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The 1971 American League Championship Series was a semifinal matchup in Major League Baseball's 1971 postseason between the East Division Champion Baltimore Orioles and the West Division Champion Oakland Athletics. The Orioles swept the A's in three games, despite the fact that each team had won 101 games.
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 Oakland Athletics beat the California Angels 1–0 in 20 innings—the longest shutout in American League history. Vida Blue strikes out 17 batters in 11 innings for Oakland, while the Angels' Billy Cowan ties a major league record by fanning six times. Both teams combine for 43 strikeouts, a new major league record.
In the American League, the Baltimore Orioles were making their third straight postseason appearance, and the Oakland Athletics made their first postseason appearance since the 1931 World Series, when the team was still based out of Philadelphia. This was the first of five consecutive postseason appearances for the Athletics from 1971 to 1975.
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 1971 Oakland Athletics season was the 71st season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, all as members of the American League, and their 4th season in Oakland.The Athletics finished first in the American League West with a record of 101 wins and 60 losses (their best record in the Swingin' A's era).
It was the American League's first win since the second game of 1962, and was their last until 1983. Over the twenty game stretch from 1963–1982, the AL was 1–19 (.050), the worst run for either league in the history of the exhibition.
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