The 1983 Baltimore Orioles won the Major League Baseball World Series after finishing first in the American League East with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses, The Orioles won the championship by beating the Philadelphia Philles, 4–1, in the

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. The season was the Orioles' first in nearly 15 years without

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

Earl Weaver, who retired after the Orioles missed the playoffs in the final game of the 1982 season. The Orioles replaced the future Hall of Famer Weaver with

Joe Altobelli Joseph Salvatore Altobelli (May 26, 1932 – March 3, 2021) was an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who played for the Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball. He was also a manager for the San Fr ...

. The World Series victory was the Orioles' first championship since

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and their most recent to date. After many years the Orioles made the jump to cable television, with a separate broadcast team on their then first cable broadcaster, Super TV. They would move to Home Team Sports the following year.

Offseason

* October 19, 1982: RHP, Don Stanhouse was released by the Orioles. * November 13, 1982 Named Manager,

* November 29, 1982 signed, LHP, Dan Morogiello as a free agent. * January 15, 1983: Catcher, Joe Nolan was re-signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles. * February 3, 1983: Third Baseman
Aurelio Rodriguez
was signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles. * February 23, 1983: Outfielder,

John Lowenstein John Lee Lowenstein (born January 27, 1947) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, and Baltimore Orioles. Playing caree ...

was re-signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles. * April 4, 1983

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/Outfielder Terry Crowley was released by the Orioles

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day starters

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* Rick Dempsey * Dan Ford *

Leo Hernández Leonardo Jesús Hernández (born November 6, 1959), commonly known as Leo Hernandez (er-NAN-dez), is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and right-handed batter who played for the Baltimore Orioles (1982–83, 1985) and New York Yankees ( ...

* Dennis Martínez * Eddie Murray *

Cal Ripken Jr. Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed "Iron man (sports streak), The Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1981� ...

Gary Roenicke Gary Steven Roenicke (born December 5, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder for the Montreal Expos (1976), Baltimore Orioles (1978–85), New York Yankees (1986) and Atlanta Braves (1987–88). Early career He was originally drafted ...

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Notable transactions

*June 13, 1983: Traded catcher/third baseman

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(playing for the

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at the time of the trade) to the St. Louis Cardinals for a player to be named later * June 30, 1983: Todd Cruz was purchased by the Orioles from the Seattle Mariners. * August 13, 1983: Aurelio Rodriguez was released by the Baltimore Orioles. * August 31, 1983: Acquired outfielder

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from the St. Louis Cardinals completing the

trade.

Roster

An Overview of the Team

On April 3, 1983 the Baltimore Orioles left

spring training Spring training is the preseason in Major League Baseball (MLB), a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season. Spring training allows new players to try out for Schedule (workplace), roster and position spo ...

with much the same team that fell just a game short of the playoffs the year before. Of the Orioles starting in th
1982 Opening Day lineup
only

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and

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would lose their opening day spots in 1983. Terry Crowley was the last player cut during spring training, and on his way out of the clubhouse he predicted an Orioles championship, "The shame of it is," he told a ' Sun'' reporter, "the Orioles are going to win in it all this year, and Joe is going to do a tremendous job" Still, the team was an up-and-coming squad, in fact, no Oriole would be voted on to the All Star team's starting lineup. However, the team featured three future

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: * Cal Ripken who had won Rookie of the Year honors the year before completed his transition from third base to shortstop playing his first full season at his new position *Perennial All-Star Eddie Murray won a Silver Slugger Award and Gold Glove Award at first base *The aging Jim Palmer started only 11 games but would come out of the bullpen for his final career victory in the World Series *During an August 24, 1983 game, Orioles pitcher Tippy Martinez picked off three Toronto Blue Jays baserunners in one inning. The baserunners were Barry Bonnell,

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and Willie Upshaw. While the Orioles fielded a team similar to the team fielded in 1982 Altobelli put his own mark on the squad by breaking camp with a four-man rotation which occasionally increased to five pitchers rather than the three man rotation preferred by Weaver.

Starting pitching

One significant difference between the 1982 Baltimore Orioles and the 1983 Baltimore Orioles was Altobelli's willingness to use different starting pitchers
Ten different
Orioles pitches would take the mound to start the game in 1983 whereas in 1982 onl
six players
got the starting nod.

