Bill Buckner

Jimmy Lefevre at second.

Bill Buckner in right.

And Al Downing to do the pitching.

And as the Dodgers go on the field on the scoreboard, it shows Astros 18, Giants 4.

Steve Calden has 11.

So Downing trying to catch the big, lanky left-hander from St. Louis tonight.

Downing ready, and the pitch to Kessinger is lifted down the right field line, slicing on Buckner, but it's high enough, and Billy gets to it for the out, just in fair ground.

The one pitch and one away, and the batter will be Glenn Becker.

I wonder if Boa will hit or whether they'll go to the bench should Jody Davis get on.

I would like to see Richie Hebner or Bill Buckner coming up in this situation with the wind blowing a gale out to right field.

Let's see if Jim Fry is thinking along the same lines.

Three balls and a strike.

Watch it again.

Mel Hall with great speed gets a good jump off second, and you can credit that to the play at third.

Now Bill Buckner is going to come out

to bat for Gary Woods.

Jerry Flynn faces Saturn, who wins.

Scott Steiner and Buff Bagwell come out, and Scott cuts a promo saying no one looks like him, and then makes fun of Boston for Bill Buckner.

I already covered the whole Bill Buckner story.

I'm not going into it again.

He makes fun of Boston for not hiring Larry Bird as a coach, which is actually true because Larry Bird made a really decent head coach, even bringing the Indiana Pacers to the NBA finals where they went against the juggernaut Los Angeles Lakers, Shaq and Kobe.

Wade Boggs leading off at third and Marty Barrett at second base.

Bill Buckner will be at first and Jim Rice in the cleanup spot in left.

Dwight Evans in right field.

He'll be followed by Rich Gedman behind the plate.

Ron Darling, a 15-game winner during the year, is 1-1 in the World Series.

He was 1-0 in the playoffs, and as you might remember in the series, he has not allowed an earned run to Boston in 14 consecutive innings.

Wade Bond, Marty Barrett, and Bill Buckner, and here we go.

Ball one.

Please, at least he was a real person.

Try going through life thinking that the reason you're a loser is because of a billy goat.

The Billy Goat curse started in 1945, obviously, when they wouldn't let the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern bring his goat into the ballpark for the World Series game.

My uncle says, how come, you know, I got two tickets, one for me, one for the goat? And he says, we don't allow the animals in the ballpark.

To me, that's kind of a joke.

We're up two runs, two outs, two strikes.

How can they come back? How can they come back? But the Mets did come back with two outs to tie the game.

And that's when fate found Billy Buckner.

One strike to Andre Dawson.

Three rich that Bill Buckner has taken over the leadership, and Batting in the National League by two points over Gary Templeton.

And he was three for five

today.

One ball and two strikes on Dawson.

Andre starting the game with the fourth best average in the National League.

Bill Buckner has taken the lead in the batting championship race right now by two points.

Just got a piece of it.

One strike to Andre Dawson.

See Rich that Bill Buckner has taken over the leadership and Batting in the National League by two points over Gary Templeton.

And he was three for five today.

Was he? With a home run.

One ball and two strikes on Dawson.

Andre starting the game with the fourth best average in the National League.

Bill Buckner has taken the lead in the batting championship race right now by two points.

Just got a piece of it.

And you remember the 74 World Series, and Joe, you probably called a play.

Remember when Bill Buckner was thrown out on a great relay from Reggie Jackson to Green to Bando.

And it reminds you of the Bovaco play being cut down in San Diego.

Basic baseball, they had it.