MLBClassics on YouTube: 1989 World Series, Game 4: Athletics @ Giants

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Uploaded on Oct 6, 2010
Oakland Athletics 13 at San Francisco Giants 7, F -- The first-ever
all-Bay Area World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the
Oakland A's, known as "The Battle of the Bay," was ultimately upstaged
by the first-ever nationally-televised earthquake. With the A's taking
the first two games at home, the Series shifted across the bay to San
Francisco, as the venerable Candlestick Park readied itself to host
its first World Series game in 27 years. The pre-game festivities
began at 5pm, and four minutes later, while ABC's Al Michaels and Tim
McCarver were in the middle of their pre-game show, a violent 6.9
earthquake rocked the entire Bay Area. Those watching on TV saw the
video flicker, then Michaels can be heard saying, "I'll tell you what
-- we just had an earth—" before both sound and picture were lost.
Candlestick Park held up admirably -- no damage or injuries were
sustained -- and the crowd filed out peacefully upon the news that
acting Commissioner Fay Vincent (A. Bartlett Giamatti had died in
office just a month weeks before) postponed the game. Outside the park
was another matter, as the Bay Area suffered miles of crumbled
buildings, collapsed roads and 67 deaths. When the Series resumed 10
days later, the A's and Giants turned to their well-rested Game 1
starters, Dave Stewart and Scott Garrelts. Stewart held the Giants to
three runs and five hits for the 13-7 triumph, and the victory made
Stewart, (winner of sixty-two regular-season games in the last three
years) the first man in history to record two victories in the same
season in both the League Championship Series and the Fall Classic.