Watched this entire game when I was 18 years old. Great game. I watched it on WOR-TV Channel 9. I couldn't believe Rick Camp's homerun. It stunned me. It stuns me today. Probably the greatest regular season game I have ever watched. And I am 57 years old. I have watched a lot of baseball.
Maybe the wildest game ever played. Didn't end till 3:55 AM on July 5. The 19 innings and score was wild enough but there were also 3 separate rain delays that made the game seem like it went on forever.
Missed a ton of games in the '80s, serving aboard a submarine, and this was one of them. I can't thank you enough for posting this. Lifelong Mets fan, but somewhere around the 14th I started pulling for either team...doesn't matter who it is, you gotta admire a never-say-die attitude.
I remember this game. That summer I had graduated high school and would be off to college in the fall. My folks were out that night I had gone to McD’s for food then watched the game I stayed up late then went to bed I listened to some of the game in the radio then to bed. When I woke up I learned the final score later that morning. What a crazy game
If the game lasted 2 more hours WSB 750 would have disappeared from the radio except in most of Georgia, parts of Tennessee, parts of South Carolina and parts of Alabama.
that summer i was getting ready for my senior year of high school. i watched the game from start to finish. 1985 mets were one of the best teams ever not to win their division. they had 99 wins. plus being hammered with injuries the whole season. that is when only two teams from each league, made the playoffs.
I was there for the whole thing. Up a bit, behind 3rd base. Five A.M. fireworks or whenever it was. Then had to drive back to Alabama. It would be nice for an upload of the original TBS broadcast without all the ESPN graphics. Also, Steve Shields 43, was my PE teacher in high school.
I know he wasn't on the team at the time until the next year (as GM), but all that was missing was Bobby Cox getting thrown out. Can't have a Braves game this crazy without him getting thrown out.
25:15 That kis is 40 now and his dad is 63. I was 10 the day this game was played and would have fallen asleep listening to TBS or WSB. DAMN I WANT A TIME MACHINE
Brandon Gaudin has has really grown on me. I was skeptical at first, and took a minute to get used to hearing the voice of madden call my Braves games. Now I love his calls. I find myself shouting FROZEN PIZZA quite a bit 😂
And the crazy thing about that was that was the second 2-out, 2-strike game-tying HR he allowed in extra innings. He also gave up Terry Harper's game-tying HR that hit the middle of the foul screen in the 13th that tied it at 10. And yet, despite giving up TWO 2-out, 2-strike game-tying HRs in extra innings, Gorman was still the winning pitcher.
Gorman was gassed, he threw 6 innings of relief, his fastball was nothing by then, and Camp got lucky hitting it out. Camp only got 3 hits that year, his last in the majors.
Love hearing Skip and Pete again. I much prefer reruns of teams and players who played for the love glory, than the propaganda they pass off as baseball today.
When we got Bruce Sutter, the town went wild, the team was practically printing World Series tickets already. But the Cards must've known Sutter was starting to lose it. He blew this game, and quite a few more for the Braves, sadly. I think the team is STILL paying him, like Bobby Bonilla & the Mets
Nope...Sutter's contract was fulfilled sometime in the late '90s or early 2000's. Bruce was "damaged goods" when he got to the Braves due to wear and tear on his arm from the infamous "splitter" he threw. Met him in a cigar store I frequented in Marietta sometime around 1996. Turns out he was a regular customer at that tobacconist too. The store manager introduced us and he was both shy and polite. I didn't bother him with questions or reminiscences and I think he appreciated that. The big difference between the two of us...I purchased a few $5 smokes while Bruce purchased a couple of $300 boxes of Arturo Fuentes.
I remember watching this game and being unable to stay awake for all of it. I thought the Mets were about to close it out and with two outs and an 0-2 count to Rick Camp in the 18th inning the unthinkable happened. Ralph Kiner (Mets announcer) said “My eyes don’t believe what they are seeing.” I missed everything after that and woke up to fireworks on the screen not knowing who won or how the runs were scored. Long Island sports fans are familiar with marathon games. Less than two years later in the NHL we had the Easter Epic (Islanders vs. Capitals in game 7 of the 1987 Patrick Division semifinals. The New York team won that game as well.
