This week in the 1986 Mets (Game 3 through 6)

Lenny Dykstra's home run in Game 3 was one of many huge hits for the Mets.Each week, we’ll commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1986 New York Mets championship run. We’ll focus on the memorable games, players, stories and stats and the journey of dominance taken by one of New York’s greatest baseball teams. We’ll be aided by media accounts from the New York papers (especially the Daily News, which published every article after the season in a book titled “Yes!”) as well as interviews past and present.

After one of the most dominant regular seasons in baseball history, the Mets began what would be an epic postseason run. Their NLCS matchup was an Astros team that played the Mets tough…