MLB Baseball's Seasons: 1990

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] the 1990 World Championship welcome to baseball seasons 1990 anything can happen [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] in baseball spring is a time for expectations [Music] the results of the previous year have been properly catalog and the slate wiped clean with anticipation and new projections but in 1990 no one knew what to expect when the start of the season was threatened by a dispute over the business of the game the clubs decided to lock out why they're doing it I'm not sure well none of us clearly enjoy this hopefully it will serve as a conduit to getting in agreement as training-camp said empty the lockout prevented the season from beginning until a new collective bargaining agreement was completed the ongoing negotiations have yet to result in a new collective bargaining agreement it was a period of a lot of unrest as far as the labor agreement with the ownership of the players it's frustrating for us it was frustrating from the fans and and then a probably from from the owners the fact that we don't have an agreement doesn't mean the lockout failed I guess it means that the two parties involved just don't have an agreement yet the owners always say well we're paying too much and the players always say we want a natural progression of salary increase and it always seems to come down to the eleventh hour tonight an agreement in principle has been reached finally after 32 days the impasse came to a close with both sides appearing eager to move on without lingering acrimony tasks now it seems to me is to see if the wounds of this kind of a process can be healed as quickly as possible we fervently hope that baseball piece comes and that's the last of these type of situations that we have in baseball the regular season would be delayed but the entire 162 games schedule was preserved and as spring training finally began labor talks quickly gave way to the belated promise of a new season this is 1990 we have a new manager we have a new attitude we're just gonna watch it play hard every day there's only one team at the end of the year that sits back and says yeah we did it we're just hoping that we're gonna read that team I get ready for this year to win another penny that's that's a big goal of mine I want that world championship ring well I'm excited to just be playing baseball one source of optimism for every team no World Series champion had repeated in 11 years along a span in history then again the reigning kings of the game appeared as dominant as any club in memory after being upset by the Dodgers in the 1988 series the Oakland Athletics had gained redemption of the title in 1989 yet they remained unsatisfied as the defending champions prepared for the season a third straight trip to the Fall Classic and consecutive World Series titles were in their sights but they were also competing against history and the legacy of the great athletics teams of the 1970s our expectations in spring training were you know to to create a dynasty there's no doubt mama we understood how to go about our business get prepared for the season and after that it was really just getting through spring training and getting on with the season the Oakland Athletics received their world championship reigns and then begin defense of it [Applause] I think we have the best club I also have total respect for the competition but if I had one thought to pick I'd pick the ACE with Rickey Henderson Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire powering the offense and at pitching the staff and included righty Bob Welch perennial 20 game winner Dave Stewart and the most dominant closer in the game and Dennis Eckersley immediately charged to the top of the AL that quick start man that ballclub you show up in this little console you're right you just push a button you want great starting pitching you want some way to generate some offense we had a bunch of guy [Music] when it's outrageous we had a swagger and when we talked about we we'd come to the park every day and we said we're the Oakland A's and come try to beat us he's swaggering I think we wanted to crush the opponent I want to put our foots in there for the third straight year the A's were imposing their will on the American League while in the Senior Circuit a pair of surprising home teams had taken control [Applause] by 1990 is Cincinnati the glory days of the Big Red Machine were only a fading memory Cincinnati rats went in consecutive years and after failing to make the postseason year after year in the 80s reds owner Mark Shaw tried to jump start her franchise by hiring Lou Piniella to manage the club there's a tremendous opportunity in that I told Marge and I don't plan to disappoint her at all I knew that the team had Talent they'd finished second in their vision three or four years in a row and late 80s and I knew that I was getting a ballclub that could win Lou Piniella definitely set the tone in 1990 walks up to the clubhouse and looks us up and down says I don't like lose and I don't accept losing and we're not gonna lose look you guys are at the right age ready you got the talent it's time for you all to win [Applause] grab a ball [Applause] bolstered by pinellas confidence Cincinnati began 1990 red-hot in start9 Ando and 33 and 12 you no longer think you're good you know you're good we could be just stealing the base we could beat you with the power we'd beat to a deep fence we thought we were unbeatable it's easy to go out there and plant when you know every day