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The 1979 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1979 season. The 76th edition of the World Series was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates (98–64) and the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles (102–57).
The Pirates became one of only six teams in the 20th century to have won a World Series after trailing three games to one. Two of those teams were the Pirates, in 1925 and 1979. The others were the 1903 Boston Red Sox (in a best-of-nine series), 1958 New York Yankees , 1968 Detroit Tigers , and 1985 Kansas City Royals .
Stargell wins Series MVP honors. The Pirates came back from a deficit of 3 games-to-1. November 13 – For the first time ever, there will be League co-MVPs as Keith Hernandez of the St. Louis Cardinals shares the National League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award with Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
In the World Series, they will face the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates, who swept the Cincinnati Reds in three straight games in the NLCS, which finished a day earlier. The Fall Classic will be a reprise of the 1971 World Series, won by the Pirates, four games to three. October 17:
He allowed one earned run in two World Series appearances totaling 1 2/3 innings. ... That marked the first time since 2018 that the Pirates won more than 70 games. The Pirates are looking to ...
Since then the Pirates have won World Series in 1925, 1960, 1971, and 1979. In addition to these five World Series victories the Pirates have won nine National League pennants and qualified for the playoffs fifteen times, [ 1 ] six of which were during a run of twelve winning seasons between 1969 and 1980.
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