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Page 10 The Battalion Monday, October 10,1988
Oakland sweeps Sox, in Series
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Oak
land Athletics, showing off the pitching
and power that made them baseball’s
winningest team, completed a four-game
sweep in the American League playoffs
by beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1 Sun
day.
Jose Canseco, the major league leader
in home runs, tied an AL playoff record
with his third home run of the series.
Dennis Eckersley, the leader in saves, set
a major league playoff mark with his
fourth save as he finished a four-hitter
for Dave Stewart and Rick Honeycutt.
The Athletics returned to the World
Series for the first time since 1974.
Game 1 will be Saturday night in either
New York or Los Angeles.
Oakland posted the first four-game
sweep since 1976, when Cincinnati’s
Big Red Machine rolled over the New
York Yankees in the World Series. The
Athletics also got some long-due revenge
against Boston, which swept Oakland
out of the 1975 playoffs and ended its
run of three consecutive championships.
The Red Sox, whose longest losing
string during the regular season was four
games, picked a bad time to duplicate
that streak. The Athletics dominated
Boston this year, going 13-3 and win
ning all eight in Oakland, giving them 15
victories over the Red Sox in the last 16
meetings in Oakland.
Canseco, the major league home run
leader with 42, hit a solo shot in the first
inning and tied George Brett’s AL play
off record. Canseco has hit five home
runs in 26 career at-bats against loser
Bruce Hurst, including one in Game 1.
Stewart made the early lead stand up,
allowing only Jim Rice’s RBI grounder
in the sixth. Stewart left after Ellis
Burks’ leadoff single in the eighth and
Honeycutt immediately got Marty Bar
rett to ground into a double play.
Eckersley pitched the ninth to get his
fourth save in as many games.
Dwight Evans, the only player on ei
ther team who participated in Boston’s
1975 playoff victory over Oakland, did
not help the Red Sox. He struck out with
the bases loaded to end the first inning —
he was 6-for-12 with the bases loaded in
the regular season — and fanned with the
tying run on second base to end the sixth.
Oakland won an AL West-record 104
games, one season after Minnesota won
the pennant with 85 victories. The Ath
letics’ sweep marked for the first time
since division play began in 1969 that
two different AL West teams have gone
to the World Series in successive years.
Boston, whose 89 victories were the
fewest for any AL East title in a full sea
son, lost its final three games of the year
and continued to wobble. Manager Joe
Morgan, a miracle worker after inheirit-
ing a fourth-place team when John Mc
Namara was fired at the All-Star break,
could do little as the Red Sox fell.
Canseco, the only hitless Oakland
player in a 10-6 romp in Game 3, struck
back with vengeance. He went 3-for-4
with a homer and double to wind up 5-
for-16 in the series.
Canseco, the first player to hit 40
Cry me a river, Mets fans;
the A’s are just a cut above
With no home game this weekend, and no money for a
road trip to Houston, I figured I’d watch a little baseball.
What I ended up watching instead was the Oakland
Athletics.
It took almost 15 years to reconstruct the team that
Charley Finley’s red pen decimated in the mid-’70s. But it
has finally happened.
The A’s are back — with a vengeance.
Player-for-player, I don’t know if you could equate this
year’s team with the team from 1974. Would you take Jose
Canseco, Dave Stewart, Terry Steinbach and Dennis
Eckersley over Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Gene
Tenace and Rollie Fingers? Probably not.
But the weekend proved more than adequately that the
1988 A’s are more than adequate to take care of the best
team the American League East could throw at them.
I don’t mean to infer that the Red Sox aren’t a quality
baseball team. It’s just that this weekend served notice to
the fact we all wanted to deny this season: The A’s are
simply in a class of their own in the American League.
And I have every confidence they will erase the "in the
American League” qualifier when they meet the Mets in
the World Series.
More on the Mets later.
The A’s simply do it all. The mark of a truly great team
is completeness, and the A’s have it. They don’t care how
they beat you.
They win pitching duels. They win slugfests. They win
nail-biters. They win blowouts. They win. . . they win.
Skeptics abounded when Oakland was threatening to
clinch the American League West by Memorial Day.
“They won’t last. They’ll pull a ‘Texas Rangers’ on us
around August.”
’Fraid not. These guys are for real.
It looked over as early as Game One, when they beat
Bruce “13-2 in Fenway” Hurst. In Fenway. It looked over
quick after Game Two, when they completed the Boston
Massacre. It looked like a sweep after Game Three, when
the Sox watched an early five-run lead disappear in a
barrage of cannon shots into the partisan seats.
It looked just plain pointless in Game Four. The game
was close throughout, but the outcome was certain as soon
as Canseco’s homer left his bat in the bottom of the first,
giving the A’s a narrow lead that would never disappear.
The only question remaining is, “Can they make it look
Hal L.
Hammons
Columnist
as easy against the Mets?"
And cool your jets, all you Dodger fans out there. It may
not officially be over, and I hate the Mets as much as you,
but L A. blew it in Game One. If you put Orel Hershiser
on the mound at home in the opener and lose, it’s over.
The scene was set: The man with the 59-inning scoreless
streak had kept the game tight. Now there were two men
on, sure; but it was the top of the ninth, two men wereoul,
two strikes were on the batter, the ace reliever was on the
mound, and Gary Carter was at bat. What morecoulda
Dodger fan ask for?
