The baseball World Series is only played in the United States.The 1986 World Series pitted the National League champions New York Mets against the American League champions Boston Red Sox. The Mets won the series in the seventh game, after overcoming a nearly hopeless deficit in Game 6, a game in which the Red Sox were twice one strike away from victory and that ended on a famous error by Boston's first baseman Bill Buckner after their lead had already been blown. Game 6 has been cited in the legend of the "Curse of the Bambino" to explain the major comeback.The "Curse of the Bambino" is called that because after they traded away Babe Ruth they could not win another world series for over 69 years

The Mets entered the World Series as big favorites, having won 108 games during the regular season.The Boston Red Sox finally returned to the fall classic after an eleven year hiatus determined to shake the "Curse of the Bambino" once and for all. Although the "Beantown Bombers" had appeared in nine previous World Series contests (winning five), their last championship title had come an agonizing sixty-eight years prior (in 1918) when Babe Ruth pitched the Sox to two victories over the Chicago Cubs. This time Roger Clemens was on the hill and the Rocket had just completed a spectacular season in which he had compiled a 24-4 record and set a Major League mark with twenty strikeouts in a single regulation game. The New York Mets were making their third World Series appearance.

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