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1978 World Series. The 1978 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1978 season. The 75th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. In a rematch of the previous year's ...
Game 6 of the 1978 World Series was the last for Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, who died in a plane crash on August 2, 1979, at Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] These historical rivals would meet each other once more in the 1981 World Series , and in that series the Dodgers would prevail.
1978 →. The 1977 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1977 season. The 74th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. [2] The Yankees defeated the Dodgers four ...
1978 MLB season. In the 1978 Major League Baseball season, the New York Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers to win their second consecutive World Series, and 22nd overall, in a rematch of the prior season's Fall Classic. The Yankees overcame clubhouse turmoil, a mid-season managerial change, and a 14-game mid-July deficit in the American ...
Oakland Athletics (1981) Career highlights and awards. World Series champion (1978) Brian Reed Doyle (born January 26, 1954) is an American former Major League Baseball infielder. Although a reserve for most of his career, Doyle starred in the 1978 World Series for the World Champion New York Yankees who beat the Los Angeles Dodgers.
ALCS. 1979 →. The 1978 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff pitting the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Royals for the American League pennant and the right to represent the American League in the 1978 World Series. The Yankees defeated the Royals for the third straight year to win the pennant.
In Game 3 of the 1955 World Series, he drew a walk with the bases loaded in the second inning to give the Dodgers the lead for good, and he drove in the first run of the 8–5 Game 4 win; the Dodgers won in seven games for their first Series championship. In the 1956 World Series, he walked with one out in the tenth inning of Game 6 and scored ...
The 1978 season ended with the Los Angeles Dodgers winning their second straight National League pennant and losing to the New York Yankees in the World Series again. Dodger coach Jim Gilliam died at the end of the season and his uniform number, 19, was retired by the team prior to Game 1 of the World Series; the team also wore a black memorial patch with Gilliam's number during the World Series.