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| 1988 World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 15–20 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles) Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum (Oakland) | |||||||||
| MVP | Orel Hershiser (Los Angeles) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Doug Harvey (NL), Durwood Merrill (AL), Bruce Froemming (NL), Derryl Cousins (AL), Jerry Crawford (NL), Larry McCoy (AL) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Umpire: Doug Harvey Dodgers: Tommy Lasorda (manager) Athletics: Tony La Russa (manager) Dennis Eckersley | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola | |||||||||
| Radio | CBS KABC (LA) KSFO (OAK) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jack Buck and Bill White Ross Porter and Don Drysdale (KABC) Bill King and Lon Simmons (KSFO) | |||||||||
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| ALCS | Oakland Athletics over Boston Red Sox (4–0) | |||||||||
| NLCS | Los Angeles Dodgers over New York Mets (4–3) | |||||||||
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The 1988 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1988 season. The 85th 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 Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers upsetting the heavily favored Athletics to win the Series in five games to win their sixth championship.
The series is best known for the Game 1 pinch-hit walk-off home run by star Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson, who did not start because of injuries to both legs yet hit the winning homer against Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley. Although Gibson's homer has become an iconic World Series moment, it was World Series MVP Orel Hershiser who capped a dominant 1988 season in which he set the all time scoreless inning streak at 59 innings, recorded five straight shutouts, led the league with 23 wins and 267 innings, and won the Cy Young and Gold Glove awards. Hershiser was the NL Championship Series MVP, starting three games, getting the save for Game 4, and shutting out the Mets in Game 7. In the World Series, he shut out the A's in Game 2, and pitched a two-run, complete game in the decisive Game 5 victory.
The Dodgers won the NL West division by seven games over the Cincinnati Reds, then upset the New York Mets, 4 games to 3, in the NLCS. The Athletics won the AL West division by 13 games over the Minnesota Twins, then swept the Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 0, in the AL Championship Series.
The Dodgers were the only MLB team to win more than one World Series title in the 1980s, as they had previously won the championship in 1981. Their victory also broke a 10-year streak in which 10 different major league ballclubs won a World Series with no repeat winners.[1] They would not win another World Series until 2020.
- ^ Paul (March 1, 2012). High Fives, Pennant Drives, and Fernandomania: A Fan's History of the Los Angeles Dodgers' Glory Years (1977-1981). Santa Monica Press. ISBN 9781595808530 – via Google Books.