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Twenty-eight of 30 teams finished their regular season Sunday, and the results ensured that the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves played one more day of games — yes, Nos. 161 and 162, at Atlanta ...
On July 4, 1985, [2] [3] [4] the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 16–13 in a 19-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) contest [5] that featured Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, [6] Mets manager Davey Johnson being ejected, and the Braves coming back to tie the game twice in extra innings, most notably in the bottom of the 18th.
The Braves–Mets rivalry is a rivalry between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets, who are both members of the National League (NL) East division. The rivalry was particularly fierce during the late 1990s and early 2000s, [ 72 ] as both teams competed for postseason berths and, most notably, faced each other in the 1999 NLCS .
The Mets joined the NL in 1962 as an expansion team, before the leagues were split into divisions, and when the Braves were still in Milwaukee.Due to Major League Baseball wishing to keep the Cardinals and Cubs together in the same division when each league was split into divisions in 1969, Atlanta was forced to join the National League West and were led by Hank Aaron.
Game 2 underway: Must-win for Braves. The teams had to get right back on the field after the Mets' stunning win in the first game of the doubleheader that clinched New York's spot in the postseason.
If the Mets and Braves split the doubleheader, Atlanta would be the No. 5 seed and New York the No. 6 seed, based on Atlanta’s winning the season series between the two.
The 1999 National League Championship Series (NLCS), was held to determine the champion of the National League in Major League Baseball’s 1999 postseason.The 30th in NL history, it was held between two East Division rivals, the division champion and overall number one seed Atlanta Braves and the wild card New York Mets in a rematch of the very first NLCS from 1969.
The Atlanta Braves and New York Mets entered the day fighting for their playoff lives, each needing just one win in Monday's doubleheader to clinch a wild card spot − or the Arizona Diamondbacks ...