50) The Phillies were making their first World Series appearance since 1983.
49) Actually, this was just the 5th time the Phillies had made the World Series. They reached in 1915, 1950, 1980, 1983.
48) Philadelphia, at this point, had won just 1 World Series, 1980.
47) Philadelphia was in the postseason for just the 9th time in their history, which dates back to 1883. The were originally called the Quakers. Philadelphia also had an NHL team in the 1930s (for one season) called the Quakers.
46) Philadelphia had briefly adopted the name "Blue Jays" from 1943 to 1949.
45) Philly Lenny Dysktra finished the 1993 World Series with 4 home runs. That upped his total to 6 lifetime home runs in the World Series (He hit two more as a member of the 1986 New York Mets). All of them were from the leadoff position, which set a World Series record!
44) The 1993 World Series was the first time a sports team from Toronto faced a sports team from Philadelphia in the postseason since the NHL Leafs faced the Flyers in 1977.
43) The other Canadian MLB team (at the time), The Montreal Expos, beat the Phillies (who were the defending World Series Champions) in the 1981 NLDS (A strike season that had extended playoffs).
42) The 1993 World Series was the last time that the playoffs format was Division Winner, LCS, World Series. 1994 was supposed to be 4 teams in the postseason. But this didn't happen since the 1993 World Series was the "one before the strike" of 1994.
41) The Jays, in winning the World Series, became the first team since the 1977/78 New York Yankees to repeat.
40) The Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves in the 1993 NLCS. Toronto had beaten Atlanta in the 1992 World Series.
39) Once again, the Jays "won in six". Toronto won the 1992 and 1993 ALCS in six games. They also won the 1992 and 1993 World Series in six games.
38) But something did give this time. In 1992, the Jays won games 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the ALCS and the World Series. This time, they won games 1, 2, 5 and 6 of the ALCS, and games 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the World Series.
37) The Jays lost game 5 of the 1993 World Series. So the Jays are stuck on their game 5, 1993 ALCS win over the Chicago White Sox, as the only game 5 they have won in their entire postseason history!
36) Curt Schilling's shutout of the Jays in game 5 was just the second time in all of 1993 that the Jays were shutout.
35) Actually, the game 5 loss in Philadelpha was Toronto's only road postseason loss of 1993.
34) Danny Jackson, who pitched on the 1993 Phillies (losing game 3), shutout the Jays in game 5 of the 1985 ALCS.
33) Darren Daulton and Larry Anderson were on the 1983 Philadelphia team that made it to the World Series. But neither actually played in that postseason.
32) Tony Fernandez, who the Jays picked up in June of 1993, was a member of the 1985 Toronto Blue Jays that made it to the ALCS. However, no other member of the 1985 team was around for the 1993 World Series. There were actually 4 members of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays that were in their second tour of duty with the Jays: Fernandez, Tony Castillo, Mark Eichhorn and Luis Sojo, and 1979 Rookie Of The Year (AL) Alfredo Griffin. All but Sojo played in 1993 World Series.
31) There was a Canadian on the Jays in 1993. Rob Butler, a reserve, got into games 4 and 5 of the 1993 World Series. He even got a hit in game 5, and scored a run in game 4. He was just the 8th Canadian to appear in the World Series.
30) Another reserve on Toronto was Willie Canate. He played in 38 games with the Jays in 1993. Plus he made an appearance as a pinch-runner in game 5. He never played another game at the big league level. In fact, the 38 games he played with the Jays in '93 proved to be Willie's only games at MLB level!
29) Dave Stewart was certainly no stranger to the postseason. His 1981 Dodgers beat the Expos in the NLCS and Yankees in the World Series. His 1989 A's beat the Jays in the ALCS and the Giant in the ALCS. Here, he was the MVP of the 1993 ALCS to help the Jays. So it was his third different team that he played (pitched for) that won a World Series.
28) Schilling, who was the 1993 NLCS MVP (despite not winning a game) pitched for the 2001 World Series winning Arizona Diamondbacks and 2004, 2007 Boston Red Sox. So the two LCS MVPs of 1993 won a World Series ring with 3 different teams. But Curt went one step further! Schilling recorded a win in a World Series game with 3 different teams. That's what Jack Morris, who was a member of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, was trying to do a year earlier. After failing in to win a World Series game in 1992, Jack was left off Toronto's 1993 postseason roster.
