жыл бұрын

In all honesty the new rule is for the better.

@georgeanthony7282

2 жыл бұрын

Yep-the game has become something of a joke today!

@weevie833

5 ай бұрын

@@georgeanthony7282 Sure, Aaron Judge taking out a Tyler Wade-size pipsqueak - yeah THAT's baseball!! SMH. I can't see how bashing the sh*t out of mid-infielder is somehow "better baseball." With the size of today's athletes, you could permanently wreck someone's career and disable them permanently. No thanks.

@daffyslooney2867

3 ай бұрын

I am a die hard Mets fan but I have to agree... today's sports games have gotten too damn soft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@daffyslooney2867

3 ай бұрын

@@Surfzy Sorry pal... if you ever played the game it's supposed to be competitive not worrying about getting injured... if that's the case then let's ban fastballs as well!

And Koosman isn't in the HOF ?? But Mike Mussina. and Jack Morris ( career 3.90 ERA) is ??Koosman 2 20 win seasons and undefeated in post season competition.

@sampowellmusic

3 жыл бұрын

travesty.

@jerrscott6373

2 жыл бұрын

The 1977 and 78 seasons really did him in. The cheap NYM had no intentions of fielding a winning team and Koosman's record took a huge hit because of it.

@michaelleroy9281

Жыл бұрын

Jack Morris was the winningest picture for the decade of the 80's

@Haroldbeavis1969

Жыл бұрын

Won’t speak about Morris but as a lifelong Met fan and as someone who was glued to his family’s color TV set while all this was going on, I’ll admit Koosman really was no HOFEr. The travesty was that it took so long for the Mets to retire his number.

@robertmurphy440

Жыл бұрын

I AGREE H of F SHOULD HAVE HONORABLE MENTION OF THE ALL TIME LEFTY PITCHES, KOOS AND GIDRY ON TOP

Donn Clendenon was the first player speaking to Lindsey Nelson in the celebration scene. Not a bad place for a journeyman first baseman to wind up, going from Pittsburgh to Montreal in the expansion draft, refusing to go to Houston in the Rusty Staub trade, then being traded to the Mets before their summertime rally.

@jimmyolsen5897

2 жыл бұрын

I met big Donn in St Pete the following spring

@edwardcricchio6106

Жыл бұрын

I don't think of Donn Clendenon as a journeyman first baseman. He played for the Pirates from 1961-68 and then that short stay in Montreal for a few months before coming to the Mets. A journeyman would have played for 4 or 5 teams before coming to the Mets.

@Haroldbeavis1969

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Donn wasn’t really a journeyman. The Pirates were ready to move him to make room for rookie Bob Robertson when they made him available in the expansion draft prior to the ill fated Astros trade. He barely played for the Expos before coming to the Mets. And of course he was the MVP of the 1969 WS. Then he set their team RBI record a year later before aging out. He was a bonifide slugger.

That field was filthy, but magical!!!!

The Orioles didn't take the Mets seriously

I remember this as though it were yesterday. I got home from school just in time to catch the final out, then was late for a drum lesson because I had to watch the postgame celebration.

Davey Johnson making the last out, then managed the Mets in 1984 and then won it all in 1986.

That clubhouse looks like someone's basement.

I could not make it to that game but one of my high school friends was there. He brought home a piece of the outfield grass from Shea Stadium that day, about 2'X2' piece of turf. Since he lived in an apartment, he asked if he could plant it in our backyard. We kept that square of grass watered and maintained for several years. Finally, it blended into the rest of the lawn but that spot was always just a bit greener!

One of my earliest memories is turning on the old big and black and white TV in the middle of the day and watching Tom Seaver on the mound for the New York Mets during the world series. I've been a fan ever since. I was there for 86. Some of the greatest memories of my life was watching the Mets during the '80s.

What? No graphics scrolling across the bottom of the screen to tell us about the fall sitcom lineup? No stats about Davy Johnson’s batting average against lefthanders with 2 outs and nobody on in afternoon games in the ninth inning? What was Jerry Koosman’s pitch count? No mention by Curt Gowdy of NBC’s upcoming coverage of the Ice Capades? No split screen showing Joan Payson’s daughter’s neighbor’s cousin so we could see their reaction to the final out? What did baseball fans do back in those days, just watch and listen to the game?

@jasonleetaiwan

Жыл бұрын

Is this a complaint about how we have too much advertising these days?

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

@@jasonleetaiwan Or just too many gimmicks. No yellow computer graphic line showing the path of the ball. No optical reader telling us the speed of the pitch.

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

Though they did in those days plug network shows, which they stopped doing around 1980. Johnny Carson even spoofed it, describing how the announcers would say: "Well that pitcher's really in a jam. But not as big a jam as Sanford gets in this Friday night on NBC!"

Truly amazing!

I was in college in New York when this happened. I don't need to tell you that NOBODY was in a class when this was going on; we were ALL glued in front of TV sets watching this. It was absolute madness (of a great kind).

And how ironic the last Baltimore hitter would end up managing the Mets in 1986 when they won their second World Series.

