I’ll never forget as a 20 year old coming home from celebrating the fourth and turning on the TV to see how my beloved Mets did and being shocked that the game was still on in the 9th as I had not hear about the rain delays. I proceeded to watch the rest of that marathon and waking up the household screaming after Camp’s at bat.

RIP Rusty Staub (1944-2018) RIP Gary Carter (1954-2012) RIP Claudell Washington (1954-2020) RIP Bruce Sutter (1953-2022) RIP Rick Mahler (1953-2005) RIP Rick Camp (1953-2013) These men that played in this game may be gone, but the legacy of this Fourth of July Classic will forever live on.

I remember hearing and reading about the game back in the day (summer between freshman and sophomore year of uni as pre-med). I found it amusing that they decided to go ahead with the fireworks in early hours of the morning on July 5. Too bad with the ghost runner rule we’re never going to see epics like this again.

The game I only heard about a Couple years ago was... in 1984 with the Braves vs Padres is one of the WILDEST I ever saw. Two brawls in the same game? Yes! There was 13 players taken out of the game, 9 fans arrested and JOe Torre was Braves manager at the time. RIP Tony Gwynn and Alan Wiggins who were part of that game.

My biggest takeaway is that a t-shirt of review brah with fireworks in the background should exist

Watched it live. I'll never forget it.

The major reason Dale Murphy isn't in the HOF is you have to take his whole career into consideration yeah he great numbers in Atlanta but when he went to Colorado his numbers weren't so great and Colorado is a hitters park which Murphy was great at .

I flew in from Parachute Rigger School that day and found all my high school friends to hang out with. When we saw they had a rain delay we knew we could make it down there and score some tickets. We hung out on the 3rd Base line with my buddy who was the bat boy. As it got to be around 0200-0230 I found myself falling asleep and I was standing up! We left and the next day everyone was talking about the fireworks going off and waking to whole town up. Cool memories

I remember watching the fireworks going to a party and getting home about 3am and finding this game was still on

The narrator said Dwight Gooden's 1.53 ERA was the lowest since 1917. His memory bank must've closed, as Bob Gibson posted a 1.12 ERA in 1968.

What a game. Those really long crazy extra inning games are not as possible today because of today's extra innings ghost runner at 2nd base. I remember some of these highlights from my childhood.

Gary Carter played the entire game. RIP.

Before Bartolo Colon there was Rick Camp......

I remember watching that game on TV, going to bed, waking up and still seeing it.😊

The game which got John Sterling the Yankees' play-by-play role a few years later

Dale Murphy, the only MLB player from the late 60's to the present you can say for sure never used ped's.

I watched this game live.

You're criteria for a crazy games seem like scoring and late late late finishes. Well two other games come to mind involving the Phillies. First one: 17 May, 1979 - the game known as "The Shoot-out at Chicago Game." Final score: 23-22 Phillies win in 10 innings. Second one: 2-July, 1993 - Second game of a double header Phillies won 6-5 in 10 innings. Game winning RBI by Phillies closer Mitch Williams. Trevor Hoffman took the loss. If you think that was bizarre, wait there's more: The game was scheduled as 2 July. The time of the start of the game was 1:28 AM July 3rd. (Yes, you read that right.) It was the 2nd game of a double header and game one had a couple rain delays. BUT the Phillies determined to get both games in decided to start game 2 at 1:28 in the morning. The game ended about 4:30 in the morning. For extra rain related irony, game one was a make up game which was - you guessed it - a rain-out from 21 April. Baseball is a very interesting game. Isn't it?

Dale Murphy not being in the HOF is a travesty .

Rick MAYler, even though it was spelled Mahler.

this is just insane

The narrator sounds like Zack Hample.

I was not at both games...

ok yeah this is wilder than 2 home runs from Steve Jeltz

8:14 Daryl Strawberry actually still needed his milk and bedtime story but pretty close to his bedtime.

:38 backwards US map??

Great video I’m glad I found this channel

I watched all night I was Mets fan

Back when baseball was great, the ghost runner and the DH have taken the soul of the game.

You know once upon a time pitchers could hit. Roger Craig, Manager of the Giants would often use Starting Pitcher Don Robinson to pinch hit if he was not pitching.

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Trash language towards the end is unnecessary.

I like your content. I really do. But if the game had refused to end, it would still be going on today.......please learn to word that differently next time

Gene Garner or Gene Garber?

Terry Dedmon or Jeff Dedmon?