This week in the 1986 Mets (July 3 - 9)

Thirty years prior to this picture being taken, Ray Knight and Darryl Strawberry did big things 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 as well as interviews past and present. This week, we cover July 3-9, which includes one of the author’s all-time favorite games.

Foreshadowing

You may be familiar with a game in which the Mets trailed 5-3 in the bottom of the 10th inning, but scored three runs to win, including a game-winning…