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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 Baltimore Orioles season was the 108th season in Baltimore Orioles franchise history, the 55th in Baltimore, and the 17th at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The Orioles entered the 2008 season led by Dave Trembley , now starting his first full season as manager.
July 13 – Dave Ricketts, 73, catcher and longtime coach for the Cardinals who played on their 1967 World Series champions and was a coach on the 1982 World Series winners; July 14 – Red Foley, 79, sportswriter for the New York Daily News for 34 years who was also an official scorer in 10 World Series, more than any other scorer in modern ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Fifty years ago, the Orioles seemed a team for the ages: four 20-game winning pitchers, four Gold Glove fielders and a quartet of soon-to-be Hall of Famers, including their irascible manager. In ...
The shortstop's biggest play, though, was defensively when he tagged out Jo Adell at second base after a great throw by catcher James McCann for the final out as the Orioles held on for a 6-5 victory.
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.
They did not play in a World Series until 1944 – when most other teams were decimated by the war – and had no winning seasons between 1946 and their sixth season in Baltimore as the "Orioles" in 1959. Starting in 1960, the Orioles became contenders, finishing in second place in 1960 and third place in 1961, 1964 and 1965.