Tom Seaver Fan Club

August 27, 1986 at Jack Murphy Stadium

Mets 6, Padres 5  (85-42)

It took eleven innings, but the Mets won the ninth time in ten games.  The Mets jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead after three innings of work and that lead stood until the the Padres scored a lone run in the bottom of the sixth.  Then in the bottom of the eighth, the Padres exploded for four runs to tie the game up and send it into extra frames.

Neither team threatened in the tenth inning, but in the top of the eleventh, Howard Johnson led off with a fly out.  Len Dykstra and Wally Backman hit back to back singles, then Keith Hernandez drove home Dykstra on a sac. fly to give the Mets the run they needed.

Six different Mets had multi-hit games.  Darryl Strawberry drove in four runs and hit his nineteenth homerun of the season.  On the pitching side, Doug sisk improved to 3-2 by holding the Padres scoreless in the final two innings.