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Under second-year manager John Felske, the Phillies stayed just below
the .500 mark for roughly 2/3s of the season, until a charge after
the All-Star break pushed the club past the St. Louis Cardinals and
Montreal Expos into second
place in the NL East. Unfortunately, the New York Mets finished with a
major-league best 108-54 record, and finished 21 1/2 games ahead of
the Phils. Mike
Schmidt became the first third baseman in the history of the National League
to win the MVP Award three times.[1]
Offseason
Regular
season
Veterans Stadium on Phillies Opening Night, April 11, 1986.
On August 20, 1986, pitcher Don Carman took a perfect game into the
ninth inning against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick
Park. Giants catcher Bob Brenly hit a long drive into the gap in
left-center field. Phillies center fielder Milt Thompson was positioned
to make a running catch but the ball hit the base of his glove and
was ruled a hit.[5] Carman
pitched nine innings, gave up one hit, and was the winner when the
Phillies scored in the top of the tenth on a Juan Samuel solo homer
to win the game 1 to 0.[6]
The Phillies were the only team in the National League to post a
winning record against the World Series champs, going 10-8 with a
7-2 mark at Veterans Stadium. One of the season
highlights was the Phillies three-game sweep of the Mets in
mid-September. On September 12, up by 22-games, the Mets needed to
win one game to clinch the division and came to Philadelphia for a
weekend-series. The Phillies won all three games, finishing the
weekend by beating the Mets 6-0 behind a six-hit shutout by Kevin Gross who also
tripled home two-runs. The sweep still left the Phillies down
19-games but was especially satisfying given the significant number
of Mets fans who had traveled to Veterans Stadium for the weekend
hoping to see the Mets clinch. [7]
The club scored a season-high 19 runs in a 19-1 throttling of
the Chicago Cubs at the Vet on
June 23.
Hall-of-Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt won the NL MVP for the third
and final time in his career with a league-high 37 home runs with
119 RBI and a .290 average.[8]
Season
standings
Notable
transactions
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Player
stats
Batting
Starters by
position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H =
Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted
In
| Pos |
Player |
G |
AB |
H |
Avg. |
HR |
RBI |
| 3B |
Schmidt, MikeMike Schmidt |
160 |
552 |
160 |
.290 |
37 |
119 |
Other
batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. =
Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In
| Player |
G |
AB |
H |
Avg. |
HR |
RBI |
| Gross, GregGreg Gross |
87 |
101 |
25 |
.248 |
0 |
8 |
Pitching
Starting
pitchers
Other
pitchers
Relief
pitchers
Awards and
honors
Farm
system
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Notes
- ^
Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.152, David
Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, NY,
ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
- ^
Jerry Koosman page at Baseball
Reference
- ^
Tim Corcoran page at Baseball
Reference
- ^
Alan Knicely page at Baseball
Reference
- ^
Robbins, Michael (2004). Ninety
Feet from Fame: Close Calls with Baseball Immortality. New
York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 244.
- ^
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN198608200.shtml
- ^
"Mets end lost weekend in
silence". Boca Raton News. 1986-09-15.
p. 3B. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ncIPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7020,3452145&dq=phillies+mets+sweep. Retrieved
2009-07-14.
- ^
Bernstein, Ralph (1986-11-20). "Schmidt wins third MVP
crown". The Daily Collegian.
p. 12. http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/BasicArch/Client.asp?Skin=BasicArch&&AppName=2&enter=true&BaseHref=DCG/1986/11/20&EntityId=Ar01201. Retrieved
2009-07-14.
- ^
Tom Gorman page at Baseball
Reference
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Dave Stewart page at Baseball
Reference
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Chuck Knoblauch page at
Baseball Reference
- ^
Steve Carlton page at Baseball
Reference
- ^
Dan Schatzeder page at
Baseball Reference
- ^
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of
Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, N.C.:
Baseball America, 1997 and 2007
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