Franchise Timeline

1980 - Oakland's Rick Langford (13-9) defeats the Mariners 11-3 for his 17th consecutive complete game, the most in the majors since 1953.

1981 - After winning their first 8 games of the season on the road, the Oakland A's pound Seattle 16-1 in their home opener before a crowd of 50,256.

1982 - Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases in a 3-2 win over the Red Sox to give him 51 SBs in 51 games, the fastest anyone has ever reached 50 SBs in a season.

1984 - Dave Kingman hits 3 home runs--including his 12th career grand slam--and drives in 8 runs in the A's 9-6 win over the Mariners. It is Kingman's 5th career 3-HR game, one shy of the ML record held by Johnny Mize.

1984 - Oakland's Dave Kingman becomes the 21st player to hit 400 career home runs.

1986 - Oakland's Jose Rijo sets a club record with 16 strikeouts in 8 innings as the A's beat Seattle 7-2.

1987 - One day after hitting 3 home runs in Oakland's 13-3 rout of the Indians, A's rookie 1B Mark McGwire hits 2 more in a 10-0 Oakland romp to tie the ML record of 5 homers in 2 games.

1988 - Oakland beats Detroit 3-1 to extend its club-record winning streak to 14 consecutive games, the longest in the majors since 1977.

1989 - Prior to the start of Game Three of the World Series at Candlestick Park, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale devastated large parts of the Bay Area. The tragedy, the first of its kind to strike the World Series, forced postponement of the third game and caused Commissioner Fay Vincent to consider a change of venue for the rest of the Series. When the Series anticlimactically resumed 12 days later at San Francisco, the A's completed a sweep by winning back-to-back slugfests. Oakland beat Toronto 4-3 to win the ALCS 4-1 and advance to the World Series for the 2nd straight year.