Detroit Tigers - 1984 MLB Standings

AL
East
	TEAM	W	L	Pct	GB	RS	RA	+/-
y	Detroit	104	58	.642	-	829	643	+186
	Toronto	89	73	.549	15.0	750	696	+54
	NY Yankees	87	75	.537	17.0	758	679	+79
	Boston	86	76	.531	18.0	810	764	+46
	Baltimore	85	77	.525	19.0	681	667	+14
	Cleveland	75	87	.463	29.0	761	766	-5
	Milwaukee	67	94	.416	36.5	641	734	-93
West
	TEAM	W	L	Pct	GB	RS	RA	+/-
y	Kansas City	84	78	.519	-	673	686	-13
	California	81	81	.500	3.0	696	697	-1
	Minnesota	81	81	.500	3.0	673	675	-2
	Oakland	77	85	.475	7.0	738	796	-58
	Seattle	74	88	.457	10.0	682	774	-92
	Chi. White Sox	74	88	.457	10.0	679	736	-57
	Texas	69	92	.429	14.5	656	714	-58
NL
East
	TEAM	W	L	Pct	GB	RS	RA	+/-
y	Chi. Cubs	96	65	.596	-	762	658	+104
	NY Mets	90	72	.556	6.5	652	676	-24
	StL Cardinals	84	78	.519	12.5	652	645	+7
	Philadelphia	81	81	.500	15.5	720	690	+30
	Montreal	78	83	.484	18.0	593	585	+8
	Pittsburgh	75	87	.463	21.5	615	567	+48
West
	TEAM	W	L	Pct	GB	RS	RA	+/-
y	San Diego	92	70	.568	-	686	634	+52
	Houston	80	82	.494	12.0	693	630	+63
	Atlanta	80	82	.494	12.0	632	655	-23
	LA Dodgers	79	83	.488	13.0	580	600	-20
	Cincinnati	70	92	.432	22.0	627	747	-120
	San Francisco	66	96	.407	26.0	682	807	-125

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1984 World Series, Game 5: Padres @ Tigers

2½ hours Oct 14, 1984Oct 14, 1984

For the fourth consecutive game, the Padres' starting pitcher did not make it past the...

1984 World Series, Game 5: Padres @ Tigers / For the fourth consecutive game, the Padres' starting pitcher did not make it past the third inning, as the Tigers jumped on Mark Thurmond for three runs in the first inning. Lou Whitaker singled to lead off, then Kirk Gibson homered an out later, followed by consecutive singles by Lance Parrish, Larry Herndon and Chet Lemon. The Padres got on the board in the third when Bobby Brown hit a leadoff single off of Dan Petry, moved to third on two groundouts and scored on Steve Garvey's single. The Padres rallied to tie the score in the fourth when with runners on second and third Brown's sacrifice fly and Alan Wiggins's RBI single scored a run each to knock Petry out of the game, but the Tigers loaded the bases in the fifth off of Andy Hawkins when Rusty Kuntz's sacrifice fly put them up 4–3. Parrish's home run in the seventh off of Rich Gossage made it 5–3 Tigers, but the Padres cut the lead back to one on Kurt Bevacqua's home run off closer Willie Hernández. Kirk Gibson came to the plate in the bottom of the eighth for the Tigers with runners on second and third and one out. Gibson had homered earlier in the game, and Padres manager Dick Williams strolled to the mound to talk to Goose Gossage, seemingly with the purpose of ordering him to walk Gibson intentionally. Just before the at-bat, Gibson made a US$10 bet (flashing ten fingers) with his manager Sparky Anderson that Gossage (who had dominated Gibson in the past) would pitch to him. Gossage talked Williams into letting him pitch to Gibson, and Gibson responded with a three-run blast into the upper deck to clinch the Series for the Tigers. Gibson wound up driving in five runs and scoring three, including the run that gave Detroit the lead for good when he raced home on a pop-up sacrifice fly by little-used reserve Rusty Kuntz. In the ninth, Willie Hernández closed out the series for the Tigers by getting Tony Gwynn to fly to Larry Herndon in left field for the final out.