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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 .
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.
Current intertitle for the program. Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch and satirical news program that comments on and parodies current events. It is the show's longest-running recurring sketch, having been on since the show's first broadcast, and is typically presented in the middle of the show immediately after the first musical performance.
In addition to the myriad of iconic sketches that have come out of Saturday Night Live, viewers have come to look forward to one particular segment from the show: the "Weekend Update.". Debuted in ...
It's hard to believe that Saturday Night Live has been on the air for five decades, but it has been 50 years since SNL moved into Studio 8H. In that time, the sketch show has created a bevy of ...
All four episodes of SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night are streaming on Peacock. Saturday Night Live returns with host Dave Chappelle Saturday at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC. Read the original ...
The Orioles swept the A's in three games, despite the fact that each team had won 101 games. The Orioles won their third consecutive pennant in the process, but lost the 1971 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This was the first of ten ALCS series between 1971 and 1981 that featured either the Oakland Athletics or the Kansas City Royals. [1]
The Orioles seemed on track for a sweep at first - Dave McNally pitched a complete game as the Orioles took Game 1 by a 5–3 score, and then Jim Palmer pitched yet another complete game as the Orioles blew out the Pirates in Game 2 to go up 2–0 in the series. However, when the series shifted to Pittsburgh, the Pirates responded.