The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a resolution urging Major League Baseball to strip the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox of their respective World Series titles and award them to the L.A. Dodgers.
The resolution was presented by council members Gil Cedillo and Paul Koretz last week in response to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred bringing forth punishments against the Astros for their electronic sign-stealing throughout 2017. MLB’s investigation into the Red Sox remains ongoing.
Houston was fined the maximum $5 million permitted under the Major League constitution, general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch were suspended through this year’s World Series, and the organization was stripped of first- and second-round picks in the 2020 and 2021 MLB Drafts.