This game took place on September 22, 1966. It is being recapped today as part of Camden Chat’s retro recap series while MLB is on hold due to the lockout.
The Orioles have played a lot of meaningless fall baseball over the last few years. On Thursday, September 22, 1966, the team ensured that the final week-and-a-half of the season would, in fact, be meaningless: with a decisive 6-1 trouncing of the hapless Kansas City (later Oakland) Athletics, Baltimore clinched the AL pennant.
The news came just moments after the Birds plated two runs in the sixth inning to deflate the spirits of the 5,250 A’s fans who’d come to Municipal Stadium to watch their seventh-place team take on the AL frontrunners.