Game 2:

Sunday, October 4, 1970 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota

Team

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

R

H

E

Baltimore

1

0

2

1

0

0

0

0

7

11

13

0

Minnesota

0

0

0

3

0

0

0

0

0

3

6

2

WP: Dave McNally (1–0)   LP: Tom Hall (0–1)

Home runs:

BAL: Frank Robinson (1), Davey Johnson (1)
MIN: Harmon Killebrew (2), Tony Oliva (1)



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Dave McNally received the second-game assignment and once again delivered another great pitching performance en route to another O's victory. The Orioles handed McNally a four-run cushion. Boog Powell doubled home Mark Belanger in the first inning, Frank Robinson homered with Belanger aboard in the third and McNally himself singled home Andy Etchebarren in the fourth. The Twins nearly erased the lead with two swings of the bat in their turn, Killebrew connecting for a homer after a pass to Leo Cárdenas and Tony Oliva hitting a solo smash.

Stan Williams, following Tom Hall and Bill Zepp to the mound, blanked Baltimore the next three frames and Ron Perranoski zeroed the visitors in the eighth before the East Division champs erupted for their second seven-run rally in the series. McNally's bat ignited the conflagration with an opposite-field double and Davey Johnson concluded with a three-run homer. All the Birds except Blair participated in the 13-hit feast, Belanger and Powell accounting for three apiece.