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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 .
Regular season record 48 89 .350 St. Louis Browns (1902–1953) Regular season record 3,414 4,465 .433 Postseason record 2 4 .333 Regular and postseason record 3,416 4,469 .433 Baltimore Orioles (1954–present) Regular season record 5,658 5,530 .506 Postseason record 52 43 .547 Regular and postseason record 5,710 5,573 .506 All time (1901 ...
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 1971 Major League Baseball season was the final season for the Senators in Washington, D.C., before the team's relocation to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Arlington for the following season, as the Texas Rangers, leaving the nation's capital without a baseball team of its own until 2005.
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 Orioles topped 100 victories for the third straight year and reached the World Series for the fourth time in six seasons. There, the defending world champions won the first two ...
Entering the 1971 season, the Orioles raised McNally's salary to $85,000. [63] He held the Senators to two runs on Opening Day (April 7) in a complete-game, 3–2 victory. [ 64 ] On April 23, he and Clyde Wright of the California Angels held each other's teams to two runs until the ninth, when the Orioles scored six times to give McNally an 8 ...
For the second straight season, an exhilarating Baltimore Orioles offense fell on its face in October. Outlasted in the AL East by the New York Yankees, the 2024 Orioles scored just one run across ...