“One swing can win it for New York,” said Gary Cohen.
And then it did. Carlos Beltran destroyed a baseball that had been thrown by Jason Isringhausen to give the Mets a dramatic walk-off win over the Cardinals on August 22, 2006. That the Mets already had a healthy double-digit lead in the National League East didn’t matter. This was one of those “I remember where I was when” games, the type that are relatively rare over the course of a 162-game season. The proof was right there in the rest of Gary Cohen’s empassioned call when he dropped the double “outta here!