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Angel Manager Jim Fregosi then elected to walk Oriole centerfielder Al Bumbry intentionally. Baltimore's Earl Weaver pinchhit Lowenstein, and he hit a two-strike pitch into the first row of the left field stands...
...unlikely--things being what they are--but the MVP should really go to Earl Weaver, manager of the Baltimore Orioles. Singleton said that without Weaver the Orioles would be playing .500 ball. The biggest cliche of the 1979 season is that the Orioles are a good team having a great season, and the difference is Weaver. After all, the team doesn't have a single .300 hitter, and, for all the talk of great pitching, only one real stopper--Mike Flanagan...
...California or maybe the Brobdingnagian Pittsburgh Pirates--with about 16 homeruns in a four-game sweep. The Orioles are the most boring team in baseball, a gaggle of colorless Holy Rollers. Around the league they tell this story about how Tippy Martinez, Baltimore's top bullpen twirler, invited Earl Weaver to a 7:30 a.m. Sunday prayer breakfast...
...Weaver: Well, ah, Tippy, I don't think I can make...
...Weaver: I'd rather walk with the bases loaded...