World Series 2008

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World Series 2008
World Series 2008 Logo.svg
team Victories Regular season
Philadelphia Phillies 4th 92-70, 56.8%
Tampa Bay Rays 1 97-65, 59.9%
Period: October 22nd - October 29th, 2008
MVP: Cole Hamels (Phillies)
 <2007 World Series 2009> 

The 2008 World Series was the 104th edition of the finals in North American (US and Canada) Major League Baseball . The best-of-seven series started on October 22, 2008 and ended on October 29, 2008. It faced the American League champion , the Tampa Bay Rays , and the National League champion , the Philadelphia Phillies . The Phillies won the series 4-1 games. For MVP of the World Series was Cole Hamels selected.

The finalists

Tampa Bay Rays Logo.svg
Logo Philadelphia Phillies.svg

The Tampa Bay Rays, founded in 1998, were for the first time ever in their club history after the regular season with a positive record at the top of the East Division of the American League and thus qualified for the postseason . They were able to secure the championship of the American League after a 3-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox in the ALDS (American League Division Series) and in a duel with the Boston Red Sox . In the ALCS (American League Championship Series) they had a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series and had to beat the Boston Red Sox, who have earned the reputation of the almost unbeatable ALCS team in recent years but suffer two defeats in a row. In the decisive seventh game, they beat the Red Sox 3-1. The Rays managed to make it to the World Series despite being the team that raised the second least amount of money on player salaries. Only the Florida Marlins invested less in their team.

It was the first time the Phillies had entered the Fall Classic since the 1993 World Series . They reached for the sixth time in their history for the highest title in professional baseball, which they could win in 1980 for the first and to date only time. The Phillies could only secure the title in the National League East on the penultimate day of the regular season. They won the Division Series of the National League ( NLDS ) against the Milwaukee Brewers with 3-1 games as well as the title of the National League ( NLCS ) with only one loss in the best-of-seven series against the LA Dodgers .

The way to the World Series

2008 World Series venues
  League Division Series League Championship Series World Series
                           
  1  Anaheim Angels  1        
4th  Boston Red Sox  3  
4th  Boston Red Sox  3
American League
  2  Tampa Bay Rays  4th  
2  Tampa Bay Rays  3
  3  Chicago White Sox  1  
AL2  Tampa Bay Rays  1
  NL2  Philadelphia Phillies  4th
  1  Chicago Cubs  0
3  LA Dodgers  3  
3  LA Dodgers  1
National League
  2  Philadelphia Phillies  4th  
2  Philadelphia Phillies  3
  4th  Milwaukee Brewers  1  

ALDS, NLDS (Division Series): Best-of Five; ALCS, NLCS (Championship Series): Best-of-Seven

Overview of the games

Due to the American League victory at the 2008 MLB All-Star Game , the Tampa Bay Rays had a home advantage in the World Series.

game date guest Score home Score Total status

(PHI-TB)

Ball park spectator
1 October 22, 2008 Philadelphia Phillies 3 Tampa Bay Rays 2 1–0 Tropicana Field 40,783
2 October 23, 2008 Philadelphia Phillies 2 Tampa Bay Rays 4th 1-1 Tropicana Field 40,843
3 October 25, 2008 Tampa Bay Rays 4th Philadelphia Phillies 5 2–1 Citizens Bank Park 45,900
4th October 26, 2008 Tampa Bay Rays 2 Philadelphia Phillies 10 3–1 Citizens Bank Park 45.903
5 October 27, 2008 &
October 29, 2008 * 		Tampa Bay Rays 3 Philadelphia Phillies 4th 4-1 Citizens Bank Park 45.940

* Game 5 was suspended due to rain and continued two days later.

Game 1, October 22nd

Tropicana Field, Stadium of the Rays .

Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg , Florida

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Philadelphia 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 8th 1
Tampa Bay 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 1

WP : Cole Hamels (1–0)   LP : Scott Kazmir (0–1)   SV : Brad Lidge (1)  

HRs :   PHI - Chase Utley (1) TB - Carl Crawford (1)
Chase Utley

In the first half-linning of the series, the Philadelphia Phillies were able to achieve the first two runs . Chase Utley hit a home run while Jayson Werth was on first base. The Phillies played well in the second inning as well. They managed to occupy all bases, but in the end could not book a run. Something similar happened to the Tampa Bay Rays in the third inning, when they were also able to occupy all bases without later scoring. In the fourth inning, the Phillies were able to extend their lead after Vicrotino scored after a hit from Carlos Ruiz . Carl Crawford was able to bring Tampa Bay back to the Phillies on two runs with a home run in the lower half of the fourth inning. In the following inning, the Rays even shortened to 2: 3 after Jason Bartlett scored after a double from Akinori Iwamura .

After six innings, Tampa Bay's starting pitcher Scott Kazmir left the field and was replaced first by JP Howell and later by Grant Balfour , both of whom no longer allowed the Phillies to run. The fourth Rays pitcher of the game, Trever Miller , also missed an earned run, as did the fifth pitcher Dan Wheeler .

At the Phillies, Ryan Madson came on in the eighth inning for starter Cole Hamels . For his part, Madson was replaced by Brad Lidge in the ninth inning . Lidge was also unable to allow the opponent to run, which secured the save .

Game 2, October 23

James Shields , WP of the 2nd game

Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 9 2
Tampa Bay 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 4th 7th 1

WP : James Shields (1–0)   LP : Brett Myers (0–1)  

HRs :   PHI - Eric Bruntlett (1)

Tampa Bay scored the first runs of the game in the first inning. In the second inning, the hosts were able to take a 3-0 lead thanks to a run by Dioner Navarro . Cliff Floyd increased the Rays' lead to four runs in the fourth inning.

James Shields pitched 5⅔ innings with no earned runs before being replaced by Dan Wheeler, who also did not allow the Phillies to run for an inning. In the eighth inning, Eric Bruntlett hit a home run for the Phillies and was able to reduce it to 1: 4. The guest from Philadelphia got a second run in the last inning, which could not prevent the Rays from winning and thus equalizing in the series.

Game 3, October 25th

Citizens Bank Park, home of the Phillies .

Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Tampa Bay 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 4th 6th 0
Philadelphia 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 5 7th 1

WP : JC Romero (1–0)   LP : JP Howell (0–1)  

HRs :   PHI - Carlos Ruiz (1), Chase Utley (2), Ryan Howard (1)

Game 3 of the series started 91 minutes late due to rain. The Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the first inning with a run by Jimmy Rollins . Tampa Bay was able to equalize in the following half-linning with a run by Carl Crawford . Carlos Ruiz in turn brought the Phillies back into the front with a home run in the second inning. Starting pitcher Matt Garza pitched six, his opponent Jamie Moyer 6 innings.

The score didn't change until the sixth inning, when the Phillies were able to increase to 4-1 with successive home runs by Chase Utley and Ryan Howard . It was only the 14th time in the history of the World Series that this has been achieved. Crawford was then able to book his second run of the day. In the same inning, Dioner Navarro even managed to reduce the gap to one run.

In the eighth inning, after a single, BJ Upton managed to steal first the second and later the third base and finally equalize the game after an error by the Phillies.

In the ninth inning, Eric Bruntlett came on first base after a hit by pitch . He then reached second base with a wild pitch and third base with an error. Tampa Bay then let Philadelphia occupy all bases with two intentional walks . Bruntlett was finally able to achieve the decisive fifth run for the Phillies after an infield single from Ruiz. With this first Walkoff Infield single in World Series history, the Phillies took a 2-1 lead in the series.

Game 4, October 26th

Ryan Howard scored 2 home runs in the 4th game

Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Tampa Bay 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 2
Philadelphia 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 4th x 10 12 1

WP : Joe Blanton (1–0)   LP : Andy Sonnanstine (0–1)  

HRs :   TB - Carl Crawford (2), Eric Hinske (1) PHI - Ryan Howard (3), Joe Blanton (1), Jayson Werth (1)

The Phillies took the lead again in the first inning with a 1-0 run by Jimmy Rollins . In the third inning, the Philadelphia team increased it to 2-0 when Pedro Feliz helped Feliz to the run with a single Chase Utley , who in turn came to base through a fielding error. The Rays came back briefly in the fourth inning when Carl Crawford was able to shorten it to 1: 2 with his second home run of the series. The Phillies were able to increase to 5-1 in the same inning thanks to a three-run home run by Ryan Howard. Eric Hinske reduced the Rays to 2: 5 in the fifth inning before the Phillies scored again in the same inning through their pitcher Joe Blanton, who hit a home run. It was the first home run by a pitcher in the World Series since 1974. A home run by Jayson Werth increased the Phillies to 8-2 in the eighth inning. In the same inning, Ryan Howard scored his second home run of the day and was able to establish the final score of 10: 2.

