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Clemente is named the Series MVP. Game Four of this World Series was the first night game played in Series history. November 2 – The Orioles' Pat Dobson pitches a no-hitter against the Yomiuri Giants, winning 2–0. It is the first no-hitter in Japanese-American baseball exhibition history. The Orioles compile a record of 12–2–4 on the tour.
The 1971 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1971 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 .
The 1971 World Series was the championship round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1971 season and featured the first night game in its history. The 68th edition of the Fall Classic was a best-of-seven playoff between the defending World Series and American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
Holtzman scores the only run, unearned, in the third inning, to beat Reds pitcher Gary Nolan. June 6 – Willie Mays hits his major league-leading 22nd and last career extra-inning home run. It comes against Phillies reliever Joe Hoerner. June 8 – The June 1971 amateur draft features future notable players who are selected in the early rounds.
The 1971 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series in Major League Baseball’s 1971 postseason that pitted the East Division champion Pittsburgh Pirates against the West Division champion San Francisco Giants. The Pirates won the Series three games to one and won the 1971 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles.
The Royals had the first winning season (85–76) in franchise history, good enough for second place in the American League West and 16 games behind the Oakland Athletics. Kansas City earning a winning record in its third season was the second fastest of any expansion club in Major League Baseball history up to that point, the 1962 Los Angeles ...
The 1971 Washington Senators season involved the Senators finishing fifth in the American League East with a record of 63 wins and 96 losses (.396). This was the Senators' 11th and last season in Washington, D.C. ; they moved to Arlington, Texas , and became the Texas Rangers in 1972 .
1971–1989 MLB: 2 Greg Reinecker RHP Edgewood High School: Yes 1971–1974 A 3 Ricky Green RHP Chino High School: Yes 1971–1974 AA 4 Michael Frazier C Elmore High School: No Cardinals – 1975 1975 Rookie 5 Rex Hudson: RHP Hale High School: Yes 1971–1977 MLB: 6 Christopher Mayo LHP Hillsdale High School: Yes 1971 Rookie 7 Chuck Redmon SS ...