1986 California Angels season

MLB yearly infobox
name = California Angels
season = 1986
misc = 1986 AL West Champions

current league = American League
y1 = 1961
division = West Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform logo =
ballpark = Anaheim Stadium
y4 = 1966
city = Anaheim, California
y5 = 1966
owners = Gene Autry
managers = Gene Mauch
television =KTLA
(Joe Torre, Bob Starr)
radio = KMPC
(Ron Fairly, Dick Enberg, Al Conin)
XPRS
(Ruben Valentin, Ulpiano Cos Villa)|

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.

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 famous two-out, two-strike home run to Boston's Dave Henderson. 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 memorable 2002 playoff run (though they did come close in 1995). They would not win a division title again until 2004.

Regular season

One of the highlights of the season was Don Sutton winning his 300th game. Sutton became the 19th pitcher to win 300 games.

* May 4, 1986 – Reggie Jackson hit the 537th home run of his career. He hit the home run off Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens and passed Mickey Mantle on the all-time home run list.
* September 18, 1986 – Reggie Jackson had 3 Home Runs and 7 RBIs in one game.

eason standings

Transactions

*December 5, 1985: Don Sutton was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels. [ http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/suttodo01.shtml]

Player stats

Batting

"Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In"

Other pitchers

Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball". Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 1997]

* Class AAA: Edmonton Trappers (Pacific Coast League; Winston Llenas, manager)
* Class AA: Midland Angels (Texas League; Joe Maddon, manager)
* Class A: Palm Springs Angels (California League; Tom Kotchman, manager)
* Class A: Quad Cities Angels (Midwest League; Bill Lachemann, manager)
* Class SS-A: Salem Angels (Northwest League; Bruce Hines, manager)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CAL/1986.shtml 1986 California Angels team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1986&t=CAL 1986 California Angels team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]

succession box
title = AL West Championship Season
years = 1986
before = Kansas City Royals
1985
after = Minnesota Twins
1987