[2Trievers]

If wishes were fishes ... or grounders snatched up and thrown to home plate ... or whatever, Babe! &;-)

[BluesDuke]

Snatched up and thrown home? If you're referring to the Buckner/Wilson play, there wouldn't have been a throw home. Ray Knight was running from second base when Wilson whacked the grounder; kept in the infield (Buckner, remember, was in position to keep the ball in front of him, had it not skipped below his glove, and Wilson had covering pitcher Bob Stanley beaten to first base by a foot), Knight wouldn't have been able to score. It was only because the ball got past Buckner that Knight could score the run, since right fielder Dwight Evans was back too far to be able to try a peg home if he'd gotten to the ball. The best case scenario, I repeat, would have been Knight on third, Wilson on first, and Howard Johnson coming up to hit.

[BluesDuke]

P.S. I admit, I'm cheating: I'm watching the game now on videotape (I have Games Six and Seven on tape)...and I just saw the play on tape...