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The 1990 Boston Red Sox season was the 90th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished first in the American League East with a record of 88 wins and 74 losses. It was the third AL East division championship in five years for the Red Sox.
The 1990 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball's 1990 postseason that matched the East Division champion Boston Red Sox against the West Division champion Oakland Athletics. For the second time in three years, the Athletics swept the Red Sox four games to none.
The White Sox defeat the Boston Red Sox 7–5. September 22 – Andre Dawson of the Chicago Cubs steals his 300th base in an 11–5 loss to the New York Mets , becoming only the second player in major league history with 300 home runs, 300 steals, and 2,000 hits.
See 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike. e The Red Sox finished 95–67 and with the same record as the New York Yankees, but since the Yankees had won the season series between the two teams, the Yankees were declared division winners and the Red Sox qualified for the postseason as the American League Wild Card.
Note that these records reflect statistics only for a player's tenure with the Red Sox. For example, David Ortiz hit a total of 541 home runs during his MLB career; 483 with the Red Sox and 58 with the Minnesota Twins [1] —thus, Ted Williams' 521 home runs, all hit with the Red Sox, is the team record.
This was the third postseason meeting between the Red Sox and Athletics. The Athletics once again swept the Red Sox and advanced to the World Series for the third year in a row (in the process denying a rematch of the 1975 World Series between the Red Sox and Reds). The series was not close - the Red Sox were held to just one run in all four games.
At 28 years old, Theo Epstein became the youngest general manager in baseball history. He was with the Boston Red Sox from 2003 to 2011 before joining the Chicago Cubs as their president of ...
The Most Valuable Player of that Series was former Red Sox pitcher and Baseball Hall of Fame player Dennis Eckersley, who saved all four wins for Oakland. Two years later, in 1990, the Red Sox again won the division and face the Athletics in the ALCS. However, the outcome was the same, with the A's sweeping the ALCS in four straight.