1989 Montreal Expos season

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1989 Montreal Expos
Major league affiliations
Location
1989 Information
Owner(s) Charles Bronfman
Manager(s) Buck Rodgers
Local television CBMT
(Dave Van Horne, Ken Singleton)
CBFT
(Claude Raymond, Raymond Lebrun)
The Sports Network
(Ken Singleton, Jim Hughson)
Local radio CJAD (AM)
(Dave Van Horne, Bobby Winkles, Jerry Trupiano)
CKAC (AM)
(Jacques Doucet, Rodger Brulotte)

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[edit] Offseason

  • December 8, 1988: Mike Aldrete was Traded by the San Francisco Giants to the Montreal Expos for Tracy Jones. [1]

[edit] Regular season

  • August 3, 1989 - The Expos and Dodgers engage in a 22 inning marathon, the longest game in Expos history. It eventually ended when Rick Dempsey homered for the Dodgers in the top half of the 22nd innings off Dennis Martinez in a very rare relief performance. Rex Hudler would be caught stealing second in the bottom half of the 22nd to end the game. The game would have ended earlier when an Expo scored from third on a sacrifice fly. The Dodger's appeal, that the runner left the base too soon, was recognized by the third base umpire and the third out was recorded. The game also marked the first time a mascot was ejected by an umpire. Youppi! dressed in a nightgown and nightcap pretended to go to sleep on top of the Dodgers dugout, former Montreal Royals reliever and then coach of the Dodgers Tommy Lasorda demanded that Youppi! be run from the game. In the end the game took over 6 hours to finish and ended close to 2:00 am.

[edit] Opening Day Starters

[edit] Season standings

NL East W L Pct. GB
Chicago Cubs 93 69 .574 --
New York Mets 87 75 .537 6
St. Louis Cardinals 86 76 .531 7
Montreal Expos 81 81 .500 12
Pittsburgh Pirates 74 88 .457 19
Philadelphia Phillies 67 95 .414 26

[edit] Notable Transactions

  • May 25, 1989: Mark Langston was traded by the Seattle Mariners with a player to be named later to the Montreal Expos for Randy Johnson, Brian Holman, and Gene Harris. The Seattle Mariners sent Mike Campbell (July 31, 1989) to the Montreal Expos to complete the trade.
  • July 2, 1989: Zane Smith was traded by the Atlanta Braves to the Montreal Expos for Sergio Valdez, Nate Minchey, and Kevin Dean (minors). [2]
  • August 29, 1989: John Candelaria was traded by the New York Yankees to the Montreal Expos for Mike Blowers. [3]

[edit] Roster

1989 Montreal Expos roster
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Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player G AB H HR RBI Avg.
Tim Raines

[edit] Other batters

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO

[edit] Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA

[edit] Relief pitchers
Player G IP W L SV ERA SO

[edit] Award Winners

1989 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mike Aldrete Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  2. ^ Zane Smith Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  3. ^ John Candelaria Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
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