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The Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the Triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history over three days in 1981. The game lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of playing time. The first 32 innings were played overnight from April 18–19, 1981, at McCoy Stadium in ...
The 1981 Major League Baseball season culminated with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the New York Yankees in the World Series, capturing the franchise's fifth World Series title. The season had a players' strike, which lasted from June 12 to July 31, and split the season into two halves. Teams that won their division in each half of the ...
Game 4 was another pitchers duel, this time between the Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela and the Astros' Vern Ruhle. Both pitched a complete game, but Valenzuela took the win as the Dodgers prevailed 2–1 to even the series. Game 5 was a pitchers' duel yet again, featuring Ryan for the Astros and Jerry Reuss for the Dodgers. Reuss won the duel as ...
October 13, 1981 8:00 pm (ET) at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York 53 °F (12 °C), clear. In Billy Martin 's return to Yankee Stadium (for the first time since the Yankees fired him in 1979), the Yankees drew first blood in front of their old skipper. Graig Nettles ' three-run bases-loaded double in the first inning was all the run support ...
The 1981 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1981 season. The 78th 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. It marked their third Series meeting in five years and ...
98.8% (first ballot) George Thomas Seaver (November 17, 1944 – August 31, 2020), nicknamed " Tom Terrific " and " the Franchise ", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox from 1967 to 1986.
The 1981 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series to end the 1981 National League season. It was the 13th NLCS in all. The series featured the first-half West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the second-half East Division champion Montreal Expos. The Dodgers won the series three games to two over the Expos, thanks ...
Before South Carolina’s win over No. 1 Alabama in 2010, it was this victory over the Tar Heels that ranked as the biggest upset in USC program history.