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1986 MLB season; League: Major League Baseball: Sport: Baseball: Duration: April 7 – October 27, 1986: Number of games: 162: Number of teams: 26: TV partner(s) ABC ...
The 1986 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1986 season.The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
The 1986 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1986 season. The 83rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion New York Mets and the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox .
The 1986 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 1986 postseason between the Boston Red Sox and the California Angels for the right to advance to the 1986 World Series to face the winner of the 1986 National League Championship Series. The Red Sox came in with a 95–66 record and the ...
The 1986 World Series was televised by NBC with Vin Scully on the call alongside Joe Garagiola. Scully's call [12] of the final play in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series would quickly become an iconic one to baseball fans, with the normally calm Scully growing increasingly excited:
MLB debut; September 21, 1969, for the Los Angeles Dodgers: Last MLB appearance; May 30, 1990, for the Boston Red Sox: MLB statistics; Batting average.289: Hits: 2,715: Home runs: 174: Runs batted in: 1,208: Stats at Baseball Reference Teams; Los Angeles Dodgers (1969–1976) Chicago Cubs (1977–1984) Boston Red Sox (1984–1987) California ...
January 24 – John Boozer, 47, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies over seven seasons between 1962 and 1969, who has the distinction of being one of only four Major League Baseball pitchers to be ejected from a game for violation of the spitball rule. January 28 – Tom Grubbs, 91, pitcher who played for the New York Giants in its 1920 season.
The 1986 Major League Baseball draft was the 22nd MLB draft that took place in 1986. During this draft 21 future all-stars were drafted: Greg Swindell, Matt Williams, Kevin Brown, Gary Sheffield, Roberto Hernández, Jack Armstrong, Dean Palmer, Scott Cooper, Kent Bottenfield, Bo Jackson, Joe Girardi, Pat Hentgen, Tom Gordon, Steve Finley, Rod Beck, Chuck Knoblauch, Rick Reed, Paul Quantrill ...