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The 1966 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1966 season. The 63rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and National League (NL) champion (and defending World Series champion) Los Angeles Dodgers .
Through six games, the series was averaging 7.4, which would have made it the worst-rated World Series, but Game 7 produced a respectable 13.7 to bolster the series average enough to avoid the notorious distinction. The 2014 World Series set records for lowest-rated Games 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in World Series history.
For the 1966 World Series, Curt Gowdy [32] called half of each game before ceding the microphone to Vin Scully in Los Angeles, and Chuck Thompson in Baltimore. Scully was not satisfied with the arrangement [33] as he said "What about the road? My fans won't be able to hear me." In Game 1 of the 1966 World Series, Scully called the first 4 + 1 ...
The shutout completes a World Series record 33 + 2 ⁄ 3 scoreless innings pitched by Orioles pitchers, beginning with Moe Drabowsky pitching 6 2 ⁄ 3 innings in relief of McNally in Game One, followed by shutouts by Jim Palmer and Wally Bunker. The Orioles are the last of the original eight American League franchises to win their first World ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Kansas City manager Ned Yost could tell he was going to lose his challenge, even before the umpires got the final word from the replay room. Yost became the first manager to ...
However, he scored the only run allowed by NLCS MVP Mike Scott in Game 4 of the series, [5] and drove in and scored a run in the ninth inning of Game 6, when the Mets scored three runs in their last at bat to send the game into extra innings. [6] He was batting a far better .273 in the World Series when he came to the plate in the tenth inning ...
The 1966 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing first in the American League with a record of 97 wins and 63 losses, nine games ahead of the runner-up Minnesota Twins. It was their first AL pennant since 1944 , when the club was known as the St. Louis Browns .
Mets Sean Manaea starts Game 2 after winning Game 3 of the NL Division Series against Philadelphia. It’ll be the first time the Dodgers face a lefty starter in this postseason. The Dodgers didn ...