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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 .
1969 NL season changes: 1969 expansion: Montreal Expos and San Diego Padres are enfranchised; With the expansion of the NL, the leagues into two divisions each: The NL East consists of the Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals
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.
The Mets started the 1999 season well, going 17–9, but after an eight-game losing streak, including the last two to the New York Yankees, the Mets fired their entire coaching staff except for manager Bobby Valentine.The Mets, in front of a national audience on Sunday Night Baseball, beat the New York Yankees 7–2 in the turning point of the ...
In 1969 Koosman posted a 17–9 record with a 2.28 ERA and 180 strikeouts in another All-Star season. That year, he was a member of the Mets team that unexpectedly won the National League East title (both leagues had split into two divisions after expanding from ten teams to 12) after finishing last in five of their first seven seasons, as well ...
The Orioles would redeem themselves in the World Series the following year, defeating the Cincinnati Reds in five games. The Mets would return to the World Series in 1973 as even greater underdogs than in 1969, but they would fall to the Oakland Athletics in seven games. Their next title would come in 1986, against the Boston Red Sox.
On July 15, 1969, facing the first place Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, he hit a three-run home run off former Met Dick Selma to lead the second place Mets to a 5–4 victory. [7] Weis hit his second of two home runs for the season the following day, and the Mets won again to close the gap to just four games in the National League East. [8]