Trivia
- This series was the first time since the 1975 World Series that a home team lost Game 7 after winning Game 6.
- The seventh game of the series was the second Game 7 played at Shea Stadium; the only other seventh game was in the 1986 World Series in which the Mets beat the Boston Red Sox 8–5 to win the World Championship.
- Mets' left fielder Endy Chávez earned a 2006 "This Year in Baseball" Award (TYIB), in the category of "best postseason play of the year" for making the leaping grab at the left field wall in Game 7 robbing a home run from Cardinals' Scott Rolen and afterwards turning it into a double play.
- The Mets' record in seventh games is 1–3, with their only Game 7 win coming in the 1986 World Series against the Boston Red Sox. Their last Game 7 loss was the seventh game of the 1988 National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers as young hurler Orel Hershiser pitched a complete game shutout at Dodger Stadium. They also lost Game 7 of the 1973 World Series to the Oakland A's.
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