Boston Red Sox vs New York Mets

Date
Wed 22nd October 1986 (UTC)
Tue 21st October 1986 (Local)

Timestamp
1986-10-22T00:30:00

Time

00:30:00 UTC (20:30:00 Local)

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League
MLB

Season
1986

Round
200

Status
Match Finished

Location
Boston
United States
Fenway Park
(33,595 Attendance)

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The Mets started well when Lenny Dykstra led off the game with a home run. After two singles, Gary Carter followed with an RBI double, and Danny Heep drove in two runners with a single to give the Mets a 4–0 lead in the first inning. After the rocky start, Red Sox starter Oil Can Boyd settled down, but Bob Ojeda pitched well and Boston was unable to overcome their early deficit. In his first at bat of the World Series, Boston's Don Baylor almost homered in the second inning but hit the Green Monster, resulting in a double.

Ojeda gave up an RBI single to Marty Barrett in the bottom of the third inning, but this would be the only Boston run of the game. Carter drove in two runners with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning, and Ray Knight drove in Darryl Strawberry, who had singled and moved to third on two wild pitches, with a double in the eighth inning off of Joe Sambito. Roger McDowell pitched the final two frames to seal a 7–1 Mets victory.