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Blass, a 29 year old right hander, kept the Orioles tethered with no-hit pitching through the fifth inning while the Bucs nabbed losing pitcher Mike Cuellar, one of Baltimore's four 20-game winners, for seven hits capped by Bob Robertson's three run homer in the bottom of the seventh. Robertson had been given the bunt sign on a 1-1 count and two on but missed the signal and hit a blast over the 385 mark in right field...
Which is not to say that the rest of the Orioles were standing idly by. Baltimore's Big Three-Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally-helped hold Cincinnati's vaunted sluggers to a meager .213 average and only five home runs. And Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Paul Blair backed a .292 Baltimore hitting attack that accounted for 50 hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became...
...awesome Baltimore Orioles won their second World Series in five years Thursday, beating a steady tattoo of hits against a disintegrating Cincinnati pitching staff while left-hander Mike Cuellar stifled the Reds' bats in a 9-3 fifth-game victory...
...triumph, built on Cuellar's shutout pitching after a shaky first inning, and a 15-hit attack that included home runs by Frank Robinson and Mery Rettenmund in an assault on the record books, gave the Orioles four victories to one for the Reds in the best-of-seven...
...leading 3-1 in games, the Birds will send 24-game winner Mike Cuellar to the mound to battle one of a trio of Cincinnati lefthanders, including Jim Merritt, Wayne Granger, and Milt Wilcox...