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 try to make a rare 3-3 stretch interesting.
The Mets entered the California portion of their road trip with a 20-4 mark in their last 24 games, but ran into a roadblock in the Dodgers, who took two of three, winning on a walk-off squeeze bunt one day and a four-run eighth inning the next.