Morning Briefing: Mets set for ’86 salute

1:28 AM ET

NEW YORK — Get ready to party like it’s 1986. Just keep it legal, please.

With 30 years having passed, the New York Mets will honor their last championship team in a pregame ceremony Saturday at Citi Field. Virtually every member of the squad that magically beat the Boston Red Sox in the World Series will be on hand.

The Mets then will send Noah Syndergaard (5-2, 1.94 ERA) to the mound to face Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Kenta Maeda (3-3, 3.29). Syndergaard homered twice against Maeda at Dodger Stadium on May 11.

Curtis Granderson and the Mets are sporting the 1986 throwbacks all weekend. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

With Fox having television rights for the 7:15 p.m. ET game, the Mets will exclusively stream the pregame ceremony on the team’s web site.

SATURDAY’S NEWS REPORTS:

Jeurys Familia allowed four runs in the top of the ninth inning, including a three-run double by National League Division Series villain Chase Utley. But Curtis Granderson bailed out the closer with a solo homer to lead off the bottom half as the Mets posted a 6-5 walk-off win Friday against the Dodgers. Granderson had gone 11 years since his last walk-off homer. Jacob deGrom continued to have command issues, but he also continued to gut through effective performances. He limited the Dodgers to one run on three hits, three walks and a hit batter in seven innings. Juan Lagares drove in a career-high-matching three runs and David Wright homered in his third straight game. Dodgers phenom Julio Urias, just 19 years old, lasted only 2⅔ innings in his major league debut. Mets manager Terry …

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