you have a chance to win the first six weeks of the season had seemed every time the Reds needed a big performance someone stepped up the two biggest threats on the roster were in centerfield and its shortstop in the form of Eric Davis and Barry Larkin do it all run to me he was probably the best player on that team and then there was luck who had emerged as one of the league's top shortstops you're not gonna find a better shortstop to bury shot up the middle [Applause] he was a guy who embraced every facet of the game that was necessary to be a great all-around player on the mound jose Rio was Cincinnati's best starter but the heart of the red staff could be found in the bullpen where a trio of hurlers were simply [Music] Rob Dibble and Randy Myers they called him the nasty boys it was intimidating knowing that you had three pitchers at any time could strike you out every single time they go out hey Tom they weren't afraid to hit you they throw inside they they were power pitchers they intimidated hitters I think the thing that made those guys nasty outside of their stuff is they competed against each other you have norm struck out the side then Dibble wanted to come into Athens strike out the side it was struck out the side you know Randy wanted to strike out the side led by the nasty boys the Reds Peggy Woodley believed in saves and strikeouts and also set a tone for the entire club the confidence and the determination that they have from the group in filter down to us and we knew that we had to leave by the 6th inning the game was over that was the sole reason that we broke out so quickly and filled up such a big lead a few hundred miles east at Three Rivers Stadium the Pittsburgh Pirates were looking to recapture a measure of 1970s success as well after two titles in the 70s but bucks had struggled in the eighties but as a new decade dawn Club manager Jim Leyland looked at his roster and saw a reason for optimism I like talent talent if you get a combination of talent and experience sprinkle in some young players and and try to build something and that's exactly what we did that tail and included 27 year old emerging right-hander Doug Drabek he was our anchor he went out every fifth day whenever he was pitching and he knew you were gonna be in the ball game he had a chance to win sometimes you talk about a guy's a great competitor well Doug was that but he had great stuff to it he was the best coach in league a good match but pitching is always defense which the Pirates had in athletic abundance we had Jose Lind who was just absolutely unbelievable that second makes more range that I've ever seen Jay Bell was just a steady performer that any ball that was in his range I mean he was gonna make the play the Pirates were also more than well covered in the warning track watching Andy Van Slyke in centerfield and dared punt in left hill it was a joy [Applause] and the center-field want to go above bombs won a Gold Glove so we had good defense that was a key to that team but Leyland also had the best offensive outfield in the league in the center Annie Vance light was a tough out an all-round talent switch hitter Bobby Bonilla was a powerful presence at cleanup [Applause] but the biggest threat of the plate and on the basis was MVP candidate Barry Bonds this guy was probably the most complete player in all of baseball anytime that you had him on the field he could change the game see that he was on his way to being one of the best if not the best player I'd ever played like this way it was by June the Pirates and the Reds each had seized control of their divisions but in 1990 nothing on a baseball field could be taken for granted like no other year in baseball history in 1990 every time a pitcher picked up the ball it seemed anything was possible beginning on just the 3rd day of the season when two angels teamed up to make history long Langston's was pretty dominant not a big guy but he threw the ball very firm and hard and you know he had a good slider also and of course Mike Witt you know we know the nasty slider and curveball that he had they both threw the ball pretty good [Applause] [Music] it was baseball's first no-hitter in more than a year two months later a giant lefty flame thrower who had been traded for Langston in 1989 turned in his own Atlas gym the Mariners I was fortunate to be there when he first started I'd seen it before he'd come close and dominating the game but even the right-handers weren't catching up to it so when he has stuff working like that I felt like this could be that magical night [Applause] Randy Johnson was one of those guys that had the kind of stuff that he could pitch in a letter every time he went out there just like Nolan Ryan in fact just nine days after Johnson's no-hitter the 43 year old Ryan made a bid for yet another no no I believed that he could throw one pretty much any time out he had that kind of stuff no it's three four early on he was getting outs pretty quickly and then all of a sudden you could see that the momentum was starting to build I'm in a forty three-year-old throwing a no-hitter his sixth career no-hitter [Applause] it's pretty special three weeks later former teammates Fernando Valenzuela and Dave Stewart each took to the hill thousands of miles apart I did not warm up very well and really felt it was gonna be a tough day but by the fifth inning I remember coming to the dugout and I told Dave Duncan these guys gonna have a tough time getting a hit today my stuff was different my fork bob was really really really nasty that day strike three call that