Two teams with very different histories met in the 1993 World Series. The Toronto Blue Jays might have been an expansion franchise, but they had become baseball’s most consistent team over the last decade and were looking to seal a dynasty by winning a second consecutive championship. The Philadelphia Phillies were one of the game’s […]
The Atlanta Braves came into the 1993 NLCS as the clear favorite. The Braves had won this round in both 1991 and 1992 and were hungry to take the final step and win a World Series. They had won one of the great pennant races of all-time to get to this point. The Philadelphia Phillies […]
The Toronto Blue Jays were the defending World Series champions. The Chicago White Sox were in the postseason for the first time since the 1983 ALCS. In that regard, perhaps it’s not surprising that their matchup in the 1993 ALCS was defined by the Blue Jays being the team that avoided key mistakes and made […]
1993 marked the end of an era in major league baseball. It marked the end of a 25-year run where each league was split into just two divisions and only the first-place finisher qualified for the postseason. Starting next season, there would be three divisions and a wild-card playoff qualifier. That meant ’93 was the […]
It had been a dry ten years for baseball in Philadelphia. Since a great eight-year run from 1976-83 that saw the Phillies win five NL East titles, two National League pennants and the World Series in 1980, the Phils had fallen off the radar. Over the next decade they had just one winning season and […]
In the bottom of the ninth, Henderson got aboard to start the inning. With one out, Molitor ripped a line drive single to center…Carter came to the plate against erratic Phillies’ closer Mitch Williams
One of the big surprises with this team is that they never made it back to October with the current group, though they did lead the AL Central one year later when the strike that wiped out the rest of the season hit. The playoffs wouldn’t return to the South Side until 2000 and not until 2005 would they finally win the World Series, by which time Guillen was in the dugout rather than at short. But no one knew this in October of 1993 and the future looked brigh
The 1993 San Francisco Giants hold a place in history. It’s a place that’s worthy of honor and respect, but also one that the players and fans surely wish they didn’t have. The ’93 Giants are baseball’s last great team to be left out of the playoffs. Major league baseball was at the end of […]
The early 1990s St. Louis Cardinals were looking to regain the mojo of the 1980s, when they won three National League pennants and the World Series in 1982. After a decline at the end of the decade, the great Whitey Herzog retired as manager and Joe Torre took over. Torre turned out winning teams in […]
The 1993 Texas Rangers were the heirs to a franchise history that was something less than stellar. Since they relocated from Washington in 1972, the Rangers had never reached postseason play. Even allowing the more stringent standards of the era, Texas had just two seasons where they finished with one of the top four records […]
Sparky Anderson was one of the great managers in baseball history. He won three World Series titles—1975 and 1976 in Cincinnati, then again in 1984 with Detroit. The 1993 Detroit Tigers were the last winning team the Hall of Fame skipper ever managed. The ‘93 Tigers won games by outslugging opponents. They were first in […]
It’s hard to imagine the New York Yankees playing anything but winning baseball. But from 1989-92, they were a sub-.500 team all four years, the completion of a gradual descent from relevance that took place throughout the 1980s. Under second-year manager Buck Showalter, the 1993 New York Yankees got back on the winning side of […]