Game 6 Of '86

One was on two were out

Game 6 of '86 with a 3-2 count

Mookie Wilson hit a dribbler up the first base line

bottom of 10 and the game was tied

Little roller went through Billy Buckner's legs

the winning run scored from second

just minutes ago there was no one

Bob Stanley's wild pitch and it all went wrong

In Vallejo California public housing lawns

Bill and his brothers played wiffle ball

the boys and their sister and their mother Marie

lived with the temper of their fathers drink

Marie worked for the highway patrol

Leonard was their Little League Coach

when his habit drove him off the road

Marie was left to raise 4 alone

so Bill gave himself to school and baseball

big bushy eyebrows, 6 feet tall

drafted the Dodgers in '68

he was in the lineup by the new decade

aggressive and competitive

a self critical perfectionist

known not for his great success

only for that ball he missed

One was on two were out

Game 6 of '86 with a 3-2 count

Mookie Wilson hit a dribbler up the first base line

bottom of 10 and the game was tied

let a life defined by one mistake

be remembered as an unfair blame

they'd already thrown the win away

and there was still one more game to play