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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 World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
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 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 .
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
Also, Palmer became the only player in Orioles history to appear in all six (1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1979, 1983) of their World Series appearances to date. Palmer was the only Orioles player on the 1983 championship team to have previously won a World Series. He retired after being released by Baltimore during the 1984 season. He retired with a ...
2× World Series champion (1966, 1970) Myron Walter Drabowsky (July 21, 1935 – June 10, 2006) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs , Milwaukee Braves , Cincinnati Reds , Kansas City Athletics , Baltimore Orioles , Kansas City Royals , St. Louis Cardinals , and Chicago ...
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).