Ron Darling will always be my all-time favorite player.

This was the game that changed the whole series. The 108 win Mets weren't going quietly...they didn't plan on going at all.

VS listening to his voice my whole life here in so cal, & as a mets fan I couldn't wait to hear him call the game when the Mets were here or LA in NY, thanks for the memories Vinny!

People who act like the Mets coming back in all these games was something crazy no one had foreseen - didn't watch the regular season. The Mets had been doing that same thing ALL SEASON. Out of their 108 wins, FORTY ONE of them were come-from-behind victories. That's nearly forty percent of their victories. That team was just special and the whole year was special.

I'm 31. Wasn't even alive for this but my father told me stories. He was a huge Roger Clemens fan. I've been on a binge watching this series and even the ALCS against the Angles and the NLCS against the Astros. Sox were down to their last strike against the Angels was Dave Henderson blasted a homer. And that Mets Astros series was one of the best 6 game series in history, if not the best. Wish it went 7 as the Mets couldnt seem to figure out their former pitcher Scott. But that's why that series is so great, Game 6 was basically game 7. Anywho, crazy to see how this curse continued lol. Game 6 disaster, then not only that people forget and even I forget that part of the story my father told me, the Sox were up 3-0 in the 6th in game 7 as well. They blew that too. Just a collosal blow up lol. Typical of Red Sox at that time. If this team stayed together, specifically Clemens I don't think they would have had to wait until 2004 for the curse to be broken. That's the beauty of history.

God bless ✝️🙏 my New York Mets Baseball ⚾🇺🇸❤️🙏✝️ ... World Series Champions 1969, 1986 💍💍🏆🏆

Darryl would have hit 50 HRs a year playing in Fenway

I love Vin Scully letting me know "we're just starting" and inviting me to "pull up a chair." I prefer to stand Vin, if that's alright with you. (Seated or standing, I'm still a big fan.)

Just looking at those faces behind home plate ... how disgusted they were a few nights later.

Maybe it's just the whiskey catching up with me, but that fan behind home plate holding up a "Hi Mike" is kinda messin with me. I have watched every '86 LCS playoff game over the past few days and now am on game 4 of 86 WS and am starting to feel as though my hold on reality is becoming tenuous at best. Maybe that is not a bad thing.

The Mets coming back in game six was no fluke. Seems like McNamara just ran out of pitching, and the Sox failed to take advantage of the fact that Ron Darling was not pitching well.... amazing really that the Sox came within a strike of winning the series... twice... after game 6 did anyone really expect the Sox to win game 7? Even when they took the lead? The Sox lacked pitching depth, even with great hitters like Barrett, Buckner, Gedman, Boggs - it just wasn't enough. I was rooting for the Sox because I respected them (a mostly very different team) for how well they played against my Reds in 75, and how well they played against Gibson and the Cardinals in 67. But I should have been rooting for the National League... even if I hated the Mets. I never made that mistake again.

Buckner missing that foul popup was a dark omen.

Watching Bill Buckner run in this series has got to be one of the most awkward sites in the history of postseason sports. From the waist down he looked like a 92 year old man. I don’t think he should’ve been playing in this series. It was only a matter of time until that injury ended up causing some kind of mishap. Of course, probably contributed to the mishap of all baseball mishaps.

Meet the Mets

What was R McDowell's top fastball speed MPH?

Wade Boggs

This game did not change the series because the Red Sox plan was to win games 1, 2, 5, 6 and they almost did that. Game 6 New York got lucky rally in 10th and game 7 was also close for a while.