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The 1966 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1966 season.The 63rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and National League (NL) champion (and defending World Series champion) Los Angeles Dodgers.
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 ...
He went 136–104 in 13 seasons with the club, led the National League in ERA (2.66) and winning percentage (18–5, .783) , was a four-time NL All-Star, and a 4x World Series champion, going 4–1 (2.11 ERA) in six World Series games spanning 11 seasons (1953, 1955, 1959, 1963).
The 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League championship with a 95–67 record (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 games over the San Francisco Giants), but were swept by the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Regular season
The Los Angeles Dodgers began the National League Championship Series (NLCS) in impressive fashion on Sunday, routing the New York Mets 9-0 at Dodger Stadium and tying an MLB playoff record in the ...
The 1966 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing first in the American League with a record of 97 wins and 63 losses, nine games ahead of the runner-up Minnesota Twins. It was their first AL pennant since 1944 , when the club was known as the St. Louis Browns .
Flaherty combined on a three-hitter and Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers tied the postseason record of 33 consecutive scoreless innings by routing the New York Mets 9-0 Sunday night in the NL ...
On Fox alone, the World Series in total averaged 15.20 million viewers, up 67% from last year (9.11 million) and the best five-game average since 2017 (16.42 million).