You could ask for a win, that’s what. Ask this Astrofan
if the Mets have some mystical force that makes good
things happen in critical situations.
The Mets just manage to do it. Much like the A’s,they
find a way to win. Gary Carter’s blooper that won Game
One is proof of that.
In fact, the teams arc remarkably similar in that respect
You get the feeling that neither one of them iseveroutofa
game. The threat of gunfire from Strawberry, Hernandez
and MeReynolds compares pretty well with that of
Canseco, McGwire and Lansford.
They look pretty even on paper.
Can the Mets do it? Can the team everyone picked to
win it all in April come through in October?
Don’t count on it. This year has been Oakland's since
May, and it’s no fluke or error.
The Oakland Athletics are simply the best team in
baseball. The Mets are good, and they should keep it
close, but they won’t make it.
My prediction: The A’s in five. Maybe six.
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season, singled in the eighth against Lee
Smith, stole second and scored on Mark
McGwire’s single.
Oakland’s other run came in the third.
Walt Weiss and Carney Lansford singled
and Dave Henderson, Boston’s playoff
hero in 1986, hit an RBI double. The
Athletics missed a chance to break open
the game in that inning as Hurst got Can
seco on a short fly, intentionally walked
McGwire to load the bases and retired
Dave Parker and Terry Steinbach.
That was enough, though, to the de
light of 49,406 fans that chanted
“sweep, sweep,” throughout the sunny
afternoon. Many in the crowd came car
rying brooms to help whisk away the
Red Sox.
Oakland led the league with a 3.42
eamed-run average and was second to
Boston with 800 runs. The Athletics out-
homered the Red Sox 13-1 in head-to-
head meetings during the season and 7-2
in the playoffs.
The Athletics also continued to spar
kle on defense. Second baseman Mike
Gallego starred this time, making a nice
play on Rice’s run-scoring grounder to
prevent Boston from doing more dam
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Barrett opened the sixth with a walk
and took second on Wade Boggs’ single.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kirk Gibson homered with
two outs in the 12th inning and Orel Hershiser, who
twice failed to win games as a starter, got the final out
as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Mets
5-4 to even the National League playoffs at two games
apiece.
Hershiser, called into a bases-loaded, two-out situa
tion as the seventh Dodgers pitcher of the day, got Ke
vin MeReynolds on a pop fly to center fielder John
Shelby.
Alejandro Pena got the victory with three innings of
hitless relief as the Dodgers played without reliever Jay
Howell.
Howell was suspended Sunday for using an illegal
substance in his glove.
Howell, who led the Dodgers with 21 saves, was
ejected in the eighth inning of Game 3 on Saturday
when pine tar was found on the heel of his glove.
Howell was suspended for three days by NL presi
dent Bart Giamatti and would be eligible for Game 7,
if the series goes that far.
Game 5 of the best-of-seven series is scheduled
Monday at 12:08 p.m. EDT, giving the teams less than
12 hours to recover.
Left-hander Sid Fernandez will pitch against rookie
Tim Belcher, winner of Game 2 at Los Angeles.
Mets starter Dwight Gooden carried a three-hit, 4-2
lead into the ninth inning.
But Gooden, who had walked four, thrown two wild
pitches and committed a balk, got into trouble again
when he walked Shelby leading off the inning.
Then Dodgers catcher Mike Sciosia homered into
the right-field bullpen to tie it.
It was the Dodgers’ first home run in 47 innings, in
cluding the last 13 innings of the regular season.
The Mets rallied for victories in Games 1 and 3, but
this time it was the Dodgers’ turn.
Reliever Roger McDowell got the first two outs in
the 12th before Gibson homered deep over the right
field fence to break a 1-for-16 playoff batting slump.
Gibson, who has been playing with a painful hamstring
strain, led the Dodgers with 25 homers but hadn’t hom
ered since Sept. 11.
Tim Leary, a 17-game winner for the Dodgers, at
tempted to close out the game in the bottom of the
12th.
But Mackey Sasser and pinch-hitter Lee Mazzilli
singled to lead off the inning.
Gregg Jefferies, after failing to get down a sacrifice
bunt, flied out to left and former Met Jesse Orosco re
lieved.
Orosco walked Keith Hernandez on a 3-2 count to
load the bases, then got Darryl Strawberry on a popout
to second.
That brought on Hershiser for only his second relief
appearance this season.
The 23-game winner earned a save May 10 at Chi
cago in a 14-inning, 6-5 victory.
The loss broke a streak of three consecutive postsea
son extra inning victories for the Mets, who have
played the four longest playoff games in NL history —
three of 12 innings and another of 16 innings.
Darryl Strawberry and Kevin MeReynolds hit con
secutive home runs off John Tudor in the fourth inning
to give New York a 3-2 lead.
Keith Hernandez led off the fourth off Tudor with a
bloop single to right field and Strawberry tied the score
with a home run into the right-field bullpen on a 1-0
pitch.
Strawberry, who hit 20 of his league-leading 39
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homers lifetime against Tudor in regular season play
MeReynolds broke an 0-for-12 streak in the playoffs
when he followed Strawberry with a homer overtk
371-foot sign in left field.
During the regular season, Strawberry and McRey
nolds homered in the same game eight times.
Tudor was chased in the sixth inning when McRey
nolds led off with a double and scored when GaryCf
ter tripled over Shelby’s head in center field.
Tudor, touched for eight hits and a walk in five-plus
innings, was relieved by Brian Holton, who strand
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