The last out made by a man that would then manage them to a world Series later! 😂😂😂

The spirit and mind control plus team camaraderie cohortnes integrate in a one special formula of believe and they can conceive a miracles in baseball.

If this series was played today,Koosman would have come out of the game in the second inning. Seaver would have come out of game 4 in the sixth inning because of a pitch count.

Metsie, the little kids say "Metsie", not "Mama" not "Papa" "Metsie...Metsie Metsie Metsie".

I remember this amazing ran home from Blessed Sacrament School in The Bronx to watch these final three outs LGM⚾️

Thank You Mookie!

The Orioles were arrogant and thought the Mets were a joke.

@georgeanthony7282

2 жыл бұрын

The joke was on them.

amazing

Still getting misty eyed thinking of Dad clanking the garbage can covers like cymbals

I still get choked up every time I see this

Boy do you know what it's like when your 9 years old and your Mets win the world series against the big bad baltimore orioles. What a feelin

oh how far we've come LFGM

Today's the first time I've ever seen a video of the last three outs of the 1969 World Series, and I never knew Davey Johnson was the final out!

I love it to see joan payson the original owner i hope she's in heaven

@stuartdavis798

Жыл бұрын

She is!

I was listening on the radio. The announcer made Johnson's fly ball sound like Jones had to go to the wall. A friend said, "I was gripping the steering wheel while that ball was in the air."

I remember it well 1969(Couldn't go to Woodstock, the Mets were in town that weekend-ha). I worked for H.M.Stevens. '69 Mets with #7 Ed Kranepool, and then the '69 Jets #12 the greatest of all time.

...I remember watchoimg this as it happened...I'd just gotten home from passing my driver's road test...the examiner said - Go0 home and watch the Mets win the Series...and I DID!!!

When baseball was played tough!!

The video tape of games 3 ,4 and 5 are the oldest surviving color video tape of a world series. Thank you to the people at NBC who had the brains to save it and not record another program over it which is what was done back then. The 68 series is a b&w 16mm kinescope crap.

A bygone era! It was something!

An unsung hero of the team that year was Ron Taylor, who had been a hero for the 1964 Cardinals, especially in Game 4 in the 1964 WS. I believe his two games he appeared in the 1964 WS was all of the playoff experience on the Mets. When the Mets did their end of season finish, Taylor no doubt helped qualitatively, as he had been through a similar finish with the Cardinals in 1964. Taylor also recorded the first save ever in any LCS. He also stopped the flow of runs in game 2 of the NLCS as the Braves had nearly staged a comeback in that game.

March 2, 1969: Concorde became the most bleeding edge passenger aircraft ever. July 20: Neil Armstrong took one small step. October 16: The Mets became the first expansion team to win a division title, a pennant, and the World Series, winning in their eighth year of existence, becoming the fastest expansion team to win a World Series up to that point. For all the blood and guts of the 50's and 60's, 1969 was something else.

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

The Concorde and the moon program came and went, but the Mets are still around!

January 1969, a young New York football team upset a powerhouse Baltimore football team in Super Bowl III. 9 months later, a young New York baseball team upset a powerhouse Baltimore baseball team in the World Series. Amazin'. Oddly enough the Mets represented the more "senior" National League even though this was only their 8th season as a team. In the Super Bowl the New York Jets were representing the AMERICAN Football League, the much younger league.

@stuartdavis798

Жыл бұрын

And I believe the Knicks beat the Bullets in the playoffs that year.

@parkjungmoon694

10 ай бұрын

don't forget also within less than a year and a half span was the knicks also winning the 1970 NBA title, mets, jets and knicks all within 18 months, damn what a time to be a new york fan and its also insane that all 3 of those teams since 1970 have 2 titles combined, the 1973 knicks, 86 mets and thats it and the jets haven't even so much as played in another super bowl, wow.

My family had just moved from Queens that year to Columbus OH, my dad was so mad

Davey Johnson went from losing to the Mets in the 1969 World Series to managing the Mets to win the 1986 World Series.

@michaelleroy9281

Жыл бұрын

He was the manager of the Mets there is probably 3-5 coaches for the Mets

@stevennieves3327

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelleroy9281 lol, oops, I mean to put "managing", i don’t know why I put "coaching". Thanks, I fixed it 🤣. I knew he was the manager.

i thought johnson's ball was going out! it caught a cross current wind and remained in the ball park!

The most interesting part of this video: Seeing five-year-old Shea Stadium when it was originally painted Kelly Green.

If I get to go to parade for the Mets winning it will be the best day of my life. I’ll come back to this clip

Imagine Lindsay Nelson not wearing an outrageously loud suit!! Lol.

1969 was the greatest year of my life the music the mets and my first time I went all the way with my girl 👧 I was 14

Mets should've retired #36 number decades ago! Thankgoodness the Wilpons are gone!

@jerrscott6373

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the Cohen Administration doesn't seem to be a whole lot better at this time.

@robvegart

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerrscott6373 They just started, vs 3 decades of Wilponian era. So I'm giving the benefit of the doubt

@jerrscott6373

2 жыл бұрын

@@robvegart In the one year that Steve Cohen has owned the Mets, they have actually regressed. But time will tell. As for this moment in time, Team Cohen has dropped the ball. Hopefully, I am proven wrong.

