1984 – Gene Mauch, who resigned as the California Angels manager after the 1982 season, is hired again.
1984 – Gene Mauch, who resigned as the California Angels manager after the 1982 season, is hired again.
1984 – Gene Mauch, who resigned as the California Angels manager after the 1982 season, is hired again.
1984 – The Detroit Tigers win the World Series opener as Jack Morris pitches a complete game, 3 – 2, victory over San Diego. Larry Herndon’s two-run home run in the 5th inning provides the winning margin.
1984 – Pitchers Milt Wilcox and Willie Hernandez combine on a three-hitter to give the Detroit Tigers a 1 – 0 win and a sweep of the Kansas City Royals in the ALCS.
1984 – The San Diego Padres take a lead in an NLCS game for the first time, and they go on to down the Chicago Cubs, 7 – 1, in Game 3.
Padre Eddie Miller and Dodger Tony Brewer hit homers in their last major league at bats. Miller’s 9th-inning four-bagger, his only career homer, comes in a 4 – 3 loss to Atlanta’s Pascual Perez, while Brewer, the PCL batting champion, homers in LA’s 7 – 2 win over the Giants.
Phillies manager Paul Owens resigns following a season-ending doubleheader loss to the Pirates and will move back into the club’s front office. Coach John Felske will succeed Owens as manager in 1985.
In the dramatic race for the American League batting title, Don Mattingly goes 4 for 5 in the Yankees’ season-ending 4 – 2 win over the Tigers to edge teammate Dave Winfield .343 to .340. Winfield goes 1 for 4.
The 7th-place Brewers end their season with a 4 – 0 win over the Blue Jays, and manager Rene Lachemann bows out. Lachemann had been fired earlier in the week but stayed on till the finish. George Bamberger will return as manager of the Brewers in 1985.
The ML umpires announce that they will go on strike at the two LCS scheduled to begin October 2 in an effort to improve their pay and job security and to change the method by which post-season assignments are determined. MLB officials say the games will go on as scheduled using amateur umpires if necessary.
Before a crowd of 2,803, the smallest crowd in Montreal history, the Expos trim the Cards, 6 – 3. Paced by back-to-back homers by Gary Carter and Dan Driessen, the Expos score six in the 4th. The Spos will draw 3,613 on September 4, 2001, their next smallest crowd. In Joe Hesketh’s 7 – 0 shutout over the Mets tomorrow, the crowd will be 12,164.
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