The saddest error in baseball history

#baseball #mlb #error

[wewin]

It’s a damn shame Buckner was such a good player and this is all he’s remembered for.

[mdwest]

Bill Buckner was not the only reason the Red Sox lost that game. It was a team collapse.

[rogerdixon]

Buckner was one the top players in his era. The media and everyone around him screwed him as if he was only reason they lost. This is when I started hating the media. Billy B was a solid player AND person. This is definitely one of life’s most obvious injustices

[daithipol]

I was working that summer in Boston, over from Ireland, became a redsox fan and was devastated 😢

[timbrady]

People have to understand that inning before Buckner's error. For instance Calvin Schraldi could not get an out after Kieth Hernandez hit a lazy fly out to center. With 2 outs, Gary Carter singled, then Kevin Mitchell singled sending Carter to third. Ray Knight then hit a single scoring Carter and sending Mitchell to third. McNamara then replaced Schraldi with Bob Stanley to pitch to Mookie Wilson. He threw a wild pitch(or a pass ball), depending on what you think scoring Mitchell and sending Knight to second. Then the infamous error" a slow roller along the bag that got by Buckner". I blame a series of unfortunate events that forced Bill Buckner to move out of the Boston area because of all the crap his kids got in school about an error that should of never happened. Remember baseball is an event sport, the Red Sox left 14 men on base that night and Calvin Schraldi could not get the final out in that horrific inning, he was pitching and they should have scored more than 5 runs.

[robertwilcox]

I was at Shea Stadium that night. This short, while it did note that the score was tied when Mookie hit that trickling ground ball, the result of Buckner making the play would have been that the game would have gone to the 11th inning. The Red Sox do Not win the game or the Series if that play was made. In fact, there's no guarantee that Buckner beats Wilson to the bag if he fields it. Wilson was one of the fastest runners in the game and was quite capable of beating out the hit, especially since Stanley did not break for the bag to cover first base.

[parrinojoe]

Love you Bill it wasn't your fault I don't give a f*** what anyone says

[mickeydooley]

As a Yankee fan, i still love it everytime i see it. Bahston sawks cack

[josephpavone]

Everyone forgets the game was tied when the ball went through his legs and happy as I was(being a Met fan)who knows what would have happened in extra innings

[parrinojoe]

The Astros all they did was cheat if they didn't treat their record with a bed one win and 161 losses

[SouthBrooklynRR]

That was the manager fault he wanted Buckner on the field to have the the was experience, but bill had bad knees and couldn't field that ball

[boomer]

I’m a Mets fan so this made me feel good🥰

[JayMajor]

Incorrect. Game 7 of the 2001 world series was the saddest

[wolvesetc]

Yeah BUT how much sweeter was it when they then blew it in 2003 but had the heroic comeback the following year down 0 - 3. I'm not from Boston and I'm just a casual Red Sox fan (owing mainly to my intense hatred of new York and the Yankees) but it seems like all that misery only made 2004 that much sweeter. That's got to be one of the few times a championship series overshadows the world series. 0 - 3 will live forever in baseball lore. Nothing is better than beating a fucking new York team, especially with a couple of horribly obnoxious stars like Jeter and arod.

😭Sorry I was getting worked up a bit. My hatred of the Yankees sometimes overwhelms me.

[parrinojoe]

Call Billy baseball Bill Buckner For the Hall of Fame

[parrinojoe]

I saw a pete rose hit over 4, 300 Pete Rose's your true king you can't unsee 4300 hits it did happen in the whole world saw it

[parrinojoe]

Because then that's what you share any blow with the Red Sox

[bodanlunny]

How about those other errors nobody talked

[parrinojoe]

I bet that Prescott and the cowboys can beat the Astros in baseball I would bet 20, 000 to see that

[Tmiscia]

You need to realize that a bunch of mistakes led up to that error so it wasn’t just his fault