The team cruised through the 1986 regular season, building a double-digit lead before July that only widened in the second half of the season. After the Mets dropped the opening game of the 1986 National League Championship Series to the Houston Astros, Ojeda pitched a complete game to easily win Game 2. He also started Game 6, but gave up three runs in the first inning. The Mets recovered to tie the game in the ninth, and won in sixteen innings to earn a trip to the World Series. The Mets' opponents in the World Series were Ojeda's old team, the Boston Red Sox.