- 1975 World Series
Infobox World Series Expanded
year = 1975
champion =Cincinnati Reds (4)
champion_manager =Sparky Anderson
champion_games = 108-54, .667, GA: 20
runnerup =Boston Red Sox (3)
runnerup_manager =Darrell Johnson
runnerup_games = 95-65, .594, GA: 4½
date =October 11 –October 22
MVP =Pete Rose (Cincinnati)
television = NBC In 2006 Major League Baseball, in conjunction with A&E Home Video, released a "collector's edition"DVD box set containing the complete broadcasts of all seven games.
announcers =Curt Gowdy (Games 1, 3, 5, 7) / Joe Garagiola (Games 2, 4, 6) andNed Martin (Games 1, 2, 7) /Marty Brennaman (Games 3, 4, 5) /Dick Stockton (Game 6)
radio_network = NBC
radio_announcers = Joe Garagiola (Games 1, 3, 5, 7) /Curt Gowdy (Games 2, 4, 6) andMarty Brennaman (Games 1, 2, 6, 7) /Ned Martin (Games 3, 4, 5)
umpires =Art Frantz (AL),Dick Stello (NL),George Maloney (AL),Satch Davidson (NL),Larry Barnett (AL),Nick Colosi (NL)
HOFers = Reds:Sparky Anderson (mgr.),Johnny Bench ,Joe Morgan ,Tony Perez
Red Sox:Carlton Fisk ,Carl Yastrzemski .
ALCS =Boston Red Sox overOakland Athletics (3-0)
NLCS =Cincinnati Reds overPittsburgh Pirates (3-0)
The 1975 World Series was between theBoston Red Sox andCincinnati Reds . It was ranked as the second greatest World Series by ESPN [ [http://espn.go.com/swf/mlb/anniversary/worldseries100.html ESPN: WORLD SERIES 100th ANNIVERSARY ] ] . Cincinnati won the series 4 games to 3.The
Cincinnati Reds won theNational League West division by 20 games over theLos Angeles Dodgers then defeated thePittsburgh Pirates , three games to none, in theNational League Championship Series . TheBoston Red Sox won theAmerican League East division by 4 ½ games over theBaltimore Orioles then defeated the three-time defending World Series championOakland Athletics , three games to none, in theAmerican League Championship Series .The Reds won the series in seven games on a ninth inning single by Joe Morgan. The sixth game of the Series was a 12-inning classic at Boston's
Fenway Park . While there are many memorable moments from that game (among them Red Sox pinch hitterBernie Carbo hitting a game-tying home run in the eighth; Reds reliever Will McEnaney pitching out of a bases loaded, no out jam in the bottom of the ninth; and Boston'sDwight Evans making a spectacular 11th-inning catch to robJoe Morgan of a go-ahead home run), it is remembered in Boston for the walkoff home run hit in the bottom of the 12th byCarlton Fisk . Fisk's home run gave the Sox a 7-6 win to send the series to a deciding seventh game, which the "Big Red Machine" won to clinch the first of back-to-back World Series championships.The series also included Red Sox starter
Luis Tiant 's extended mediations while communing with someone in center field during his windups while pitching, a controversial play involving Fisk and the Reds'Ed Armbrister in Game 3,Tony Pérez ' home run off a Bill Lee blooper pitch in Game 7, and many other memorable events.ummary
NL
Cincinnati Reds (4) vs ALBoston Red Sox (3)Matchups
Game 1
Saturday,
October 11 ,1975 atFenway Park inBoston, Massachusetts Linescore
Road=Cincinnati|RoadAbr=CIN
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=0|RH=5|RE=0
Home=Boston|HomeAbr=BOS
H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=6|H8=0|H9=X|HR=6|HH=12|HE=0
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WP=Luis Tiant (1-0)|LP=Don Gullett (0-1)|SV=|Luis Tiant andDon Gullett were locked in a scoreless pitching duel until the seventh. Tiant, batting in this game for the first time all season (pitchers didn't bat in the American League due to thedesignated hitter rule), led off with a single. He later scored the Red Sox' first run on a single byCarl Yastrzemski . From then on in the seventh, the floodgates opened. Reds relieverClay Carroll walkedCarlton Fisk to force in a run,Rico Petrocelli slapped a 2-run single,Rick Burleson had an RBI single, and Cecil Cooper ended the carnage with a sacrifice fly.Game 2
Sunday,
