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1990 Oakland Athletics #35 Bob Welch All-Star Game road jersey. Welch was the third starting pitcher in the rotation for the 1989 World Series champion Oakland A's, compiling a regular-season record of 17-8 and recording a win in his only start in the American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Welch, as of 2021, remains the last MLB pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season. [1] Fellow starter Dave Stewart , winner of 22 games, finished in a tie (with Pittsburgh starter Doug Drabek ) for the second-most wins in MLB. 1989 All-Star Mike Moore , 1991 All-Star Scott Sanderson , and longtime Athletic Curt Young rounded out the American ...
The 1990 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1990 season.The 87th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the defending champions and heavily favored American League (AL) champion Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds.
WP: Bob Welch (1–0) LP: Greg Harris (0–1) Sv: Dennis Eckersley (1) Game 2 saw the A's Bob Welch , the eventual 1990 American League Cy Young Award winner, take on Boston's Dana Kiecker . The Red Sox struck against Welch in the third, as Luis Rivera doubled, took third on a Jody Reed grounder, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Carlos Quintana .
Several starting pitchers have been credited with zero innings pitched, by not recording an out, the most recent being Bob Welch for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1981 World Series. Welch faced only four batters, allowing three hits and a walk, and was charged with two runs; his team ultimately won the game.
Denny McLain pitched to a 31–6 record during the 1968 Major League Baseball season. In baseball and softball, a win–loss record (also referred to simply as a record) is a statistic that indicates the number of wins (denoted "W") and losses (denoted "L") credited to a pitcher. For example, a 20–10 win–loss record would represent 20 wins ...
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The 1989 American League Championship Series was a semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 1989 postseason played between the Oakland Athletics and the Toronto Blue Jays from October 3 to 8. A dominant Oakland team took the Series four games to one, en route to a sweep of their cross-bay rivals, the San Francisco Giants , in a World Series ...