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1989 Montreal Expos season
The 1989 season for the Montreal Expos was the baseball club's twenty-first. With owner Charles Bronfman wanting to take one last shot at a playoff berth as he was thinking of selling the team, the club pulled off a massive trade on May 25th, acquiring star left-handed pitcher - and pending free agent - Mark Langston from the Seattle Mariners. While the move was viewed as a coup at the time, it came at a heavy cost as Hall of Famer Randy Johnson was the key part of the package going to the Pacific Northwest. Still, it seemed like a worthy gamble. That year, there was no dominant team in the National League. The team seemed poised to compete for the NL East crown with a loaded starting pitching staff that featured Langston, Dennis Martinez, Bryn Smith, Pascual Perez and Kevin Gross. The team peaked on August 2nd with an NL best record of 63-44, holding a 3 game lead in the East and everything running along smoothly. What followed would go down as the greatest collapse in franchise history. The next night, a Benny Distefano pinch hit single in the 12th inning dealt the Expos a 1-0 loss in Pittsburgh. It was the start of a 7 game losing streak. The club limped through the rest of August but remained in the race in early September, with the team being only 2 games back of 1st place on September 6th. Regardless, the downward spiral continued as the Expos inexplicably ended up losing 37 of their final 55 games to finish the season a disappointing 81-81, well out of the playoff picture. The easiest analysis of the collapse is to point to the offence, which struggled after August 2nd, scoring an MLB worst 3.23 runs per game. For long-time Expos fans, the collapse is viewed as the beginning of the end of the franchise. If the team makes the playoffs, perhaps even wins the NLCS against a beatable Giants team to make it to the World Series, one can only wonder if Bronfman changes his stance about selling and remains the owner.
==Offseason==
* December 8, 1988: Tracy Jones was traded by the Expos to the San Francisco Giants for Mike Aldrete.〔(Mike Aldrete page at Baseball Reference )〕
* December 8, 1988: John Dopson and Luis Rivera were traded by the Expos to the Boston Red Sox for Spike Owen and Dan Gakeler.〔(Spike Owen page at Baseball Reference )〕
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