1990 Boston Red Sox season

The 1990 Boston Red Sox season was the 90th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished first in the American League East with a record of 88 wins and 74 losses. It was the second AL East division championship in three years for the Red Sox. However, the team was defeated in a four-game sweep by the Oakland Athletics in the ALCS, as had been the case in 1988.

1990 Boston Red Sox
1990 AL East Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Jean Yawkey,
Haywood Sullivan
General manager(s)Lou Gorman
Manager(s)Joe Morgan
Local televisionWSBK-TV, Ch. 38
(Sean McDonough, Bob Montgomery)
NESN
(Ned Martin, Jerry Remy)
Local radioWRKO
(Bob Starr, Joe Castiglione)
WROL
(Bobby Serrano, Hector Martinez)
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Offseason
  • December 6, 1989: Dennis Lamp was signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox.[1]
  • December 6, 1989: Jeff Reardon signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox.[2]
  • December 19, 1989: Rick Cerone was released by the Boston Red Sox.[3]
  • December 20, 1989: Sam Horn was released by the Boston Red Sox.[4]
  • February 15, 1990: Bill Buckner signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox.[5]
  • February 15, 1990: Greg A. Harris was signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox.[6]

Regular season

On June 6, 1990, the Red Sox got retribution for Bucky Dent's home run when the New York Yankees fired Dent as their manager, making Fenway Park the scene of his greatest moment as a player—and his worst moment as manager.[7] Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe criticized Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner for firing Dent—his 18th managerial change in as many years—in Boston and said he should "have waited until the Yankees got to Baltimore" to fire Dent.[8] He said that "if Dent had been fired in Seattle or Milwaukee, this would have been just another event in an endless line of George's jettisons. But it happened in Boston and the nightly news had its hook."[8] He also said that "the firing was only special because...it's the first time a Yankee manager...was purged on the ancient Indian burial grounds of the Back Bay."[8] However, Bill Pennington called the firing of Dent "merciless."[9]


The Red Sox also set a Major League record which still stands for the most double plays grounded into in a season, with 174.[10]

Season standings
AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
Boston Red Sox 8874 0.543 — 51–30 37–44
Toronto Blue Jays 8676 0.531 2 44–37 42–39
Detroit Tigers 7983 0.488 9 39–42 40–41
Cleveland Indians 7785 0.475 11 41–40 36–45
Baltimore Orioles 7685 0.472 11½ 40–40 36–45
Milwaukee Brewers 7488 0.457 14 39–42 35–46
New York Yankees 6795 0.414 21 37–44 30–51

Record vs. opponents
1990 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —4–97–56–66–76–78–37–66–66–74–83–98–45–8
Boston 9–4—7–56–69–48–54–85–84–89–44–88–45–710–3
California 5–75–7—5–87–55–77–67–59–46–64–95–88–57–5
Chicago 6–66–68–5—5–75–79–410–27–610–28–58–57–65–7
Cleveland 7–64–95–77–5—5–86–69–47–55–84–87–57–54–9
Detroit 7–65–87–57–58–5—5–73–106–67–66–67–56–65–8
Kansas City 3–88–46–74–96–67–5—4–88–58–44–97–65–85–7
Milwaukee 6–78–55–72–104–910–38–4—4–86–75–74–85–77–6
Minnesota 6–68–44–96–75–76–65–88–4—6–66–76–75–83–9
New York 7–64–96–62–108–56–74–87–66–6—0–129–33–95–8
Oakland 8–48–49–45–88–46–69–47–57–612–0—9–48–57–5
Seattle 9–34–88–55–85–75–76–78–47–63–94–9—7–66–6
Texas 4–87–55–86–75–76–68–57–58–59–35–86–7—7–5
Toronto 8–53–105–77–59–48–57–56–79–38–55–76–65–7—

Opening Day Line Up
26Wade Boggs3B
17Marty Barrett2B
39Mike GreenwellLF
12Ellis BurksCF
24Dwight EvansDH
13Billy Jo Robidoux    1B
  6Tony PeñaC
  3Jody ReedSS
16Kevin RomineRF
21Roger ClemensP

