The Buckner Ball
This is the baseball that went through Bill Buckner's
legs in game 6 of the 1986 World Series, allowing the
New York Mets to go on to win the championship. With
the Mets one strike away from defeat (losing 5-3 in
the bottom of the tenth inning), Gary Carter and Kevin
Mitchell singled. Then Ray Knight singled to make the
score 5-4. Up came the Mets speedy centerfielder, Mookie
Wilson. Down to his last strike, he fouled off pitch
after pitch. After Bob Stanley threw a wild pitch, tying
the score, Wilson hit a bounding ball up the first line,
a routine play. But, as first baseman Buckner waited
for the ball to come up, it stayed down, skipping under
his legs. Ray Knight scored, the Mets had the game,
and soon after, the series. 
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