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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 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 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 ...
A three-time All-Star, McNally won 20 or more games for four consecutive seasons from 1968 through 1971. He was one of four 20-game winners for the 1971 Orioles (Pat Dobson, Jim Palmer, and Mike Cuellar were the other three), currently the last team as of 2023 to have four 20-win pitchers on the same roster.
MASN elected not to syndicate any Orioles or Washington Nationals games to broadcast television for the 2018 season, marking the first time since the Orioles' arrival that their games are not on local broadcast television. [41] Previously, WJZ-TV carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978.
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 ...
Palmer and McNally each won 20 games again, and newcomer Dobson did so as well, making the Orioles the first team to have four twenty-game winners since the 1921 Chicago White Sox. [69] Though Cuellar did not get any Cy Young votes, he finished 24th in AL MVP voting. [10] This year in the ALCS, the Orioles faced the Athletics instead of the ...