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The 1984 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1984 season.The 81st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Detroit Tigers and the National League (NL) champion San Diego Padres.
The Tigers won the 1984 World Series, defeating the San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1. The season was their 84th since they entered the American League in 1901. It was the franchise's best season in terms of overall wins (104) and their best win percentage (.642) in a 162-game season.
In the National League, the Chicago Cubs were making their first postseason appearance since the 1945 World Series, and the San Diego Padres made their first postseason appearance in franchise history. The playoffs began on October 2, 1984, and concluded on October 14, 1984, with the Tigers defeating the Padres in five games in the 1984 World ...
Three players have won the MVP, Cy Young and World Series in the same season: Sandy Koufax in 1963, Denny McLain in 1968 and Willie Hernández in 1984.
[1] [2] [4] [5] The best-of-seven style has been the format of all World Series except in 1903, 1919, 1920, 1921, when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although the large majority of contests have been played entirely during the month of October, a small number of Series have also had games played during ...
The game is known as The Sandberg Game. [3] [4] [5] ... with a 4-run 7th inning and keep Chicago out of the 1984 World Series against the Detroit Tigers.
How did World Series Game 4 reach the mind-bending conclusion that saw the Tampa Bay Rays tie up the series? It started with these key plays.
The league championship series and the World Series are each a 2-3-2 format: The higher seed hosts the first two games, the lower seed hosts Games 3, 4 and 5 (if necessary), and the higher seed ...