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 past and present. We catch up with the Mets in the middle of what would be their biggest series of the season.
How sweep it is
When last we wrote, we ended with the Mets stealing a win in the opener of a four-game series with the arch-rival St.