National League Standings, June 10, 1986
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JUNE 10, 1986 GAME:
Jesse Wassner
January 4, 2003
This was an awsome game. Tim Tuefel just needed to hit a fly ball to win in the 11th and hits a Grand Slam! I remember the energy walking out of the stadium; we knew this was our year!
Joe Lanzisera
June 30, 2003
I was never a Tim Teufel fan...I'm still not sure he was that much of an upgrade over Kelvin Chapman. But Tim came through that night. I can remember McCarver's call "Fly ball...deep left field...its outta here...pinch-hit, grand-slam home run for Tim Teufel."
Hot Foot
March 17, 2022
I watched this game on channel 9 and my only memory of it is what happened the next morning because I made a mistake I was never to repeat again. I went to bed before the game was over.
I look back on that and think, "What a stupid kid." What can I say? I was tired. I don't know why, but for some reason I went to bed and didn't listen to the game on the radio, which is what I usually did when my mom made me go to bed. But as I remember it, on June 10, 1986, I voluntarily went to bed and fell right asleep. Thrilling memory, I know.
But the thing is, the next morning, the moment I saw my dad, he said something like, "The Mets won! You missed a grand slam!" and I asked, "Who hit it?" and he said, "Tim Teufel!" and honestly, I had to think for a moment- trying to remember who Tim Teufel was because I didn't remember him since he never played, but then I remembered he was number 11, and I shocked because I considered him one of the worst Mets (along Randy Neimann and Doug Sisk) so I was shocked and I said "TIM TEUFEL?!" and he was like, "Yeah. You missed a great game," really rubbing it in that his son was a little pansy and went to bed early when he didn't have to.
I love any memory of my dad, so thank you Tim Teufel.
I never posted that memory before because it's not really about the game, but since only two people have posted about it (and no one since 2003), I decided to finally share a memory that has been burned into my brain since the morning of June 11, 1986.
Oh, and I did finally see the grand slam: on the 1986 Mets highlight film: A Year to Remember. I got the VHS for Christmas that year and played it so much I wore it out, so I've actually seen Tim Teufel hitting that grand slam about 275 times.
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