Grover
June 14, 2001
I was at this game when Anthony Young was trying to break his losing streak. He battled hard but a cheap hit in the ninth caused the Mets to fall behind setting up AY for another loss. But the Mets came back and won in the bottom of the ninth to win and end AY's much publicized streak. The crowd went wild for AY when he came out of the dugout and raised his hands in the air to the crowd. The fans appreciated his streak was mostly bad luck and was pumped for him that it was over.

Hot Foot
March 1, 2002
I was at the game, Field level first base line- when I saw AY warming up I knew this was going to be the game he broke the streak. When the Mets won that night and it was over, it felt like we had won the World Series...Definately the highlight of the 93 season.

Jesse
January 11, 2005
Another season where I was only able to catch a handful of games at Shea. My friends here in Florida were all trying to force the Marlins on me but I would have none of it. I went to a good number of Marlins games in South Fla this year, inclduing their first ever game (on my 11th birthday), but watching AY break the streak in person was great. I remember sitting third base side, field level with my dad and my uncle and when the Mets won the game, in pretty dramatic fashion, the place went nuts like they had just won the World Series. It was great. Those were dark years but the end of the AY streak is a memory I will always have.

Kevin
September 6, 2006
I still have the scorecard from this game stored safely away.

It was myself and my father, and there were 3 men behind us. When AY came into the game in the ninth inning, 2 of the men got up to leave, but the third convinced them to stay. 5 minutes later, AY blows the game yet again and all three men take off.

But even as an 11-year-old kid, I knew... it aint over 'til it's over. I wasn't leaving. My father and I stayed, and watched as (and my memory is fuzzy on this) McKnight led off with a single, Dave Gallagher pushed him to second with a sacrifice, Ryan Thompson tied the game with an RBI single, and after after Orsulak failed to deliver, Eddie Murray hit a SHOT down the right field line that scored Thompson from first.

They carried AY out on their shoulders that day, and I was doing cartwheels for hours.

steve corn
February 15, 2011
I got to this game around the 5th inning. AY looked like he would lose another heart-breaker, but the Mets rallied back in the 9th, and the place went nuts. Like the other posts said, it was like they won the World Series. It was a very exciting moment, one of my all-time favorite games to see in person.

Scoey
December 19, 2022
This was the night that Anthony Young's record losing streak of 27 games ended. He came in to pitch the top of the ninth inning and surrendered a run that put the Marlins ahead. With Young in danger of losing his 28th straight, Ryan Thompson singled to drive home Jeff McKnight and retie the game. Soon after, Eddie Murray hit a double into the right field corner that scored Thompson for a Mets victory and a long-awaited win for AY. Hot Foot mentioned above that this was the highlight of the Mets' dismal 1993 season. How true that is!

Twelve days later, Young made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. A video clip of Murray's game-winning hit was shown during Anthony's interview with Jay.

Dave VW
January 24, 2023
The feel good moment of the 1993 season for sure. Young's first win since April 19, 1992, and, as luck would have it, his last as a member of the Mets, as he was traded to the Cubs over the offseason. You really have to examine the top of the 9th inning in this game to get a sense for just how incredibly unlucky AY was. Benito Santiago led off with a single, the only ball hit out of the infield the whole inning. Trying to lay down a sac bunt, Darrell Whitmore instead reached first as Hundley bobbled the ball attempting to pick it up. Walt Weiss also tried to sac bunt next, and AY sprang on it and was going to throw to third, but Bonilla had left the base when he charged the bunt, and AY thankfully held on to the ball instead of throwing it away. So bases loaded, nobody out. AY gets pinch hitter Rich Renteria (not future Marlin Edgar Renteria, but Rich Renteria) to ground into a huge 5-2-3 double play, and now just needs to get former Met Chuck Carr out to wiggle his way out of the inning. But on the first pitch, Carr lays down a gorgeous drag bunt to score Whitmore from third, giving Florida a 4-3 lead. AY strikes out Bret Barberie -- who homered earlier in the game -- to retire the side.

Bryan Harvey, one of the best relievers of 1993, entered the game for the Fish looking to close it out. But the Mets had hung a blown save on him a month earlier, so they had some history of success against the closer. And as described by previous commenters, McKnight leads off with a pinch-hit single, comes home on a bloop single by Thompson, and then Thompson scores the winning run on Murray's walk-off double. Murray went 4-for-5 in the game and thankfully made up for getting picked off first to end a rally in the 7th inning.

The Mets really needed this feel-good story as the dark clouds of the Coleman firecracker incident and the Saberhagen bleach incident were very heavy at this time. The Sportschannel broadcast booth had assistant GM Gerry Hunsicker on air and he made it sound like the Mets were really going to start cracking down on the pranks and the players who had adversarial relationships with the media. But that message felt hollow considering Saberhagen, who had just squirted bleach on reporters the previous night, was still allowed to start this game. However, he only started one more time in 1993 before he either got suspended or injured again.

Speaking of the broadcast booth, Ralph Kiner made a serious blunder when he confused AY sitting on the bench for Coleman (who wasn't even with the team at the time and was being investigated for criminal charges) during the 9th inning comeback. But thankfully the audio feed wasn't working properly so perhaps many folks watching at home didn't hear it. Luckily, it was fixed in time for Kiner to jubilantly call the final play of the game. And I did get a chuckle in the top of the 7th when Greg Briley was taking forever to get to the plate as a pinch hitter for the Marlins. Kiner took serious umbrage with Briley's slow pace, prompting Rusty Staub to ask, "Doesn't he get a chance to warm up?" To which Kiner replied, "No, I'm not waiting around for a .231 hitter."

The Mets hit 2 home runs in the game (Orsulak off Whitmore's glove and Thompson's first of the season), which ran their streak to 10 straight games with a dinger. That actually tied the franchise record at the time, previously set in 1970 and again in 1975. The Mets ran the streak to 12, which held as the record until 1996 when they compiled a 21-game streak. That still stands as the team record.

As Scoey mentioned, AY appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on August 9 and endeared himself nicely to the national TV audience. I'm glad he got his 15 minutes of fame, even if it took 27 straight losses to achieve it. Very sad Young died from a brain tumor in 2017 though. We'll always remember the good times, AY!