Show Standard-Examine- Friday October 21 1988 r 5B Sports in five ! The Bash OAKLAND Calif (AP) — The World Series belonged to the Los Angeles Dodgers — not a “dream team” as Manager Tom Lasorda called it but a team that simply did the right things at the right times Battered but never beaten the Brothers went bust p® OAKLAND — In the end the story of the World Series can be written in simple numbing numbers depressing digits for the Oakland A’s They are 053 and 059 the e batting averages for five-gam- Z Bock’s Score Dodgers captured their sixth EWorld Series title Thursday night 2 I with a victory over Oakland Hal Bock 5-- Orel Hershiser pitched another ‘masterpiece as the Series ended !in five games And there were no more A’s were only the Z’s because They ’ their bats had gone to sleep The t heavily favored Athletics who ! averaged nearly five runs a game during the season scored just 11 runs on 28 hits in the five games From A to Z the Dodgers did v what they needed to do They stole bases moved along played defense and even hit a few homers ' “I think Oakland second baseman Tony Phillips (front) looks to everyone will respect us now” Dodgers second first base after LA’s Mike Davis made a vain effort to Steve Sax said “We may not be a power team but we sure are a winning team” Mickey Hatcher had two ho-- 7 mers including one in the deci-- l sive game and that’s as many as - the entire A’s team hit The A’s " the Dodg-ler- s may have 156-9- 9 in the season but in OAKLAND Calif (AP) — ly the Dodgers over Oakland 4 the Series it was 2 Dodgers “We missed the biggest piece The Los Angeles Dodgers’ season in the opener “I think it would’ve been difwe were chasing” Manager Tony didn’t turn around when Kirk 13 ferent if that hadn’t happened” Z LaRussa in homers said of his American Gibson hit two Mets New York Athletics I a the beat 1 League have to “But hours manager Tony LaRussa champions said great feeling about the 1988 Oak-- r twice in the playoffs Gibson was unable to play It didn’t even turn around land A’s I’m very proud of what when he hobbled to the plate and again He almost got a chance to this team did We didn’t choke ’ We g homer in pinch-h- it hit his again in Game 3 but got beat because the Los AnSeries I used The Athletics the World was not of 'Game did more” geles Dodgers It probably swung around in brought the potential tying run to The Dodgers did the winning without their key player Kirk spring training when he stormed the plate in the eighth inning of Gibson who was gimpy on both out of camp after a practical joke the final game and Gibson went to the clubhouse to get loose and showed his new teammates legs Their inspirational and onwould attitude a field leader had only one that “My role in this series was limI had to accept that” Gibreone ited be it a Series the winning although during he made said “I had to be ready if the it and son g “He made right homer sulted in a it cool to work hard and be a opportunity to pinch hit came in the opener He was not alone among the hustler” Series MVP Orel Herup” dented Dodgers Cleanup hitter shiser said “His hard work gave Gibson hit two home runs in Mike Marshall missed part of him the right to talk to people the final game of the 1984 Series Game 3 and most of Game 4 and air them out and make them when Detroit beat San Diego He when his back stiffened up Pitchproud to be Dodgers” not to compare his two Gibson hobbled by hamstring preferred er John Tudor came out of Game championship teams and ligament problems made on3 in the second inning when his “You can’t measure things like elbow hurt He may need surgery ly one appearance in the World and a new career And catcher Series His one big swing swung that My goal coming out of spring training was to be the Mike Scioscia couldn’t play in the the momentum to Los Angeles world champions that’s all” he and the to wrenched Gibson he because final game plate limped in the said “It’s all I thought about Not hit a two-ru-n his knee the day before See GIBSON on 8B See SERIES on 8B bottom of the ninth inning to ral Associated Press -- game-winni- an run-‘ne- rs base-Z'm- an Gibson’s walkout sparked Dodgers Z ed 5-- Associated Press prevent Dodgers him from completing the Rick Dempsey in second-innin- g double play to catch Series action “Dodger pitching shut us down” Oakland manager Tony LaRussa said “It’s been this way for 100 years in baseball Make quality pitches and you get hitters out” By himself Hershiser had more hits in the Series than McGwire and Canseco combined And he did that in one game when he matched a record for pitchers by stroking three hits while pitching a three-h- it shutout Deprived of his bat by the DH rule in Game 5 Hershiser settled 2 for a four-hvictory that clinched the Series and the MVP award The starts came on three n days rest his regular schedule Beginning with the playoffs Hershiser pitched 42 innings in 17 days starting five times on three days rest and relieving once He allowed five earned runs in that stretch — the only ones he gave up over 01 innings starting Aug 30 That includes a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings at the end of the 5-- -- it Z game-winnin- game-winnin- 1 ‘ er && £$ season h Associated Press LA’s Mickey Hatcher exchanges high fives with mates hitting a two-ru- n team-afte- r homer in the first inning “I can’t find words to describe Orel Hershiser and what he’s accomplished” Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda said “I saw it but I can’t believe it I can’t believe anybody can achieve his mastery for as long as he did” See BOCK on 8B LA’s ‘Bulldog’ named l" K reshiser finished the season with an cord 59 consecutive scoreless innings and worked 42 more innings in the postseason “You can’t say enough about what he has done” Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson said “It should go down as one of the great performances in history and it may never be accomplished again” “How about that Bulldog!” reliever Jay Howell said “He did it again No one thought he could shut down the A’s again He’s incredible” “I can’t find the words to describe Orel Hershiser and what he’s accomplished” Manager Tom Lasorda said “I saw it but I can’t believe it I can’t believe anybody can achieve his mastery for as long as he did” And nobody could believe the Dodgers offs even got as far as the World Series much less Hershislet down” wanted to never “I just er said of his amazing pitching in the last 52 win it in each of the last two 9 h The Dodgers Every days “I always went seasons weren’t I a was had supposed to win the NL pressure outing outing “I didn’t want to go out there and lose and West championship much less beat the Mets or the Athletics have every body say ‘He cooled off at a crucan’t under He Series in the time cial They beat the odds and some called them pitch ” a team of destiny But not general manager pressure’ Starting with the fifth inning of a game Fred Claire “We were a team of intense desire who had Aug 30 against Montreal Hershiser pitched 101 innings and allowed only five earned a goal and stayed with it” said Claire who took over player matters on the team when runs A1 Campanis was fired in April of 1987 Called “Bulldog” by his teammates Her all-ti- OAKLAND Calif (AP) — Incredible season Incredible finish Incredible Orel Hershiser He capped one of the most amazing stretches a pitcher has ever had as the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in five games by beating the Oakland Athletics 2 Thursday night Hershiser allowed only four hits while walking four and striking out nine as he handcuffed the heavy hitting Athletics for the second time in five days 0 win over the Following his three-h- it Athletics in Game 2 Sunday night the choice was a clear-cu- t as the Most Valuable Player in the Series just as he was in the National League play- p: 5-- 6-- right-hand- er pitch-by-pitc- Associated Press Jubilant Dodger teammates lift World Series MVP Orel Hershiser into the air following his victory 5-- post-seaso- at-b- at pinch-hom- 1 1 - 7 Oakland sluggers Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire The Bash Brothers went bust against Los Angeles pitching often embarrassed by Series MVP Orel Hershiser and his colleagues Canseco finished after a grand slam in McGwire was or-17 Game ninth his only hit a inning home run in Game 3 was the That combined exclamation point of a 177 team batting average for the A’s in the 73-8- MVP We were a team who ran a marathon with the intensity of a sprinter We never stopped believing” Second baseman Steve Sax called the Dodgers opportunistic and a team of character adding that they were obviously better than people thought “I don’t see why people took us so lightly” he said “We’ve got a great balldub a ballclub “We had to play hard We had guys come off the bench and do a great job We got the right guys last winter We had a solid team well-round- and a great pitching staff” Sax implied that Oakland’s Don Baylor did the Dodgers a favor during the NL playoffs by saying he hoped the Athletics would face New York because he thought the Mets “were the best team” “I don’t see why somebody would say that" said Sax who batted 300 in the Series going “They’ve got nothing to gain from it and only something to lose “My father once told me you’re a slave to what you say and a master to what you don’t say I’ve tried to live that way” Catcher Mike Scioscia who didn’t play Thursday night because of the twisted right knee he suffered in Game 4 said he felt much more satisfaction this year than he did See MVP on 8B ‘Greatest fans in the world’ welcome Dodgers home LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world champion Los Angeles Dodgers greeted by some 1000 boisterous fans returned home early today amid shouts of “We’re No 1" and banners supporting manager Tommy Lasorda for president The fans and about three dozen reporters and photographers met the Dodgers at Los Angeles International Airport at 12:45 am a little more than four hours after the team clinched the 1988 World Scries title by defeating the Oakland Athletics 2 in Oakland “We wanted to bring the championship back to the greatest fans in the world" Lasorda standing through the sunroof of a stretch limousine told the cheering fans outside an airport termi5-- nal Pitcher Orel Hershiser the series most saluablc player and the winner of Thursday night's deciding game was briefly mobbed by hundreds of fans when he ventured outside a fenced-i- n area outside the United Airlines terminal "It wasn’t like Bruce Springsteen at a rock concert” Tim Cresccnti said of the welcome afforded the Dodgers’ star pitcher “People didn't want to get a piece of him Everybody just wanted to congratulate him" “Is this the way Magic (Johnson) got greeted when he beat Boston?" Hershiser asked of previous welcomes afforded Johnson and the defending world champion Los Angeles Lakers basketball team "I’m never going to find my ride home” joked Dodgers Steve Sax as he surveyed the crowd One fan held up a sign that proclaimed: “Lasorda For President Hershiser For Vice President" “For the team to come this far is a dream come true" said Hershiser who second-basema- n won Games 2 and 5 of the series “I know the whole city is behind us There’s a great love affair with an under- dog” "I can’t believe all of this is happening I think my wife is going to shake me and say it's time to go to spring train- ing" Lasorda said “Give the due to the players Our players wanted it a lot more than Oakland's did We showed them we can play baseball" |