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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.
Jim Palmer holds the most pitching records for the Orioles, including wins, games played, strikeouts, and shutouts. [4] Palmer is the only pitcher in Major League history to win World Series games in three decades, and over his 558 games played never surrendered a single grand slam. This is a list of team records for the Baltimore Orioles ...
A three-time All-Star, McNally won 20 or more games for four consecutive seasons from 1968 through 1971. He was one of four 20-game winners for the 1971 Orioles (Pat Dobson, Jim Palmer, and Mike Cuellar were the other three), currently the last team as of 2023 to have four 20-win pitchers on the same roster.
MASN elected not to syndicate any Orioles or Washington Nationals games to broadcast television for the 2018 season, marking the first time since the Orioles' arrival that their games are not on local broadcast television. [41] Previously, WJZ-TV carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978.
They lost over 100 games five times, and in 1939 set an unenviable MLB record for the highest earned run average against a team on record at just over 6.00 per nine innings. They did not play in a World Series until 1944 – when most other teams were decimated by the war – and had no winning seasons between 1946 and their sixth season in ...
They won 19 of their last 22 games to finish with a 108-win season, one win fewer than the previous year. The team was mostly the same as 1969. Starting pitchers Mike Cuellar , Dave McNally , and Jim Palmer each won at least 20 games, and the veteran bullpen seldom faltered.
Best record heading into the All-Star Break in NBA history (48–4, 0.923) Winning streaks of 24 and 11 games; Second earliest clinch of playoff berth since 1984 (the 2016–17 Warriors beat it by two days and was eventually beaten by the 2019–20 Bucks) First team in NBA history to make over 1,000 three-pointers in regular-season
He was the modern Orioles first 20 game winner. [1] [2] [3] Arm injuries hampered the rest of his career which saw him win only 26 and lose 31 for the rest of his 15-year career. [4] While with the Orioles, Barber was an All-Star for two seasons. From 1961 to 1967, Barber bucked baseball superstition by wearing number 13.