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Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Baltimore Orioles 3 · 1979-10-10 to 1979-10-17 · 7 games · attendance 367,597 · season overview

◀ 1978 1980 ▶

Champion · 5th title

Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager Chuck Tanner

Runner-up

Baltimore Orioles
Manager Earl Weaver

Series MVP

Willie Stargell

Ballparks

Memorial Stadium
Three Rivers Stadium

Note

Decided in game 7

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	1979-10-10	Pittsburgh Pirates 4 at Baltimore Orioles 5	0–1	Memorial Stadium	53,735	Mike Flanagan	Bruce Kison
2	1979-10-11	Pittsburgh Pirates 3 at Baltimore Orioles 2	1–1	Memorial Stadium	53,739	Don Robinson	Don Stanhouse	Kent Tekulve
3	1979-10-12	Baltimore Orioles 8 at Pittsburgh Pirates 4	1–2	Three Rivers Stadium	50,848	Scott McGregor	John Candelaria
4	1979-10-13	Baltimore Orioles 9 at Pittsburgh Pirates 6	1–3	Three Rivers Stadium	50,883	Tim Stoddard	Kent Tekulve
5	1979-10-14	Baltimore Orioles 1 at Pittsburgh Pirates 7	2–3	Three Rivers Stadium	50,920	Bert Blyleven	Mike Flanagan
6	1979-10-16	Pittsburgh Pirates 4 at Baltimore Orioles 0	3–3	Memorial Stadium	53,739	John Candelaria	Jim Palmer	Kent Tekulve
7	1979-10-17	Pittsburgh Pirates 4 at Baltimore Orioles 1	4–3	Memorial Stadium	53,733	Grant Jackson	Scott McGregor	Kent Tekulve

The players

Pittsburgh Pirates

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Omar Moreno	7	33	4	11	2	0	0	3	1	7	0	.333
Willie Stargell	7	30	7	12	4	0	3	7	0	6	0	.400
Tim Foli	7	30	6	10	1	1	0	3	2	0	0	.333
Dave Parker	7	29	2	10	3	0	0	4	2	7	0	.345
Phil Garner	7	24	4	12	4	0	0	5	3	1	0	.500
Bill Madlock	7	24	2	9	1	0	0	3	5	1	0	.375
Bill Robinson	7	19	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	.263
Steve Nicosia	4	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.062
Ed Ott	3	12	2	4	1	0	0	3	0	2	0	.333
John Milner	3	9	2	3	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	.333
Lee Lacy	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250
Jim Bibby	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
John Candelaria	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.333
Manny Sanguillen	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.333
Bert Blyleven	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Jim Rooker	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Kent Tekulve	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Rennie Stennett	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Mike Easler	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000
Grant Jackson	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Enrique Romo	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Jim Bibby	2	2	0–0	0	10.1	10	4	3	2	10	1	2.61
Bert Blyleven	2	1	1–0	0	10.0	8	2	2	3	4	1	1.80
Kent Tekulve	5	0	0–1	3	9.1	4	3	3	3	10	0	2.89
John Candelaria	2	2	1–1	0	9.0	14	6	5	2	4	1	5.00
Jim Rooker	2	1	0–0	0	8.2	5	1	1	3	4	0	1.04
Don Robinson	4	0	1–0	0	5.0	4	3	3	6	3	0	5.40
Enrique Romo	2	0	0–0	0	4.2	5	2	2	3	4	0	3.86
Grant Jackson	4	0	1–0	0	4.2	1	0	0	2	2	0	0.00
Bruce Kison	1	1	0–1	0	0.1	3	5	4	2	0	1	108.00

Baltimore Orioles

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Ken Singleton	7	28	1	10	1	0	0	2	2	5	0	.357
Eddie Murray	7	26	3	4	1	0	1	2	4	4	1	.154
Doug DeCinces	7	25	2	5	0	0	1	3	5	5	1	.200
Rick Dempsey	6	21	2	6	2	0	0	0	1	3	0	.286
Al Bumbry	7	21	3	3	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	.143
Kiko Garcia	6	20	4	8	2	1	0	6	1	3	0	.400
Rich Dauer	6	17	2	5	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	.294
Gary Roenicke	5	16	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	.125
John Lowenstein	6	13	2	3	1	0	0	3	1	3	0	.231
Billy Smith	4	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.286
Benny Ayala	3	6	1	2	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	.333
Mark Belanger	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000
Mike Flanagan	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000
Terry Crowley	5	4	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	.250
Pat Kelly	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.250
Scott McGregor	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	.000
Jim Palmer	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000
Dave Skaggs	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333
Tim Stoddard	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000
Lee May	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000
Sammy Stewart	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Scott McGregor	2	2	1–1	0	17.0	16	6	6	2	8	1	3.18
Jim Palmer	2	2	0–1	0	15.0	18	6	6	5	8	0	3.60
Mike Flanagan	2	2	1–1	0	15.0	17	6	4	2	13	1	2.40
Tim Stoddard	4	0	1–0	0	5.0	6	3	3	1	3	0	5.40
Sammy Stewart	1	0	0–0	0	2.2	4	0	0	1	0	0	0.00
Steve Stone	1	0	0–0	0	2.0	4	2	2	2	2	0	9.00
Don Stanhouse	2	0	0–1	0	2.0	5	3	3	3	0	0	13.50
Dennis Martinez	2	1	0–0	0	2.0	6	4	4	0	0	1	18.00
Tippy Martinez	2	0	0–0	0	1.1	3	1	1	0	1	0	6.75