Who did the new york mets face in the 1986 world series with?

Answer 1

The American League champion Boston Red Sox.

Answer 2

The New York Mets faced The Boston Red Sox in the 1986 Wrold Series and the Mets won 7 games to 6.

Answer 3

RE: Who was on the 1986 New York Mets World Series roster?

Answer 4

Boston Red Sox

Answer 5

to jake and anyone who has it imbedded in their minds that bill buckner cost the redsox the 86 series.........WRONG!

the mets had already tied the game BEFORE buckners error, we have no idea what the outcome of the game or the series would have been if not for the error.

and as another poster has indicated, it is quite possible that even had buckner cleanly fielded mookies grounder that mookie could have beaten him to the bag for an infield hit. of course if that happened, ray knight does not score on the play and the inning would have continued with a tie score, runners on the corners and howard johnson at the plate.

buckner is simply not the goat so many believe he is.

Answer 6

The Red Sox

Answer 7

the red sox. i remember this because of the red sox great bill buckner's error that cost the red sox the series.

Answer 8

Boston Red Sox

Doesn't every baseball fan know this? Bill Buckner hello???
Copy and pasted from Wikipedia:


1986 World Series and Game Six
After the 1978 playoff game, the Red Sox didn't reach the postseason for the next seven years, finishing no higher than third place in their division during that period. Carl Yastrzemski retired after the 1983 season, during which the Red Sox finished sixth in the seven-team AL East, posting their worst record since 1966.

However, in 1986, it appeared the slump may have been reversed. The team's offense had remained strong with Jim Rice, Dwight Evans, Don Baylor, and future Hall of Famer Wade Boggs. Roger Clemens led the pitching staff, posting a 24-4 record with a 2.48 ERA to win both the American League Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards. Clemens became the first starting pitcher to win both awards since Vida Blue in 1971. A starting pitcher has not won the MVP award in either league since. [15] The Red Sox won the AL East for the first time in eleven seasons, prompting a playoff series against the California Angels in the AL Championship Series.

The Series started poorly for the Red Sox. The teams split the first two games in Boston, but the Angels won the next two games at their home stadium, taking a 3-1 lead in the series. With the Angels poised to win the series, the Red Sox trailed 5-2 heading into the ninth inning of Game 5. A two-run homer by Don Baylor cut the lead to one. With two outs and a runner on, and one strike away from elimination, Dave Henderson homered off Donnie Moore to put Boston up 6-5. Although the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Red Sox won in the eleventh on a Henderson sacrifice fly off Moore. The Red Sox then found themselves with six and seven run wins at Fenway Park in Games 6 and 7 to win the American League title for the first time since 1975.

In the 1986 World Series the Red Sox played the New York Mets. The Red Sox won the first two games in Shea Stadium, but lost the next two at Fenway, knotting the series at 2 games apiece. After Bruce Hurst recorded his second victory of the series in game 5, the Red Sox returned to Flushing Meadows looking to garner their first championship in 68 years. However, "Game Six" would go down as one of the most devastating losses in club history. After pitching seven strong innings, Roger Clemens was curiously lifted from the game with a 3-2 lead. Years later, Manager John McNamara said that Clemens was suffering from a blister and asked to be taken out of the game, a fact that Clemens vehemently denied. [16] The Mets tied the score 3-3 in the eighth inning by scoring a run off reliever Calvin Schiraldi.

The game went to extra innings, where the Red Sox took a 5-3 lead in the top of the tenth on a solo home run by Dave Henderson, a double by Wade Boggs and an RBI single by Marty Barrett. After recording two easy outs in the bottom of the 10th innning, the Red Sox were one strike away from breaking their championship drought. The champagne was on ice in the Red Sox clubhouse, a graphic appeared on the NBC telecast hailing second baseman Marty Barrett as the World Series MVP, a message even appeared briefly on the Shea Stadium Scoreboard congratulating the Red Sox as World Champions. After so many years of abject frustration, Red Sox fans around the world could taste victory. Alas, just when even the most cautious and pessimistic of Sox fans started to believe, things began to unravel for the Old Town Team. While words can not describe what ensued, the memories of that chilly early fall morning at Shea Stadium live on in the realm of sports infamy.

After three straight singles off Calvin Schiraldi and a wild pitch by Bob Stanley, the Mets tied the game at five. Some people felt that the play should have been scored a passed ball on catcher Rich Gedman as the ball was not that far from the strike zone. It looked as though the Red Sox would record the third out leaving the score tied when Mookie Wilson hit a slow ground ball to first; the ball rolled through Bill Buckner's legs, allowing Ray Knight to score the winning run from second. Much like the Carlton Fisk homer in '75, this error is played again and again on TV.


Bill Buckner after his infamous error during Game 6 of the 1986 World SeriesWhile Buckner was singled out as responsible for the loss, many observers — as well as both Wilson and Buckner — have noted that even if Buckner had fielded the ball cleanly, Wilson possibly would still have been safe (Wilson at the time was thought of as one of the faster players in the National League), leaving the game-winning run at third with two out. Many observers questioned why Buckner was in the game at that point in light of the fact that he had very bad knees and Dave Stapleton had come in as a late inning defensive replacement in prior series games. It appeared as though McNamara was trying to reward Buckner for his long and illustrious career by leaving him in the game. After dropping behind 3-0, the New York Mets then won Game 7, concluding the devastating collapse and feeding the myth that the Red Sox were actually "cursed."

Answer 9

bill buckner's red sox

Answer 10

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