Records of Yankees vs. Mets:

Yankees:   Have won 26 World Series, more than any other team in history
                      (The nearest team, the St. Louis Cardinals, have won 9 World Series)
                       Since 1962, when the Mets started, the Yankees have won 7 World Series.

Mets:         Have won 2 World Series.

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Yankees:    Have swept a World Series 8 times, 4 times as much as the nearest
                         team, the New York Giants, with 2 Series sweeps.

Mets:         Have never swept a World Series.

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Yankees:   Have won 14 World Series games straight (1998, 1999 & 2000).
                       With their win on October 21, 2000, they broke all previous streak
                       records by winning 13 straight.    The next day in the World Series,
                       they broke their own record by winning yet again and extending this
                       incredible record to 14.

Mets:       Have never won two World Series in a row.
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Yankees:    Have won 3 World Series in a row 3 times (threepeating), 1936,
                        1937, 1938 & 1949, 1950, 1951 & 1998, 1999, 2000.    Only one other
                        team has won three World series in a row and then only once:
                        Oakland A's, 1972, 1973, 1974.

Mets:    Have never won back-to-back World Series.
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Yankees:  Won the longest World Series game in history, October 21, 2000, in 12
                        innings.

Mets:          Lost the longest World Series game in history, October 21, 2000—to the
                      Yankees.

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Yankees:  Have won 38 American League Pennants, more than 3 times the nearest
                       American League team, Philadelphia, with 12 Pennants and more than 2
                       times the nearest National League team, the New York Giants, with 15.
                       The Yankees have won 12 Pennants since 1962, when the Mets started.

Mets:       Have won 4 National league Pennants

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Yankees:   Hold the record for the most wins in a single season for teams going on
                         to win the World Series.   In 1998, the New York Yankees won 114 games
                         and won the World Series.   (In 1906 Chicago Cubs won 116 games, but
                         lost the World Series; in 2001 the Seattle Mariners also won 116 games,
                         but failed to make it to the World Series.)

Mets:     Hold the record for the most losses in a single season of all major league
                  teams, 120 in 1962.

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Yankees:   Have had three Perfect Games; more than any other team:  Don Larson,
                        1956; David Wells, 1998; and David Cone, 1999.  (Larson’s perfect game
                        was the only one ever pitched in a World Series game.)   Since 1962,
                        when the Mets started, the Yankees have pitched 2 perfect games.
                        No team has ever pitched a perfect game against the Yankees.

Mets:         Have never had a Perfect Game, but they lost one to Philadelphia in 1964.

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