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巴尔的摩复古:金莺队在一个赛季中曾经有四名20场冠军。从那以后,没有人重复这一壮举。

Fifty years ago, the Orioles pitching staff was one for the ages.

二十场冠军是一个罕见的品种而且,在1971年,巴尔的摩有四个。Dave McNally,Mike Cuellar,Jim Palmer和Pat Dobson在获胜后赢得了胜利,因为球队以棒球的最佳轮换获得了美国联赛东部冠军。麦克纳利(McNally)以21-5的成绩结束,其次是多布森(Dobson)(20-8),库氏(Cuellar)和帕尔默(Palmer)(均为20-9)。

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How unique was the Orioles’ pitching feat?

纽约体育专栏作家雷德·史密斯(Red Smith)当时写道:“自从人学会走上后腿以来,这是一支诚实的球队有四个20场冠军。”(1920年,芝加哥白袜队在前一年投掷了世界大赛之后做到了这一点。但是棒球纯粹主义者驳斥了这一成就,因为参与丑闻的八名球员一直在比赛直到1921年被禁止参加比赛。)

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从左到右,金莺的吉姆·帕尔默(Jim Palmer),戴夫·麦克纳利(Dave McNally),迈克·库埃尔(Mike Cuellar)和帕特·多布森(Pat Dobson)于1971年在克利夫兰(Cleveland)拍摄,他们在1920年以来至少在一个赛季中至少赢得了至少20场比赛的队友。

没有其他团队与金莺的成就相匹配。实际上,自2002年以来,鉴于当今投手的武器界的cod脚,没有人在一个赛季中获得超过20场冠军。

“It’s hard to win 20 now when you have a [maximum] pitch count of 120,” said Don Buford, 84, an All-Star outfielder for Baltimore in 1971. The last Orioles pitcher to reach that milestone was Mike Boddicker (20-11) in 1984.

“What our guys did [in 1971] will never happen again,” said Boog Powell, 79, a slugger on that team. “Back then, we knew [the pitching] was special, but we never dwelled on it; it was always, ‘What have you done for me lately?’ Losing the World Series that year [in seven games to the Pittsburgh Pirates] took a little of the glamour off of those guys all winning 20. But as time goes on, you realize that, hey, it would be impossible today.”

此外,那年的金莺四重奏经常距离,当年的70场完整比赛 - 比2019年大联盟全联盟全赛季(大满贯赛事的最后一个赛季)高出25场。Cuellar是个劳动者:在6月的一九天中,古巴出生的左撇子绰号为“ Crazy Horse”赢得了三场比赛,可以在28局比赛中进行两次奔跑。

“迈克很棒,”第一垒手鲍威尔说。“我喜欢在他身后玩。他投掷了非常好的螺丝球,使击球手旋转时看起来很有趣。他不想嘲笑他们,所以他会转过身,看着中央田地,微笑。”

McNally, Powell said, was “a technician with great control and a curve that was, at times, as good as you ever saw. Jimmy [Palmer] had that high fastball, and ‘Dobber’ had excellent breaking stuff.”

麦克纳利(McNally)连续赢得13次冠军,但双臂疼痛六个星期。在他缺席的情况下,多布森泪流满面,连续赢得了八场。每个人都想超越其他人。

“There really was a competition between them,” Buford said. “They may have been betting each other about who’d get the most wins.”

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麦克纳利(McNally)是第一个获得20场胜利的人。9月21日,即赛季结束前八天,他以5-0击败纽约洋基队击败了纽约洋基队。

The Orioles' four 20-game winners in 1971, from left to right, Mike Cuellar, Pat Dobson, Jim Palmer and Dave McNally, are pictured the following spring training in Florida.

他说:“我认为今年的任何时候都没有得到更好的投掷。”他的队友并不孤单地扎根他。当洋基投手弗里茨·彼得森(Fritz Peterson)经过八局之后离开比赛时,他在麦克纳利(McNally)的土墩上放了一个幸运的一分钱。

三天后,在克利夫兰的一个双打双打比赛中,库埃尔和多布森都赢得了20号。

“我得到了它!我得到了它!我得到了它!”在揭幕战以9-2的胜利胜利后,库雷尔在会所大喊。两个小时后,多布森以7-0击败印第安人。历史似乎近在咫尺,但时间耗尽。在常规赛的最后一开始,帕尔默能否效仿?

鲍威尔说:“我们所有人都在吉米的屁股上取笑他。”9月26日,帕尔默(Palmer)获胜,以5-0击败克利夫兰。这并不容易。克利夫兰(Cleveland)的艾伦·福斯特(Alan Foster)在第七局中进行了无打数的出价,当时金莺队获得了三场奔跑,其中包括帕尔默(Palmer)的一分。然后,他击出了最后六个击球手中的四个,以赢得胜利。

“Mac, Mike and Pat told me not to choke,” the Hall of Famer-to-be said afterward. “It was very important that I [win 20] too, or I would have looked mighty bad.”

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