1980 was the best NLCS ever. Four of the five games went extra innings. This is really close, however, which is amazing considering the series didn't go the distance. I will say this - with Mike Scott looming in Game 7, this was the biggest "must win Game 6 (for a team up 3-2)" in MLB history.

@@ryanevans8566 Agreed ... poor Houston. They came up on the losing end of not only one ... but two epic playoff series.

1980 was, hands down

The 1986 ALCS was just as good, and the WS too. 1986 was the best overall postseason hands down.

1973 NLCS where the Mets had to take all their pitcures to squeeze out a seven-game series over the bad red machine

He grinned thinking about his next beer, golf outing and cheeseburger all at the same time….the fuckin cheating jake! Ask Nolan if u doubt me; worst work ethic of all time

A really good player for the Astros.

@@hectorlopez1069 Over 30 homers and 100 RBIs at a time when it meant something

MrAitraining, we at www.imasportsphile.com responsible for posting this video along with 2900 other vintage videos like it on our site....including this entire NLCS between the Mets vs Astros.....are in agreement with your assessment in this comment....as we believe that this NLCS features the two best pitching staff to ever grace an NLCS series....as the Mets staff of Gooden, Darling, Ojeda, Fernandez and Orosco were dang near as good as the Astros with Scott, Ryan, Knepper, Deshaises and Smith.

No question the Astros would've won Game 7. I'm thinking it would've been a 5-2, 5-1 game or something like that. Scott probably would've went at least 8 while it would've been all hands on deck for the Mets with the exception of Gooden who did start Game 1 of the WS.

Scott had them beaten mentally. If it went to Game 7, the Astros would have faced the Sox and probably would have won the title.

@@markuyehara7880 agree. Red sox weren't beating them. Mets had a better lineup than boston and better relievers and NY just squeaked by. Mike Scott, nolan ryan and the mets couldnt hit bob knepper either. The only way to beat houston that year was to keep it close enough to get to their bullpen. That's what the mets did.

@@rociosuastegui4725 "Near as good" lmao Mets won 108 games that year, 98 the year before that in 1985 and in 1984 they won 90 games. They would go on to win 92 games in a disappointing injury plagued 1987 season and won 100 games in 1988. Mets had the better staff/team, period.

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Me either but I still remembered that Keith Jackson said it was the "1976 NLCS" !!

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That started with the 2-0 pitch that was called a strike... it was a ball... the ump then gave Hernandez one later in the count... the ump then called Hernandez out on ball 4.. well 5 actually.. miss 80's baseball😀... that box they have today would have made the calling of that entire st bat laughable.

AND the ump found nothing wrong. Mets whined all series.

Clandestine Ops, thanks for your comment....albeit coming from a Mets fan....but my Bone Daddy, the original Sportsphile, whose 2300 hr. vintage sports, comedy and music video library we at ImaSportsphile are continuing to post every day....attended this entire series in 1986 as a huge Astros fan....who believed his Strohs could win it all....cuz they had a really good pitching staff....anyway, he left NYC with his tail between his legs after eating a ton of humble pie....cuz he was in the mens head in the 7th inning of game 5 singing loudly to all the Mets fan a Shea....."We're going to Kansas City....Kansas City here we come....they got pretty little girls there....and we Astro fans are gonna get us some"

Clandestine Ops was speaking of one game....and you're talking about a season....for when it came to the season....we at ImaSportsphile have to agree that leading the league in wins (23), innings (267), shutouts (8) and complete games (15)....while being third in ERA at 2.26....and finishing the season with a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings pitched....which broke the mark of 58 held by former Dodger Don Drysdale.... and being the unanimous selection for the National League Cy Young Award....plus winning the Gold Glove Award for the best fielding pitcher in the National League.....certainly substantiates your comment on Hershiser in 1988....but Scott's performance against the Mets was one for the ages and superceeded anything that Hershiser did in any one game.

Clandestine Ops, thanks for this comment....and coming from a Mets fan....for it is "spot on"....as this NLCS between the Astros and Mets featured the best 6 games of pitching the NLCS has maybe ever seen....we're talking Scott, Ryan, Knepper and Deshaises vs. Gooden, Darling, Fernandez and Ojeda....man it was a great NLCS!!!

Scott blatently cheated the entire season, and umps seemed to give him a pass.

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Yeah and Mike Scott was scuffing the ball too which makes him a cheater

@@bobbyc1701 and Gooden and Strawberry were amped up on Cocaine....evens out....lol

@cheeba_team does coke make you play better ? I'd think being stoned would mess you up on the field. Well LT was smoking crack & was the best defensive football player ever but didn't straw & docs careers get very detailed from greatness from the drug problems

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I KNEW that's what I heard. I remember watching this when I was 11 years old and thinking, WTF? I thought I was the only one who remembered Keith saying "1976."

Jackson also gets the origin of the Dome's name wrong. It was called the Astrodome because the team had changed to the Astros, not vice versa. The official name was the Harris County Domed Stadium.

