“IV Yawkey Way”

Official WS Ball

After dropping the 1st 2 games to the recently struggling NY Mets, Boston broke out the bats, 12-5, in a slug-fest at Fenway. The Mets’ won on Friday (5-3) when Santana out dueled Matsuzaka, and Saturday (3-2) when Papelbon coughed up a 2-1 lead by allowing a 1-out, 2-run homer in the 9th inning (I believe by Gary Sheffield). These were the 1st Mets wins at Fenway Park since games 3 and 4 of the 1986 World Series. The Mets came to Fenway to play interleague ball in June 2006 and were swept by the Red Sox.

The ‘86 World Series will always be seen as a famous (and infamous) chapter of both New York and New England sports lore. Boston and New York sent teams to face each other in the World Series for the 1st time since 1912. Both teams fought hard through a bitter LCS to get to the Series. Boston took games 1 and 2 at Shea. Eyebrows are raised, people begin to mutter. Then then the Mets took games 3 and 4 at Fenway. Boston won game 5 at home and went to Queens to play game 6, up 3 games to 2.

You know the rest (it wasn’t pretty) but this weekend’s revisit is a reminder of those intense October nights, 23 years ago.

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