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1969 WS Gm3: Nolan Ryan picks up the save



10/14/69: In his only World Series appearance, Nolan Ryan throws the final 2 1/3 innings of Game 3 and picks up a save

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30 Comments

  3. Joseph

    Imagine if the Mets had kept Ryan. Seaver, Ryan, Koosman would have been the equivalent to Maddox, Glavine, and Smoltz of the Braves. Mets could have won several more WS titles had they kept Ryan.

  6. ulphil08

    The only other relief appearance by a Mets pitcher in the 1969 World Series was 3 innings in Game 1 and 1/3 inning in Game 2. Games 4 and 5 were complete games. Unheard of in today’s game.

  8. garrison 68

    Tommie Agee had literally a great game in this one. Perhaps the greatest game ever by an outfielder in a World Series.

  9. Steve Katz

    The only World Series I was ever at and I had Tickets for that Play off with Atlanta which lasted only 3 games and I was at game 4 which Tom Seaver won and Ron Swabota made that catch in right field, which to this day, I can't believe how he made that catch which must have been no more than 5 inches off the grass. The thing that really annoyed me after that season ended and WHY they traded Nolan Ryan who turned out to be one of the all time greats!

  12. haedyn cavanagh

    Imagine in a time before video having to step in the box and face this kid throwing 100 in a time where hardly anyone did? Nolan’s only ring. He earned it with this 7 out save, with some help from Agee.

  14. author

    Two icons: Iconic MLB Pitcher Nolan Ryan, who began his MLB career with the NY Mets, and iconic broadcaster in baseball & football, Lindsey Nelson, the original voice of the NY Mets on both radio & TV.

  18. Will Drucker

    @1:33…the Mets pitcher in the jacket congratulating Nolan after picking up the save…Ryan’s best friend on the team, and himself a Mets legend and HALL of FAMER…I think we all know who that is

  19. ij4040

    If you had told Nolan Ryan on this day in 1969 that he was going to be a first ballot hall of famer….IN THIRTY YEARS (1999), I think he'd probably say you're crazy.

  20. Apostle

    I forgot that Nolan Ryan was a relief pitcher in the beginning of his amazing career, he is a World Series winner (1969 NY Mets)

  21. shrapnel77

    It's interesting to see Ryan's windup and how it changed. He is more fluid here and his knee is farther from his body and not as elevated as his 70's, 80's windups were. He would crank his knee almost vertical, and pause for a split second at the top, before he unloaded with raw leg and arm power towards the plate. No offense to Sandy Koufax, but Ryan had the arm of God, because God's arm does not break down. Koufax did.

  22. Erik Edmonds

    How easy would it have been to stick him in the bullpen after that…..and we would have been ROBBED of all the legends… of all the records…and of all the memories….

  24. Billy DJ

    Interesting Fact: George Brett has never hit a Home Run off of Nolan Ryan his entire MLB Career. If he had Pitched for the 1972 to 1974 Oakland A's, 1975-1976 Cincinnati Reds, 1977-1978 New York Yankees, 1984 Detroit Tigers or 1992-1993 Toronto Blue Jays he likely would have won 2-3 more World Series Rings after this. For all that he has worked hard and done through his long MLB career this man should have had much better teams that provided him with at least a few World Series Rings. Other Starters like Jack Morris, Bert Blyleven and a bunch had the fortune of Pitching with stacked Offense and Defense Talent Teams that inflated their Postseason Career Records.

  27. Hm hm

    I know Nolan was not all that when he was with the Mets. He became a stud his first year with the Angels. But I can only imagine how the 1970's would have been for the Mets with Seaver/Koosman/Matlack/Ryan. Just imagine.

    But I do wonder if Nolan would have become the legend that he was with the Angels in the 1970's with the Mets or any other NL team, due to the pitch-hitting because of offense, along with him walking all those hitters per game

  29. Jordan McDaniel

    Yes Ryan’s fastball was incredible and it deserves a lot of praise. But his curveball was straight nasty and a seriously underrated part of his arsenal.

    That last pitch was FILTHY.

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