1986 Mets legend sees 1 main similarity between World Series-winning club and this year's squad

NEW YORK, NY – There is magic successful Queens, and portion it's a spot excessively aboriginal to comparison this year's New York Mets to the legendary 1986 team, 2 members of that squad spot a small spot of themselves erstwhile they ticker the television.

Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry are the honorees for Wednesday night's ceremonial archetypal pitch, and their names are everlastingly etched successful Mets lore.

The enactment cemented their legacies everlastingly by retiring some of their numbers past year, arsenic they were the 2 superstars who helped the Mets triumph their 2nd rubric 38 years agone – it's their astir caller one. But not if this nine has thing to accidental astir it.

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Former New York Mets prima Darryl Strawberry

Gooden was asked what helium sees this twelvemonth arsenic compared to 1986, and helium kept it simple.

"I deliberation the lineup is precise deep, our lineup was precise deep, that anybody tin wounded you. There's nary 1 feline you tin transportation astir oregon consciousness comfy with," helium said.

But Strawberry sees 1 cardinal similarity with however some squads are ne'er retired of it until the last out. 

"I deliberation these guys are truly believing successful themselves, which is good. They had a precocious tally astatine the extremity of the play to get to this place, [Francisco] Lindor has travel up with immoderate large hits for them successful important situations," Strawberry said. "That's what it takes."

The Mets began the play 0-5, past were arsenic atrocious arsenic 22-33. But from that people on, they owned the champion grounds successful baseball, and their come-from-behind wins implicit the past mates of weeks person been thing abbreviated of miraculous.

New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor (12) celebrates with teammates aft hitting a expansive slam against the Philadelphia Phillies during the sixth inning successful Game 4 of the NLDS connected Oct. 9. (Brad Penner-Imagn Images)

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Even Pete Alonso accomplished, rather literally, an MLB first. In Game 3 of the wild-card series, Alonso's three-run location tally portion trailing 2-0 successful the apical of the ninth was the first successful MLB history by a subordinate erstwhile his squad was trailing successful the 9th inning oregon aboriginal of a winner-take-all postseason game, according to OPTA Stats.

"Pete, with his large location tally successful Milwaukee, was a existent turning constituent for them arsenic a group. It takes each these guys to perform, they each did. That's what it takes to beryllium a bully squad to triumph a championship. These guys are bully successful these situations …" Strawberry added. "They conscionable bash the small things conscionable similar we did. You don't person to truly lb connected 1 peculiar feline to bash it each the time. We play today, we triumph today, whoever wants to bash it, bash it. That's what shot is each about. … They've done a large occupation taking vantage of those situations similar we did."

Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry be the 1986 Mets 30th day reunion solemnisation astatine Citi Field, May 28, 2016, successful New York City. (Adrian Edwards/WireImage)

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Strawberry evidently knows that from experience: His 1986 Mets were down 3-0 successful the bottommost of the ninth successful Game 6 of that World Series earlier their unthinkable rally. Even the adjacent night, they trailed 3-0 again but fought backmost to triumph the Fall Classic.

The Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers conscionable up successful Citi Field for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series aboriginal Wednesday with the bid tied astatine one.

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