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The 1986 World Series, the 83rd playing of the modern championship series in Major League Baseball, was a memorable battle between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox which helped to spread the legend of "The Curse of the Bambino" to mass public awareness.
Umpires: John Kibler (NL), Jim Evans (AL), Harry Wendelstedt (NL), Joe Brinkman (AL), Ed Montague (NL), Dale Ford (AL)
Getting there
The Mets had been in a swirl of controversy during the entire season thanks in part to their edgy and rowdy players, but the team went 108-54 during the regular season, easily the best record in baseball, and won the NL Championship Series, 4 games to 2, over the Houston Astros.
The Red Sox, on the other hand, went 95-66 during the season, and played a back-and-forth series against the California Angels in the 1986 American League Championship Series. All but eliminated, the Red Sox stormed back to win the series (breaking the hearts of Angels fans as a result) and advance to the World Series.
The Red Sox won the first two games of the Series in New York, but the Mets won the next two in Boston. Game 5 went to the Red Sox, leaving them just one game away from their first title since 1918.
- Game 6 (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_86ws_gm6_bosnym)
In Game 6, at Shea Stadium in Flushing Meadows, Boston took a quick 2-0 lead on RBI base hits from Dwight Evans and Marty Barrett. The Mets tied the score in the fifth inning on a single from Ray Knight and a run-scoring double play by Danny Heep. An error by Knight led to Barrett scoring in the 7th to give Boston a 3-2 lead, but again the Mets rallied, tying the game on a Gary Carter sacrifice fly. The 3-3 tie forced extra innings.
In the top of the 10th inning, David Henderson homered to pull the Sox within 3 outs of a world championship, and Barrett singled in Wade Boggs to make it a 5-3 lead. When Wally Backman and Keith Hernandez were retired in the bottom of the 10th, the championship seemed at hand.
Then, Carter singled to left. Pinch hitter Kevin Mitchell singled to center. Knight hit a single that scored Carter and advanced Mitchell to third base, making the score 5-4. The Red Sox replaced pitcher Calvin Schiraldi with Bob Stanley to face left fielder Mookie Wilson. Stanley quickly got two strikes on Wilson. Then, with Boston one strike away from a championship, Stanley threw a wild pitch, and Mitchell scored to tie the game, while Knight advanced to second base. The Red Sox were shocked to have blown the lead with the game all but over, much as they had done to the Angels in the ALCS almost two weeks prior. Wilson fouled off a few pitches, then he hit a roller up the first base line and through the legs of first baseman Bill Buckner. Knight, running on contact, scored the winning run from second, and the Mets stormed the field, as a dejected Buckner walked off the field.
Game 7 was delayed a day due to rain, but on Monday, October 27, the Mets came from behind again to win the game 8-5, and claim their second World Series title.
Line score
123 456 789 10 R H E
Red Sox 110 000 100 2 | 5 13 3
Mets 000 020 010 3 | 6 8 2
Box score
Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox AB R H RBI BB K PO A
Boggs 3b 5 2 3 0 1 0 1 0
Barrett 2b 4 1 3 2 2 0 1 4
Buckner 1b 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Rice lf 5 0 0 0 1 2 5 0
Evans rf 4 0 1 2 1 0 1 0
Gedman c 5 0 1 0 0 1 8 0
Henderson cf 5 1 2 1 0 0 5 0
Owen ss 4 1 3 0 0 1 2 2
Clemens p 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Greenwell ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Schiraldi p 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Stanley p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 5 13 5 5 7 29 8
FIELDING -
DP: 1.
E: Buckner (1), Evans (1), Gedman (2).
BATTING -
2B: Evans (1, off Ojeda); Boggs (3, off Aguilera).
HR: Henderson (2, 10th inning off Aguilera 0 on, 0 out).
SH: Owen (1, off McDowell).
HBP: Buckner (1, by Aguilera).
IBB: Boggs (1, by McDowell).
New York Mets
New York Mets AB R H RBI BB K PO A
Dykstra cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 4 0
Backman 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 4
Hernandez 1b 4 0 1 0 1 0 6 1
Carter c 4 1 1 1 0 1 9 0
Strawberry rf 2 1 0 0 2 0 5 0
Aguilera p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mitchell ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Knight 3b 4 2 2 2 1 1 0 0
Wilson lf 5 0 1 0 0 1 2 1
Santana ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Heep ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Elster ss 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Johnson ph,ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Ojeda p 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
McDowell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Orosco p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mazzilli ph,rf 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 36 6 8 3 4 9 30 11
FIELDING -
DP: 1.
E: Knight (1), Elster (1).
BATTING -
SH: Dykstra (2, off Schiraldi); Backman (1, off Schiraldi).
SF: Carter (1, off Schiraldi).
IBB: Hernandez (1, by Schiraldi).
BASERUNNING -
SB: Strawberry 2 (3, 2nd base off Clemens/Gedman 2).
Pitching
Boston Red Sox IP H HR R ER BB K
Clemens 7 4 0 2 1 2 8
Schiraldi L (0-1) 2.2 4 0 4 3 2 1
Stanley 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 9 8 0 6 4 4 9
New York Mets IP H HR R ER BB K
Ojeda 6 8 0 2 2 2 3
McDowell 1.2 2 0 1 0 3 1
Orosco 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aguilera W (1-0) 2 3 1 2 2 0 3
Totals 10 13 1 5 4 5 7
WP: Stanley (1).
HBP: Aguilera (1, Buckner).
IBB: Schiraldi (1, Hernandez); McDowell (2, Boggs).
Umpires: Ford (home), Kibler (1B), Evans (2B),
Wendelstedt (3B), Brinkman (LF), Montague (RF)
Attendance: 55,078
Box score and play-by-play from Retrosheet (http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B10250NYN1986.htm)
External links
- 1986 NLCS | Game 1 (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_86nlcs_gm1_nymhou)
- 1986 ALCS | Game 5 (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_86alcs_gm5_boscal)
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