a fork ball just dropped over the outside corner it was his ball game he didn't go out there to pitch six seven innings he went out there to pitch nine [Music] as he closed it others took notice from the distance we're watching the last couple outs when Fernando Valenzuela poked his head into our video room Stu got the no-hitter and he said you saw one on TV now you're going to see one in person anyone out there and pitched a no-hitter [Music] [Applause] the combo of Stewart and balanced whale is you know pretty special day for those guys to do it the fact that in 1992 no hitters were from him the same day something never happened was an amazing feat in itself plus the fact that there were seven no-hitters thrown that year actually at the time now a no-hitters went into the record books two though are no longer official even if at least one of them was as distinctive as any the game has ever seen [Music] [Applause] I know it is hard to get when you see a guy dealing like that a last you want to do is you know make the defense break it up for [Applause] a defense did everything possible from that to get it 3/8 any errors cost Andy Hawkins and the Yankees four unearned runs and when New York failed to score in the top of the ninth Hawkins lost despite throwing eight no-hit friends [Applause] I don't know if it's just a a weird year or what but never nines on that year and I think I'm on one minutes lose one two starts later Hawkins face the White Sox again in New York but this time opposing pitcher Milito Perez was the one throwing no-hit ball at least until Mother Nature herself this could be very interesting idea people teasing everybody that you know that's not real it no-hitter because you win the old my name is obviously the game for us a no-hitter through six innings today neither of those no-hit outings are classified as official as in 1991 the rules were changed requiring a no hitter to be at least nine innings and a complete game of hitless ball 1990s no hit fever resumed the more conventional form an artist when lefty Terry Mulholland took the mound at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia against the Giants I distinctly remember the last out of the game Gary Carter hit for me hit a line drive it's amazing to throw a no-hitter in Philly that was a good hit in place and he did a masterful job Toronto's Dave Steve had won 140 games in the ADA's second-most over that span but he'd never thrown a no-hitter and three separate times had lost them with two outs in the ninth came so close so many other times you know one time was a bad hop Center we faced him in Toronto one time where I think he had 26 up 26 down and Roberto Kelly Brill could have two outs the ninth with a double but in the year of the no-hitter Steve finally earned his date with Hitler's desk [Music] [Applause] I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders because everybody expected it after all those close calls so it was nice that no hair dream finally came true it was as unlikely as it was impressive so many hitless gyms in a single season together making baseball history I guess it was the year of the gold hitter there were nine no-hitters pitched that year might have been something in the air I don't know in the second half of the 1980s the Blue Jays and Red Sox had dominated the AL East each winning two division titles the American League's Eastern Division the Jays lead the Sox by one half game 1990 would be no different as the two clubs battled for first place all summer long the Blue Jays were really getting ready to be that team of the decade that just went on great runs with great talent Red Sox were kind of trying to still figure out where they were gone who they were the Sox were a mixture of new and old faces as Mike Greenwell Ellis Burks and may acquisition Tom drew nasty bolster the lineup that also featured Dwight Evans and five-time batting champ Wade Boggs you're not gonna win penance with hitting you've got to win penance with pitching and that's what we did in 86 and that's what we did in 88 a huge part of those teams and this one was two times I own winner Roger Clemens again dominating hitters from the mound we were pretty sure that Clemens was probably Hall of Fame bound if he didn't get hurt he was the guy every fourth fifth day get the ball you're gonna win that game and in 1990 Clemens was the only American League Pitcher to finish in the top five in each of the Triple Crown categories in Toronto the Jays at an ace of their own an all-star Dave Stieb whose no-hitter was just one of 18 wins on the year during those years tape steve was pretty much top of his game during that time his slider was working really well also representing the Jays at Wrigley Field for the all-star game were outfielder George Bell and Kelly Gruber who'd emerged as one of the most dangerous hitting infielders in movies Kelly Gruber slaved her face as well as any third base in the leg and certainly put up some great numbers when he was there goobers numbers placed him among the ALS elite in 1990 along with his counterpart across the diamond first baseman Fred McGriff Fred over there at first his bat you can't say enough about that and the power that he provided [Applause] beginning on June 4th the Blue Jays and Red Sox traded places atop the AL East 12 times it appeared whoever finished the season hotter would win it and face the team everyone expected to win the West the powerful Oakland A's [Music] [Applause] they're lined up of course with McGuire and can't say go at that time we were just almost impossible Ricki