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New York Mets 4, Boston Red Sox 3 · 1986-10-18 to 1986-10-27 · 7 games · attendance 321,774 · season overview

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Champion · 2nd title

New York Mets
Manager Davey Johnson

Runner-up

Boston Red Sox
Manager John McNamara

Series MVP

Ray Knight

Ballparks

Fenway Park
Shea Stadium

Note

Decided in game 7

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	1986-10-18	Boston Red Sox 1 at New York Mets 0	0–1	Shea Stadium	55,076	Bruce Hurst	Ron Darling	Calvin Schiraldi
2	1986-10-19	Boston Red Sox 9 at New York Mets 3	0–2	Shea Stadium	55,063	Steve Crawford	Dwight Gooden	Bob Stanley
3	1986-10-21	New York Mets 7 at Boston Red Sox 1	1–2	Fenway Park	33,595	Bob Ojeda	Oil Can Boyd
4	1986-10-22	New York Mets 6 at Boston Red Sox 2	2–2	Fenway Park	33,920	Ron Darling	Al Nipper	Jesse Orosco
5	1986-10-23	New York Mets 2 at Boston Red Sox 4	2–3	Fenway Park	34,010	Bruce Hurst	Dwight Gooden
6	1986-10-25	Boston Red Sox 5 at New York Mets 6	3–3	Shea Stadium	55,078	Rick Aguilera	Calvin Schiraldi
7	1986-10-27	Boston Red Sox 5 at New York Mets 8	4–3	Shea Stadium	55,032	Roger McDowell	Calvin Schiraldi	Jesse Orosco

The players

New York Mets

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Gary Carter	7	29	4	8	2	0	2	9	0	4	0	.276
Lenny Dykstra	7	27	4	8	0	0	2	3	2	7	0	.296
Mookie Wilson	7	26	3	7	1	0	0	0	1	6	3	.269
Keith Hernandez	7	26	1	6	0	0	0	4	5	1	0	.231
Darryl Strawberry	7	24	4	5	1	0	1	1	4	6	3	.208
Ray Knight	6	23	4	9	1	0	1	5	2	2	0	.391
Rafael Santana	7	20	3	5	0	0	0	2	2	5	0	.250
Wally Backman	6	18	4	6	0	0	0	1	3	2	1	.333
Danny Heep	5	11	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	.091
Tim Teufel	3	9	1	4	1	0	1	1	1	2	0	.444
Kevin Mitchell	4	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.250
Lee Mazzilli	4	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.400
Howard Johnson	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Ron Darling	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Dwight Gooden	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500
Bob Ojeda	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Jesse Orosco	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000
Kevin Elster	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Roger McDowell	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Ron Darling	3	3	1–1	0	17.2	13	4	3	10	12	2	1.53
Bob Ojeda	2	2	1–0	0	13.0	13	3	3	5	9	0	2.08
Dwight Gooden	2	2	0–2	0	9.0	17	10	8	4	9	2	8.00
Roger McDowell	5	0	1–0	0	7.1	10	5	4	6	2	0	4.91
Sid Fernandez	3	0	0–0	0	6.2	6	1	1	1	10	0	1.35
Jesse Orosco	4	0	0–0	2	5.2	2	0	0	0	6	0	0.00
Rick Aguilera	2	0	1–0	0	3.0	8	4	4	1	4	1	12.00
Doug Sisk	1	0	0–0	0	0.2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.00

Boston Red Sox

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Bill Buckner	7	32	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	.188
Wade Boggs	7	31	3	9	3	0	0	3	4	2	0	.290
Marty Barrett	7	30	1	13	2	0	0	4	5	2	0	.433
Rich Gedman	7	30	1	6	1	0	1	1	0	10	0	.200
Jim Rice	7	27	6	9	1	1	0	0	6	9	0	.333
Dwight Evans	7	26	4	8	2	0	2	9	4	3	0	.308
Dave Henderson	7	25	6	10	1	1	2	5	2	6	0	.400
Spike Owen	7	20	2	6	0	0	0	2	5	6	0	.300
Don Baylor	4	11	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	3	0	.182
Roger Clemens	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Mike Greenwell	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000
Bruce Hurst	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000
Tony Armas	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Steve Crawford	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Ed Romero	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Calvin Schiraldi	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Bob Stanley	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Dave Stapleton	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Bruce Hurst	3	3	2–0	0	23.0	18	5	5	6	17	1	1.96
Roger Clemens	2	2	0–0	0	11.1	9	5	4	6	11	0	3.18
Oil Can Boyd	1	1	0–1	0	7.0	9	6	6	1	3	1	7.71
Bob Stanley	4	0	0–0	1	6.1	5	0	0	1	4	0	0.00
Al Nipper	2	1	0–1	0	6.1	10	5	5	2	2	2	7.11
Steve Crawford	3	0	1–0	0	4.1	5	3	3	0	4	2	6.23
Calvin Schiraldi	3	0	0–2	1	4.0	7	7	6	3	2	1	13.50
Joe Sambito	1	0	0–0	0	0.1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.00