Ultimate Mets Database: Game of October 5, 1986

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October 4, 1986
Mets 5, Pirates 2 1986 Regular Season Game 162
October 5, 1986
Mets 9, Pirates 0 Next Game:
October 8, 1986
Astros 1, Mets 0

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE OCTOBER 5, 1986 GAME:

Tom Quinn
June 4, 2008
108th and final win of the regular season. I'm amazed we all got so blase about winning by that point. Boy were the playoffs ever a big wake up call. I had a Sunday season ticket plan and it seemed like Sid Fernandez always started the Sunday home games, to the point where me and the other denizens of Mezz. Sect 20 started calling him "Sunday Sid". So it was fitting that he closed this one out.

Carl
March 29, 2013
Lots of memories:
1) Given two tickets by my Uncle and went with my brother.
2) Seats were right behind the middle of the Pirates dugout. I got Barry Bonds' autograph before the game and told him I remembered his father playing for the Yanks. My brother got Bob Walk's autograph and then #88. #88 - turned out he had asked the bat boy (BB) for his autograph.
3) Fans were going crazy when Hernandez was hit in the 1st and saw how locked in Gary Carter was. Stadium went wild as Gary hit the huge homer to back his teammate up.
4) Fun fall day and we knew the team was ready for the playoffs.

Hot Foot
September 26, 2013
I was at this game. My family sat in the mezzanine section and the thing I remember best is when the game was over, the Mets stepped out on the field to thank the fans, and we all cheered. Then they all threw their hats into the front rows, behind the dugouts. I was like, damn, I wish we had seats down there. I don't think I'm imagining this. They threw their hats into the crowd. What a team.

Michael
April 3, 2020
The regular season finale as El Sid recorded the only save of his Mets career, working the final 4 innings in a tune up for the playoffs. The final out of the year was Sid's 200th strikeout on the season, a fitting ending to the best regular season in team history.

Strawberry hit a grand slam in the 5th and the Mets won 9-0. One of the more fun games to watch, looking back, as the atmosphere was so free and easy. A complete 180 to the next 3 weeks of baseball the Mets would play.

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