27) Todd Stottlemyre, a 1993 Toronto Blue Jay, was also a member of the 2001 Arizona Diamonbacks, but missed the entire year due to injury. After his game four start in the 1993 World Series, he never again pitched in the World Series. Mike Timlin, another Blue Jay pitcher in 1993, was also a teammate of Schilling on the 2004 and 2007 Boston Red Sox. Woody Williams, a rookie with the Jays and not on the postseason roster in 1993, pitched for St. Louis in game 1 of the 2004 World Series against the Red Sox. Schilling pitched game 2 of the 2004 World Series for the Red Sox.
26) Another World Series connected several members of the 1993 World Series. Tony Fernandez was on the 1997 Cleveland Indians team that lost to the Florida Marlins in the World Series that year. Devon White, a teammate of Fernandez in 1993, was on the Marlins team in 1997. Also on the Marlins team, was Darren Daulton and Jim Eisenreich. And pitching for the Marlins in that year, including the World Series? Al Leiter!
25) Nicknames of the famous Philly teams that lost World Series: A) 1950, Whiz Kids B) 1983, Wheeze Kids C) 1993, Wild Bunch
24) Juan Guzman finally lost a postseason game in the 1993 World Series. That was game 5, of course. But with the Jays winning game 1, Toronto ended up 7-1 in the postseason in games that Guzman pitched! Guzman actually never won a World Series game in three tries, however.
23) Pat Hentgen's game 3 start was the only World Series game he ever pitched. He was a member of the Jays in 1992, but not on the postseason roster.
22) Tommy Greene, who started game 4 for Philadelphia, also never pitched again in a World Series game.
21) Butler was later traded to the Phillies before returning to the Jays. Several Phillies players later became Jays: Mariano Duncan, Dave Hollins, and Mickey Morandini. Likewise, Jim Fregosi later managed the Jays in 1999 and 2000, with Cito Gaston (the Blue Jays manager in 1993) as his hitting instructor!
20) As mentioned earlier, Tony Fernandez rejoined the Jays in 1993. Then he was back with the Jays for a third time in 1998. He stayed with the team in 1999 and later rejoined them for a 4th time in 2001!
19) Cito Gaston went from hitting instructor of the Jays in the 80s to manager in of 1989. After being fired by the Jays in 1997 and returning as hitting instructor two years later, he managed the team again in 2008!
18) The general manager of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays was Pat Gillick. Gillick later went on to be G.M. of the Philadelphia Phillies in 2006. In 2008 he was there as the Phillies won their second World Series.
17) The last active member of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays was Woody Williams, who released by Houston in spring training of 2008. He retired shortly after. The last active member of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies was Curt Schilling. After missing all of the 2008 season, he announced his retirement in spring training of 2009.
16) How about guys who returned to the Phillies? Dave Hollins, one of the more underrated Phillies, rejoined the team in 2002.
There is another, but he will be mentioned later. Kinda of a "same last name" connection!
15) David West, who pitched against the Jays in the 1991 ALCS, came into the 1993 World Series with the Phillies, and an ERA of infinity. He had faced 6 batters in the 1991 World Series with the Twins and failed to retire a batter. In game 1 of the 1993 World Series, he faced 2 batters and failed to retire a batter. In game 4, the first two batters he faced got a hit. After retiring a batter, John Olerud singled and Paul Molitor was hit by a pitch! Fernandez grounded out and Pat Borders flied out. After walking the only batter West faced in game 6, David had faced 16 batters in the World Series. He retired 3 of them and had an ERA of 17.18 in the World Series, lifetime!
14) Molitor had played on the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers and set a record by getting 5 hits in one World Series game (game 1). In the 1993 World Series, Molitor set another record by becoming the first player to hit 2 doubles, 2 triples and 2 home runs. He also batted .500 in 1993 (12-24) to nab MVP honours.
13) Game 4? Many World Series records were set that night. Among them:
Most runs, both teams combined, one World Series game, 29
Most runs by a losing team, 14
Longest World Series game, 4:14. This broke the previous record, by 1 minute!
Most total runs by the 4th game of a World Series, 65
Todd Stottlemyre tied 2 records. Most walks (4) in one inning. Most consecutive walks (3) in one inning!
Lenny Dykstra, who just miss hitting 3 home runs in the game, tied a World Series record by scoring 4 times
12) John Olerud, benched in game 3, was just the second batting champion to be benched for a World Series game. Chick Hafey was benched, if you can believe it, in game 7 of the 1931 World Series. This after hitting .349 to lead the National League. So Olerud was the first American League batting title winner to be benched in the World Series!