One of the longest games in baseball history where the Mets beat the Braves by the score of 16-13 in 19 innings which had set an all-time record for the most innings. It ended with a fireworks show at 3:34:31 which was begun before 4 AM, just an hour before sunrise. Apologies for the tape damage during the fireworks. The time of the game was a staggering 6 hours.
It's even crazy that after the Mets went ahead by five runs in the top of the nineteenth inning the Braves still scored two runs in the bottom of the nineteenth and Camp came up to bat for the second time as the tying run.
I see Johnny Sain in the Braves dugout laughing after the Rick Camp home run. Sain had been with the Braves when they were in Boston and was one of their aces when they won the NL pennant in 1948, so I guess he'd seen just about everything in baseball by this time, and even he's gassed about the turn of events.
Rick Mahler is loved by all Atlanta natives who are 35 and older. Dale Murphy the same. The Braves were all guys you would have over for dinner back then and to me as a kid all seemed like family and the perfect for for each other. I loved them all even when they won 50 games. Murphy should be in the HOF but for 3 homeruns yet I have to look at Barry Bonds name on the all time list When everyone knows he hit a "second prime" at 40 years old which was after his decline in his mid thirties (and put on 20 or 30 lbs of muscle). Kick his ass out of baseball.
That was a terrible call, that ball was low and outside & Tata didn't shy away at all, he actually followed Strawberry who was walking away when he threw him out. Now Darryl may have said a magic word but Tata seemed to instigate that there and at 3 am tempers were already short.
You can hear the fireworks 🎆 🎇 begin while the commentator is going over the highlights haha. That's crazy. 4:15 in the morning! Must have been a lot of people who went to that game who called in "dead" to work a few hours later.
- Braves were forced to send Rick Camp up to bat in the 18th because they'd used all of their position players by that point in the game. The next inning Camp was on the mound and the Mets tacked on 5 runs and finally won this game in the 19th.
Braves' coaches (19th inning): "Aww screw it.. Keep Camp out there until he gets us 3 outs (both on the mound and at the plate) ... The team can watch fireworks and sleep in the box seats when the crowd goes home... We'll shower after we wake up."
They had no choice but let Camp hit as they were out of position players at that point in the game. I remember thinking the game would soon be over when he surprised the world with the homer. I woke up everyone in the house hollering.
The Braves were having trouble putting butts in the seats and there was no way they were gonna call that game and lose the revenue by issuing rain-checks for their biggest crowd of the season.
Rick Camp's life didn't go well after this year.... He wasn't resigned for 1986, then ended up going to prison for embezzling money from a mental health facility in Augusta and then died at the age of 59
And they stil had the fireworks. Thats when we were still America.. unlike today where they would have cancelled it because someones would have been offended.
Watched this entire game when I was 18 years old. Great game. I watched it on WOR-TV Channel 9. I couldn't believe Rick Camp's homerun. It stunned me. It stuns me today. Probably the greatest regular season game I have ever watched. And I am 57 years old. I have watched a lot of baseball.
That musta been crazy to see it live
Gary Carter caught all 19 inning, stud
I fell asleep during that game around about 1030. Caught the replay on Sportscenter. Thanks to Rob we will never have another game like this.
I watched the entire game from start to finish on TBS, good thing I had off work the next day, lol.
Maybe the wildest game ever played. Didn't end till 3:55 AM on July 5. The 19 innings and score was wild enough but there were also 3 separate rain delays that made the game seem like it went on forever.
And still did fireworks!!! Haha
@@gturcott1 Yep by the time the fireworks finally got set off it was like 4:15 AM 😂
Love it good old summertime baseball. 😕😀🤠🐻
@@rustykuntz94 And then police dispatchers got panicked calls from folks who thought the Russians were bombing the city ... 🤣🤣🤣
John Sterling is retired. The Rick Camp home run is my favorite call of his.
Missed a ton of games in the '80s, serving aboard a submarine, and this was one of them. I can't thank you enough for posting this. Lifelong Mets fan, but somewhere around the 14th I started pulling for either team...doesn't matter who it is, you gotta admire a never-say-die attitude.
