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.
Mets look like the Big Red Machine
After having their franchise-record tying 11-game winning streak snapped by the Braves, the Mets went to Cincinnati and swept three games from the Reds (extending the Reds' losing streak to eight games).