Bill Buckner’s Error – and Vin Scully’s Perfect Call – Happened 25 Years Ago
The drama, the call, the crowd … this has to be one of my all-time favorite moments in baseball history. Today is the 25th anniversary of The Buckner Error. If this happens Wednesday night in St. Louis, two things will happen: the internet will break and Joe Buck’s call will be dreadful.
And I know many of you have seen the entire 9th inning played out on RBI baseball, but I thought that was worth linking, too. Enjoy Scully. What a treasure he is. I can’t decide if I like Scully’s Buckner call better than his Kirk Gibson call.
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October 25th, 2011 at 12:26 PM
I liked the Gibson call better because I was rooting for the Dodgers in that series (I can’t think of anyone at the time who thought they would win Game 1, let alone that series).
Plus, I can’t approve of anything that shows the Mets having success.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Definitely Gibson’s. The accompanying video showing brake lights from the Dodger “fans” cars as they try to beat traffic is hilarious.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:33 PM
What were the ratings for this game and then the Game 7?
October 25th, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Yes.
I was three at the time, and hardly a Red Sox fan, so the event doesn’t bother me nearly as much as having to see it played over and over. Scully/Mets don’t bring back bad memories, Dan Shaughnessy and Joe Buck do.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:35 PM
I posted it last week, but you can get the entire bottom of the 9th NBC broadcast on dailymotion:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd2fhk_1988-world-series-game-1-bottom-of_sport
Really, the entire bottom half of the inning is one great call.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Plus, I can’t approve of anything that shows the Mets having success.
Can’t you just enjoy the Mets’ misery for the last few years, and let us revel in our most treasured moment?
October 25th, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Watched the replay. There was 17 seconds of silence after he said “she is gone.” He let the fans and Gibson tell the story instead of screaming “OH MY GOD!” for 15 seconds. It’s perfect and he didn’t make himself the center of attention.
/glares in Gus’s general direction
October 25th, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Absolute chills every time I see that replay along with Scully’s stirring call.
Given the adoration I have for Kirk Gibson, I’m guessing Jon Gruden wants to mud wrestle the guy.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:37 PM
To clarify comment 5, that is the ’88 World Series, Game 1 call of Vin Scully.
Though I still get goosebumps from Jack Buck’s radio call: “I don’t believe what I just saw….I don’t believe what I just saw!” And I’m not even a Dodgers fan.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:38 PM
that was a horseshit throw, larry.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Already loving how in 1988 not pitching more than an inning for a save meant “not a hard worker” could be said and it wasn’t considered an insult
October 25th, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Interesting, Red Sox fail is a Yankees fan favorite moment.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:39 PM
I will say something nice about the Mets. Their new stadium is fantastic. Really liked the food choices and frankly, it was a much nicer experience than new Yankee Stadium.
Best part of new Yankee Stadium was going to Stan’s down the street.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:40 PM
No, for the following four words: World Champion Lenny Dykstra
October 25th, 2011 at 12:40 PM
But Gus Johnson screaming into the microphone would be delightful, right?
October 25th, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Already loving how in 1988 not pitching more than an inning for a save meant “not a hard worker” could be said and it wasn’t considered an insult
I think that’s my second favorite part of the video after the home run. They essentially destroy the modern concept of a closer in all of about 25 seconds.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:41 PM
My favorite part of the bottom of the tenth in the Met-Red Sox game is that Joe Garagiola said about 5 words the whole half inning.
I like the Gibson call better because it was so perfect. He made the call, let Gibson run around the bases then “in the year of the improbable, the impossible has happened!” goosebumps. Amazing call.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:41 PM
I more curious of what Gossip Girls were actually.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:43 PM
What are you doing walking Wade Davis Eck…
October 25th, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Or Mike Davis, even
October 25th, 2011 at 12:45 PM
i like his Ozzie walk-off call. “Go Crazy, folks!”
October 25th, 2011 at 12:46 PM
That Dodger lineup was pretty bad in 1988. I’m not even sure how they got past the Mets that year, let alone the A’s.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Orel Hershiser won 57 games that year and his ERA was -6.00
October 25th, 2011 at 12:49 PM
That Dodger lineup was pretty bad in 1988. I’m not even sure how they got past the Mets that year, let alone the A’s.
That’s kind of what makes Scully’s call in that Series even better. The Dodgers had no business being there let alone beating the big, bad A’s. Scully encompassed that feeling in a simple, powerful declaration as Gibson rounds the bases: “In a year that has been so improbable….the impossible has happened!”