One of the great things about uploads of entire broadcasts is the commercials.
Wow, the Rick Camp game! Thanks for re-uploading this game. A true classic!
It's 4 AM. I've got a great idea. Let's just shoot the Fireworks display. I"m sure the neighbors will love it!
Thank you takes me back when my father was alive and he would be in his work building and the Braves would be on.
The greatest regular season, middle of the season game ever.
I remember this game. That summer I had graduated high school and would be off to college in the fall. My folks were out that night I had gone to McD’s for food then watched the game
I stayed up late then went to bed I listened to some of the game in the radio then to bed.
When I woke up I learned the final score later that morning. What a crazy game
When this game happened I was living 20 miles west of New York which is Mets territory but at night I could pick up 750 WSB from Atlanta.
If the game lasted 2 more hours WSB 750 would have disappeared from the radio except in most of Georgia, parts of Tennessee, parts of South Carolina and parts of Alabama.
@@Cantpasslevelcandycrush - Yes the Clear Channel stations have to power down at dawn then the low power stations come on the air for the day
I could pick it up in Virginia back in the day @@Cantpasslevelcandycrush
that summer i was getting ready for my senior year of high school. i watched the game from start to finish. 1985 mets were one of the best teams ever not to win their division. they had 99 wins. plus being hammered with injuries the whole season. that is when only two teams from each league, made the playoffs.
Game of the 80’s
Of course, we'll never get this kind of game again as long as Manfraud is in charge with his "extra gimmicks" after 9 innings.
Agree. These gimmicks seem designed to destroy the game of baseball.
I was there for the whole thing. Up a bit, behind 3rd base. Five A.M. fireworks or whenever it was. Then had to drive back to Alabama. It would be nice for an upload of the original TBS broadcast without all the ESPN graphics. Also, Steve Shields 43, was my PE teacher in high school.
I was living in long beach ca at the time and this game was a trip. Here is the funny part...my now wife, went to this game when she was a kid.
Please post positive proof pronto before that jerk troll calls BS
I wonder what the overnight cable ratings were for this game
R.I.P. Claudell Washington
I know he wasn't on the team at the time until the next year (as GM), but all that was missing was Bobby Cox getting thrown out. Can't have a Braves game this crazy without him getting thrown out.
I heard stories about fireworks going off at 4am in the Atlanta neighborhoods when people were sleeping.
Thanks for posting this. I had seen glimpses of it but never been able to watch it 'till now.
25:15 That kis is 40 now and his dad is 63. I was 10 the day this game was played and would have fallen asleep listening to TBS or WSB. DAMN I WANT A TIME MACHINE
Oh how I miss these Braves announcers, compared to what we have today....”right there”...”right here”.
Joe Simpson is among the best in my opinion.
Franceur is awful. Cannot believe they have him doing national games. He seems like the biggest dummy.
Brandon Gaudin has has really grown on me. I was skeptical at first, and took a minute to get used to hearing the voice of madden call my Braves games. Now I love his calls. I find myself shouting FROZEN PIZZA quite a bit 😂
A young John Sterling with the classic call on the Camp HR. Gorman sure laid a meatball up there for him on a 0-2 pitch.
And the crazy thing about that was that was the second 2-out, 2-strike game-tying HR he allowed in extra innings. He also gave up Terry Harper's game-tying HR that hit the middle of the foul screen in the 13th that tied it at 10. And yet, despite giving up TWO 2-out, 2-strike game-tying HRs in extra innings, Gorman was still the winning pitcher.
Gorman was gassed, he threw 6 innings of relief, his fastball was nothing by then, and Camp got lucky hitting it out. Camp only got 3 hits that year, his last in the majors.
@@cub19 McDowell pitched 5 innings and Gorman 6 in relief for the Mets. Terry Forster went 5 in relief for Atlanta all in extra innings
Love hearing Skip and Pete again. I much prefer reruns of teams and players who played for the love glory, than the propaganda they pass off as baseball today.
