1970 World Series

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The 1970 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1970 season. The 67th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles (108–54 in the regular season) and the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds (102–60). The Orioles defeated the Reds in five games for their second championship. As of 2026, this is the last time the Orioles won the World Series at home. In this series Emmett Ashford became the first African American to umpire a World Series. It also featured the first World Series games to be played on artificial turf, as Games 1 and 2 took place at Cincinnati's first-year Riverfront Stadium. This was the last World Series in which all games were played in the afternoon. It was also the third time in a World Series in which a team leading three games to none failed to complete the sweep by losing Game 4 but still won Game 5 to clinch the series; 1910 and 1937 were the others...

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