October 25th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
My favorite part of the bottom of the tenth in the Met-Red Sox game is that Joe Garagiola said about 5 words the whole half inning
one of my favorite announcer lines was when garagiola told kubiak on an NBC GOTW, after a weak liner, that ‘it looked like he hit that with a wet Sporting News’
October 25th, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Their offense was atrocious, but their pitching was outstanding. Their top 3 starters had ERAs under 3. Jay Howell was a great closer at that time, and Alejandro Pena and Jesse Orosco were the best set-up combo in the game.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:55 PM
And what I was alluding to–Orel Hershiser didn’t give up a run for like a month and a half at the end of the season.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:57 PM
I just went #3 at least twice during that presser. Every word he just said… that guy gets it. It’s a new era in Chicago Cubs baseball!
/spraypaints nWo on Wrigley marquee
//whore’d
///first time in a long time
October 25th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
but for the A’s to then fold was inexcusable. lots of G1 losers recover.
/was A’s fan then
October 25th, 2011 at 12:59 PM
The 1988 NLCS was ridiculous. Hershiser pitched in 4 different games. Started games 1 and 3. Had a save in game 4 and a complete game in game 7. He pitched 24 of the possible 63 innings and only gave up 5 runs.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Its like watching your ex husband get married. Yuck. Hope Cherington kills it at his press conference today. Ive never even heard the man speak.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
I also prefer the Scully call, FWIW. It is the one that stays in my head.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:01 PM
“And we’ll see you…tomorrow night!” >>>> both…combined.
/biased
October 25th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
I still like Joe Buck’s call of Ortiz’s walkoff hit in Game 5 at Fenway.
“Ortiz fights it off center field! Damon runnin’ to the plate! He can keep on running to New York where we’ll see you tomorrow night!”
Hated the result. Loved the call.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:05 PM
That gets knocked down a peg with the knowledge that the Twins were cheating and used the A/C in the Metrodome to blow that ball out
/biased
October 25th, 2011 at 1:07 PM
That was evident Sunday as well, as one of Crosby’s kickoffs got blown off the tee.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:08 PM
I hope for your sake he never ends up with the Yankees, that can spur hate you never knew you could possess for someone who never wronged you personally
October 25th, 2011 at 1:11 PM
He admits it! I knew it!
October 25th, 2011 at 1:12 PM
This. As great as Scully’s call was, I prefer Jack Buck’s.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:13 PM
It’s gone away for the most part but in the moment, hoo-boy…the sweep last season (and subsequent SB win) was very therapeutic
October 25th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
I really dont see the Brookline boy doing that.. but I guess you never know. In 10 years, he’ll be done with the Cubs and will still be young…
October 25th, 2011 at 1:17 PM
This is the nWo, honey. This shit is 4-life. FOR. LIFE.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:18 PM
You better hope he forgets that Bill Walsh quote, then
October 25th, 2011 at 1:19 PM
Working for the Cubs has broken better baseball men than Theo over the last 103 years, we shall see
October 25th, 2011 at 1:20 PM
You should see HappySt’s tweet, Butters. I don’t often get to feel sorry for White Sox fans because your situation has been infinitely better than ours over the years… but I felt sympathy for him here.
October 25th, 2011 at 1:22 PM
I saw it, trying to remain positive these days and that doesn’t involve thinking about White Sox baseball…might be fun to love/hate them next season since they should be awful
October 25th, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Even as a Sox fan I still prefer the Buckner call. I liked Jack Buck’s call on the Gibby homer better.
October 25th, 2011 at 2:18 PM
I like the Buckner call because of the disbelief in his voice, without resorting to “I can’t believe it!” or “Unbelievable!”
October 25th, 2011 at 2:52 PM
Vin Scully is a living legend, a Hall of Famer for nearly 30 years. But it amazes me…AMAZES me at the effusive praise he gets for everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. He’s had more than his fair share of great calls, but he’s had some rough moments, too, particularly in recent years, yet no one says ANYTHING. It’s the one thing that no one will criticize, even on the anything-goes World Wide Web.
As for his most famous calls, the Jack Buck call of Gibson’s home run was more exciting. Vin Scully said, “She is….gone!” followed by about 30 seconds of silence. You could fill a novel with all the articles written about how he “didn’t make himself the center of the moment”.
As for the Mets call, it was fine. But putting it as the co-headline with the event itself? It’s ironic that the biggest praise that he gets is for not making himself the story, yet that’s all anyone ever does when it comes to his calls! I’m sure I’ll get torn apart for saying this- the very very few posts with ANYTHING critical of Vin Scully often are- but I can’t be the only one who feels this way.
And personally, you want an underrated call for the ages, this is one of my personal favorites:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=2685722