Mets Calendar Classics - Mets Post Season Games Played On This Date: October 22nd

 

NY Daily News Back Page, 10/23/1986

Mets Tie '86 World Series as Gary Carter hits 2 homers and Yanks go up 2 Games to none in the 2000 Subway Series.

Year: 2000; World Series Game #2; Sunday; Oct 22, NYM 5 @ NYY 6; boxscore; WP: Roger Clemens; LP: Mike Hampton; Time: 3:30; Night; Attendance: 56,059; Record: 0-2; L;

Timo Pérez RF: 0 for 4; 1 K; Edgardo Alfonzo 2B: 1 for 3; HBP; 1 run; 1 K; Mike Piazza C: 1 for 4; HR; 1 run; 2 RBIs; Robin Ventura 3B: 1 for 4; 1 K; Todd Zeile 1B: 2 for 4; Benny Agbayani LF: 1 for 4; 1 run; 2 Ks; Lenny Harris DH: 0 for 4; 1 run; 1 K; Jay Payton CF: 1 for 4; HR; 1 run; 3 RBIs; 1 K; Mike Bordick SS: 0 for 2; 1 K; Darryl Hamilton PH: 0 for 1; 1 K; Kurt Abbott SS: 0 for 1; 1 K; Mike Hampton, L (2-2): 6 innings; 4 runs; 4 ERs; 8 hits; 1 HR; 5 walks; 4 Ks; Glendon Rusch: 0.1 inning; 1 run; 1 ER; 2 hits; Rick White: 1.1 innings; 1 run; 1 ER; 1 hit; 1 walk; 1 K; Dennis Cook: 0.1 inning; no runs; 1 hit; 

Yanks grab Game 2 of the 2000 Subway World Series to go up 2-0 in the Series.  Yanks score 4 off Mike Hampton and add 2 more against the Mets pen.  .Roger Clemens throws 8 scoreless innings, 2 hits, no walks, 9 Ks.  Down 6-0, the Mets rally against Jeff Nelson and Mariano Rivera.  Mike Piazza hits a 2-run homer off Jeff Nelson and Jay Payton a 3-run home run off Rivera.  In between, Todd Zeile just missed a homer as Clay Bellinger made a catch at the wall.  Rivera recovered after Payton's homer to strike out Kurt Abbott to end it.

The game was not without controversy as Clemens shattered Mike Piazza;s bat in the 1st inning with the pieces flying out toward the mound.  As Piazza was running to 1st, Clemens threw one of the jagged pieces toward the foul line near Piazza.  Benches emptied, no punches were thrown and the game resumed.

The Mets protested the game saying that Clemens should have been ejected for throwing a bat, with Commissioner Bud Selig in attendance, the protest was denied and Clemens stayed in the game.  

NY Post: "'I was fired up and emotional and grabbed the bat to sling it toward our on-deck circle,' Clemens said. 'I had no idea Mike was running on the foul ball.'...'I would have been angry,' an irate Torre said when asked how he would have felt if he were Piazza’s manager. 'But we have to ask one other question: Why would he throw a bat at him? Answer my question, why would he do it?'"

Year: 1986; World Series Game #4; Wednesday; Oct 22, NYM 6 @ BOS 2; boxscore; WP: Ron Darling; LP: Al Nipper; Save: Jesse Orosco; Time: 3:22; Night; Attendance: 33,920; Record: 2-2; W;

Lenny Dykstra CF: 1 for 5; HR; 1 run; 2 RBIs; Wally Backman 2B: 2 for 4; SB; 1 run; Keith Hernandez 1B: 0 for 3; 1 walk; Gary Carter C: 3 for 4; 2·HR,2B; 2 runs; 3 RBIs; 1 K; Darryl Strawberry RF: 2 for 4; 2B,CS; 1 run; Ray Knight 3B: 2 for 4; 1 RBI; 1 K; Danny Heep DH: 0 for 4; GDP; Mookie Wilson LF: 2 for 4; 2·SB; 1 run; Rafael Santana SS: 0 for 4; 2 Ks; Ron Darling, W (1-1): 7 innings; no runs; 4 hits; 6 walks; 4 Ks; Roger McDowell: 0.2 inning; 2 runs; 2 ERs; 3 hits; 1 walk; Jesse Orosco, S (1): 1.1 innings; no runs; 1 K; 

Mets tie the '86 World Series at 2 games each.  Gary Carter hits 2 homers driving in 3 runs, Lenny Dykstra hits another homer and Ron Darling throws 7 scoreless innings.