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The 1990 Cincinnati Reds were wire-to-wire: first place from Opening Day all the way to the World Series clincher. They swept the Oakland A's — the back-to-back defending champions — in four games, and nobody outside Cincinnati believed they could do it.
Reds — 1990 World Series · Game 4
The A's had won the last two World Series and were heavily favored. The Reds — with José Rijo, Barry Larkin, Eric Davis, and the Nasty Boys bullpen — never trailed in the series. By Game 4, it was a formality: Rijo was brilliant again, the Reds completed the sweep, and Cincinnati had a championship that came almost without warning. The scorecard shows every inning of the clincher, every K from Rijo, the moment the Nasty Boys slammed the door.
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Wire-to-wire, 1990
The 1990 Reds won their division by five games, swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NLCS, and then swept the Oakland A's — who had won the World Series in 1988 and 1989 — to claim the title. Wire-to-wire means they never once fell out of first place all season. First place on Opening Day, first place at the All-Star break, first place at the end of September, and then champions. It's one of the most dominant single-season stories in modern baseball history.
The Nasty Boys
The 1990 Reds bullpen was defined by three relievers the media branded the 'Nasty Boys': Randy Myers, Rob Dibble, and Norm Charlton. They were unhittable in October. Rijo started and dominated Games 1 and 4; the Nasty Boys finished what he started and held the A's scoreless when it counted. The Game 4 scorecard shows the full bullpen handoff — who pitched each inning, which hitters they retired, and how the championship got locked away.
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