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Re-Live The 1986 ALCS (Sort Of) Through My Seven Game Recaps

Back in 2016, I rewatched the 1986 American League Championship Series and wrote game recaps of the seven games for The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game Six, published by the Society for American Baseball Research.

While I know about SABR's Games Project, an ever-growing library of accounts of games both notable and ordinary throughout baseball history, I must have forgotten that the recaps would be added to the Games Project. So I took a look. . . . And there they are.

Game 1: October  7, 1986: Angels roar to win in ALCS openerGame 2: October  8, 1986: Sun shines on Red Sox in ALCS Game TwoGame 3: October 10, 1986: Late rally lifts Angels to Game Three win over Red SoxGame 4: October 11, 1986: Angels move one win closer to World SeriesGame 5: October 12, 1986: Dave Henderson's homer keeps Red Sox hopes alive in Game FiveGame 6: October 14, 1986: Barrett continues hot streak as Red Sox roll in Game SixGame 7: October 15, 1986: Red Sox complete epic ALCS comeback over Angels

From Game 1:

TV Note: Although ABC showed a pregame segment — "The Frustrations of the Red Sox in the '70s" — detailing the franchise's "agonies of the not-so-distant past," announcers Al Michaels and Jim Palmer made only one mention of Boston not having won a World Series title since 1918.