The Los Angeles City Council has asked Major League Baseball to strip the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox of their recent World Series titles and instead crown the LA Dodgers as the champions of 2017 and 2018.
The Dodgers lost the 2017 World Series to the Astros and the 2018 series to the Red Sox.
The council resolution cited the MLB investigation that showed the Astros used technology to steal signs in 2017 that led to the suspensions - and subsequent firings - of Astros manager A.J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow. The team was fined $US5 million ($A7.3 million) and lost future draft picks.
The Astros' bench coach in 2017, Alex Cora, was linked to the scheme in a nine-page report released last week by MLB. He was hired to manage the Red Sox and led them to a world championship in 2018, before he and the team parted ways last week. An investigation into the Red Sox is continuing.
"This isn't being done for publicity," Councilman Paul Koretz, co-sponsor of the resolution, told the Los Angeles Times. "This is being done in outrage for how our team was cheated.
"We have to send a message. If we don't stand up for baseball, then the tradition of the national pastime may become flawed."
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