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Boston Red Sox vs New York Mets
October 25, 1986 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 25, 1986 at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"(Rick) Aguilera threw the baseball. It was fast. It was hard. It was right over the heart of the plate. It was gone. Henderson hopped high into the air, and while jogging backward down the first base line, he watched the ball soar through the sky and smack a Newsday sign above (Mookie) Wilson's head in left. Shea was a morgue. 'It's so quiet in New York, said (Vin) Scully, 'you can almost hear Boston." - Author Jeff Pearlman in The Bad Guys Won! (2004) |
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| Game played on Saturday, October 25, 1986 at Shea Stadium |
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| Boston |
1 | 1 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | – | 5 | 13 | 3 |
| New York |
0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 2 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 3 | – | 6 | 8 | 2 |
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| Boston Red Sox |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Clemens |
7.0 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
8 |
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Schiraldi L (0-1) |
2.2 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
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Stanley |
0.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals |
9.2 |
8 |
6 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
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| New York Mets |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Ojeda |
6.0 |
8 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
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McDowell |
1.2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
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Orosco |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Aguilera W (1-0) |
2.0 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
| Totals |
10.0 |
13 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
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E–Buckner (1), Evans (1), Gedman (2), Knight (1), Elster (1). DP–Boston 1, New York 1. 2B–Boston Evans (1,off Ojeda); Boggs (3,off Aguilera). HR–Boston Henderson (2,10th inning off Aguilera 0 on, 0 out). SH–Owen (1,off McDowell); Dykstra (2,off Schiraldi); Backman (1,off Schiraldi). HBP–Buckner (1,by Aguilera). IBB–Boggs (1,by McDowell); Hernandez (1,by Schiraldi). SF–Carter (1,off Schiraldi). SB–Strawberry 2 (3,2nd base off Clemens/Gedman 2). WP–Stanley (1). HBP–Aguilera (1,Buckner). IBB–Schiraldi (1,Hernandez); McDowell (2,Boggs). U–Dale Ford (AL), John Kibler (NL), Jim Evans (AL), Harry Wendelstedt (NL), Ed Montague (NL), Joe Brinkman (AL). T–4:02. A–55,078. |
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| Game played on Saturday, October 25, 1986 at Shea Stadium |
| Baseball Almanac Box Score |
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After Game 6 Mookie Wilson said, "I don’t feel sorry for Bill Buckner. Bill doesn’t want ANYONE to feel sorry for him because what happened, was baseball. That play (the ball hit between the legs) has happened a thousand times before then and it will happen a thousand times after so long as we keep playing this game." Gary Carter said about the same play, "It’s amazing to me that Bill has been scrutinized so badly for a play that even if he makes the catch I‘m not sure he beats Mookie to the bag. Everybody forgets that it still wasn’t the series. There was still Game 7."
Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.
Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."
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