So, Mauer gets two knocks last night. Brings him up to the total of 1989, which was a pretty momentous year. Aside from Rainman, NWA’s Straight Outta Compton, the birth of the Nintendo’s Gameboy and Taylor Swift, 1989 saw perestroika under Gorbachev and the fall of the Berlin Wall, widespread political upheaval, uprisings and revolutions in such places as Poland, Estonia, Georgia, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and Romania, the election of FW DeClerq in South Africa and the beginning of the end of apartheid, a fatwa issued by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses, Pete Rose accepting a lifetime ban from baseball, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Tiananmen Square protests, the house arrest of Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize for the Dalai Lama, and the deaths of Nicolae Ceacescu, Ted Bundy, Emperor Hirohito, the aforementioned Ayatollah Khomeini, and Lucille Ball. A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Bay Area right at before the start of Game 3 of the Oakland-SF World Series, delaying the series by 10 days. Voyager 2 passes Neptune, Thomas and Friends and Seinfeld debut, and the first internet service providers are established. Other than that, nothing much.