at the top of the order when I think of Rickey Henderson I think one of the great ball players of all time speed power of grace now in his second stint at Oakland Henderson was putting up in VP numbers creating runs from the leadoff spot in a variety of ways and wreaking absolute havoc on the rest of the league in 1990 in particular if you could watch him the pitching was boosted by Bob Welch who had a career year on the mound at age 33 by season's end Welch would win a league best 27 games well she dominated a lot of games on his own he understood that year what he needed to do to pitch and the pitch successfully bees also had the game's best closer and Dennis Eckersley once again shutting down opponents and putting up remarkable numbers they are absurd numbers and when you look at them you can't imagine anybody putting them together but we kind of I think we took it for granted if you're good and lucky you're great and I was good and I was lucky Wow there were winds of change in Chicago thanks to another a super closer on the mound Bobby Thigpen saved 57 games that year of course we were in the same division at the time with Oakland we probably didn't belong in the same division with him but the white sox stayed close thanks to Thigpen and summarize a young starters on the mound the team also had an infusion of youth into the lineup we brought Robin Ventura in to play third base [Music] the combination of Ventura and shortstop Ozzie guillén made the left side of the infield a defensive strength for the Sox [Applause] just three and a half games out in August the Sox turned to a rookie reinforcements Frank Thomas came in August of that year to play first base all summer long the upstart Sox stayed on the tail of a mighty AIDS as the A's emerged as baseball's dominant team in the late 80s many expected the New York Mets to be right alongside them they were the most respected team in the division at that time and rightfully so after what they had done [Applause] but finding them that's 1986 championship the team was plagued by injuries and underachievement only managing to win one Division title over the next three years there was something missing there was a confidence missing whatever swagger they had or whatever confidence they had was clearly diminished still in 1990 began with a renewed optimism in New York with former Sion winners Dwight Gooden and Frank viola leading the rotation and all-star closer John Franco entering the bullpen the Mets had entered their season again as an NL favorite I don't think anybody questions the talent we have in this - and talent overcomes a lot of things but talent couldn't make up for the kind of mistakes the Mets were making early on [Applause] with a team below 500 in late May longtime manager Davey Johnson was fired and replaced by third-base coach Buddy Harrelson right after Buddy took over they were a very strong team in that month they were more like the Mets of 86 than they ever were after 86 at the center of the turnaround was right fielder Darryl Strawberry was hitting three-run home runs every other day and we were winning dramatically [Applause] second in fog the Mets signature swagger had returned and the team quickly clawed back into the NL East race to challenge the pilots [Applause] its turnaround was perhaps expected in Kansas City there was hardly much hope for George Brett in april/may I struck it so bad the talk shows with newspapers suggesting that I might be over the hill I might have played you know my dis muck in my last year at 37 it appeared Brett would be unable to combat the naysayers until suddenly I just got hot and I've always been a streaky player and once I started getting some hits the average went from 250 to 260 260 to 270 probably had the best second half of my career Brett surge increased his average to 329 good enough for his third and perhaps least likely batting title the annual batting champion meanwhile was even more improbably considering he left the lead with a month to go in the season Willie McGee was hitting 335 for the Cardinals when he was dealt in late August to Oakland to bolster and already ferocious A's line farewell a McGee who can fly McGee's already earned enough a no plate appearances to qualify and his mark stood up for his second batting title in absentia in Detroit the headline surrounded a player who had harnessed his power during a year abroad sessile fielder he was fun to watch he could hit a ball to country mile [Applause] the former Blue Jay had hit 38 home runs in 1989 in Japan's central league but he came back from Japan he was a different guy had a different swing he went off on a tear and not only was he hot was a streak he was consistent so consistent that fielder made a bid for the game's first 50 home run season in 13 years along as such drought in history in game 162 fielder's home run total stood just shy of the vaunted benchmark at 49 [Applause] at Yankee Stadium and fielder smashed two home runs to finish with 51 just one of several exciting finishes to the 1990 regular season as the September stretch run began in 1990 the White Sox hopes about ending he's all but disappeared when Oakland strengthened its already formidable lineup it was great morale boost in our Clubhouse Harold Baines and Willie McGee those were things that makes you unquestionable it was unquestionably a deep and dangerous lineup headlined by eventual MVP Rickey Henderson who led the team to a major league best 103 ways shutting the door on many of those wins was Dennis Eckersley who had 48 saves and a microscopic 0.61 er a for the