The 1988 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball’s 1988 season. It was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League champion Oakland Athletics and the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers. It is best known for the pinch-hit walk-off home run hit by Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson, who could barely walk due to injuries suffered during the NL Championship Series.
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The 1988 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball’s 1988 season. It was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League champion Oakland Athletics and the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers. It is best known for the pinch-hit walk-off home run hit by Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson, who could barely walk due to injuries suffered during the NL Championship Series. World Series MVP Orel Hershiser capped a dominant 1988 season in which he set the all time scoreless inning streak at 59 innings, recorded five straight shutouts, and won the Cy Young and Gold Glove awards. The Dodgers were the only MLB team to win more than one World Series title in the 1980s; their other World series title during the decade came in 1981. The 1988 World series marked Don Baylor’s third consecutive World Series with a member of the Boston Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins. The Oakland pitching staff was possibly the best in the 1988 season, with Mark McGwire and José Canseco emerging as young superstars. The Los Angeles bullpen led the league in saves with 49, with Dave Parker and Tim Leary leading the way with 20 wins and Tim Belcher with 20. The Athletics won the AL West division by 13 games over theMinnesota Twins, then swept the BostonRed Sox, 4 games to 0, in the AL Championship Series, and then won the World Series in five games. The A’s were also the only team in the league to win 20 or more games for the second straight season, and were second in second in fewest runs allowed and fewest home runs allowed.
The American League also won the Most Valuable Player award for the third time in its history, with the Oakland Athletics taking the award from the New York Mets in 1987. The Yankees won the NL World Series for the first time in their history, beating the Dodgers in five. The World Series marked the last time two teams from the same league won three consecutive titles in the same season, the Dodgers and the Yankees in 1987 and 1988. The Series was won by the Dodgers by a score of 4-2 in Game 5, and the Athletics by 2-1 in the Game 6, to win the Series in six games in a row. The series was decided by a two-run, complete game in the decisive Game 5 victory in the seventh game of the Series, with a homer by Gibson in the eighth game. The game was the last in which the Dodgers’ team batting did not finish in the top five in any offensive statistical category except batting average, at. 248—no regular or backup hit over. 300 or drove in over 90 runs. The last time the Dodgers were sixth in the NL in runs scored and backed that up with excellent pitching. The team’s pitching was anchored by Cy Young Award-winner Orel Hershiser, who led league in wins, won-loss percentage, complete games, shutouts, and sacrifice hits. The Dodgers’ bullpen was headed by Jay Howell and Alejandro Peña.
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