When we got Bruce Sutter, the town went wild, the team was practically printing World Series tickets already. But the Cards must've known Sutter was starting to lose it. He blew this game, and quite a few more for the Braves, sadly. I think the team is STILL paying him, like Bobby Bonilla & the Mets
Damn, I didn't even remember that Bruce Sutter ever pitched for the Braves.
Nope...Sutter's contract was fulfilled sometime in the late '90s or early 2000's. Bruce was "damaged goods" when he got to the Braves due to wear and tear on his arm from the infamous "splitter" he threw. Met him in a cigar store I frequented in Marietta sometime around 1996. Turns out he was a regular customer at that tobacconist too. The store manager introduced us and he was both shy and polite. I didn't bother him with questions or reminiscences and I think he appreciated that. The big difference between the two of us...I purchased a few $5 smokes while Bruce purchased a couple of $300 boxes of Arturo Fuentes.
2:53:42 - Rick Camp's homer (in case you're searching for it).
I remember watching this game and being unable to stay awake for all of it. I thought the Mets were about to close it out and with two outs and an 0-2 count to Rick Camp in the 18th inning the unthinkable happened. Ralph Kiner (Mets announcer) said “My eyes don’t believe what they are seeing.” I missed everything after that and woke up to fireworks on the screen not knowing who won or how the runs were scored. Long Island sports fans are familiar with marathon games. Less than two years later in the NHL we had the Easter Epic (Islanders vs. Capitals in game 7 of the 1987 Patrick Division semifinals. The New York team won that game as well.
Just one of the most bizarre sporting events ever.
Craziest game I've ever seen.
I can't believe the number of fans that were still in attendance at 3:30am.
Braves fans baby!
One of the longest games in baseball history where the Mets beat the Braves by the score of 16-13 in 19 innings which had set an all-time record for the most innings. It ended with a fireworks show at 3:34:31 which was begun before 4 AM, just an hour before sunrise. Apologies for the tape damage during the fireworks. The time of the game was a staggering 6 hours.
WTF ? There were many games before and since which went 20 or more innings
2:53:11 John Sterling is the man.
LOL
Even as a kid I knew when Jeff Dedmon came in we had few options. I always feared him coming in.
35 years ago as I write this on July 4, 2020.
Love these Mets videos
It's even crazy that after the Mets went ahead by five runs in the top of the nineteenth inning the Braves still scored two runs in the bottom of the nineteenth and Camp came up to bat for the second time as the tying run.
It is high...it is deep....it...is...GONE!!! Let's camp out with Rick....
So did MLB certify this as the nuttiest game in the history of baseball?
I see Johnny Sain in the Braves dugout laughing after the Rick Camp home run. Sain had been with the Braves when they were in Boston and was one of their aces when they won the NL pennant in 1948, so I guess he'd seen just about everything in baseball by this time, and even he's gassed about the turn of events.
"Spahn & Sain and pray for rain!"
"Spahn & Sain and pray for rain!"
Rick Mahler is loved by all Atlanta natives who are 35 and older. Dale Murphy the same. The Braves were all guys you would have over for dinner back then and to me as a kid all seemed like family and the perfect for for each other. I loved them all even when they won 50 games. Murphy should be in the HOF but for 3 homeruns yet I have to look at Barry Bonds name on the all time list When everyone knows he hit a "second prime" at 40 years old which was after his decline in his mid thirties (and put on 20 or 30 lbs of muscle). Kick his ass out of baseball.
John Sterling Calling This 4th Of July Game Back In The Year Of 1985
Greatest baseball game ever played
Rick Camp hit .074 in his career with one HR. At least his only HR was a memorable one.
2:29:32 - I didn't know umpires were allowed to turn their caps during arguments.
Strawberry must have called him a c*cksucker
You know your just skipping forward to gary carter waving the infield in lol.....
35 Years Ago When The Braves Vs. Mets Played 19 Innings On July, 4, 1985 It Will Be Turned 35 Years On Today, July, 4, 2020
2:29:05 Terry Tata gets just a bit upset with Strawberry and Johnson...
Tata reportedly said to Davey and Darryl that it's 3am, everything is a strike. Lmfao 🤣
That was a terrible call, that ball was low and outside & Tata didn't shy away at all, he actually followed Strawberry who was walking away when he threw him out. Now Darryl may have said a magic word but Tata seemed to instigate that there and at 3 am tempers were already short.
