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The 1974 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five matchup in Major League Baseball's 1974 postseason between the East Division Champion Baltimore Orioles and the West Division Champion Oakland Athletics. It was a rematch of the previous year's series and third meeting between the two teams in four seasons.
The Athletics returned to the postseason the next year in hopes to add a fourth consecutive title, but were swept by the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS. The Dodgers would return to the World Series in 1977 and 1978, but lost both to their old American League rival in the New York Yankees in six games.
Game 6 of the 2000 ALCS is the last baseball game that NBC televised until a game between the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox on May 8, 2022. [36] In Houston, due to the coverage of the 2000 U.S. presidential debates, KPRC-TV elected to carry NBC News' coverage of the debate while KNWS-TV carried NBC's final baseball game.
Desperately cornered by the Astros in the ALCS, the Yankees were willing to seek inspiration in any form, even from the Boston Red Sox. Before pivotal ALCS Game 4 vs. Astros, Yankees find ...
The 1974 Major League Baseball season: The Oakland Athletics won their third consecutive World Series, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers four games to one. Two notable personal milestones were achieved during the 1974 season.
The Red Sox are 40–31, in first place in the AL East when Fisk goes down; they finish 1974 at 84–78, a distant third behind the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees. In the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, the Chicago Cubs and Montreal Expos go 18 innings and 4:55 at Jarry Park Stadium before the Cubs emerge victorious 8–7 behind ...
November 3, 1973: Horacio Piña was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago Cubs for Bob Locker. [4]December 12, 1973: Rico Carty was released by the Athletics. [5]February 22, 1974: Reggie Jackson won an arbitration case for a $135,000 salary for the season, nearly doubling his previous year's $70,000.
The Orioles went on to lose to the Oakland Athletics in the 1974 American League Championship Series, 3 games to 1. The Orioles went 27–6 after being in fourth place and trailing the Boston Red Sox by eight games on August 29. They won 16 of their last 18 matches and ended the campaign with a nine-game winning streak. They moved into first ...