Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 2008 Major League Baseball season began on March 25, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan with the 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox defeating the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome 6–5 (in 10 innings) in the first game of a two-game series, [1] [2] and ended on September 30 with the host Chicago White Sox defeating the Minnesota Twins in a one-game playoff to win the AL Central.
The 2008 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2008 season.The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
The 2008 American League Division Series (ALDS), the first round of the 2008 American League playoffs in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2008 postseason, consisted of two best-of-five series to determine the two participants in the 2008 American League Championship Series.
This is the first no-hitter in MLB history thrown at a neutral site, the second no-hitter of the 2008 season, the first of Zambrano's career, and the first for the Cubs since 1972. Zambrano was diagnosed with rotator cuff tendinitis on September 4. September 15:
The 2008 Boston Red Sox season was the 108th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox , as the defending World Series champions , finished in second place in the American League East with a record of 95 wins and 67 losses, two games behind the Tampa Bay Rays .
The 2008 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2008 season.The 104th edition of the World Series, [2] it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies and the American League (AL) champion Tampa Bay Rays; the Phillies won the series, four games to one.
The 2008 Los Angeles Dodgers season featured the Dodgers celebrating their Golden Anniversary in Southern California under new manager Joe Torre as they won the National League West for the first time since 2004, and returned to the postseason after missing the playoffs in 2007.
The 2008 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the American League side in Major League Baseball's 2008 postseason, was a best-of-seven series matching the two winners of the American League Division Series.