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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]
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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.
December 30 – Johnny Murphy, recently crowned winner of the 1969 Sporting News Executive of the Year Award and general manager of the reigning world champion New York Mets, is hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. He dies on January 14, 1970.
Year Winner Record % Playoff Results 1969 New York Mets (1) 100–62 .617 Won NLCS 3–0 Won World Series 4–1 1970 Pittsburgh Pirates (1) 89–73 .549 Lost NLCS 3–0 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates (2) 97–65 .599 Won NLCS 3–1 Won World Series 4–3 1972 Pittsburgh Pirates (3) 96–59 .619 Lost NLCS 3–2 1973
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