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Home > Baseball > World Series History > (1986) NY Mets 4, Boston 3
(1986) NY Mets 4, Boston 3
The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball. The World Series is played between the American League and National League champions and the Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff.
The Mets entered the World Series as big favorites, having won 108 games during the regular season. Those 108 wins did them little benefit in Game 1, however as Red Sox starter Bruce Hurst pitched 8 scoreless innings, and Boston took the opener with 1-0 on an unearned run.
Game 2, matched in the 1985 National League Young winner Dwight Gooden against 1986 American League, but never lasted for more than 5 innings. Boston's bullpen proved stronger than New York's. The Sox took two games to none with a convincing 9-3 victory, and the Series shifted to Fenway Park. The Mets got on the board with a 7-1 decision in Game 3 because of four runs in the first inning and 7 strong frames from starter Bob Ojeda who had pitched for Boston in 1985. The Mets made it two straight in Game 4. Gary Carter smashed a pair of home runs and a double, Lenny Dykstra homered off the glove of Sox right fielder Dwight Evans, and the Mets rolled with 6-2.
In Game 5, Bruce Hurst frustrated the Mets, allowing 10 hits but only 2 runs while going the distance. Gooden, meanwhile, couldn't escape the fifth inning and took the 4-2 loss. So with the Series shifting back to Shea Stadium, the Red Sox required only a single victory to end their 68-year championship drought. Clemens pitched well, but so did Ojeda, and after nine innings, the game was deadlocked with 3-3. Boston's Dave Henderson led the 10th with a home run, and a few minutes later Wade Boggs scored on Marty Barrett's single to give the Sox a 5-3 lead.
The Mets came back and tied the game with 3 runs in the sixth, and went ahead for good with 3 more in the seventh off Schiraldi. Mets, lefty Jesse Orosco finished off the Sox with two perfect innings of relief, and the Mets were champions.
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