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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Maybe I'm not understanding this one, but it's not true.
They won the AL east in 85, 89, and 91, in addition to their WS years.
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Imo "pennant" in baseball should only refer to winning the league (either AL or NL) not the division, but I probably should have specified that.
But I also probably shouldn't have relied on wikipedia as a source, as they have 1992/1993 as the only ones, and he's correct that they won the AL regular season in 1985,. I suppose wikipedia is using that for "Won the AL playoffs" which isn't what I meant.
Edited to add: I still think going into the playoffs with momentum is a good thing. They could go like 5-17 to finish off the season and probably still get a wild card spot, but that's probably a short playoff appearance.