World Series --- 1986, Game 6 on this date

Full video of Game 6

and Game 7

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Breslow is going to end up like Buckner if he sox don't win the series

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Two outs, two runs up, and no one on base to start the inning made it even worse. But Knight would not have scored on the error had Bob Stanley not wild-pitched in the tying run with Mookie at the plate , which also allowed Knight to move from 1B to 2B, enabling him to score on the error, yet almost no one outside of Boston remembers that. It would have all been up to Howard Johnson, who was in the on deck circle at the time of the error. Also, Buckner could only have preserved the tie, while Stanley could have preserved the win and the World Championship for Boston by merely retiring Wilson without the wild pitch, and Wilson struggled badly throughout the WS. He was the only batter Stanley faced in that game.

The fact that the Red Sox blew a 3-0 lead after 5 innings of Game 7 was salt in the wound.