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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.
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 ...
During the Orioles' final home game of the season, The United States Army Field Band from Fort Meade performs the National Anthem prior to the start of the game. The Band has also played the National Anthem at the finales of three World Series in which the Orioles played: 1970 , 1971 and 1979 .
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.
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 ...
They say all good things must come to an end. The Orioles lost their series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays, 5-4, on Friday night, ending their improbable 10-game winning streak. The club’s ...
Baltimore won for the sixth time in seven games and continued Seattle’s recent side that has seen a 10-game lead in the AL West dwindle down to two. The Mariners lost for the 10th time in 13 ...
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