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The 1971 World Series was the championship round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1971 season and featured the first night game in its history. The 68th edition of the Fall Classic was a best-of-seven playoff between the defending World Series and American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
In 1971, the Baltimore Orioles finished first in the American League East, with a record of 101 wins and 57 losses. As of 2024, the 1971 Orioles are one of only two Major League Baseball clubs (the 1920 Chicago White Sox being the other) to have four 20-game winners in a season: Jim Palmer , Dave McNally , Mike Cuellar , and Pat Dobson .
The Orioles seemed on track for a sweep at first - Dave McNally pitched a complete game as the Orioles took Game 1 by a 5–3 score, and then Jim Palmer pitched yet another complete game as the Orioles blew out the Pirates in Game 2 to go up 2–0 in the series. However, when the series shifted to Pittsburgh, the Pirates responded.
Fifty years ago, the Orioles seemed a team for the ages: four 20-game winning pitchers, four Gold Glove fielders and a quartet of soon-to-be Hall of Famers, including their irascible manager. In ...
October 17 – Pitcher Steve Blass throws a four-hitter and Roberto Clemente homers as the Pittsburgh Pirates win Game 7 of the World Series over the Baltimore Orioles, 2–1, becoming world champions for the first time since 1960. Clemente is named the Series MVP. Game 4, played on October 13, is the first night game in World Series history.
He spent the next 11 seasons with the Pirates, picking up a pair of All-Star nods and helping the team beat the Baltimore Orioles in seven games in the 1971 World Series.
The Orioles swept the A's in three games, despite the fact that each team had won 101 games. The Orioles won their third consecutive pennant in the process, but lost the 1971 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This was the first of ten ALCS series between 1971 and 1981 that featured either the Oakland Athletics or the Kansas City Royals. [1]
The World Series beat “Monday Night Football” in the battle for television viewers. The Los Angeles Dodgers' 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the Fall Classic averaged 13.64 ...