Ads
related to: san francisco giants vs oakland a
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics met for the first time in the 1989 World Series. This series was interrupted minutes before Game 3 on October 17, 1989, when an earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale, struck the San Francisco Bay Area.
The 1989 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1989 season.The 86th 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 San Francisco Giants.
The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta quake struck at exactly 5:04 p.m., at the height of rush hour and just before the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the ...
In the National League, the San Francisco Giants returned to the postseason for the second time in three years, and the Chicago Cubs returned for the second time in six years. The playoffs began on October 3, 1989, and concluded on October 28, 1989, with the Athletics sweeping the Giants to win their first World Series title since 1974 .
Game 5 was the mirror image of Game 4: an early A's lead and a Blue Jays comeback that fell just short of victory. The end result was a 4–3 win for the A's and a return trip to the Fall Classic to face their Bay Area neighbors, the San Francisco Giants. The game was also a rematch of Game 1 aces Dave Stewart for Oakland and Dave Stieb for ...
The Oakland A's will play their last game at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. Their departure leaves the Bay Area city without a major professional sports team. ... while the San Francisco Giants ...
The series took its name from the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge which links the cities of Oakland and San Francisco. Although competitive, the regional rivalry between the A's and Giants was considered a friendly one with mostly mutual companionship between the fans, as opposed to White Sox–Cubs , or Yankees–Mets games where animosity ...
In 2010, the Giants defeated the Texas Rangers in five games to win the World Series for the first time since moving to San Francisco in 1958, thus ending the 52-year "Curse of Coogan's Bluff". The Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series in seven games after trailing in the series 3 games to 1.