October 12 ,1975 atFenway Park inBoston, Massachusetts Linescore
Road=Cincinnati|RoadAbr=CIN
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=1|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=2|RR=3|RH=7|RE=1
Home=Boston|HomeAbr=BOS
H1=1|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=1|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|HR=2|HH=7|HE=0
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WP=Rawly Eastwick (1-0)|LP=Dick Drago (0-1)|SV=|In another stellar pitching performance for the Sox, Bill Lee held the Reds to four hits and a run through eight innings, the Reds' run scoring in the fourth when
Joe Morgan walked, went to third on aJohnny Bench single, and scored on aTony Perez forceout.The Red Sox sandwiched the Reds' run with single tallies of their own in the first on an RBI single by
Carlton Fisk and in the seventh on an RBI single by Petrocelli.The Reds, however, rallied in the ninth to tie the series. Bench led off the inning with a double down the right field line.
Dave Concepción tied the game by singling in Bench and then stole second. With two outs, Ken Griffey doubled in Concepcion with the go-ahead run.Rawly Eastwick retired the Sox in the ninth to get the victory and close the win.Game 3
Tuesday,
October 14 ,1975 at Riverfront Stadium inCincinnati, Ohio Linescore
Road=Boston|RoadAbr=BOS
R1=0|R2=1|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=1|R7=1|R8=0|R9=2|R10=0|RR=5|RH=10|RE=2
Home=Cincinnati|HomeAbr=CIN
H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=2|H5=3|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|H10=1|HR=6|HH=7|HE=0
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WP=Rawly Eastwick (2-0)|LP=Jim Willoughby (0-1)|SV=
RoadHR=Carlton Fisk (1),Dwight Evans (1),Bernie Carbo (1)|HomeHR=Johnny Bench (1),Dave Concepción (1),César Gerónimo (1)|Back at home, the Reds prevailed in another squeaker that showed just how much this Series was destined to become a classic. For nine innings, the game was a homer-fest.
Carlton Fisk put the Sox on the board in the second with a solo homer off Reds starter Gary Nolan. The Reds countered by taking a 2-1 lead in the fourth whenTony Perez walked andJohnny Bench hit a 2-run shot off Sox starterRick Wise .The Reds then chased Wise in the fifth when
Dave Concepción andCésar Gerónimo hit back-to-back solo shots.Pete Rose followed with a one-out triple and scored onJoe Morgan 's sacrifice fly to give the Reds a 5-1 lead.The Sox scratched back in the sixth when Reds reliever
Pat Darcy issued consecutive walks toCarl Yastrzemski and Fisk, wild-pitched Fisk to third, and then gave up a sacrifice fly toFred Lynn . In the seventh,Bernie Carbo closed the gap to 5-3 with a pinch-hit solo homer offClay Carroll .To close out the inningWill McEnaney would enter.In the ninth, with ace reliever
Rawly Eastwick on the mound, the Reds looked poised to close the game out and take a 2-1 Series lead. But, Eastwick gave up a single toRico Petrocelli and a tying 2-run homer toDwight Evans , sending the game into extra innings.Eastwick retired the Sox in the top of the tenth, setting the stage for a wild and controversial finish. Geronimo led off the Reds' half of the tenth with a single off
Jim Willoughby . ManagerSparky Anderson then sentEd Armbrister up to bat for Eastwick. Armbrister attempted a bunt that bounced high near the plate toward the first-base line. Armbrister hesitated before running, apparently thinking the ball would go foul, andCarlton Fisk appeared to collide with him as he was retrieving the ball. Fisk attempted to fire to second to force out Geronimo, but his throw sailed high over shortstopRick Burleson . As Geronimo went to third and Armbrister pulled into second, a brouhaha ensued, with Fisk and Sox managerDarrell Johnson arguing that Armbrister should have been ruled out for interference. UmpireLarry Barnett ruled otherwise, however. Now, the Reds had the winning run on third with no outs.Willoughby then intentionally walked
