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. This week, we cover June 19–25. The Mets won only twice in that span, a rare stretch in which they lost more times (3) than they won.
Clutch ‘Kid’
The first of the two wins was a 10-3 rout of the Cubs on a Friday night that stretched their record to 45-18 (a 115-win pace).