11) Actually, Olerud almost got into game 3, as he was in the on-deck circle in the top of the 9th. Danny Cox, who actually batted for himself an inning earlier, was due to hit. But Pat Borders ended the inning for the Jays by lining out to Dykstra.
10) Molitor, in playing third base, was playing a position he had last played in 1990. Actually, he did play third base in the 1991 All-Star Game, which was held in Toronto.
9) The Blue Jays set a World Series record with 3 sacrifice flies in game 3.
8) Molitor almost hit for the cycle in games 3 and 6. In both games, he missed out on a double.
7) There was a bet between a Philadelphia and a Toronto zoo:
If the Blue Jays won (and they did), Philadelphia had to send 2 white lion cubs to the Metro Toronto Zoo
If the Phillies won, Toronto had to send 2 (young) Tasmanian devils to a Philadelphia zoo!
6) Lenny Dykstra's hit 4 home runs in the 1993 World Series. That was just 1 home run shy of Reggie Jackson's record of 5 in 1977 World Series.
5) So I've mentioned Mitch Williams and Woody Williams. Would you believe there was another "Williams" was on one of the teams? That's right, Mike Williams! He was on the Phillies that year, but not on the postseason roster. He went on to become a pretty good relief pitcher, saving 144 games, and returned to the Phillies in 2003 to close out his career!
4) The night the Jays won the 1993 World Series (October 23rd), Toronto's other pro sport team (The Raptors wouldn't join the NBA until 1995/96) the Maple Leafs, set an NHL record for most wins in a row to start the season, 9. They would win their next game for good measure for a 10-0-0 start!
3) Paul Molitor actually scored the winning run in game 6, not Joe Carter!
2) This wasn't the only World Series that Joe Carter was involved in the final play. He caught the final out of the 1992 World Series (a ground ball fielded by Mike Timlin, who tossed to Carter playing first base). Carter even caught the final out of the ALCS in 1993!
1) Despite obviously the fierceness of the pitcher-batter confrontation, Mitch Williams has gone on record that he and Joe Carter are now friends!
49) Actually, this was just the 5th time the Phillies had made the World Series. They reached in 1915, 1950, 1980, 1983.
48) Philadelphia, at this point, had won just 1 World Series, 1980.
47) Philadelphia was in the postseason for just the 9th time in their history, which dates back to 1883. The were originally called the Quakers. Philadelphia also had an NHL team in the 1930s (for one season) called the Quakers.
46) Philadelphia had briefly adopted the name "Blue Jays" from 1943 to 1949.
45) Philly Lenny Dysktra finished the 1993 World Series with 4 home runs. That upped his total to 6 lifetime home runs in the World Series (He hit two more as a member of the 1986 New York Mets). All of them were from the leadoff position, which set a World Series record!
44) The 1993 World Series was the first time a sports team from Toronto faced a sports team from Philadelphia in the postseason since the NHL Leafs faced the Flyers in 1977.
43) The other Canadian MLB team (at the time), The Montreal Expos, beat the Phillies (who were the defending World Series Champions) in the 1981 NLDS (A strike season that had extended playoffs).
42) The 1993 World Series was the last time that the playoffs format was Division Winner, LCS, World Series. 1994 was supposed to be 4 teams in the postseason. But this didn't happen since the 1993 World Series was the "one before the strike" of 1994.
41) The Jays, in winning the World Series, became the first team since the 1977/78 New York Yankees to repeat.
40) The Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves in the 1993 NLCS. Toronto had beaten Atlanta in the 1992 World Series.
39) Once again, the Jays "won in six". Toronto won the 1992 and 1993 ALCS in six games. They also won the 1992 and 1993 World Series in six games.
38) But something did give this time. In 1992, the Jays won games 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the ALCS and the World Series. This time, they won games 1, 2, 5 and 6 of the ALCS, and games 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the World Series.
37) The Jays lost game 5 of the 1993 World Series. So the Jays are stuck on their game 5, 1993 ALCS win over the Chicago White Sox, as the only game 5 they have won in their entire postseason history!
36) Curt Schilling's shutout of the Jays in game 5 was just the second time in all of 1993 that the Jays were shutout.
35) Actually, the game 5 loss in Philadelpha was Toronto's only road postseason loss of 1993.
