After Cone provided the Dodgers with bulletin board material, Los Angeles jumped on Cone for five runs in two innings in the second game of the playoffs to tie the series at a game apiece. The Mets persuaded Cone to stop writing the column, and he came back with a scoreless ninth inning in a game three Met win and a complete game victory in game six; however, series MVP and 1988 Cy Young Award winner Orel Hershiser came back in game seven with the complete game shut out to lead the Dodgers to the 1988 World Series against the Oakland Athletics.