20 Years Ago This Week: 1986 Postseason Flashback

[stevejrogers]

NLCS Moves to Shea

10/11, The Len Dykstra game. Nails hits the game winner homer as the Mets win 6-5 and take a 2-1 series lead.

Ron Darling gives up 4 early runs, but the pen holds the Astros to only two more, giving the Mets the oppertunity to chip away and get the win.



10/12, The next night however belonged to Mike Scott who went all the way on a 3 hitter, and giving up one run as the Astros won 3-1 to even the series.



Game 5 was rained out for the Monday the 13th and rescheduled on the 14th, which is where the 1986 Mets Postseason Flashbacks will pick up again.

[soupcan]

Here's a question that I didn't see the answer to on the 'memories of the game' at UMDB -

Anybody remember Dykstra's quote when asked if he ever hit a homerun that big/dramatic prior to that one?

[stevejrogers]

soupcan wrote: Here's a question that I didn't see the answer to on the 'memories of the game' at UMDB - Anybody remember Dykstra's quote when asked if he ever hit a homerun that big/dramatic prior to that one?

Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother!

[Willets Point]

Oct. 11th & 12th? Are you going away for a couple of days?

[soupcan]

SteveJRogers wrote: Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother!

Well you're correct but I was hoping that someone who actually remembered reading it in the paper the next day was going to answer it.

How do you know that Steve? I'm assuming you were too young to have seen it in print at that time.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

soupcan wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother! Well you're correct but I was hoping that someone who actually remembered reading it in the paper the next day was going to answer it.

I didn't remember reading it in the paper. But I remembered him saying it in the post-game interview.

[soupcan]

I guess it was in both places but that was one thing I thought only us old farts would know.

[Willets Point]

I guess Steve has gone away. Not like him to go so long without posting.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

He's probably hanging with his fellow Yankee fan friends. I suspect he's a double agent.

[Willets Point]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: He's probably hanging with his fellow Yankee fan friends. I suspect he's a double agent.

Ouch. I doubt that.

[stevejrogers]

soupcan wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother! Well you're correct but I was hoping that someone who actually remembered reading it in the paper the next day was going to answer it. How do you know that Steve? I'm assuming you were too young to have seen it in print at that time.

29

[soupcan]

="SteveJRogers"]29

29 what? Posts you make an hour?

Oh! You were 29 years old at the time!

I get it. Pretty good memory for an 9 year-old.

[stevejrogers]

Easy Soupy. I may know where to find you on Friday, and I may take some beers!

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[A Boy Named Seo]

I got my '86 World Series DVD this week from Deep Discount DVD ($44 bucks shipped - practically free) and started disc 1 today, which is Game 6 of the NLCS.

Some observations:

-Tim McCarver is as annoying 20 years ago, but surprisingly (for one game anyway) a way better, more insightful color guy than he is today. Keith Jackson was the PBP guy.

-I don't recall seeing a single appeal at first despite a good amount of check swings, each one called a ball. Today, every one of those would have been appealed at the catcher's request.

-Lots of open references to Mike Scott and his love of sandpaper.

-Man, those players are skinny and the uni's are tight, tight, tight.

-The only thing uglier than the Astrodome with the still-visible yard lines for their roommates the Oilers, is the Astros uni's themselves. Blech.

-Astro-turf. That's not baseball, man.

-But lastly, and bestly, as ABC Sports heads to commercial break before the bottom of the 16th, there's a clear-as-day shot of Ron Darling standing in the Met dugout directly behind Davey Johnson taking a pull off a cigarette.

If you haven't seen the end of the game, I won't spoil it, but the Mets won.