This week in the 1986 Mets (Sept. 5 - 11)

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.

Eighth is more than enough

After a rainout, the Mets swept three straight from the Padres, including a pair of one-run wins. The first was the most dramatic, as the Mets came back from a run down in the eighth inning, tying on a Keith Hernandez hit and winning on a…