division champs no one had to motivate me there wasn't a better year I've ever fished in my life but motivation may have been a problem for the Cincinnati Reds who struggled to play 500 ball after their brilliant start the Cincinnati Reds who started out 30 and 12 at the beginning of this year have fallen on some hard times well the more what else was okay Louie was panicking well we were 50 and 51 after our fresh start but nobody really got close to us so probably the third week September [Music] [Applause] the Giants and Dodgers both made late runs in the NL West but thanks in part to stellar late season pitching by Jose we are the Reds held the walk Jose you know from July on was as good as any pitcher I've been around you know he had the pitch that was basically unhittable and that was a slider hit that pitch forget it the Reds also benefited from 16 second half starts by knowing the trophy one of the trio of nasty boys and the team's bullpen he could be a long man he could close ballgames and he could be a situational pitcher if he could start and he definitely exude the confidence to go out and feed up a bunch of innings meanwhile in the pen Rob Dibble and Randy Myers continue to dominate hitters and the Reds would become the first NL team in the expansion era to spend the entire season in first place and everybody who participated whether it be one day or the whole season should be damn product in the Yale East it was a battle between New York and Pittsburgh the Nets stayed strong through the summer thanks to Darryl Strawberry and his 37 home runs [Applause] considering the Mets had won two Division titles in the last five years most observers favored New York the Mets had a more veteran team in September you tend to look at the more veteran team and say well they're good they're going to get this done in the case of Pirates they had so much talent and he was kept touching the most talented pirate was Barry Bonds broken out in a performance that returning his first MVP on September 5th separated by just half again the teams faced off and against John Franco it would beat bonds who had the final word [Applause] the Mets never would catch the box in Pittsburgh would clinch the division three weeks later behind siyoung winner Doug Drabek in American League the Red Sox and Blue Jays battled for the Eastern Division crown all the way down to the wire so you have this late September series with the Red Sox and Blue Jays very critical and the Red Sox had this outfielder that no one had heard of Jeff stone comes up stone he's appeared in seven games [Applause] five days later fate continued to smile down on the Sox when Toronto lost its final game of the season giving Boston a chance to clinch with a win [Music] [Applause] I couldn't see whether he Kylie or whether the ball hidden the stands or there was a homerun no you kind of looked at the fans and their reaction kind of told you that he had caught the ball [Applause] for the second time in three years the Sox would be under dogs in a division series against the A's but as a total would show the game of baseball has a habit of disregarding expectations [Music] entering the 1990 ALCS the Oakland A's appear to have the edge over Boston in almost every way one advantage though would prove most critical we'd like to blow everybody up if we kept the game close we knew our bullpen was better than anybody else's we had Honeycutt and then of course finished with that just keep it close get the starter out of there and get to the other teams bullpen and take our chances game 1 began as a pitcher's duel between Dave Stewart and Roger Clemens but after the Sox remove Clemens up one nothing going to the 7 their suspect bullpen included giving up seven runs in the night and even an eight run lead wasn't too much for Eckersley to protect the Sox took another early lead in Game two but again these responded in Game three in Oakland the AES continue to hammer those Sox earning the three games to none seriously they've got no one nothing lead in all three games and you guys have shut the door all three starters [Music] this is something new to us the next day the Red Sox frustration boiled over when the team's took the mound no one believes this but I have three witnesses on the way to the ballpark I've told people in the car I was riding that I had a dream that Roger Clemens gonna get ejected people piling on each other and trying to pull Roger a flee umpire a couple of strikes that were called balls by Terry Cooney the umpire and he just started you know yelling stuff at to me and it just got crazy what we watched it unfolded at that point was probably the most bizarre thing I've ever seen from a player [Applause] I never seen a guy you know go after someone like that and had to be restrained and though we could figure out why [Applause] nasty scene it was kind of scary to watch and you know this day didn't last very long when the dust had settled the age that they gonna come man and see no blaze sweet was complete [Applause] at the top of their game there was only one question left for the A's who their opponent would be in a world series despite having led the NL West wired a wire the Reds entered the playoffs as underdogs we honestly believe that Pittsburgh was the best team in baseball that year so you know we knew that we had our hands full with those guys they had such a potent offense they have very good pitching we knew we couldn't make many mistakes and we have to take it to him but in Game one the Reds struggled against Pirates starter Bob walk in Game two though