@robvegart

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerrscott6373 Exactly what I was getting at. "TIME WILL TELL" Just look at the ordained of Zac Wilson, whom are now back peddling after crowning him Broad Way Joe the 2nd. I'm not into desperate pandemonium, just moving forward constructively and giving benefit of the doubt. Cohen inherited an over his head manager, Diaz, May, Familia, Cespedes, etc... He did have some decent ball players though that were not so volatile, but also inherited a prez like Alderson. I don't look at one thing only and use 'death by association without looking at all the pieces and situations first. This was a year different as well too for the Mets, as it was an injury riddled year, followed by a year that we can all agree on wasn't.

Nowadays, they would have pulled Koosy the moment he walked Robinson.....second thought, Jerry wouldn't even have started the 9th at all.

I grew up and am still largely an Orioles fan.. funny how life works sometimes..

Grote said 73 was the miracle, the 69 team was a good team.

Yeeeeee

I didn't realize that Johnson nearly hit that ball out to tie the game.

Men in Black 3 brought me here

joan payson was lost, but she made alot of money with this franchise

@jaymorgenthal9479

Жыл бұрын

She was a Whitney. The Mets were her hobby. Read about the history of the Whitney family.

The Mets were in the WS in 1969 & 1973 because of pitching! As Yogi once said I believe pitching is 70% of the game and hitting is the other 50%.

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

But of course Yogi never said half the things he said!

@johnschaefer2238

3 ай бұрын

Right you are Brian! My favorite Yogi quote. He came home one day and Carmen greeted him and after asking her how her day was Carmen said “Oh bye the way today I took Dale to see Dr. Zhivago!” Yogi replied “What’s wrong with him he looked fine this morning!” Put a gun to my head and I couldn’t tell you who was wiser Casey “The Ole Perfessor” or Yogi loved them both.

The big bad Orioles won something like a 110 games that year. They ran into a buzz saw of Mets pitching. Proof great pitching beats great hitting. Baron Von Steingrabber never understood this.

É como falar VITÓRIA jogando bete

Good pitching always beats good hitting.

@spudskie3907

Жыл бұрын

Not always.

Sad that in the locker room interview, only Cleon Jones is still alive. :(

The death of Gil totally changed to trajectory of the franchise that continues to have an impact. Why? well, besides Gil being a great manager he would have moved up to be a GM if he lived and his choice for manager would have been the man in charge of player development at the time - Whitey Herzog (see Kooz, Seaver, Otis, Cleon etc...). Herzog should have been named manager after Gil's death but NO! they gave the job to Yogi and Herzog left and the rest is history. And Herzog never ever forgot how he was screwed over and took great delight in whipping the Mets any time he had the chance.

Crazy how the fans just stormed the field. Heck no that does not happen today!

Davey the best

The guy who made the last out looks familiar.

@ace942

3 жыл бұрын

It was Davey Johnson. He would eventually become the Mets manager and the Mets won the World Series in 1986 with him as the manager.

Jerry koosman grew up in a town 8 miles from where I live

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

Minnesota?

@berr6189

3 ай бұрын

yes​@@brianarbenz1329

@michaelleroy9281

Ай бұрын

Morris, MN?

@berr6189

Ай бұрын

@@michaelleroy9281 Appleton mn

They thought they where just gonna run us off the field.

Stormed the field twice

TALK YA SHIT CLEON! WE'RE #1 METS FOREVER!

Im from uk is this the biggest upset ever??

Sports could be played until the end of time but there will never be a story such as this one was.They were a team that bypassed mediocrity.In their first 7 years,they were above .500 for just one day,at 2-1 in 1966.I heard the last out while sitting on the stairs of the old Hudson Terminal in Manhattan,where the WTC was being built.

@TheJustjim3333

Жыл бұрын

1980 US hockey team but this is 2nd

Thom Loverro is why I’m here

Greatest upset in the history of any sport.

@brianarbenz1329

3 ай бұрын

Well, one 8 months before this between another NY team and another Baltimore ranks with it.

The Mets put in all together for one season..... then what happened in 1970????

lets go mets...

and that's why Earl Weaver is in the Hall of Fame...for $#@%!$ up World Series....

They let us go to the cafeteria in third grade to see a couple of innings.

Came here from MIB-3 😅

Would've been so much better with out the stupid music in the background.

Good year for sports in New York. Mets jets and the Knicks bad for Baltimore.

Never forget the "69" Mets coming into Wrigley and kicking Durochers and the Cubs asses! I really thought the Cubs were a better team! But the Mets pitching couldn't be hit! Even at Wrigley Park! But that's what a Bridgeport kid gets for cheering for the Xtown rivals!

Anybody die in that crazy scene after the last out?

@michaelleroy9281

Ай бұрын

No, never heard of any

It was definitely, not a good year, for Baltimore fans, losing the super bowl in miami to the jets, earlier that year, and then losing this series in five.

Betcha box seats 6 bucks hotdog was a quarter beer was 20 cents popcorn a quarter subway a dime and the players made 20 grand a year