Game log

Regular season

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, , 2–7 , , Gura (1–0) , , Martínez (0–1) , , — , , 51,889 , , 0–1 , , L1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 2, , April 6 , ,

, , 11–1 , , Flanagan (1–0) , , Leonard (0–1) , , — , , 7,904 , , 1–1 , , W1 , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , April 7 , ,

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, , 4–8 , , Sutcliffe (2–0) , , Stewart (0–1) , , Spillner (2) , , 52,150 , , 1–2 , , L1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 4, , April 10 , , @

, , 13–2 , , Martínez (1–1) , , Sorensen (0–1) , , — , , 10,721 , , 2–2 , , W1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 5, , April 12 , , @

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(1–1) , , — , , 38,306 , , 3–2 , , W2 , -style=background:#fbb , , 6, , April 14 , , @

, , 11–12 , , Barojas (1–0) , , Welchel (0–1) , , Hickey (2) , , 13,622 , , 3–3 , , L1 , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , April 15 , ,

, , colspan=8, ''Postponed (rain); Makeup: April 16'' , -style=background:#bfb , , 7, , April 16 , ,

, , 2–0 , , Palmer (1–0) , , Sorensen (0–2) , , Martinez (1) , , N/A , , 4–3 , , W1 , -style=background:#fbb , , 8, , April 16 , ,

, , 4–7 , , Heaton (1–0) , , Martínez (1–2) , , Spillner (4) , , 10,016 , , 4–4 , , L1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 9, , April 17 , ,

, , 6–1 , , Flanagan (2–0) , , Blyleven (0–3) , , — , , 36,430 , , 5–4 , , W1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 10, , April 18 , ,

, , 4–1 , , McGregor (1–0) , ,

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(2–1) , , — , , 9,610 , , 6–4 , , W2 , - , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , May 16 , ,

, , colspan=8, ''Postponed (rain); Makeup: May 17'' , -style=background:#bfb , , 33, , May 17 , ,

, , 7–2 , , Stoddard (2–0) , ,

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(2–6) , , — , , N/A , , 20–13 , , W1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 34, , May 17 , ,

, , 5–0 , , Boddicker (1–0) , ,

(3–3) , , — , , 14,314 , , 21–13 , , W2 , -style=background:#bfb , , 35, , May 18 , ,

, , 1–0 , , Martinez (2–1) , ,

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(4–4) , , — , , 12,582 , , 22–13 , , W3 , -style=background:#fbb , , 43, , May 26 , , @

, , 2–8 , ,

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(4–3) , , Boddicker (1–2) , , — , , 26,131 , , 23–20 , , L7 , -style=background:#bfb , , 44, , May 27 , , @

, , 7–4 , ,

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(3–1) , , Gura (4–6) , , Martinez (5) , , 23,675 , , 24–20 , , W1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 45, , May 28 , , @

, , 1–0 , , McGregor (5–3) , ,

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(2–2) , , — , , 29,616 , , 25–20 , , W2 , -style=background:#fbb , , 46, , May 29 , , @

, , 0–4 , , Splittorff (2–1) , , Martínez (3–9) , , Quisenberry (11) , , 29,035 , , 25–21 , , L1 , - , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , June 14 , , @ Brewers , , colspan=8, ''Postponed (rain); Makeup: June 16'' , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , June 20 , , Yankees , , colspan=8, ''Postponed (rain); Makeup: September 30'' , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , June 28 , , @ Yankees , , colspan=8, ''Postponed (rain); Makeup: September 10'' , - , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , July 4 , , @ Tigers , , colspan=8, ''Postponed (rain); Makeup: September 21'' , -style=background:#bbbfff , , --, , July 6 , , colspan="9", 54th All-Star Game in Chicago, IL , - , -style=background:#fbb , , 100, , August 2 , , @

, , 1–3 , , Blyleven (7–9) , , Martínez (6–13) , , Anderson (3) , , N/A , , 59–41 , , L1 , -style=background:#fbb , , 101, , August 2 , , @

, , 3–4 , ,

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(1–1) , , Ramirez (4–2) , , Anderson (4) , , 17,286 , , 59–42 , , L2 , -style=background:#bfb , , 102, , August 3 , , @

, , 8–2 , ,

(10–4) , , Sutcliffe (12–7) , , — , , 8,549 , , 60–42 , , W1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 103, , August 4 , , @

, , 4–3 (10) , , McGregor (14–4) , , Anderson (0–3) , , Martinez (11) , , 6,368 , , 61–42 , , W2 , -style=background:#bfb , , 104, , August 5 , ,

, , 5–4 , , Boddicker (8–5) , ,

(5–7) , , — , , 39,544 , , 62–42 , , W3 , -style=background:#fbb , , 105, , August 6 , ,

, , 4–6 , , Bannister (9–9) , , Martínez (6–14) , , Barojas (10) , , 32,769 , , 62–43 , , L1 , -style=background:#fbb , , 106, , August 7 , ,

, , 3–4 , ,

(14–10) , , Flanagan (6–1) , ,

(8) , , 24,384 , , 62–44 , , L2 , -style=background:#fbb , , 107, , August 8 , ,

, , 4–9 , , Sutcliffe (13–7) , ,

(10–5) , , — , , 24,324 , , 62–45 , , L3 , -style=background:#fbb , , 108, , August 9 , ,

, , 3–4 , , Heaton (6–4) , , McGregor (14–5) , , — , , 24,324 , , 62–46 , , L4 , -style=background:#fbb , , 109, , August 10 , ,

, , 3–4 , , Sorensen (6–9) , , Boddicker (8–6) , , — , , 18,294 , , 62–47 , , L5 , -style=background:#fbb , , 110, , August 11 , , @

