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The 1986 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1986 season. ... recorded 13 hits — tying the single World Series record ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
April 7 – October 27, 1986: Number of games: 162: Number of teams: 26: TV partner(s) ABC, NBC: Draft; Top draft pick: Jeff King: Picked by: Pittsburgh Pirates: Regular Season; Season MVP: AL: Roger Clemens NL: Mike Schmidt : Postseason; AL champions: Boston Red Sox AL runners-up: California Angels: NL champions: New York Mets NL runners-up ...
The 1986 Red Sox were leading the heavily favored New York Mets 3 games to 2 in the 1986 World Series when Game 6 went into extra innings.For his part, Buckner was batting just .143 against Mets pitching, and he was 0-for-5 in Game 6.
A series-by-series look at each of the World Series the Dodgers franchise played in before winning it all again in 2024.
May 28 – Taylor Douthit, 85, outfielder who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs in 11 seasons from 1923 to 1933, also a member of the 1926 World Series Champion Cardinals, whose glove is in the Baseball Hall of Fame for a record he set in 1928, when he made 547 putouts in center field for St. Louis, the most ...
The 1986 Red Sox were leading the heavily favored New York Mets three games to two in the 1986 World Series when Game 6 went into extra innings. For his part, Buckner was batting just .143 against Mets pitching, and he was 0–for–5 in Game 6.
He is best remembered for his performance for the Boston Red Sox in the 1986 postseason, where he won two games while allowing only two runs total. Prior to the miraculous Game 6 comeback by the New York Mets, he was the presumed World Series MVP. Two days later, in Game 7, Hurst was sent out to pitch the decisive game for the Sox, but he left ...