34) Danny Jackson, who pitched on the 1993 Phillies (losing game 3), shutout the Jays in game 5 of the 1985 ALCS.
33) Darren Daulton and Larry Anderson were on the 1983 Philadelphia team that made it to the World Series. But neither actually played in that postseason.
32) Tony Fernandez, who the Jays picked up in June of 1993, was a member of the 1985 Toronto Blue Jays that made it to the ALCS. However, no other member of the 1985 team was around for the 1993 World Series. There were actually 4 members of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays that were in their second tour of duty with the Jays: Fernandez, Tony Castillo, Mark Eichhorn and Luis Sojo, and 1979 Rookie Of The Year (AL) Alfredo Griffin. All but Sojo played in 1993 World Series.
31) There was a Canadian on the Jays in 1993. Rob Butler, a reserve, got into games 4 and 5 of the 1993 World Series. He even got a hit in game 5, and scored a run in game 4. He was just the 8th Canadian to appear in the World Series.
30) Another reserve on Toronto was Willie Canate. He played in 38 games with the Jays in 1993. Plus he made an appearance as a pinch-runner in game 5. He never played another game at the big league level. In fact, the 38 games he played with the Jays in '93 proved to be Willie's only games at MLB level!
29) Dave Stewart was certainly no stranger to the postseason. His 1981 Dodgers beat the Expos in the NLCS and Yankees in the World Series. His 1989 A's beat the Jays in the ALCS and the Giant in the ALCS. Here, he was the MVP of the 1993 ALCS to help the Jays. So it was his third different team that he played (pitched for) that won a World Series.
28) Schilling, who was the 1993 NLCS MVP (despite not winning a game) pitched for the 2001 World Series winning Arizona Diamondbacks and 2004, 2007 Boston Red Sox. So the two LCS MVPs of 1993 won a World Series ring with 3 different teams. But Curt went one step further! Schilling recorded a win in a World Series game with 3 different teams. That's what Jack Morris, who was a member of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, was trying to do a year earlier. After failing in to win a World Series game in 1992, Jack was left off Toronto's 1993 postseason roster.
27) Todd Stottlemyre, a 1993 Toronto Blue Jay, was also a member of the 2001 Arizona Diamonbacks, but missed the entire year due to injury. After his game four start in the 1993 World Series, he never again pitched in the World Series. Mike Timlin, another Blue Jay pitcher in 1993, was also a teammate of Schilling on the 2004 and 2007 Boston Red Sox. Woody Williams, a rookie with the Jays and not on the postseason roster in 1993, pitched for St. Louis in game 1 of the 2004 World Series against the Red Sox. Schilling pitched game 2 of the 2004 World Series for the Red Sox.
26) Another World Series connected several members of the 1993 World Series. Tony Fernandez was on the 1997 Cleveland Indians team that lost to the Florida Marlins in the World Series that year. Devon White, a teammate of Fernandez in 1993, was on the Marlins team in 1997. Also on the Marlins team, was Darren Daulton and Jim Eisenreich. And pitching for the Marlins in that year, including the World Series? Al Leiter!
25) Nicknames of the famous Philly teams that lost World Series: A) 1950, Whiz Kids B) 1983, Wheeze Kids C) 1993, Wild Bunch
24) Juan Guzman finally lost a postseason game in the 1993 World Series. That was game 5, of course. But with the Jays winning game 1, Toronto ended up 7-1 in the postseason in games that Guzman pitched! Guzman actually never won a World Series game in three tries, however.
23) Pat Hentgen's game 3 start was the only World Series game he ever pitched. He was a member of the Jays in 1992, but not on the postseason roster.
22) Tommy Greene, who started game 4 for Philadelphia, also never pitched again in a World Series game.
21) Butler was later traded to the Phillies before returning to the Jays. Several Phillies players later became Jays: Mariano Duncan, Dave Hollins, and Mickey Morandini. Likewise, Jim Fregosi later managed the Jays in 1999 and 2000, with Cito Gaston (the Blue Jays manager in 1993) as his hitting instructor!
20) As mentioned earlier, Tony Fernandez rejoined the Jays in 1993. Then he was back with the Jays for a third time in 1998. He stayed with the team in 1999 and later rejoined them for a 4th time in 2001!
19) Cito Gaston went from hitting instructor of the Jays in the 80s to manager in of 1989. After being fired by the Jays in 1997 and returning as hitting instructor two years later, he managed the team again in 2008!