, , 3–9 , , Bannister (10–9) , , Ramirez (4–3) , , — , , 31,810 , , 62–48 , , L6 , -style=background:#fbb , , 111, , August 12 , , @

, , 1–2 , ,

(15–10) , , Flanagan (6–2) , , — , , 45,588 , , 62–49 , , L7 , -style=background:#bfb , , 112, , August 13 , , @

, , 5–2 , , Stewart (5–3) , , Koosman (8–5) , , Martinez (12) , , 36,232 , , 63–49 , , W1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 113, , August 14 , , @

, , 2–1 , , McGregor (15–5) , ,

(12–7) , , Stoddard (5) , , 37,846 , , 64–49 , , W2 , -style=background:#bfb , , 117, , August 19 , ,

, , 5–4 , , Stewart (6–3) , , Quisenberry (5–2) , , — , , N/A , , 67–50 , , W2 , -style=background:#bfb , , 118, , August 19 , ,

, , 3–1 , , Martinez (6–3) , , Rasmussen (1–2) , , — , , 35,582 , , 68–50 , , W3 , -style=background:#bfb , , 119, , August 20 , ,

, , 6–1 , , Boddicker (10–6) , , Gura (10–15) , , Martinez (13) , , 23,069 , , 69–50 , , W4 , -style=background:#fbb , , 120, , August 21 , ,

, , 3–8 , , Black (7–4) , , Palmer (2–3) , , Quisenberry (34) , , 29,044 , , 69–51 , , L1 , -style=background:#bfb , , 127, , August 29 , , @

, , 9–2 , , McGregor (16–5) , , Perry (6–13) , , — , , 20,367 , , 75–52 , , W6 , -style=background:#bfb , , 128, , August 30 , , @

, , 12–4 , ,

(11–5) , , Rasmussen (2–3) , , — , , 15,769 , , 76–52 , , W7 , - , -style=background:#bbb , , --, , September 12 , , @ Red Sox , , colspan=8, ''Postponed (rain); Makeup: September 13'' , - , - style="text-align:center;" , Legend: = Win = Loss = Postponement
Bold = Orioles team member

Postseason

, - bgcolor=#ffcccc , 1 , , October 5 , ,

, , 1–2 , ,

(1–0) , , McGregor (0–1) , , — , , Memorial Stadium , , 51,289 , , 0–1 , - bgcolor=#ccffcc , 2 , , October 6 , ,

, , 4–0 , , Boddicker (1–0) , , Bannister (0–1) , , — , , Memorial Stadium , , 52,347 , , 1–1 , - bgcolor=#ccffcc , 3 , , October 7 , , @

, , 11–1 , , Flanagan (1–0) , ,

(0–1) , , Stewart (1) , ,

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(0–1) , , — , , Comiskey Park , , 45,577 , , 3–1 , - bgcolor=#ffcccc , 1 , , October 11 , , Phillies , , 1–2 , , Denny (1–0) , , McGregor (0–1) , , Holland (1) , , Memorial Stadium , , 52,204 , , 0–1 , - bgcolor=#ccffcc , 2 , , October 12 , , Phillies , , 4–1 , , Boddicker (1–0) , ,

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(0–1) , , — , , Memorial Stadium , , 52,132 , , 1–1 , - bgcolor=#ccffcc , 3 , , October 14 , , @ Phillies , , 3–2 , , Palmer (1–0) , ,

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(0–1) , , Martinez (1) , , Veterans Stadium , , 65,792 , , 2–1 , - bgcolor=#ccffcc , 4 , , October 15 , , @ Phillies , , 5–4 , ,

(1–0) , , Denny (1–1) , , Martinez (2) , , Veterans Stadium , , 66,947 , , 3–1 , - bgcolor=#ccffcc , 5 , , October 16 , , @ Phillies , , 5–0 , , McGregor (1–1) , ,

(0–2) , , — , , Veterans Stadium , , 67,064 , , 4–1

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

''Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB= Stolen bases''

Other batters

''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB= Stolen bases''

Pitching

Starting pitchers

''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts''

Other pitchers

''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts''

Relief pitchers

''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts''

Postseason

ALCS

Summary

World Series

Awards and honors

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, ALCS Most Valuable Player * Rick Dempsey, Babe Ruth Award * Rick Dempsey – World Series Most Valuable Player * Eddie Murray, Silver Slugger Award *

, American League Most Valuable Player All-Star Game

League leaders

* Cal Ripken Jr. – American League Leader in At-Bats (663) * Cal Ripken Jr. – American League Leader in Hits (211) * Cal Ripken Jr. – American League Leader Runs Scored (121) * Cal Ripken Jr. – American League Leader Doubles (47)

Farm system

Notes

References

*
1983 Baltimore Orioles team
at ''Baseball-Reference''
1983 Baltimore Orioles season
at baseball-almanac.com

External links

Baltimore Orioles 1983 Schedule
at MLB.com {{Baltimore Orioles Baltimore Orioles seasons Baltimore Orioles season American League East champion seasons American League champion seasons World Series champion seasons Baltimore Orioles