1992 Major League Baseball postseason
Tournament details | |
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Dates | October 6–24, 1992[1] |
Teams | 4 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Toronto Blue Jays (1st title) |
Runner-up | Atlanta Braves (6th World Series appearance) |
Tournament statistics | |
MVP | Pat Borders (TOR) |
The 1992 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1992 season. The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
In the American League, the Toronto Blue Jays returned to the postseason for the second year in a row, and the Oakland Athletics returned for the fourth time in the past five seasons. In the National League, the Atlanta Braves made their second of fourteen consecutive postseason appearances, and the Pittsburgh Pirates were making their third straight appearance.
This would be the last time the Pirates appeared in the postseason until
The playoffs began on October 6, 1992, and concluded on October 24, 1992, with the Blue Jays defeating the Braves in six games in the 1992 World Series. The Blue Jays became the first team from Canada to win the World Series.
Playoff seeds
The following teams qualified for the postseason:
American League
- Toronto Blue Jays – AL East champions, 96–66[2]
- Oakland Athletics – AL West champions, 96–66[3]
National League
- Pittsburgh Pirates – NL East champions, 96–66[4]
- Atlanta Braves – NL West champions, 98–64[5]
Playoff bracket
League Championship Series (ALCS, NLCS) | World Series | ||||||||
East | Toronto | 4 | |||||||
West | Oakland | 2 | |||||||
AL | Toronto | 4 | |||||||
NL | Atlanta | 2 | |||||||
East | Pittsburgh | 3 | |||||||
West | Atlanta | 4 |
American League Championship Series
Toronto Blue Jays vs. Oakland Athletics
Toronto won the series, 4–2.
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 7 | Oakland Athletics – 4, Toronto Blue Jays – 3 | SkyDome |
2:47 | 51,039[6] |
2 | October 8 | Oakland Athletics – 1, Toronto Blue Jays – 3 | SkyDome |
2:58 | 51,114[7] |
3 | October 10 | Toronto Blue Jays – 7, Oakland Athletics – 5 | Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum |
3:40 | 46,911[8] |
4 | October 11 | Toronto Blue Jays – 7, Oakland Athletics – 6 (11 innings) | Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum |
4:25 | 47,732[9] |
5 | October 12 | Toronto Blue Jays – 2, Oakland Athletics – 6 | Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum |
2:51 | 44,955[10] |
6 | October 14 | Oakland Athletics – 2, Toronto Blue Jays – 9 | SkyDome |
3:15 | 51,335[11] |
This was a rematch of the
The Athletics would not return to the postseason again until the start of the "
The 1992 ALCS began a streak of playoff success for Toronto-based teams over their San Francisco Bay Area counterparts. In 1994, the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the San Jose Sharks 4–3 in the second round of the 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs, then in 2019, the Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA Finals over the Golden State Warriors 4–2.
National League Championship Series
Atlanta Braves vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
Atlanta won the series, 4–3.
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 6 | Pittsburgh Pirates – 1, Atlanta Braves – 5 | Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium | 3:20 | 51,971[12] |
2 | October 7 | Pittsburgh Pirates – 5, Atlanta Braves – 13 | Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium | 3:20 | 51,975[13] |
3 | October 9 | Atlanta Braves – 2, Pittsburgh Pirates – 3 | Three Rivers Stadium | 2:37 | 56,610[14] |
4 | October 10 | Atlanta Braves – 6, Pittsburgh Pirates – 4 | Three Rivers Stadium | 3:10 | 57,164[15] |
5 | October 11 | Atlanta Braves – 1, Pittsburgh Pirates – 7 | Three Rivers Stadium | 2:52 | 52,929[16] |
6 | October 13 | Pittsburgh Pirates – 13, Atlanta Braves – 4 | Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium | 2:50 | 51,975[17] |
7 | October 14 | Pittsburgh Pirates – 2, Atlanta Braves – 3 | Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium | 3:22 | 51,975[18] |
This was a rematch of the
Games 1 and 2 were dominated by the Braves - the Braves took Game 1 thanks to a stellar pitching performance by ace John Smoltz, and won Game 2 in a blowout to go up 2-0 in the series headed to Pittsburgh. The Pirates narrowly took Game 3 thanks to a complete game performance from Tim Wakefield, but in Game 4, Smoltz again led the Braves to victory to go up 3-1 in the series. However, the Pirates would not go away easily, as they blew out the Braves in Games 5 and 6 to force a seventh game.
Game 7 was the most notable contest of the series. In the bottom of the ninth inning, the Pirates held a 2-1 lead and were one out away from returning to the World Series. However, the Braves had the bases loaded, and then Atlanta's Francisco Cabrera cracked a two-run single that scored David Justice and Sid Bream. Bream famously slid to score the Series-winning run, beating the throw by Pirates left fielder Barry Bonds.
The
The Braves returned to the NLCS
1992 World Series
Toronto Blue Jays (AL) vs. Atlanta Braves (NL)
Toronto won the series, 4-2.
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 17 | Toronto Blue Jays – 1, Atlanta Braves – 3 | Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium | 2:37 | 51,763[19] |
2 | October 18 | Toronto Blue Jays – 5, Atlanta Braves – 4 | Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium | 3:30 | 51,763[20] |
3 | October 20 | Atlanta Braves – 2, Toronto Blue Jays – 3 | SkyDome |
2:49 | 51,813[21] |
4 | October 21 | Atlanta Braves – 1, Toronto Blue Jays – 2 | SkyDome |
2:21 | 52,090[22] |
5 | October 22 | Atlanta Braves – 7, Toronto Blue Jays – 2 | SkyDome |
3:05 | 52,268[23] |
6 | October 24 | Toronto Blue Jays – 4, Atlanta Braves – 3 (11 innings) | Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium | 4:07 | 51,763[24] |
This was the first World Series which had games hosted outside the
Tom Glavine out-dueled Jack Morris in Game 1, as he pitched a complete game in a 3-1 Braves victory. In Game 2, the Blue Jays overcame a one-run Braves lead late thanks to a two-run home run from Ed Sprague Jr. in the top of the ninth, evening the series headed to Toronto. The Blue Jays took the lead in the series with a 3-2 win in Game 3. Jimmy Key out-dueled Glavine in Game 4 as the Blue Jays won 2-1 to take a 3-1 series lead. However, the Braves were not done yet. In Game 5, Morris was handed his second loss of the series as he was badly outdueled by John Smoltz as the Braves blew out the Blue Jays, 7-2, to send the series back to Atlanta. Game 6 went into extra innings, and the Blue Jays took the lead for good with two runs scored in the top of the eleventh. The Braves put up one more run in the bottom of the inning to cut the Blue Jays' lead to one, but relief pitcher Mike Timlin was able to preserve the lead as the Blue Jays clinched the title.
This was the first major league championship won by a team from
Broadcasting
This marked the third year of a four-year agreement with CBS to televise all postseason game nationally in the United States.
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