Wally Backman has seen this before, too.
The Brooklyn Cyclones kept their season alive Wednesday night when they scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 12th, defeating the Jamestown Jammers 9-8.
The best-of-3 New York-Penn League semifinal series is tied 1-1 with the deciding game tonight in Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
According to MILB.com, Juan Centeno led off the bottom of the 12th with a double and was replaced by pinch runner ZeErika McQueen.
McQueen was bunted to third base before the wild pitch that allowed him to score.
Brooklyn led 6-3 after seven innings, but Jamestown took a 7-6 lead in the top of the eighth. The Cyclones scored in the eighth, the Jammers again took a one-run lead, and the Cyclones retied it in the bottom of the ninth.
Jamestown won Game 1, 7-6, scoring in the bottom of the eighth.
Backman, now the Cyclones manager, made the first out for the Mets in the 10th inning of Game 6 in the 1986 World Series, famously tied when Kevin Mitchell scored on a wild pitch before Mookie Wilson’s grounder led to Bill Buckner’s error and the winning run.
The Mets lost the first game of both playoff series that postseason.


