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Wallace Edward Bunker (born January 25, 1945) [1] is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. A right-hander, Bunker pitched for the Baltimore Orioles from 1963 to 1968 and Kansas City Royals from 1969 to 1971 .
Wally Bunker of the Orioles faced Claude Osteen of the Dodgers. Bunker, plagued with injuries in the regular season, pitched the game of his life, scattering six hits in a complete game gem. Although Osteen allowed only three hits in seven strong innings, but one of those hits was a solo home run from Paul Blair in the fifth, which turned out ...
The Orioles swept the NL champion Los Angeles Dodgers in four games to register their first-ever World Series title. The team was managed by Hank Bauer , and played their home games at Memorial Stadium .
Sixty years ago, Wally Bunker burst onto the baseball scene, an 18-year-old phenom who pitched for his high school team one day and for the Orioles the next. Or so it seemed. In June 1963 — two ...
The Dodgers collect only 17 hits in the four games, and bat.142 as a team. October 12 – The Chicago White Sox obtain southpaw knuckleballer Wilbur Wood from the Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to be named later (fellow lefty hurler Juan Pizarro, added to the deal November 28). Wood will flourish in Chicago, winning 163 games for the ChiSox ...
The shutout completes a World Series record 33 + 2 ⁄ 3 scoreless innings pitched by Orioles pitchers, beginning with Moe Drabowsky pitching 6 2 ⁄ 3 innings in relief of McNally in Game One, followed by shutouts by Jim Palmer and Wally Bunker. The Orioles are the last of the original eight American League franchises to win their first World ...
The Dodgers and New York Yankees will play Major League Baseball's starriest World Series in decades. This figures to be the first World Series featuring five MVPs: the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani ...
Members of the Dodgers were transported atop double-decker buses through the parade route before heading over to a celebration at Dodger Stadium on Friday afternoon. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)