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The 1985 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1985 season. The 82nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Kansas City Royals and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Royals upset the heavily favored Cardinals in ...
The Dodgers took Game 1 as Fernando Valenzuela out-dueled the Cardinals' John Tudor, and in Game 2, Orel Hershiser pitched a complete game as the Dodgers blew out the Cardinals to take a 2–0 series lead headed to St. Louis. The Cardinals got on the board in the series with a 4–2 victory in Game 3.
The 1985 Major League Baseball season ended with the Kansas City Royals defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh game of the I-70 World Series. Bret Saberhagen, the regular season Cy Young Award winner, was named MVP of the Series. The National League won the All-Star Game for the second straight year.
It was the greatest moment in Dodgers’ history since Gibson’s Game 1 homer in the 1988 World Series against the Oakland A’s, and just like Gibson’s blast, will live forever in World Series ...
Orel Hershiser and Steve Yeager, who played on the Dodgers’ World Series championship teams in 1988 and 1981, respectively, wore Valenzuela jerseys to the mound for the ceremonial first pitch.
The 1988 champions had Bulldog; the 2024 champions had Buehler. “It was all adrenaline,” said Buehler, who epitomized this team’s grit with his first relief appearance in six years.
Clark promptly drilled Niedenfuer's first fastball 450 feet (140 m) into the left field stands for a pennant-winning home run. Demoralized, the Dodgers went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth, with Pedro Guerrero popping up for the final out. The Cardinals would eventually lose in 7 games to the Kansas City Royals in the World Series.
Dodgers rally from an early five-run deficit to beat the Yankees 7-6 and secure their first full-season championship since 1988. It's the eighth championship in franchise history.