For what it's worth, this might as well have been Game 7 of the World Series for me.

Bob Nutting - "We will start spending more on a team when fans show up"... notice how insanely electric that crowd was whenever we had a team who even had a SLIVER of a chance to win it all.

Seems like a millions years ago. I’ll be a Pirates fan forever. Let’s hope they rebuild right this time and sign their top prospects.

I remember being at this game. It was the loudest baseball crowd I have ever heard and I won’t even forget how loud everyone got when he dropped that ball on the mound.

Oh have the times changed here. This game really brought the city together. I love this team no matter the heartbreak but we need baseball back in the Burgh

A Pirates Reds Wildcard game? A packed, raucous almost stupefied and spellbound PNC Park. Two dingers for Russell Martin. Shimmy Cueto dropping the ball while being serenaded. A slashing Tony Gwynn-esque oppo single in the shortstop hole by Jay Bruce. A homer from Marlon Byrd? (who was traded by the Mets on Marlon Byrd T-shirt night). Immortal Pirate First Baseman Justin Morneau celebrating the W. Just a simple Yankees fan, video came up in my feed a decade later, totally forgot this game existed . I watched it and smiled to myself that this game actually happened cause it seems to have been created in the laboratory of a mad scientist exclusively for the pleasure of diehard Pirates fans.

I’ve been to Steelers playoff games and Penguins Stanley cup finals games, but nothing has come close to the atmosphere of this Wildcard game. What a night.

As a die hard Yankees fan I was rooting for the Pirates to win that year. Such a fun exciting team and haven’t made the playoffs before then since 1992. True Cinderella story team!

I watched the highlights of this game on KZfaq. I remember it like yesterday. What a magical time to be alive!

I was at this game ! Best pirates game I’ve ever been to

This was the best day for Pittsburgh baseball in the last 30 years. I hope we get another day like this in the next 30.

2023 still watching, still get goosebumps Pittsburgh wants this feeling again, let's go Buccos

I know you're all here for 1:05

Holy shit these moments still give me chills. It feels so weird to see over 40k people at pnc. Ever since then, it’s been a constant downward spiral of ass😂one day we’ll get to see this again….I hope

This was pure magic. Magic was in the air in my entire town, im about an hour and a half north of the burgh. It was something fans of my age had no seen or experienced and it was electric. Feels like it was forever ago. This will always bring a tear to the eyes.

i prefer watching the steelers or the penguins over the pirates because im not the biggest fan of baseball, but man that was the best pirates game that i've ever seen in my life, it would be really awesome if the pirates were good again

classic case of getting under the pitchers skin. I miss 2013 baseball so much....

I’m only 17 and I’m a pirates fan. I will always remember that season because it’s the best I’ve seen the pirates😭. And their only good season since I’ve been alive(except for the few seasons after) hopefully I will get to see them eventually win the World Series. And hopefully they will get back to being how they were in the 70’s 😂

I’m still not over the loss to the Braves in 92.

Man I remember watching this series as a teenager mind you im a Yankees fan but man was it so nice to watch the Buccos and fans get hyped and passionate....cueto got trolled so much that night.

This game used to make me happy. Now it pisses me off. This was the single best game since 1979. And nothing else has come close. Cherington has a lot of work to do to even make the Pirates a Wild Card team again. I’m 41 now and I don’t know if the Pirates will ever be in the playoffs again.

Best memory of pirates in my life 4sure the place was beyond insane

As a Pirates fan this might as well be Game 7 for us, shame it couldn't last

I miss this. By far my favorite pirates game to ever watch and enjoy. Maybe, just maybe with new pitchers this year… the Bucs will actually have a chance for the postseason in 2024… I hope 🤞 🖤💛🖤💛

This was the most electric Pirates crowd in years. We will never get a crowd as good as this for a while, but it’s good to look back into the past.

i miss our old team back in 2015 when we could actually sweep teams

Look at the construction of that team. A mix of veterans and young guys, a star McCutchen and solid bullpen and starting rotation. We have the base there just need a real SP free agent and Skenes and we'll be close

I was there.. They opened the gates an hour early and the rotunda was full in 5 minutes.... The Reds knew they were toast..

Absolutely criminal that the next two years the Pirates had even better teams and both seasons came down to ONE game. They were the SECOND BEST team in baseball in 2015 and the Cubs just got to put out their ace and that was it. The MLB wild-card game is the most broken thing in any sport EVER.

I remember in 1992, being really upset. cause the pirates lost the series against the braves. it happened 2 days before my birthday in octobbr. I was 8 turning 9. to see this game, 21 years later...i was 29 turning 30 and the win happened 15 days before my birthday. my inner kid was happy

One day we will be back. Pirates fans deserve a winner. Hopefully before McCutchen retires but it seems unlikely. A man can dream

I'm a Reds fan. I wasn't happy that we lost. But if there's a team we're going to lose to, I'd rather it be the Pirates and not the fricking Cardinals or something. Lol. Baseball fans in Pittsburgh have suffered for a long time, including most of my family who are Pirate fans. Just like the Reds, your team is bogged and hindered by cheap and ineffective ownership. I have to admit it was good seeing you guys have that string of success. Plus Pirate fans are good people. I've always been treated with respect attending games at PNC Park.

I miss this 😢

i just wanna see this energy at pnc again

Great game

AS great as this game was for the Pirates it's a shame to see how it's still the team's best night since this point and it's the wild card

This is sad for me this this was the glory years for me

I don’t even know why I’m here. I’m a reds fan

It’s sick seeing the pirates in the playoffs. Idk the stadium is sick and it’s a shame it’s empty most of the time.

I miss the good pirates

THE TRUE PIRATES FANS

Shame they didn’t beat the cards cause that’s the best all around team I’d grown up seeing. That 3 year period was great, shame the teams too cheap to not bring players in.... 2035 next year for a decent team??

Look at that place go crazy!!! Don't u think if we put money into the team we would see these crowds sooner than later?

The things I would do man.

Now the place is like a ghost town, pirate fans are so fair weather fans, its one thing to not go cause of the owner, GM, mgr but go for the team.

😢😢😢

CUETO! CUETO! CUETO! 😆😆😆

I don’t get how this our ownership can put out a team like this when they see what happens when we play good I mean we show up

The CROWD looks like Dominicans

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You pirates fans still celebrate a wild card game 7 years later... kinda pathetic, go reds

I had forgotten who won this game. Once I saw Crusty Dusty was the Reds "manager" I knew Pittsburgh won...