@@ATCguy1973 “There are no bad calls at 3 a.m.” 😂😂😂
"America's Team ! .... Keeping you awake all night!"
3:34:47 it was around 4am in atlanta when they started those fireworks lol
many people called the cops thinking the city was under attack
R.I.P. Pete Van Wieren
The Late Pete Van Wieren Was The Play-By- Play Voice Of The Atlanta Braves (1976-2008)
Skip and Ernie are missed too. Voices of Georgia summertime
Don Sutton gone too. The Grim Reaper is undefeated.
You can hear the fireworks 🎆 🎇 begin while the commentator is going over the highlights haha. That's crazy. 4:15 in the morning! Must have been a lot of people who went to that game who called in "dead" to work a few hours later.
- Braves were forced to send Rick Camp up to bat in the 18th because they'd used all of their position players by that point in the game. The next inning Camp was on the mound and the Mets tacked on 5 runs and finally won this game in the 19th.
Braves' coaches (19th inning): "Aww screw it.. Keep Camp out there until he gets us 3 outs (both on the mound and at the plate) ... The team can watch fireworks and sleep in the box seats when the crowd goes home... We'll shower after we wake up."
They had no choice but let Camp hit as they were out of position players at that point in the game. I remember thinking the game would soon be over when he surprised the world with the homer. I woke up everyone in the house hollering.
@@gregtheredneck1715 Haha I've done that before as a teenager watching a late night Cardinals' game.
One of the Braves player wives attacked her husband when he got home cause she didn’t believe that he was at the game that long 😂😂😂
thats funny!! no internet or cell phones. that wouldve helped if we had those in 1985
sheee it ...i got mets braves on one window and notre dame vs usc 93 in the other .....sheeeit ....
They got terry Harper at 6'4" 195...he's 6'4" but he's bigger than 195
It's a shame you can't get the full game.
Dale Murphy was getting waterlogged in CF ... ball must have weighed 3 pounds.
The New York Mets Baseball Team Won Their Baseball Game Over The Atlanta Braves By The Score Of 16-13
Some of the parts I like to watch:
0:22 - 18:26
1:09:14 - 1:12:53
1:17:22 - 1:26:42
1:28:13 - 1:36:38
1:38:09 - 1:49:23
2:14:05 - 2:23:18
2:24:49 - 2:33:50
2:41:49 - 2:47:32
2:49:04 - 2:57:18
2:58:49 - 3:10:43
3:12:15 - 3:27:58
@ 2:53:45 the rick camp hr
This game really should have been called and rescheduled due to the horrible field conditions. I'm surprised none of the players got hurt.
The Braves were having trouble putting butts in the seats and there was no way they were gonna call that game and lose the revenue by issuing rain-checks for their biggest crowd of the season.
Took one hour to see Murphy bat his second time
2:52:42 A lifetime .074 hitter steps up to the plate.
And an 0-2 count, at 4 am in the bottom of the 18th. You can't make this stuff up. It's beyond impossible.
Rick Camp's life didn't go well after this year.... He wasn't resigned for 1986, then ended up going to prison for embezzling money from a mental health facility in Augusta and then died at the age of 59
2:53:44 Here's that 0-2 pitch you've been looking for...
Think you could upload the ryne sandberg game?
th-cam.com/video/dDNTCU7gMZE/w-d-xo.html
@churchfellow1 No not the full game obviously, just the highlighted parts of the game.
Facebook brought me here
And they stil had the fireworks. Thats when we were still America.. unlike today where they would have cancelled it because someones would have been offended.
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34:34 Mahler would have played that behind his back with his eyes closed. Chuck Tanmer was silly for pulling him out
Tanner wasn’t the Braves manager on 1985. Eddie Haas was manager and was fired and Bobby Wine finished the season. Haas was manager for this game.
Keith. I'm the chucker.
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Chief Knockahoma!
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Certified
2:23:20.
A commercial for CNN and their business news. CNN isn't liberally biased, they're just the other side of the same coin.
It's the "fat tub of goo"!
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