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Seven years after their disastrous inaugural season, "The Amazin' Mets" (as nicknamed by previous manager Casey Stengel) won the World Series, the first expansion team to do so. 1969 was the first year of divisional baseball, precipitated by the expansion of each league from 10 to 12 teams. [3]
The 1969 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1969 season. The 66th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets .
After a second-place finish in 1987, the Mets won the NL East the next year, but lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. The Mets' next playoff appearances were their back-to-back wild card -winning seasons of 1999 and 2000; in the latter year, they won their fourth NL championship, but lost to the cross-town New York Yankees in the ...
But the Mets proceeded to win 37 of their last 48 games while the Cubs went 20–28 in the same time period and the Mets won the division by 8 games. In the West, with 3 weeks to play in the season, 5 teams were all within 2 games of each other. The Houston Astros were the first to drop out of the race, losing 8 of 10.
Single season pitching records Statistic Player Record Year Ref ERA (Earned Run Average) Dwight Gooden: 1.53: 1985: Example Wins: Tom Seaver: 25: 1969: Example Win–loss Percentage: Terry Leach.917: 1987: Example Walks Plus Hits per Inning Pitched: Jacob deGrom: 0.912: 2018: Example Hits Allowed/9 Innings Pitched: Sid Fernandez: 5.71: 1985 ...
Joe Lahoud, second-year Boston Red Sox outfielder, clouts three home runs (his first long balls of 1969) in a 13–5 rout of the Minnesota Twins at Metropolitan Stadium. June 14 – At Fenway Park , the Oakland Athletics lash 25 hits and put up three separate five-run innings in a 21–7 beat down of the Red Sox .
The Mets would also go on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, four games to one. It was the first of five NL pennants for the Mets. The first two came in the only two NL series between 1969 and 1980 that did not feature a Pennsylvania team (the other being 1973. [1] [2]).
Game 2 was an offensive duel - the Mets jumped out to an 8–0 lead, and while the Braves cut their lead to as low as three, the Mets still held on to win by an 11–6 score. When the series shifted to Queens, Nolan Ryan helped lead the Mets' to the pennant in Game 3 with a solid seven-inning performance, winning his first postseason game.