Pete Rose to load the bases and set up a force play situation. Johnson then brought in left-handerRoger Moret , and Anderson countered by pinch-hittingMerv Rettenmund for Ken Griffey. Rettenmund popped out, butJoe Morgan knocked in Geronimo with the winning run by hitting a deep fly to center over a drawn in outfield.Game 4
Wednesday,
October 15 ,1975 at Riverfront Stadium inCincinnati, Ohio Linescore
Road=Boston|RoadAbr=BOS
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=5|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=5|RH=11|RE=1
Home=Cincinnati|HomeAbr=CIN
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WP=Luis Tiant (2-0)|LP=Fred Norman (0-1)|SV=|Luis Tiant would pitch his second win by going all nine innings and throwing an ungodly 163 pitches. More importantly, this win would force the Reds to have to win at least one of two games atFenway Park to win the Series.The Reds struck first off Tiant in the first on RBI doubles by Ken Griffey and
Johnny Bench . The Sox, however, would get all the runs they needed in the fourth.Dwight Evans tied the game with a two-run triple, thenRick Burleson put the Sox ahead by doubling in Evans off Reds starterFred Norman . Tiant, continuing his surprising hitting, singled Burleson to third. Burleson then scored on aTony Perez error on a ball hit byJuan Beniquez , while Tiant went to second.Carl Yastrzemski drove in Tiant with a single for what would turn out to be the winning run.The Reds were able to counter with two runs in their half of the fourth on an RBI double by
Dave Concepción and an RBI triple byCésar Gerónimo , but that was it as Tiant gutted it out the rest of the game. The Reds had a shot at winning the game in the bottom of the ninth when, with two on and one out, Ken Griffey sent a deep drive into left-center thatFred Lynn made a spectacular sprawling catch on, saving the two runs.Joe Morgan then popped out to first on Tiant's 163rd pitch of the game.Game 5
Thursday,
October 16 ,1975 at Riverfront Stadium inCincinnati, Ohio Linescore
Road=Boston|RoadAbr=BOS
R1=1|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=1|RR=2|RH=5|RE=0
Home=Cincinnati|HomeAbr=CIN
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WP=Don Gullett (1-1)|LP=Reggie Cleveland (0-1)|SV=Rawly Eastwick (1)
RoadHR=|HomeHR=Tony Pérez 2 (2)|The Reds salvaged their home stand by winning Game 5 as
Tony Perez picked the right time to shake a batting slump. Perez, who had no RBIs in the Series up to this point, rectified that by slamming two home runs and driving in four runs of Sox starterReggie Cleveland .Pete Rose contributed an RBI double andDave Concepción a sacrifice fly for the other Reds runs asDon Gullett pitched eight strong innings and won with relief help fromRawly Eastwick in the ninth.Game 6
Tuesday,
October 21 ,1975 atFenway Park inBoston, Massachusetts Linescore
Road=Cincinnati|RoadAbr=CIN
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=3|R6=0|R7=2|R8=1|R9=0|R10=0|R11=0|R12=0|RR=6|RH=14|RE=0
Home=Boston|HomeAbr=BOS
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WP=Rick Wise (1-0)|LP=Pat Darcy (0-1)|SV=
RoadHR=César Gerónimo (2)|HomeHR=Carlton Fisk (2),Fred Lynn (1),Bernie Carbo (2)|This game would go down as one of the greatest games not only in World Series and post-season history, but baseball history as well. Thanks to three days of rain in Boston, Sox manager
Darrell Johnson now had the luxury of both of his best starters,Luis Tiant and Bill Lee, available for Games 6 and 7 at home to try to stave off the Reds.Fred Lynn opened the scoring in the first with a two-out, three-run homer off Reds starter Gary Nolan. Meanwhile, the fresh Tiant breezed through the first four innings, holding the Reds to all zeros.The Reds finally broke through in the fifth. With two on, Ken Griffey sent a drive to deep center that Lynn almost made a spectacular leaping catch on against the wall. Lynn would suffer a rib injury, but would continue the game. Both runs scored as Griffey ended up with a triple.
