With the National League Championship Series set to begin tonight, it’s as good a time as any to look back at the Mets’ history in that series, which started with the very first NLCS in 1969. Before then, there weren’t divisions, with the National and American League pennants having gone to the team from each league with the best regular season record up until that year.
Having finished the season with a 100-62 record that was the best in the National League, the Mets embarked the a best-of-five series—which was the format of the NLCS until the mid-80s—by facing the Atlanta Braves, who finished atop the National League West with a 93-69 record.