the momentum would shift on a single throw that's why Colt agate [Applause] [Music] [Applause] anytime that shooting done a guy how whether it's the first inning or the eighth inning it leads to something did prevent them from being able to score runs and following three hitless innings by the Reds bullpen the series was even as playable to Pittsburgh the Reds grab two more wins and a commanding series [Applause] [Music] the red slave with their backs to the wall but pirates turn to Scion winner Doug Drabek in Game five hoping to extend the series at least one more game [Applause] and in Game six the Reds grabbed a late one one in the ninth though pirates made a bid to go ahead off Randy Myers what a lot of people remember in Game six Carmelo Martinez it's a flyball to deep right field look like it could be a home run one Bragg's and right field for the Reds leaps up [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that was a huge play quelled a pirate rally and the Reds went on to win [Applause] [Music] just knowing the confidence that we had a lot of people don't give us a lot of credit for believing in ourselves everybody thought that we were the underdog but we really believed that we were capable of winning every game that we play as the 1990 world series began it was hard to find anyone in baseball who thought the A's would be threatened by the Reds I have to admit that I think I predicted delays and went in about five games I mean they pretty much crushed everybody in American League and even though the Reds had surprised everybody I thought I was a fluke I thought that Oakland would take them apart but in Game one in Cincinnati it quickly became clear the Reds wouldn't be rolling over when Eric Davis stood in against Dave Stewart in the first [Applause] people talking about my homerun set to tone but your Jose real don't come out and pitch the way he pitches they're not even talking about my home run against aims toward state to a leave Rio kept the Oakland bats at bay with seven scoreless innings then Randy Myers finished off the shout out seven that's from the info my team justified that I read some words about how favored the Oakland A's are because so to herself that we can beat him Dean too would be a closer affair as the A's took before to lead early on what would be Jose Canseco's loan hit of the series but the Reds rallied to tie a leading the game up to the team's bullpens and after two nasty boys hurled three scoreless innings it was up to Dennis Eckersley to do his part in the tenth to preserve the time this is not a great situation to be and his control was phenomenal and he had such an extraordinary year that you did not want to see him out there on the mound but their game probably the Reds found a way Billy Bates comes off the bench gets a pinch-hit single in the bottom of the 10th inning Chris Sabo singles in the 2nd Joe Oliver drives them in with a memorable hit down the left-field line [Applause] two games down people expect us to win and pressures on us big time I think the a is probably thought we're going back to our stadium we got you now not so in Oakland the A's nightmare continued as the Reds bats broke out for seven runs in the third inning of Game three [Applause] we just do we have to get a game in Oakland well you have an opponent down you want to keep them down so it was no letter 80 by three more scoreless innings by their bullpen the Reds cruised again [Music] on the brink of a sweep the red San Jose Rio back to the mound to battle deed Stewart but early on and things didn't bode well for Cincinnati and it only got more painful for the Reds from there [Music] [Applause] I went to dive I tried to protect my shoulder and I caught the ball enrolled in my elbow went up under my rib cage and lacerated my kidney in three places look at Eric Davis he's gone from bad to worse game for losing Eric Davis and losing Billy Hatcher we knew we needed to finalize a series right then and there trailing one nothing reowww kept the a is from extending their lead than any aged stewart finally cracked and the Reds jumped ahead [Music] [Applause] the runner tags they could never draw him out goes into second base and it's too we all finally gave way with one out of the night leaving a nasty boy to fittingly finish the job on the mound [Applause] oh damn cigar Watson Sin City when he catches the ball everybody converged it was like oh my goodness we've done what no one said we could do but we did what we plan to do it was one of the most stunning World Series in years while Rio was named MVP the Reds bullpen hadn't allowed a single run and Billy Hatcher had sparked the offense with a single series record seven straight the red shocking victory shook the foundation of Oakland's would-be dynasty with injuries dee railing their big sluggers and an otherwise aging lineup the A's wouldn't make consecutive postseason --za ghin for a decade when they did remarry different philosophy Moneyball the emerging talent of the Reds meanwhile started talk of a new dynasty in Cincinnati but the Klumps pitching faltered in 1991 and many key pieces of the roster that never would be the magic of 1980 Barry Bonds in the Pirates would win the next two NL East titles but lose each time in the playoffs to a new nationally power even as other contenders would emerge in the years to come 1990 remains an indelible season both with prodigious power and a series of stellar pitching performances that reminded us that anything can happen on a baseball field [Music] you

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