Johnny Bench singled Griffey home to tie the game at 3-3.In the seventh, George Foster put the Reds ahead with a two-run double and, in the top of the eighth,
César Gerónimo hit a solo homer to chase Tiant and give the Reds a 6-3 lead. In the bottom of the eighth,Pedro Borbon was on the mound, withRawly Eastwick warming up in the Reds` bullpen.Borbon gave up a single to
Fred Lynn , and then walkedRico Petrocelli . Eastwick was brought in, and proceeded to strike outDwight Evans and retireRick Burleson on a line-out to left, Eastwick looked on his way out of the inning.Bernie Carbo , a former first-round pick of the Reds, who had pinch-hit a home run in Game 3, was called on to bat forRoger Moret .Sparky Anderson was on the top step of the dugout, ready to call in left-handerWill McEnaney to pitch to the left-hand hitting Carbo. Anderson said later that he was concerned that the Sox would call onJuan Beniquez to pinch hit for Carbo if he made the move.Carbo looked hopelessly overmatched by Eastwick, and on a 2-2 pitch, fouled off a pitch on a swing that was described as having "all the athletic grace of a suburbanite raking leaves." On the next pitch, however, Carbo tied the game with a three-run home run just to the left of dead center field.
Supposedly, as Carbo approached third base on his home run trot, (it was more of a sprint) Carbo yelled out to former teammate
Pete Rose , "Hey, Pete....don't you wish you were that strong?" To which Rose replied, "This is fun."The Sox looked poised to win the game in the bottom of the ninth. With McEnaney, the Reds' seventh pitcher, on the mound, the Sox loaded the bases with no outs.
Denny Doyle walked and went to third on aCarl Yastrzemski single. McEnaney then intentionally walkedCarlton Fisk to load the bases to face the left-handed hitting Lynn. Lynn flied out on a short fly ball to Foster in left, and Foster gunned down Doyle, who tagged up and attempted to score. McEnaney then retired Petrocelli, ending the jam. Doyle would later admit that, when he tagged at third, he thought he heard Sox third-base coachDon Zimmer yelling "Go, go, go!", when, in reality, Zimmer was screaming, "No! No! No!".In the top of the 11th, with Griffey on first,
Joe Morgan hit a deep drive to right offDick Drago that looked to be headed over the fence. Evans, however, made a spectacular catch nearPesky's Pole in right to rob Morgan and doubled Griffey off first.The Reds mounted another threat in the top of the 12th.
Tony Perez and Foster slammed one-out singles offRick Wise , but Wise retiredDave Concepción on a fly to right and struck out Geronimo.In a fitting end to such an exciting game, Fisk faced
Pat Darcy , the eighth pitcher that Reds managerSparky Anderson used. Fisk took Darcy's second pitch and lifted a high drive down the left-field line. The ball struck the foul pole just above theGreen Monster . In what has now become an iconic baseball film highlight, theNBC left-field game camera caught Fisk wildly waving his arms to his right after hitting the ball and watching its path while drifting down the first base line, as if he was trying to coax the ball to "stay fair." The ball indeed stayed fair and the Red Sox had tied the Series. (According to the NBC cameraman Lou Gerard located above the third base stands, cameramen at the time were instructed to follow the flight of the ball. Instead Gerard was distracted by a rat nearby, thus he lost track of the baseball and instead decided to capture the image of Fisk "magically" waving the ball fair) [cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/112399/Sports/Rats_Fisk_s_homer.shtml|title=Rats! Fisk's homer|accessdate=2008-07-26|author=Bruce Lowitt|date=1999-11-23|publisher=St. