1986 California Angels season

The California Angels' 1986 season was the franchise's 26th season and ended with the Angels losing the American League Championship Series in dramatic fashion.

1986 California Angels
1986 AL West Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Gene Autry
General manager(s)Mike Port
Manager(s)Gene Mauch
Local televisionKTLA
(Joe Torre, Bob Starr)
Local radioKMPC
(Ron Fairly, Al Conin)
XPRS
(Ruben Valentin, Ulpiano Cos Villa)
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The regular season ended with the Angels finishing 1st in the American League West with a record of 92-70, earning the franchise's third division title. After jumping to a 3-1 series lead over the Boston Red Sox in the best-of-seven ALCS, the Angels blew a 3-run lead in the 9th inning of Game 5 that included giving up a two-out, two-strike home run to Boston's Dave Henderson (in other words, the Angels were 1 strike away from the World Series). The Angels went on to lose Game 5 in extra innings, and eventually lost the next two games and the series.

After 1986, the Angels went into a lengthy playoff drought, not returning to the postseason until their championship season of 2002 (though they did come close in 1995). They would not win a division title again until 2004.

Offseason
  • November 19, 1985: DeWayne Buice was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels.[1]
  • December 5, 1985: Don Sutton was signed as a free agent by the Angels.[2]
  • December 20, 1985: Daryl Sconiers was released by the Angels.[3]
  • December 20, 1985: Geoff Zahn was released by the California Angels.[4]

Regular season
  • May 4, 1986: Reggie Jackson hit the 537th home run of his career off Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens, passing Mickey Mantle on the all-time home run list.
  • June 18, 1986: Don Sutton won the 300th game of his career. Sutton became the 19th pitcher in MLB history to win 300 games.
  • September 18, 1986: Reggie Jackson had 3 Home Runs and 7 RBIs in one game.

Season standings
AL West W L Pct. GB Home Road
California Angels 9270 0.568 — 50–32 42–38
Texas Rangers 8775 0.537 5 51–30 36–45
Kansas City Royals 7686 0.469 16 45–36 31–50
Oakland Athletics 7686 0.469 16 47–36 29–50
Chicago White Sox 7290 0.444 20 41–40 31–50
Minnesota Twins 7191 0.438 21 43–38 28–53
Seattle Mariners 6795 0.414 25 41–41 26–54

Record vs. opponents
1986 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —4–96–69–34–91–126–66–78–45–85–76–65–78–5
Boston 9–4—5–77–510–37–66–66–610–25–87–58–48–47–6
California 6–67–5—7–66–67–58–55–77–67–510–38–58–56–6
Chicago 3–95–76–7—5–76–67–65–76–76–67–68–52–116–6
Cleveland 9–43–106–67–5—4–98–48–56–65–810–29–36–63–10–1
Detroit 12–16–75–76–69–4—5–78–57–56–76–66–67–54–9
Kansas City 6–66–65–86–74–87–5—6–66–74–88–55–88–55–7
Milwaukee 7–66–67–57–55–85–86–6—4–88–55–76–64–87–6
Minnesota 4–82–106–77–66–65–77–68–4—4–86–76–76–74–8
New York 8–58–55–76–68–57–68–45–88–4—5–78–47–57–6
Oakland 7–55–73–106–72–106–65–87–57–67–5—10–33–108–4
Seattle 6–64–85–85–83–96–68–56–67–64–83–10—4–96–6
Texas 7–54–85–811–26–65–75–88–47–65–710–39–4—5–7
Toronto 5–86–76–66–610–3–19–47–56–78–46–74–86–67–5—

Notable transactions
  • June 2, 1986: Alan Mills was drafted by the California Angels in the 1st round (8th pick) of the 1986 amateur draft (Secondary Phase). Player signed June 10, 1986.[5]

Roster
1986 California Angels
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

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
CBob Boone14444298.222749
1BWally Joyner154593172.29022100
2BBobby Grich9831384.268930
SSDick Schofield139458114.2491357
3BDoug DeCinces140512131.2562696
LFBrian Downing152513137.2672095
CFGary Pettis154539139.258558
RFRuppert Jones12639390.2291749
DHReggie Jackson132419101.2411858

Other batters
Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Rob Wilfong9228863.219333
George Hendrick10228377.2721447
Rick Burleson9327177.284529
Jack Howell6315141.272421
Jerry Narron579521.22118
Darrell Miller335713.22804
Devon White295112.23513
Mark Ryal133212.37525
Gus Polidor6195.26301
Mark McLemore540.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Mike Witt3426918102.84208
Kirk McCaskill34246.117103.36202
Don Sutton3420715113.74116
Ron Romanick18106.1585.5038
John Candelaria16921022.5581
Jim Slaton1473.1465.6531
Ray Chadwick727.1057.249
Willie Fraser14.1008.312

Other pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Vern Ruhle1647.2134.1523
Urbano Lugo621.1113.809
Mike Cook59029.006

Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO
Donnie Moore4945212.9753
Doug Corbett4642103.6636
Terry Forster414153.5128
Gary Lucas274123.1531
Chuck Finley253103.3037
T.R. Bryden162106.5525
Ken Forsch100119.5313
Todd Fischer90004.247

ALCS
Main article: 1986 American League Championship Series
GameScoreDateLocationAttendance
1California – 8, Boston – 1October 7Fenway Park32,993
2California – 2, Boston – 9October 8Fenway Park32,786
3Boston – 3, California – 5October 10Anaheim Stadium64,206
4Boston – 3, California – 4 (11 innings)October 11Anaheim Stadium64,223
5Boston – 7, California – 6 (11 innings)October 12Anaheim Stadium64,223
6California – 4, Boston – 10October 14Fenway Park32,998
7California – 1, Boston – 8October 15Fenway Park33,001

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Edmonton Trappers Pacific Coast League Winston Llenas
AA Midland Angels Texas League Joe Maddon
A Palm Springs Angels California League Tom Kotchman
A Quad Cities Angels Midwest League Bill Lachemann
A-Short Season Salem Angels Northwest League Bruce Hines

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References
  1. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/buicede01.shtml
  2. Don Sutton at Baseball Reference
  3. Daryl Sconiers at Baseball Reference
  4. https://www.baseball-reference.com/z/zahnge01.shtml
  5. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/millsal01.shtml
  6. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997
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