1983 Baltimore Orioles season


The 1983 Baltimore Orioles won the Major League Baseball World Series after finishing 1st 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 1983 World Series. The season was the Orioles first in nearly 15 years, without legendary manager Earl Weaver who retired after the Orioles missed the playoffs in the final game of the 1982 season. The Orioles replaced the Weaver, with Joe Altobelli. The World Series victory was the Orioles' first championship since 1970 and their last to date.

Offseason

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day starters

An Overview of the Team

On April 3, 1983 the Baltimore Orioles left Spring Training with much the same team that fell just a game short of the playoffs the year before. Of the Orioles starting in the only Lenn Sakata and Al Bumbry would lose their opening day spots in 1983. Terry Crowley was the last player cut on 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 Hall of Famers:
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. , Orioles pitches would take the mound to start the game in 1983 whereas in 1982 only got the starting nod.

Game log

Regular season

Postseason

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; Avg. = Batting average; SB= Stolen bases
PosPlayerGABRHAvg.HRRBISB
C1283473380.2314321
1B156582115178.306331115
2B14045949108.2355411
3B812211646.2083273
SS162663121211.318271020
LF1223105287.28115602
CF12437863104.27533112
RF10340763114.2809559
DH15150752140.27618840

Other batters

Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; Avg. = Batting average; SB= Stolen bases
PlayerGABRHAvg.HRRBISB
1263255284.25852715
1153234584.26019642
1001963756.2868381
731842551.2775240
661342334.2543128
642032150.2466261
471041223.2214130
456708.119020
2347510.213020
2642813.310140
253656.167021
91125.455040
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Pitching

Starting pitchers

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

Postseason

ALCS

Summary

World Series

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

League leaders