A disaster in Cleveland, as the A’s suffered two walk-off losses and only won one of the three games. The real-life Oakland team swept this series. That erases all of the Athletics’ margin for error, as they must now go 11-0 the rest of the way to match their 99 wins. Worse yet, with the revised results, the A’s are 5.5 games back of the Angels with 11 to play (instead of being 2.5 up). Dave Parker had three home runs and Jose Canseco had two in this series. After 151 games, the A’s are three wins behind pace.
sim 88-63, actual 91-60
September 18 — sim L 1-2 — actual W 4-2
September 19 — sim W 9-0 — actual W 5-1
September 20 — sim L 3-4 — actual W 8-6
September 18: Joe Carter homered in the bottom of the first, and it stayed 1-0 in the Indians’ favor for a while. Jose Canseco finally tied it with a solo homer of his own in the seventh. But in the bottom of the ninth, Jerry Browne walked, was sacrificed to second, and scored on Carter’s walk-off single. Other than the homer, the A’s couldn’t solve Tom Candiotti, collecting only five hits. Dave Stewart also gave up five hits in the loss.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (1) AT 1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS (2)
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI 1989 CLEVELAND INDIA AB R H BI
Rickey Henderson 3 0 1 0 Jerry Browne 3 1 0 0
Carney Lansford 4 0 1 0 Dion James 3 0 0 0
Jose Canseco 4 1 1 1 Joe Carter 4 1 2 2
Dave Parker 4 0 0 0 Pete OBrien 3 0 0 0
Mark McGwire 2 0 0 0 Albert Belle 3 0 0 0
Dave Henderson 3 0 0 0 Brook Jacoby 3 0 1 0
Terry Steinbach 3 0 2 0 Cory Snyder 3 0 0 0
Tony Phillips 3 0 0 0 Andy Allanson 3 0 1 0
Mike Gallego 3 0 0 0 Felix Fermin 3 0 1 0
TOTALS 29 1 5 1 TOTALS 28 2 5 2
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 000 000 100 -- 1
1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS 100 000 001 -- 2
LOB--1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 3, 1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS 3.
ERR--Mike Gallego. HR--Jose Canseco, Joe Carter. SACB--Dion
James.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Dave Stewart BYZ [L] 8.33 5 2 2 1 5 1
1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS
Tom Candiotti BYZ [W] 9.00 5 1 1 2 6 1
September 19: Mike Moore pitched seven shutout innings for his 18th win and the A’s bats came alive in this one, including two home runs from Dave Parker. Mike Gallego had an RBI single and Carney Lansford drove in two with a single in the second inning. Parker homered and Tony Phillips had an RBI single in the third. Jose Canseco, Parker and Mark McGwire hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the sixth.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (9) AT 1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS (0)
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI 1989 CLEVELAND INDIA AB R H BI
Rickey Henderson 4 1 1 0 Jerry Browne 4 0 1 0
Carney Lansford 5 0 1 2 Dion James 4 0 2 0
Jose Canseco 4 1 1 2 Joe Carter 4 0 0 0
Dave Parker 5 2 3 2 Pete OBrien 4 0 0 0
Mark McGwire 5 2 2 1 Brook Jacoby 4 0 0 0
Dave Henderson 2 0 1 0 Albert Belle 3 0 0 0
Stan Javier 3 0 1 0 Cory Snyder 2 0 1 0
Terry Steinbach 5 1 1 0 Joel Skinner 3 0 0 0
Tony Phillips 4 1 2 1 Felix Fermin 3 0 0 0
Mike Gallego 4 1 1 1
TOTALS 41 9 14 9 TOTALS 31 0 4 0
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 032 004 000 -- 9
1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS 000 000 000 -- 0
LOB--1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 7, 1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS 5.
ERR--Rich Yett D, Brook Jacoby, Jerry Browne. 2B--Dave
Parker. HR--Dave Parker (2), Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire.
SB--Stan Javier, Cory Snyder.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Mike Moore AY [W] 7.00 3 0 0 0 7 0
Matt Young DYW 1.00 1 0 0 1 1 0
Curt Young D 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS
Rod Nichols DY [L] 2.67 7 5 4 2 1 1
Rich Yett D 3.33 5 4 4 0 0 3
Scott Bailes DZ 3.00 2 0 0 0 3 0
September 20: Things looked bleak when Joe Carter and Albert Belle hit solo homers in the first inning and the A’s couldn’t get on the board in the first six innings. But Dave Parker homered in the seventh, Jose Canseco had a game-tying RBI double in the eighth, and Oakland went up 3-2 in the ninth on Tony Phillips’ two-out RBI single. Dennis Eckersley couldn’t close it out, however, as a walk and a hit put Indians on second and third with no one out. After an intentional walk to load the bases, Eckersley got the first out. But with the infield in, Dave Clark’s single found a hole and scored two for another walk-off victory.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (3) AT 1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS (4)
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI 1989 CLEVELAND INDIA AB R H BI
Rickey Henderson 5 0 0 0 Jerry Browne 4 0 0 0
Carney Lansford 4 0 0 0 Felix Fermin 4 0 0 0
Jose Canseco 3 0 2 1 Joe Carter 3 2 1 1
Mark McGwire 4 0 1 0 Albert Belle 4 2 2 1
Dave Henderson 4 1 1 0 Pete OBrien 3 0 2 0
Dave Parker 4 1 1 1 Brook Jacoby 4 0 0 0
Terry Steinbach 4 0 0 0 Dave Clark 4 0 3 2
Tony Phillips 4 0 1 1 Brad Komminsk 3 0 0 0
Mike Gallego 4 1 2 0 Joel Skinner 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 36 3 8 3 TOTALS 32 4 8 4
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 000 000 111 -- 3
1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS 200 000 002 -- 4
LOB--1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 7, 1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS 5.
ERR--Felix Fermin. 2B--Jose Canseco, Dave Henderson, Dave
Clark. HR--Dave Parker, Albert Belle, Joe Carter. SB--Albert
Belle.
1989 OAKLAND ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Storm Davis BY 6.67 6 2 2 0 5 2
Todd Burns AZ 1.33 0 0 0 0 1 0
Dennis Eckersley ACX [L] 0.33 2 2 2 2 1 0
1989 CLEVELAND INDIANS
Greg Swindell BYZ 7.00 3 1 1 1 5 1
Jesse Orosco AXYZ 1.00 2 1 1 0 0 0
Steve Olin DY [W] 1.00 3 1 1 0 3 0
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