MLB Network will air MLB’s 20 Greatest Games on Sunday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m. ET when Bill Buckner, Mookie Wilson and Bob Ojeda join series hosts Bob Costas and Tom Verducci to discuss Game Six of the 1986 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets, which is ranked third in the series. In an legendary game that could’ve won the Red Sox’s first World Series in 68 years and instead saw momentum change to favor the Mets, Buckner, Wilson and Ojeda discuss the performance of a 24-year old Roger Clemens, key lineup changes that could have been made, and the fateful ground ball hit by Wilson in the bottom of the 10th inning.
The final episodes of MLB’s 20 Greatest Games, which counts down the best games of the last 50 seasons, will air on May 8 and 22. A list of the rankings to-date is available here.
Below is one of Buckner’s views on decisions made in the game:
Buckner: In McNamara’s defense, I was the best first baseman, defensively, that he had. Dave Stapleton, bless his heart, he wasn’t a great player by any means. He had his own issues. If I thought that Dave Stapleton was gonna do a better job than I was, then I’d have told McNamara. I wanted to win, so did everybody else. … I’d been in positions where my ankles were in better shape, where I could cover more ground but I wasn’t having an issue at this point. I was the best player we had to be out there. Was I Keith Hernandez? No. But I was the best that we had.
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