Game 5, October 27th (started) and October 29th (completed)

Jason Werth (center) scored the 1-0 run

Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Tampa Bay 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 10 0
Philadelphia 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 x 4th 8th 1

Starting Pitchers : TB - Scott Kazmir (0–1) PHI - Cole Hamels (1–0)   WP : JC Romero (2–0)   LP : JP Howell (0–2)   SV : Brad Lidge (2)  

HRs :   TB - Rocco Baldelli (1)

For the third time in a row, the Phillies scored in the first inning after Jayson Werth and Pat Burrell each scored a run. In the fourth inning, the Rays shortened to 1: 2. In the sixth inning, BJ Upton equalized the game. In the middle of the sixth inning the game had to be interrupted due to rain and could not be started that evening. It is the first time in history that a game was not finished in one piece or was considered a draw.

Two days later, on October 29th, the game could be continued. Again the Phillies managed to score right at the beginning. Pinch hitter Geoff Jenkins took the lead again before the Rays equalized again in the seventh inning with a home run by Rocco Baldelli . The decisive run of the day, and with it the decision in the World Series, succeeded Eric Bruntlett in the seventh inning, who came into play for Pat Burrell as a pinch runner and scored the fourth run for the Phillies with a single from Pedro Feliz .

Summary

World Series 2008 Philadelphia Phillies (NL) (4-1) Tampa Bay Rays (AL)

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Philadelphia 6th 1 1 4th 1 3 1 5 2 24 44 6th
Tampa Bay 2 2 0 4th 2 1 3 1 0 15th 33 4th
Total audience: 219,369 Average audience: 43,874

reporting

  • In the USA , FOX once again had the broadcasting rights for the World Series 2008. In Europe, the games were broadcast live by NASN .

Overview of the channels with live reporting

Highlights

  • MLB.com offers a free summary of the games on the Internet after the games.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MLB Salaries ( Memento from October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Associated Press: Hamels, Utley Lead Phillies Over Rays in Opener . accessnorthga.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ MLB.com: Trop-ical paradise: Shields leads way . MLB Advanced Media, LP. October 24, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2008.
  4. ↑ Phillies 5, Rays 4 . MLB.com. October 26, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
  5. ↑ http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2008_10_26_tbamlb_phimlb_1
  6. ↑ Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia . MLB.com. October 29, 2008. Retrieved October 29, 2008.
  7. ^ World Series Game one . In: Box Score , MLB.com, October 22, 2008. 
  8. ^ World Series Game two . In: Box Score . MLB.com. October 23, 2008. Retrieved October 23, 2008.
  9. ↑ Mark Newman: Rain doesn't dampen enthusiasm , MLB.com. October 25, 2008. 
  10. ↑ Alyson Footer: Howard ends homerless drought , MLB.com. October 26, 2008. 
  11. ↑ World Series Game three . In: Box Score , MLB.com, October 25, 2008. 
  12. ^ Matthew Leach: Blanton picks right time for first homer , MLB.com. October 26, 2008. 
  13. ^ World Series Game four . In: Box Score . MLB.com. October 26, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
  14. ↑ Bryan Hoch: Rain delays Game 5 in sixth inning , MLB.com. October 28, 2008. 
  15. ↑ Highlights Game 1 , MLB.com. 
  16. ↑ Highlights Game 2 , MLB.com. 
  17. ↑ Highlights Game 3 , MLB.com. 
  18. ↑ Highlights Game 4 , MLB.com. 
  19. ↑ Highlights Game 5 , MLB.com. 

Web links

official website of the MLB for the post season 2008