Da Hudge He was 10 years off lol

Whole series is on DVD

@@brianstepnowski5775 Where?

I got at best buy it had astros series and World Series

@@brianstepnowski5775 Ty

Knowing the balls on that team, I bet they woulda walked of the field and refused to play if Scott wasn’t taken care of…he was clearly cheating (search it…so many teams blatantly called him out). There’s an ‘87 game against SF where u can see him panic and hide something in his jersey

@@Chize41 I've seen it & he admits it saying if I cheated it will be in my book asked when the books coming out he says " never!" I watched the Mets in the 30 for 30 show the same scuffed balls after the game in 30+ years later. Doc Gooden pitched against him in the nlcs in 86 & said the balls were scuffed he could feel it but he had no idea how he as a batter in the same game how the same balls were " life waffle balls " or exploding in 2 ways. He was a typical Medicore pitcher than he hooked up w/ legendary split seemer fast ball hitting coach who taught him how to hold the ball than he added illegal sandpaper & or other substances to the ball & he was able to throw it fast & had the perfect long fingers for it. That's why he was unhittable & unbeatable in 86 & into 87 & got caught & his decline came harder than b4 he cheated. Some power hitters on the Mets like straw felt it also started getting into their heads b/c they became so focused on the cheating as well they were swinging at crazy pitches way outside the strike zone.

@@Chize41 yea they are great

Scott pitched Game 7 and the Mets knew they a Were done for

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PS....can you imagine how good that staff would have been had J R Richards had 4 years to develop....shoot, Ryan might have been #3 starter.

Mike Scott was a cheater. He scuffed the ball and even admitted to doing that when he was pitching for the Astros!

@@bobbyc1701 It's funny that when Gary Carter asked Doug Harvey to check the ball in the first inning, he found nothing.

ogrebattle22763 Eric Gregg level bad

McCarver was a terrible commentator, but especially biased against the New York Mets. He obviously had a beef with them for some reason or another.

@@zeromancerx8561 and he was their broadcaster for years!!!!!!!

Man, that pitch was in the Astros dugout!!

@@MrJsfingers LMAO 🤣

Awful strike zone on Knight. That second strike has to be at least a foot outside.

I agree. It was not nearly as bad as Fred Brocklander's call at first base in Game 5.

@@michaelfell4167 pitch was in their dugout

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Hats off to Scott? He cheated. The umps new it, and let him slide. In doubt? Watch the 86 mets special on ESPN where they show footage of Scott's thrown balls. They were so obviously sandpapered.

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Even the great ones like Keith Jackson and Tim McCarver make mistakes too

BryanX 64 He was only 10 years off LOL

The Astros had everything going their way this series they should have won! Mike Scott was a Horse, BUT it wasn't meant to be BUT DAMN THE 1986 POSTSEASON WAS THE GREATEST! in BOTH leagues!!

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I absolutely loved the 1986 Astros . This team made me a baseball fan for life

I have been a fan for life too....and my Bone Daddy the original Sportsphile has been an Astros fan since the Colt 45 days....for he was at the 3 games that were played at Shea....as he was on the mezzanine level right behind the Mets dougout....wearing his DON{T METS WITH TEXAS tshirt harrassing the Mets so badly....that the NYC fans threatened to either piss on him or throw him off the mezzanine....and then he had to eat crow.

we at Ima Sportsphile think you are right on several points....they were a bunch of cokeheads and alcoholics....and they were mighty gritty....almost on the level of the 1969 Mets.....and Hernandez was the engine on that team....but in our opinion, Carter played more years, had more HRs and had more RBIs....while having a career batting average just .30 below Hernandez deserve at .262 to .292....so, if you don´t think Carter should be in the Hall....then Hernandez definitely should not.

Our Bone Daddy....the original Sportsphile....saw the entire series live at the Dome and Shea....and he tells a story of having a "beer relief" break in the men's room during the 7th inning of Game 5....with The Ryan Express on the for the Stros....and he was singing "Going to Kansas City" while relieving himself....cuz he thought he was off to the World Series.....so, we at ImaSportsphile web page agree...."The Astros should've won the world series in 1986".

nope.

That's a joke, right?

They def could have. If they won game 6, they would have won game 7 with mike scott going again. Mets could barely hit foul balls off the guy. Totally dominated them.

ain't it always so.....the 1st liar just hasn't got a chance!

Woulda.....Shoulda.....Coulda....and so too should have been the Astros.....but they weren't!!

The Angels matched up with the Mets even worse than the Sox did. Would have been over in five games.

Yup!! If you watch Scuffy McGee, he rubs the ball with both bare hands EVERY-TIME he gets a fresh baseball….hmmm!?!?!? He had sandpaper taped and/or glue to his left palm…watch the SF game from ‘87

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The video has a few things from at the beginning and end that is more recent, but everything else is from 70's and 80's

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no he never

That's not true

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