1970 MLB season | |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | April 6 – October 15, 1970 |
Number of games | 162 |
Number of teams | 24 |
TV partner(s) | NBC |
Draft | |
Top draft pick | Mike Ivie |
Picked by | San Diego Padres |
Regular season | |
Season MVP | AL: Boog Powell (BAL) NL: Johnny Bench (CIN) |
Postseason | |
AL champions | Baltimore Orioles |
AL runners-up | Minnesota Twins |
NL champions | Cincinnati Reds |
NL runners-up | Pittsburgh Pirates |
World Series | |
Champions | Baltimore Orioles |
Runners-up | Cincinnati Reds |
World Series MVP | Brooks Robinson (BAL) |
The 1970 Major League Baseball season: The Seattle Pilots relocated to Milwaukee and became the Brewers, thus returning Major League Baseball to Wisconsin for the first time since the relocation of the Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta following the 1965 season. Major League Baseball returned to Seattle in 1977, when the Mariners began play.
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See also: 1970 MLB Postseason |
League Championship Series (ALCS, NLCS) | World Series | ||||||||
East | Baltimore | 3 | |||||||
West | Minnesota | 0 | |||||||
AL | Baltimore | 4 | |||||||
NL | Cincinnati | 1 | |||||||
East | Pittsburgh | 0 | |||||||
West | Cincinnati | 3 |
Statistic | American League | National League | ||
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AVG | Alex Johnson CAL | .329 | Rico Carty ATL | .366 |
HR | Frank Howard WSH | 44 | Johnny Bench CIN | 45 |
RBI | Frank Howard WSH | 126 | Johnny Bench CIN | 148 |
Wins | Mike Cuellar BAL Dave McNally BAL Jim Perry MIN |
24 | Bob Gibson STL Gaylord Perry SF |
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ERA | Diego Seguí OAK | 2.56 | Tom Seaver NYM | 2.82 |
SO | Sam McDowell CLE | 304 | Tom Seaver NYM | 283 |
SV | Ron Perranoski MIN | 34 | Wayne Granger CIN | 35 |
SB | Bert Campaneris OAK | 42 | Bobby Tolan CIN | 57 |
Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
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New York Mets[1] | 83 | -17.0% | 2,697,479 | 24.0% | 32,896 |
Cincinnati Reds[2] | 102 | 14.6% | 1,803,568 | 82.5% | 22,266 |
Los Angeles Dodgers[3] | 87 | 2.4% | 1,697,142 | -4.9% | 20,952 |
Chicago Cubs[4] | 84 | -8.7% | 1,642,705 | -1.9% | 20,534 |
St. Louis Cardinals[5] | 76 | -12.6% | 1,629,736 | -3.2% | 20,120 |
Boston Red Sox[6] | 87 | 0.0% | 1,595,278 | -13.0% | 19,695 |
Detroit Tigers[7] | 79 | -12.2% | 1,501,293 | -4.8% | 18,534 |
Montreal Expos[8] | 73 | 40.4% | 1,424,683 | 17.5% | 17,809 |
Pittsburgh Pirates[9] | 89 | 1.1% | 1,341,947 | 74.4% | 16,365 |
Minnesota Twins[10] | 98 | 1.0% | 1,261,887 | -6.5% | 15,579 |
Houston Astros[11] | 79 | -2.5% | 1,253,444 | -13.1% | 15,475 |
New York Yankees[12] | 93 | 16.3% | 1,136,879 | 6.4% | 14,036 |
Atlanta Braves[13] | 76 | -18.3% | 1,078,848 | -26.0% | 13,319 |
California Angels[14] | 86 | 21.1% | 1,077,741 | 42.1% | 13,305 |
Baltimore Orioles[15] | 108 | -0.9% | 1,057,069 | -0.5% | 13,050 |
Milwaukee Brewers[16] | 65 | 1.6% | 933,690 | 37.7% | 11,527 |
Washington Senators[17] | 70 | -18.6% | 824,789 | -10.2% | 10,183 |
Oakland Athletics[18] | 89 | 1.1% | 778,355 | 0.0% | 9,609 |
San Francisco Giants[19] | 86 | -4.4% | 740,720 | -15.2% | 9,145 |
Cleveland Indians[20] | 76 | 22.6% | 729,752 | 17.7% | 9,009 |
Philadelphia Phillies[21] | 73 | 15.9% | 708,247 | 36.4% | 8,853 |
Kansas City Royals[22] | 65 | -5.8% | 693,047 | -23.2% | 8,773 |
San Diego Padres[23] | 63 | 21.2% | 643,679 | 25.5% | 7,947 |
Chicago White Sox[24] | 56 | -17.6% | 495,355 | -16.0% | 5,897 |
NBC was the exclusive national TV broadcaster of MLB, airing the weekend Game of the Week, the All-Star Game, both League Championship Series, and the World Series.