Roster
1990 Boston Red Sox
Roster
Pitchers
  • 38 Jeff Gray
 Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Designated Hitters

  • 24 Dwight Evans

Pinch hitter

 Manager

Coaches

Notable transactions
  • May 4, 1990: Lee Smith was traded by the Boston Red Sox to the St. Louis Cardinals for Tom Brunansky.[11]
  • June 4, 1990: Les Norman was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 26th round of the 1990 amateur draft, but did not sign.[12]
  • June 5, 1990: Bill Buckner was released by the Boston Red Sox.[5]
  • August 23, 1990: Cecilio Guante signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox.
  • August 30, 1990: The Boston Red Sox traded Jeff Bagwell to the Houston Astros for Larry Andersen.

Alumni game

The team held an old-timers game on May 19, before a scheduled home game against the Minnesota Twins. Red Sox alumni pitchers Bill Lee, Bill Monbouquette, and Dick Radatz allowed just one hit (to former Detroit Tiger Willie Horton) in the four-inning game, as Boston won by a 2–0 score over a team of MLB alumni from other clubs.[13]

Player stats
= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

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

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CTony Peña143491129.263756
1BCarlos Quintana149512147.287767
2BJody Reed155598173.289551
3BWade Boggs155619187.302663
SSLuis Rivera11834678.225745
LFMike Greenwell159610181.2971473
CFEllis Burks152588174.2962189
RFTom Brunansky129461123.2671571
DHDwight Evans123445111.2491363


Pitching

Starting pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Roger Clemens31228.12161.93209
Mike Boddicker342281783.16143
Tom Bolton21119.21053.3865


ALCS
Main article: 1990 American League Championship Series

Game 1

October 6, 1990, at Fenway Park

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Oakland 000 000 117 9130
Boston 000 100 000 151
W: Dave Stewart (1-0)   L: Larry Andersen (0-1)  
HR: BOS – Wade Boggs (1)

Game 2

October 7, 1990, at Fenway Park

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Oakland 000 100 102 4131
Boston 001 000 000 160
W: Bob Welch (1-0)   L: Greg Harris (0-1)  S: Dennis Eckersley (1)
HR: None

Game 3

October 9, 1990, at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston 010 000 000 183
Oakland 000 202 00x 460
W: Mike Moore (1-0)   L: Mike Boddicker (0-1)  S: Dennis Eckersley (2)
HR: None

Game 4

October 10, 1990, at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston 000 000 001 141
Oakland 030 000 00x 360
W: Dave Stewart (2-0)   L: Roger Clemens (0-1)  S: Rick Honeycutt (1)
HR: None

Awards and honors
Awards
Accomplishments

All-Star Game

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball

The Lynchburg Red Sox and Winter Haven Red Sox changed classification from Class A to Class A-Advanced.

Level Team League Manager
AAA Pawtucket Red Sox International League Ed Nottle and Johnny Pesky
AA New Britain Red Sox Eastern League Butch Hobson
A-Advanced Lynchburg Red Sox Carolina League Gary Allenson
A-Advanced Winter Haven Red Sox Florida State League Dave Holt
A-Short Season Elmira Pioneers New York–Penn League Mike Verdi
Rookie GCL Red Sox Gulf Coast League Felix Maldonado

[14]

References
  1. Dennis Lamp Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com
  2. Jeff Reardon Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  3. Rick Cerone Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  4. Sam Horn Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com
  5. Bill Buckner Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  6. Greg Harris Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com
  7. Cafardo, Nick (June 7, 1990). "Dent Dumped by Yankees". The Boston Globe. p. 37.
  8. Shaughnessy, Dan (June 7, 1990). "His Back Was Against the Wall". The Boston Globe. p. 37.
  9. Pennington, Bill (2019). Chumps to Champs: How the Worst Teams in Yankees History Led to the '90s Dynasty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 32. ISBN 9781328849854.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  10. "Single Season Grounding Into Double Play Records". Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  11. Lee Smith Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  12. Les Norman Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  13. "Baseball". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. May 20, 1990. p. 2C. Retrieved May 24, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  14. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
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