1986 World Series – Game Five
October 23, 1986 at Fenway Park
Red Sox 4, Mets 2 Red Sox Lead Best of Seven Series 3-2
The Red Sox avoivded a sweep at Fenway and won a pretty good pitchers dual between Bruce Hurst and Dwight Gooden. The game saw the Red Sox jump to an early lead and then the Mets come up short in an attempt at a comeback late in the game.
The Red Sox drew first blood when Dave Henderson tripled in the second inning then scored on Spike Owen’s sac. fly. An error by Rafael Santana in the third inning put Bill Buckner on in the third inning and he eventually came around to score on Dwight Evans RBI single.
The fifth was the toughest inning for Gooden. He gave up a lead off triple to Jim Rice and then a single to Don Baylor to make it 3-0. Dwight Evans followed that up with a single to put runners at first and third and Davey Johnson went to the pen and brought in Sid Fernandez. Fernandez was able to strike out Rich Gedman but then Dave Henderson doubled home Baylor to give the Red Sox a 4-0 lead.
It wasn’t until the eighth inning when the Mets finally got to Bruce Hurst. Tim Teufel hit a one out solo homerun to put the Mets on the board. Then in the ninth, Mookie Wilson doubled with two outs and scored on Rafael Santana’s single, but Lenny Dykstra struck out to end the game.
The Mets now had to go back to Shea Stadium and win both games. Not an insurmountable task, but they’d have to face Roger Clemens in game six.
