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#WNSTSweet16 Best Local Sports Playoff Moments

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Nestor Aparicio

Baltimore Positive is the vision and the creative extension of four decades of sharing the love of local sports for this Dundalk native and University of Baltimore grad, who began his career as a sportswriter and music critic at The News American and The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1980s. Launched radio career in December 1991 with Kenny Albert after covering the AHL Skipjacks. Bought WNST-AM 1570 in July 1998, created WNST.net in 2007 and began diversifying conversations on radio, podcast and social media as Baltimore Positive in 2016. nes@baltimorepositive.com
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15. John Lowenstein homers to win Game 1 of the 1979 American League Championship Series

After a season full of comeback victories that birthed the phenomenon “Oriole Magic” in 1979, it was only fitting that the Orioles would begin the postseason in the same dramatic fashion. With the game tied 3-3 in the bottom of the 10th, pinch-hitter John Lowenstein hit a three-run homer off California Angels pitcher John Montague to give the Orioles a series-opening win and send the Memorial Stadium faithful home happy.

The Orioles would go on to win the series by a 3-1 margin before losing in seven games to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series, but Lowenstein remains the only Baltimore player to hit a walk-off home run in postseason history.

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