1983 WS Gm5: McGregor tosses shutout to win Game 5

10/16/83: Orioles pitcher Scott McGregor throws a shutout in the clinching game as the Orioles go on to win the World Series


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[crazydiamond]

Cal Ripken Jr. Catching the last out never imagined the incredible streak of games he would play. Think that record will never be broken.

[miniaturesun]

Scott McGregor won 18 games in 1983 and would have easily won 20 if the bullpen hadn’t let him down in the last part of the season. He and Mike Boddicker really carried the starting pitching load when Jim Palmer and Mike Flanagan went on the disabled list.

[jimmythundarrsdrumcoverser]

Who remembers???
1983 World Champs!
Howard Cosell
Scotty McGregor with the shutout...
Rookie Cal Ripken makes the last out!!!
There was a TON of talent on that team...

[RHM-uphn]

Lifelong Orioles fan, I was in the 6th grade when this happened. The Orioles will be back. Go Birds!!!

[BallparkEGuides]

I am an Orioles fan living in South Jersey, about 20 minutes from Philly. I almost got my rear end whooped in school the next day!

[ronaldharris]

i remember this it was a Sunday night everybody i knew wanted to stay home or go to the parade downtown i was in the 9th grade first year in high school things were so much simple then

[craigoren]

There was a game in this series in which Joe Morgan tagged up at third of a fly ball -- and fell flat on his face as he took off for home. BTW, it is hard to listen to Howard Cosell.

[TetsuyaEyetoe]

The only WS my Os have won since ive been alive...and i was 2 so i dont remember lol.

[WaxPackGods]

Found this vid looking for some info about McGregor on his 66th birthday today (happy birthday!). Thanks for the memories of the first World Series I ever watched.

[pgrant]

Read somewhere where McGregor was a very average pitcher. WRONG. He pitched a lot of big games. In 6 postseason starts his era was 1.63. Too bad his teams couldn’t hit.

[rayk]

Am a huge Os fan. What a great day.! Instead I went to a traitorous Colt game that very day and listened to Os on a handheld radio. Loved the Colts too. Heart ripped out and pissed on by Irsay.

[drungohazewood]

Actually it was a sunny Sunday afternoon, the 16th of October. We were there in center field, on a direct line with second base, the pitcher's mound, and home plate. Two massive home runs by Eddie Murray and a homer by Rick Dempsey, voted Series MVP, and a traffic jam, Homeric (!) after the game.

[beauties]

Before Scotty MacGrager's whole game gem, I bought myself an Orioles jacket and could've gotten laid. What a sweet time.

[HVPride]

I was six when I watched this game, and I’m still a diehard Orioles fan to this day!

[middleman]

Was in 9th grade...still have the newspaper from when they won..should have been a repeat..if Don Sutton didn’t cheat the year before on the last game of the season

[kyokogodai-irhy]

I hate Howard Cosell. I wish I could blot him out entirely.

[felicia_joshhlubb]

Pastor Scott McGregor is one coolest cat i ever met. his son Eric and I were buddies in middle school at the rock church academy back in the day. great times back then.