Game 1:

Saturday, October 4, 1969 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland

Team

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

R

H

E

Minnesota

0

0

0

0

1

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

3

4

2

Baltimore

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

4

10

1

WP: Dick Hall (1–0)   LP: Ron Perranoski (0–1)

Home runs:
MIN: Tony Oliva (1)
BAL: Frank Robinson (1), Mark Belanger (1), Boog Powell (1)



@ retrosheet.org

In the opener, 20-game winner Jim Perry held a 3–2 lead over the Orioles entering the ninth inning, Boog Powell tied the score with a smash over the right-field fence. Reliever Ron Perranoski, who worked in all three games, shut off Baltimore's offense at that point. Then, with two down in the 12th and Mark Belanger on third, Paul Blair stepped to the plate. Acting on his own, he bunted toward third. neither third sacker Harmon Killebrew nor catcher John Roseboro could make the play as Belanger sped across the plate with the winning run. Dick Hall, who pitched two-thirds of an inning, was the winner. Perranoski didn't allow a ball to leave the infield in the 12th, but was the loser nevertheless.