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The 1988 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1988 season.The 85th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers upsetting the heavily favored Athletics to win the Series in five games to win their ...
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]
The 1988 Major League Baseball season ended with the underdog Los Angeles Dodgers shocking the Oakland Athletics, who had won 104 games during the regular season, in the World Series. The most memorable moment of the series came in Game 1, when injured Dodger Kirk Gibson hit a dramatic pinch-hit walk-off home run off Athletics closer Dennis ...
With their World Series win, the Dodgers were the only team to win two World Series in the 1980s, with their first in the decade coming in 1981. Following the conclusion of the 1988 World Series, the Dodgers would not win another playoff series until 2008, would not win another pennant until 2017, and would not win the World Series again until ...
The L.A. Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Game 6 to capture their first World Series title in 32 years.
LOS ANGELES — Back in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series at Chavez Ravine, Kirk Gibson hit one of the most dramatic homers in baseball history. ... Yankees manager Aaron Boone went to the mound ...
The 1988 season was a memorable one for the Los Angeles Dodgers as a squad that was picked to finish fourth wound up winning the World Series, beating the heavily favored New York Mets and Oakland Athletics along the way.
Whitey Herzog, the Hall of Fame manager who guided the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series title, has died. He was 92. “Whitey spent his last few days surrounded by his family," the ...