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1985 Los Angeles Dodgers season. The 1985 Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League West before losing to the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS. Fernando Valenzuela set a major league record for most consecutive innings at the start of a season without allowing an earned run (41).
Contents. 1985 National League Championship Series. The 1985 National League Championship Series was played between the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers from October 9–16. It was the 17th NLCS and the first played under the new best-of-seven format. In previous years, the NLCS had been settled by a best-of-five format.
In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals returned to the postseason for the second time in four years, and the Los Angeles Dodgers were making their fifth appearance in the last nine years. The playoffs began on October 8, 1985, and concluded on October 27, 1985, with the Royals defeating the Cardinals in seven games in the 1985 World ...
The two consecutive 89-loss seasons in 1986 and 1987 was followed by an improbable World Championship in 1988, highlighted by Kirk Gibson's walk-off homerun in Game 1 of the World Series, which was voted by the Los Angeles Times as the greatest moment in team history. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Currently, the Dodgers are in a stretch where they have won a ...
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 ...
From the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958, the Dodgers employed a handful of well-known public address announcers; the most famous of which was John Ramsey, who served as the PA voice of the Dodgers from 1958 until his retirement in 1982; he was also well known for announcing at other venerable Los Angeles venues, including ...
It was the first time since 1998 St. Louis met Los Angeles on opening day and the first time since 1984 St. Louis opened the season in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. Before his start on opening day Miles Mikolas added some flame to a dormant rivalry when describing the Dodgers. “We’re not exactly a low payroll team, but you got the Dodgers ...
The Dodgers won the tie-breaking playoff. 1959 also saw a team other than the Yankeeswin the A.L. pennant, one of only two such years in the 16-year stretch from 1949 through 1964, and because of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, this resulted in the first World Series since 1948 to have no games in New York City.