Can't help but to think so much of this 1973 season reminds me of 1986 IRL.
Mets had best record in baseball, ran away from all challengers to win NL East...and then scraped by en route to winning the World Series. This post season has a deja vu about it and hopefully with the same happy recap at its conclusion.
In order for New York to secure a ticket to its fourth consecutive World Series, it had to outlast the Cincinnati Reds in a grueling five-gam NLCS that closed with the Mets slugging their way to a 13-8 victory.
Fun game with a lot of managerial moves. Thought we were comfortably ahead before Wilbur Wood suffered a rare poor showing, walking the yard in the fifth to transform a 6-1 cushion into a 6-5 nail biter.
Johnny Bench's 3-run homer in the sixth and a two-run blasts from Tony Perez and Don Money in the eighth pushed us across the finish line and into the Fall Classic opposite the Boston Red Sox (told ya it feels like '86).
