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Orioles and got
Two days later, he got his first career hit against José Mercedes in a 10 – 9 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.
The Orioles got another post-season gem from ALCS MVP Mike Boddicker and his " foshball " in Game 2.
However, Pearson got off to a rough start to the 1959 season and after hitting only. 188 over the first 25 games with no home runs and only 2 RBI, he was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for fellow center fielder Lenny Green.
Brown and his group got the basis of writing their first song together after seeing the band Bill Johnson and the Four Steps of Rhythm perform a gritty version of the Big Joe Williams blues classic, " Baby Please Don't Go ", which would be re-recorded by groups such as The Orioles.

Orioles and run
The Orioles of the IL won nine league championships, first in 1908, followed by a lengthy run from 1919 to 1925, and then dramatically in 1944, after they had lost their home field Oriole Park in a disastrous mid-season fire.
This period included eighteen consecutive winning seasons ( 1968 – 1985 ) -- an unprecedented run of success that saw the Orioles become the envy of the league, and the winningest team in baseball.
Minutes after the final line of the Orioles win was shown, Evan Longoria hit a walk off home run, to complete their playoffs comeback and win the wild card birth.
The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).
By playing for the 2005 Orioles alongside fellow 500-home-run batter Rafael Palmeiro, Sosa and Palmeiro became the first 500 home run club members in history to play together on the same team after reaching the 500 home run plateau.
In the Orioles ' four-game sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers, Robinson hit two home runs — in Game One, which Baltimore won 5 – 2, and in Game Four, the only run of the game in a 1 – 0 series-clinching victory.
On September 14, while in a tight three-way race for the American League Eastern Division crown with the Red Sox and Orioles, Jackson ended a game with the Red Sox by hitting a home run off Reggie Cleveland, giving the Yankees a 2 – 0 win.
Bill James has speculated that Keeler introduced the hit and run strategy to the original Orioles and team-mate John McGraw.
The Orioles shut out the Tigers, 1-0, as Lee May scored an unearned run in the fourth inning.
* May 31, 2008: Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox hits his 500th home run in a game against the Orioles
Many home run balls have landed on Eutaw Street, and the Orioles organization has marked the spots with small baseball-shaped bronze plaques embedded in the street, though it sometimes takes up to a year for each homer to get a plaque.
The two most recent home runs to land on Eutaw Street were on June 29, 2012 when Asdrubal Cabrera of the Cleveland Indians hit a solo home run off of Jake Arrieta in the third inning and Matt Wieters of the Baltimore Orioles hit a three-run home run off of Derek Lowe in the sixth inning.
That night ( before a national viewing audience on ABC's Monday Night Baseball ) the Yankees beat the Orioles 5 – 4 in New York, with Murcer driving in all five runs with a three-run home run in the seventh inning and a two-run single in the bottom of the ninth.
He hit a rare home run in the first American League Championship Series game ever played in 1969, and after uncharacteristically hitting. 333 in the 1970 ALCS, his contributions led to the Orioles ' 1970 World Series victory, the team's second title in five years ; he caught a line drive to end a 4-3 victory in Game 1 with the tying run on first base, and had an assist to end Game 3.
He hit a three-run game-winning home run on May 22 in a 7 – 2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
On September 6, 1996, he hit his 500th career home run — fittingly, the home run came as a member of the Orioles, and also came exactly one year to the day that Ripken had broken Lou Gehrig's streak of 2, 130 consecutive games played.
On July 22, he hit the first grand slam of his career, a game-winning home run against Bruce Chen in a 7 – 5 victory over the Orioles.
On September 30, he had two hits and hit a three-run home run against John Maine in a 7 – 6 loss to the Orioles.
On August 3, his three-run home run against James Shields accounted for all the Orioles ' runs in a 3 – 1 victory over Tampa Bay.
Against the Baltimore Orioles on September 11, 1956, Lemon earned his 200th career pitching win, a game in which he also hit a home run.

Orioles and first
In 1983, the building became the official museum of the Baltimore Orioles, which signed Ruth to his first professional contract.
However, after a 14-year stretch of consecutive losing seasons, the Orioles posted a winning record in 2012 and qualified for the postseason for the first time since 1997.
Hoffberger's first action was installing J. Frank Cashen, the Director of Advertising for the National Brewery, as Senior Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer for the Orioles.
Facing the Texas Rangers in a doubleheader at Camden Yards on August 22, the Orioles surrendered 30 runs in the first game-a modern-era record for a single game-in a 30 – 3 defeat.
The Orioles started off the first couple weeks of the season near the top of their division as players such as Nick Markakis and newcomer Luke Scott led the team offensively.
Although the Orioles hovered around. 500 for much of the season, they had fallen back by September and were over 20 games behind the first place Tampa Bay Rays.
After the season ended, the Orioles showcased altered uniforms, with a circular ' Maryland ' patch added to the left-hand sleeve of all jerseys and the grey road jerseys displaying Baltimore across the chest for the first time since 1972.
The Orioles finished the first half of the 2012 season with a winning record for only the second time since 1998, with a record of 45-40 before the All-Star break.
On May 6, the Orioles played a 17-inning game against the Boston Red Sox, the first game since 1925 in which both teams used a position player as a pitcher.
As of September 30, the Orioles are 92-67 and tied for first place in the AL East.
* 1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
These 1969 Twins won the very first American League Western Division Championship, but they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the first American League Championship Series.
That trade would become even more important on the final game of the regular season between the Brewers and the Baltimore Orioles, with both teams tied for first place in the AL East.
On that day, Nieves became the first ( and so far, only ) Brewer and first Puerto Rican-born Major Leaguer to pitch a no-hitter, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 7 – 0 at Memorial Stadium.
The game also was the first time the Orioles were no-hit at Memorial Stadium.
In doing so, Howard became only the second player in MLB history to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in consecutive years, Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles being the first.
The Orioles won the first two games in the series, but Pittsburgh won the championship in seven games.
McGraw had also managed the Highlanders in their first two seasons, when they were known as the Baltimore Orioles.
Three days later, the 22nd, in the first game of a doubleheader at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Rangers ' bats came alive with a modern record for runs by one team, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 30 – 3.
The Tigers became a winning club almost immediately, finishing above. 500 in each of Sparky's first three full seasons, but did not get into contention until, when they won 92 games and finished second to the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East.

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