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The 1969 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1969 season.The 66th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
When the series moved to Queens for Game 3, the Mets shutout the Orioles, capped off by Nolan Ryan pitching the final 2 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings, earning Ryan a save in his only World Series appearance. The Orioles attempted to come back in Game 4 by sending the game into extra innings, but it wasn't enough as the Mets prevailed in the bottom of the ...
October 15 – Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver is warned during Game 4 of the 1969 World Series by umpire Shag Crawford not to argue balls and strikes. After receiving this warning, Weaver follows Crawford to home plate, and immediately is ejected. The Mets would win 2–1 in 10 innings for a 3–1 lead in the World Series.
In Game 4, Swoboda, not known for his fielding, made a spectacular catch of a ball hit by Brooks Robinson in the ninth inning to stop an Orioles rally. The Mets won the game 2–1 in ten innings, and subsequently, the World Series. For the World Series, Swoboda batted .400. His only RBI was the game winner of the fifth and final game. [8]
The 1969 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in North America's Major League Baseball (MLB). In the first season after the American League was split into two divisions, the Orioles won the first-ever American League East title, finishing first with a record of 109 wins and 53 losses, 19 games ahead of the Detroit Tigers, who had won the World Series in the previous season.
Jerry Grote, the catcher who helped transform the New York Mets from a perennial loser into the 1969 World Series champion, died Sunday. Grote had suffered from heart issues and died in Texas ...
From 1969 to 1983, the Major League Baseball television contract allowed a local TV station in the market of each competing team to also carry the LCS games. So in 1969, for example, Mets fans in New York could choose to watch either the NBC telecast or Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner on WOR-TV. Games 3, 4, and 5 of the 1969 World ...
In Game Two of the NLCS against the Atlanta Braves, Koosman was shelled for six runs in 4 2 ⁄ 3 innings (including a Hank Aaron three-run homer). The Mets won 11–6, however, then won the next game to complete the series sweep. Koosman was the pitching star of the 1969 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles.