At precisely 3:36 p.m. local time, on Terry's second pitch, Mazeroski slammed a high fastball just to the left of the 406-foot marker in distant left-center field. "I thought it would go over (the wall). I was hoping it would," Mazeroski told reporters in the jubilant home team clubhouse afterward. "But I was too happy to think. All year we’ve been a fighting, come-from-behind ballclub. We always felt we could pull it out even after the Yankees tied it in the ninth, but I didn’t think I’d be the guy to do it.” The legendary blast gave the Pirates their first World Series championship in 35 years and set off a raucous celebration in the Steel City that lasted for days.