Round 1: 1990 vs. 2002

[Providence A's]

08. 1990 AL Champion A's 103-59 (.636)
vs.
09. 2002 AL West Division Champion A's 103-59 (.636)

[Providence A's]

Game 1
2002
Oakland Athletics
103 - 59 (0.636)
Barry Zito (2.75)
@
1990
Oakland Athletics
103 - 59 (0.636)
Bob Welch (2.95)

[redsrbetter]

Have to go with the 1990 A's. That was an awesome team. What a lineup too.

[Porter]

Id go 1990's A's too

If it goes to the 9th inning with a lead. Eck is closing it.

[Providence A's]

this is a pretty even matchup I think...I'll say 1990 in 6 or 7 games.

[awefullspellare]

Really like this idea. I'll go with 2002 for the heck of it.

[realmofotalk]

1990 A's. Billy Koch blows a save in one of the games.

[A's Baby Girl]

1990 A's. Billy Koch blows a save in one of the games.

Yup I agree. I always got nervous whenever Koch was on the mound

[Providence A's]

Game 1 Lineups:

2002 A's
1 2B Ray Durham
2 DH John Mabry
3 SS Miguel Tejada
4 3B Eric Chavez
5 LF Jermaine Dye
6 RF David Justice
7 1B Scott Hatteberg
8 C Ramon Hernandez
9 CF Terrence Long

1990 A's
1 LF Rickey Henderson
2 3B Carney Lansford
3 RF Jose Canseco
4 1B Mark McGwire
5 CF Dave Henderson
6 C Terry Steinbach
7 DH Harold Baines
8 2B Mike Gallego
9 SS Walt Weiss

[Providence A's]

Game 1 goes to 2002 with a score of 6 - 3. 2002 scored 3 runs in the top of 9th after blowing the save in the bottom of the 8th. Barry Zito was player of the game after only giving up 1 run to 1990.

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2002 leads the series 1 - 0.

[Providence A's]

Game 2 will have Hudson (2.99) for 2002 vs. Stewart (2.56) for 1990.

Lineups:

2002 A's
1 2B Ray Durham
2 DH John Mabry
3 SS Miguel Tejada
4 3B Eric Chavez
5 LF Jermaine Dye
6 RF David Justice
7 1B Scott Hatteberg
8 C Ramon Hernandez
9 CF Eric Byrnes

1990 A's
1 LF Rickey Henderson
2 3B Carney Lansford
3 RF Jose Canseco
4 1B Mark McGwire
5 CF Dave Henderson
6 C Terry Steinbach
7 DH Harold Baines
8 2B Willie Randolph
9 SS Walt Weiss

[Providence A's]

1990 wins game 2 by a score of 5 - 3. Dye hit a 2 run homer. McGwire hit a 3 run bomb. Dave Stewart was player of the game with a CG 4 hitter.

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The series is now tied 1 - 1.

[Providence A's]

Game 3 will feature Mike Moore (4.65) for 1990 vs. Mark Mulder (3.48) for 2002.

Lineups:

1990 A's
1 LF Rickey Henderson
2 3B Carney Lansford
3 RF Jose Canseco
4 1B Mark McGwire
5 CF Dave Henderson
6 C Terry Steinbach
7 DH Harold Baines
8 2B Willie Randolph
9 SS Walt Weiss

2002 A's
1 2B Ray Durham
2 DH John Mabry
3 SS Miguel Tejada
4 3B Eric Chavez
5 LF Jermaine Dye
6 RF David Justice
7 1B Scott Hatteberg
8 C Ramon Hernandez
9 CF Eric Byrnes

[nyjunc]

I don't think there is any question '90 was the better team, like I said last week I am still trying to figure out how that A's team only won 1 WS BUT at leats they got to 2 others, the A's of the early 90s never advanced to an ALCS so I definitely go w/ '90. Those A's teams used to absolutely dominate us, I think we didn't win a game against Oak in 1990.

[Providence A's]

I'm not sure what year it was, I think it was 1989, but I could be wrong...but I do remember one of those years the A's went 13 - 0 vs. the Yanks.