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Starting with their 42nd game, the Mets went 82–39 (a .678 winning percentage), including an astonishing 38–11 in their last 49 games. [ 8 ] Despite that performance, the Mets suffered two mid-season three-game series sweeps at the hands of the Houston Astros , who manhandled the Mets all season, taking 10 of the 12 games the teams played.
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.
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.
Over the years, I’ve had 100,000 people tell me they were there in the last game, Oct. 16, 1969. The ballpark (Shea Stadium) held just 53,000. But it doesn’t make a difference.
Ed Kranepool of the 1969 Mets championship team speaks during a 50th Anniversary Celebration before the start of a game against the Braves at Citi Field on Saturday, June 29, 2019.
The National League, on the other hand, was very dramatic. The Chicago Cubs won 35 of their first 50 games, and on August 16, they led the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals by 9 games. 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.
Art Shamsky, a part of the 1969 World Series champion New York Mets, joins "The *State* of Florida Sports Podcast" to discuss spring training, more."
The 1969 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five match-up between the East Division champion New York Mets and the West Division champion Atlanta Braves. It was the opening semifinal round on the National League side of the inaugural edition of the MLB postseason .