1984 World Series Show led the staff with fifteen wins with Ed Whitson and lefty Mark Thurmond having identical 14–8 records. But the sterling bullpen, headed by Gossage and Craig "Lefty" Lefferts, held the staff together enough to take this team to the "Big Show" although they would falter and get ripped by the Tiger bats losing the Series in five games. To get to the Series, the Padres had to overcome a two-games-to-none deficit against the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS, rallying to win the final three games. The 1984 Padres adopted Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" as their theme song (à la
Ray Parker Jr. Davis, Lenny Castro, Vikki Carr, Pete Escovedo, Peter Michael Escovedo, Jessy J, Marcos J. Reyes, Salvador Santana, and David Paich, and is featured on guitar on the song "Something Got Me Started" from Gallagher's most recent studio album due out in 2019. Parker also made acting appearances on the 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break", 1984 CBS Saturday morning kids' show "Pryor's Place" (for which Parker appeared in the opening title sequence singing the theme song), "Disorderlies" (1987), "Enemy Territory" (1987), "Charlie Barnett's Terms of Enrollment" (1986) (V) aka "Terms of Enrollment "(USA: short title), two episodes of "Berrenger's" (1985), and