August 9, 1986 at Olympic Stadium
Mets 10, Expos 8 (73-35)
It’s not too often you can make three errors and be down 6-1 in the eighth and come back to win. In addition, the Mets had one of the oddest box score lines I’ve ever seen. Ten runs on only seven hits (and then the three errors).
With the score 6-1 in the top of the eighth, Howard Johnson led off the inning with a double. The recently acquired Lee Mazzilli in a trade for George Foster and he drew a walk before Len Dykstra drove home Johnson with a single. Tim Teufel drew a walk to load the bases and then Keith Hernandez drove home Mazzilli and Dykstra with a single. Gary Carter was hit by a pitch to load the bases and then Darryl Strawberry hit a deep sac fly to left to score Teufel. Then with the Mets down by a run, Mookie Wilson hit a three run homerun to cap off a seven run inning that gave the Mets a two run lead.
Unfortunately, the Mets almost blew it. A Howard Johnson error helped the Expos score two unearned runs to tie the game. But the Mets scored two runs in the top of the ninth on Gary Carter’s bases loaded single to lock the game up. Jesse Orosco pitched an uneventful ninth to earn his sixteenth save of the season.
