This article is about the 1988 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1988 in baseball.
Sports season
1988 MLB season
League
Major League Baseball
Sport
Baseball
Duration
April 4 – October 20, 1988
Number of games
162
Number of teams
26
TV partner(s)
ABC, NBC
Draft
Top draft pick
Andy Benes
Picked by
San Diego Padres
Regular season
Season MVP
NL: Kirk Gibson (LA) AL: José Canseco (OAK)
Postseason
AL champions
Oakland Athletics
AL runners-up
Boston Red Sox
NL champions
Los Angeles Dodgers
NL runners-up
New York Mets
World Series
Champions
Los Angeles Dodgers
Runners-up
Oakland Athletics
World Series MVP
Orel Hershiser (LA)
MLB seasons
← 1987
1989 →
The 1988 Major League Baseball season ended with the underdog Los Angeles Dodgers shocking the Oakland Athletics, who had won 104 games during the regular season, in the World Series. The most memorable moment of the series came in Game 1, when injured Dodger Kirk Gibson hit a dramatic pinch-hit walk-off home run off Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley to win the game for Los Angeles. The Dodgers went on to win the Series in five games.
This would also be the final full season for Peter Ueberroth as MLB commissioner.
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