Each week, we'll commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1986 New York Mets championship run. We'll focus on the memorable games, players, stories and stats and the journey of dominance taken by one of New York's greatest baseball teams. We'll be aided by media accounts from the New York papers as well as interviews from past and present. This week's article covers the beginning of the greatest stretch in Mets history.
Fixing what ailed them
As we noted in the first article of this series, the Mets went 2-3 in their first five games, with the combination of off days and bad weather resulting in three empty days following an ugly, 6-2 13-inning loss to the Cardinals in the home opener at Shea Stadium.