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The 1989 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1989 season. The 86th 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 San Francisco Giants. The Series ran from October 14 through October 28 ...
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]
October 28 – The Oakland Athletics complete a four-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants in the 1989 World Series. It's the first WS sweep since 1976. Oakland pitcher Dave Stewart, who won two games, is named MVP. It is also the latest in the calendar year that a World Series game has ever been played up to this point.
The Blue Jays, powered by their offense, won their pennant in the final weekend of the season. [1] The Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants stole the spotlight in the National League, but the Giants proved to be more dominant with a strong hitting presence, while the Cubs extended their streak without a World Series championship to 81 years. [1]
The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta quake struck at exactly 5:04 p.m., at the height of rush hour and just before the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the ...
The Athletics would return to the World Series the following year, but were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in one of the biggest upsets in World Series history. This was the last championship won by a team from Oakland until the NBA's Golden State Warriors won the 2015 NBA Finals over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1989 winner Dave Stewart was the first pitcher to win two games each in a League Championship Series and a World Series in the same postseason. 1996 winner John Wetteland set a World Series record with four saves. [116] The 2001 co-MVPs, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, combined for all four of Arizona's wins in the Series. [71]
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