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The 1973 American League Championship Series was a semifinal matchup in Major League Baseball's 1973 postseason which took place between October 6 and 11, 1973. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Baltimore Orioles, three games to two.
The 1973 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1973 season.The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
Catfish Hunter tosses a five-hitter and Joe Rudi, Vic Davalillo and Jesús Alou deliver RBIs, enabling the Oakland Athletics to down the Baltimore Orioles, 3–0, in the decisive Game 5 of the 1973 American League Championship Series. Oakland wins its second consecutive American League championship and will face the Mets in the World Series.
The 1973 Major League Baseball season was the first season of the designated hitter rule in the American League. [1] American League umpires began wearing burgundy blazers with blue pants, a change from the navy blue coats and gray pants worn the previous five seasons (1968–1972). The burgundy blazers were worn through 1979.
The American League Championship Series (ALCS) is a best-of-seven playoff and one of two League Championship Series comprising the penultimate round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) postseason. The winner of the ALCS wins the AL pennant and advances to the World Series, MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the National League's (NL ...
The Athletics won their third consecutive American League West title with a record of 94 wins and 68 losses. The A's went on to defeat the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS for their second straight AL Championship, and won the World Series in seven games over the New York Mets to take their second consecutive World Championship.
The 1973 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1973 season.The 70th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion (and defending World Series champion) Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
In July 1973, the Pirates sold Davalillo to the Oakland Athletics, who were in the midst of a pennant race with the Kansas City Royals. [12] [36] The Athletics eventually won the American League West Division and faced the Baltimore Orioles in the 1973 American League Championship Series.