1989 World Series

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The 1989 World Series was played between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants, and is best remembered for the Loma Prieta earthquake which occurred on October 17 at the beginning of Game 3 of the series and which caused a 10-day disruption in play. The Series ran from October 15 through October 28, with the A's sweeping the Giants. It is also known as the "Earthquake Series", "Bay Bridge Series", and "The Battle of the Bay".

Managers: Tony LaRussa (Oakland), Roger Craig (San Francisco)

Umpires: Rich Garcia (AL), Paul Runge (NL), Al Clark (AL), Dutch Rennert (NL), Vic Voltaggio (AL), Eric Gregg (NL)

Series MVP: Dave Stewart (Oakland)

Television: ABC (Al Michaels, Tim McCarver and Jim Palmer announcing)

Radio: CBS Radio Network (Jack Buck, Johnny Bench and John Rooney announcing) - this was the last World Series that Jack Buck would broadcast on radio. He would next call the following two World Series on television for CBS.

1 Game 1
2 Game 2
3 Game 3
4 Game 4
5 Trivia
6 Quotes of the Series
7 External links

[edit] Game 1

The first game of the 1989 World Series was played on October 14 at the Oakland Coliseum, the home field of the Oakland Athletics.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
San Francisco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1
Oakland	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	X	5	11	1
W: Dave Stewart (1-0) L: Scott Garrelts (0-1)

[edit] Game 2

Game 2 took place on October 15 at the Oakland Coliseum.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
San Francisco	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
Oakland	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	X	5	7	0
W: Mike Moore (1-0) L: Rick Reuschel (0-1)

[edit] Game 3

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For the third game of the Series, the teams traveled to the San Francisco Giants' Candlestick Park. The game was delayed until October 27, or about ten days, due to the Loma Prieta earthquake.

See also: Al Michaels#1989 World Series and Fay Vincent#1989 World Series

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Oakland	2	0	0	2	4	1	0	4	0	13	14	0
San Francisco	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	7	10	3
W: Dave Stewart (2-0) L: Scott Garrelts (0-2)

[edit] Game 4

The final game of the 1989 World Series took place on October 28 at Candlestick Park.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Oakland	1	3	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	9	12	0
San Francisco	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	6	9	0
W: Mike Moore (2-0) L: Don Robinson (0-1) S:Dennis Eckersley

[edit] Trivia

This was the first World Series sweep since 1976.
Out of respect for the earthquake victims, the Athletics weren't allowed to celebrate their World Series victory with champagne.
Al Michaels, who spent three years in San Francisco as an announcer for the Giants, was nominated for an Emmy Award for news broadcasting after giving an eye witness account of the aftermath of the earthquake at Candlestick Park.
According to umpire Vic Voltaggio, he distinctively remembers seeing a white wall waving either during or immediately after the earthquake. Meanwhile, fellow umpire Al Clark was still in the locker room preparing to go to work. Apparently, Clark ran out to the field with just his underwear on when the earthquake hit.
The ten day delay in-between Games 2 and 3 was the longest delay in World Series history. The World Series was originally supposed to resume after a five day delay, but since the transmission links weren't properly connected yet, the wait went on for another five days.
This would be the last World Series that the American Broadcasting Company would televise from start to finish. The television rights would move exclusively (ABC had partnered with NBC since 1976 up until the end of the 1989 season) to CBS the following year. ABC would next televise a World Series in 1995 but only broadcast Games 1, 4, and 5 (the other games were covered by NBC).
ABC's actual opening for the October 17 telecast (leading up to Al Michaels informing the viewers of the earthquake) was used at the beginning of a 1990 television movie (documenting the Loma Prieta earthquake) called After Shock.[1]

[edit] Quotes of the Series

I'll tell you what, we're having an earth-- - ABC Sports play-by-play commentator Al Michaels, whose sentence was cut off to the television audience due to the loss of power during the earthquake.

Well folks, that's the greatest open in the history of television. Bar none! - Al Michaels broadcasting after the earthquake and there is no video.

I think we may have just won the most historic world series of all time, with having to deal with the delay and everything. I dont think anybody's had to go through anything like what we did to win and compete for a world championship! - Oakland Athletics manager Tony LaRussa after the series win.