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1986 World Series at WorldSeries.com via MLB.com; 1986 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1986 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1986 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1986 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. 1986 NLCS: Game 1 at MLB.com; 1986 ALCS ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
April 7 – October 27, 1986: Number of games: 162: Number of teams: 26: TV partner(s) ABC, NBC: Draft; Top draft pick: Jeff King: Picked by: Pittsburgh Pirates: Regular Season; Season MVP: AL: Roger Clemens NL: Mike Schmidt : Postseason; AL champions: Boston Red Sox AL runners-up: California Angels: NL champions: New York Mets NL runners-up ...
In what is widely considered to be one of the greatest World Series ever played, the Mets overcame a two games to none series deficit to defeat the Red Sox in seven games, winning their first title since 1969. Bruce Hurst pitched eight solid innings as the Red Sox shutout the Mets, 1–0, in Game 1. They then blew out the Mets in Game 2 to go ...
One of the most famous games in baseball history is Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. The Mets rallied in the bottom of the 8th inning of Game 6, tying the game on a Gary Carter sacrifice fly. Reliever Calvin Schiraldi had loaded the bases with one out and had a 3–0 count on Carter, who swung away at the next pitch to hit the fly ball.
The first modern World Series was played in 1903 and, after a hiatus in 1904, has taken place every season except 1994, [2] when a players' strike forced the cancellation of the postseason. [3] The current AL pennant holders are the New York Yankees , who beat the Cleveland Guardians for the pennant on October 19, 2024.
September 4 – Hank Greenberg, 75, Hall of Fame and five-time All-Star first baseman and left fielder who won MVP awards at both positions; [19] member of four Detroit Tigers World Series teams which won championships in 1935 and 1945; led the American League in home runs and runs batted in four times each, including career-highs with 58 HR in ...
The series featured a pair of extra-inning games that combined for a postseason record 10 innings of extra play. Despite only going six games, Fangraphs, via a mathematical formula, named it the 6th best playoff series in MLB history in 2011. [13] The Mets would win another instant-classic series a week and a half later when they beat the ...