When Baltimore Orioles left-hander Scott McGregor recorded the final out of his five-hit shutout in Game 5 of the World Series some 35 years ago, it gave the Orioles their third championship in organization history.
Three and a half decades later, that game -- one in which first baseman Eddie Murray hit two home runs, catcher Rick Dempsey doubled and homered to earn MVP honors and shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. recorded the final putout of the series -- still marks the last time the Orioles reached the pinnacle of baseball.
Richard Justice, an MLB.com correspondent who covered the Orioles in the 1980s, remembers how talented that team was, one that included three eventual Hall of Famers in Murray, Ripken and right-hander Jim Palmer.