18) The general manager of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays was Pat Gillick. Gillick later went on to be G.M. of the Philadelphia Phillies in 2006. In 2008 he was there as the Phillies won their second World Series.
17) The last active member of the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays was Woody Williams, who released by Houston in spring training of 2008. He retired shortly after. The last active member of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies was Curt Schilling. After missing all of the 2008 season, he announced his retirement in spring training of 2009.
16) How about guys who returned to the Phillies? Dave Hollins, one of the more underrated Phillies, rejoined the team in 2002.
There is another, but he will be mentioned later. Kinda of a "same last name" connection!
15) David West, who pitched against the Jays in the 1991 ALCS, came into the 1993 World Series with the Phillies, and an ERA of infinity. He had faced 6 batters in the 1991 World Series with the Twins and failed to retire a batter. In game 1 of the 1993 World Series, he faced 2 batters and failed to retire a batter. In game 4, the first two batters he faced got a hit. After retiring a batter, John Olerud singled and Paul Molitor was hit by a pitch! Fernandez grounded out and Pat Borders flied out. After walking the only batter West faced in game 6, David had faced 16 batters in the World Series. He retired 3 of them and had an ERA of 17.18 in the World Series, lifetime!
14) Molitor had played on the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers and set a record by getting 5 hits in one World Series game (game 1). In the 1993 World Series, Molitor set another record by becoming the first player to hit 2 doubles, 2 triples and 2 home runs. He also batted .500 in 1993 (12-24) to nab MVP honours.
13) Game 4? Many World Series records were set that night. Among them:
Most runs, both teams combined, one World Series game, 29
Most runs by a losing team, 14
Longest World Series game, 4:14. This broke the previous record, by 1 minute!
Most total runs by the 4th game of a World Series, 65
Todd Stottlemyre tied 2 records. Most walks (4) in one inning. Most consecutive walks (3) in one inning!
Lenny Dykstra, who just miss hitting 3 home runs in the game, tied a World Series record by scoring 4 times
12) John Olerud, benched in game 3, was just the second batting champion to be benched for a World Series game. Chick Hafey was benched, if you can believe it, in game 7 of the 1931 World Series. This after hitting .349 to lead the National League. So Olerud was the first American League batting title winner to be benched in the World Series!
11) Actually, Olerud almost got into game 3, as he was in the on-deck circle in the top of the 9th. Danny Cox, who actually batted for himself an inning earlier, was due to hit. But Pat Borders ended the inning for the Jays by lining out to Dykstra.
10) Molitor, in playing third base, was playing a position he had last played in 1990. Actually, he did play third base in the 1991 All-Star Game, which was held in Toronto.
9) The Blue Jays set a World Series record with 3 sacrifice flies in game 3.
8) Molitor almost hit for the cycle in games 3 and 6. In both games, he missed out on a double.
7) There was a bet between a Philadelphia and a Toronto zoo:
If the Blue Jays won (and they did), Philadelphia had to send 2 white lion cubs to the Metro Toronto Zoo
If the Phillies won, Toronto had to send 2 (young) Tasmanian devils to a Philadelphia zoo!
6) Lenny Dykstra's hit 4 home runs in the 1993 World Series. That was just 1 home run shy of Reggie Jackson's record of 5 in 1977 World Series.
5) So I've mentioned Mitch Williams and Woody Williams. Would you believe there was another "Williams" was on one of the teams? That's right, Mike Williams! He was on the Phillies that year, but not on the postseason roster. He went on to become a pretty good relief pitcher, saving 144 games, and returned to the Phillies in 2003 to close out his career!
4) The night the Jays won the 1993 World Series (October 23rd), Toronto's other pro sport team (The Raptors wouldn't join the NBA until 1995/96) the Maple Leafs, set an NHL record for most wins in a row to start the season, 9. They would win their next game for good measure for a 10-0-0 start!
3) Paul Molitor actually scored the winning run in game 6, not Joe Carter!
2) This wasn't the only World Series that Joe Carter was involved in the final play. He caught the final out of the 1992 World Series (a ground ball fielded by Mike Timlin, who tossed to Carter playing first base). Carter even caught the final out of the ALCS in 1993!
1) Despite obviously the fierceness of the pitcher-batter confrontation, Mitch Williams has gone on record that he and Joe Carter are now friends!
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