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The 2008 Major League Baseball season began on March 25, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan with the 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox defeating the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome 6–5 (in 10 innings) in the first game of a two-game series, [1] [2] and ended on September 30 with the host Chicago White Sox defeating the Minnesota Twins in a one-game playoff to win the AL Central.
The 2008 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2008 season. The 104th edition of the World Series, [2] it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies and the American League (AL) champion Tampa Bay Rays; the Phillies won the series, four games to one. The 2008 ...
The 2008 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby (known through sponsorship as the State Farm Home Run Derby) was a home run hitting contest in Major League Baseball (MLB) between four batters each from the American League and National League.
September 24 – Mickey Vernon, 90, seven-time All-Star first baseman and two-time AL batting champion with the 1901–1960 Washington Senators who set several fielding records during a four-decade, 20-year (1939–1943; 1946–1960) career with five MLB teams; first manager of the "expansion" Senators (now the Texas Rangers) from 1961 to May 1963
2008–2014 A+ 23 Brian Ruggiano 2B Texas A&M University: Yes 2008–2011 A 24 Fabian Feliciano LHP Puerto Rico Baseball Academy: Yes 2008–2014 A 25 Jerry Sands: OF Catawba College: Yes 2008–2021 MLB: 26 Cody Weiss RHP Parkland High School: No Mariners-2011 2011–2012 A- 27 Clayton Allison RHP California State University, Fresno: Yes 2008 ...
The 2008 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of the National League side in Major League Baseball’s 2008 postseason, was a best-of-seven baseball game series. The series matched the NL West Champion and third-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers against the NL East Champion and second-seeded Philadelphia Phillies , who had home ...
Davis, for his part, has had a less-than-stellar 2008 season, he is 4-7 with a 4.75 ERA as of late August.) May was a much different month for the D-backs. The team saw a sharp decline in hitting and run production compared to April, and was their first losing month (11-17) since September 2006.
Mariano Rivera pitched the top of the 9th inning, and the final batter was Baltimore's Brian Roberts, who hit a ground-ball out to Yankee first baseman Cody Ransom, closing out 83 years of baseball history. After the game, Derek Jeter addressed the crowd, thanking them for their support over the years, and urging them to "take the memories of ...