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1989 would turn out be the A’s final championship in Oakland, as the team left the city for Sacramento in 2024, to play as the Athletics, while preparing to relocate and play in Las Vegas as the Las Vegas Athletics in 2027. The A's would return to the World Series the following season, making it three years in a row
The 1989 Oakland Athletics season was the 89th season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, all as members of the American League, and their 22nd season in Oakland. The Athletics finished the season in first place in the American League West , with a record of 99 wins and 63 losses, seven games in front of the Kansas City Royals .
Won World Series 4–1 † 1911: MLB † AL * — 1st 101 50 .669 — Won World Series 4–2 † 1912: MLB AL — 3rd 90 62 .592 15 1913: MLB † AL * — 1st 96 57 .627 — Won World Series 4–1 † 1914: MLB AL * — 1st 99 53 .651 — Lost World Series 4–0 * Eddie Collins 1915: MLB AL — 8th 43 109 .283 58½ 1916: MLB AL — 8th 36 117 ...
The 1989 American League Championship Series was a semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 1989 postseason played between the Oakland Athletics and the Toronto Blue Jays from October 3 to 8. A dominant Oakland team took the Series four games to one, en route to a sweep of their cross-bay rivals, the San Francisco Giants , in a World Series ...
October 17 – Game 3 of the World Series is postponed due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, which struck immediately before the game was set to begin. It would be rescheduled for ten days later, on October 27. October 28 – The Oakland Athletics complete a four-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, the first Series sweep ...
Through the 2024 season, the A's also have edges on the Giants in terms of overall postseason appearances (21–13), division titles (17–10) and World Series titles (4–3) since both teams moved to the Bay Area, even though the Giants franchise moved there a decade earlier than the A's did.
La Russa led the A's to three consecutive American League championships from 1988 to 1990 and the 1989 World Series title. He left Oakland after the 1995 season to manage the Cardinals, whom he led to three National League championships and the 2006 and 2011 World Series titles.
[4] [5] The team has employed 30 different managers in its history. [6] The current Athletics' manager is Mark Kotsay. [7] The franchise's first manager was Hall of Famer Connie Mack, who managed the team for its first fifty seasons. [8] Mack led the Athletics to nine AL championships and five World Series championships—in 1910, 1911, 1913 ...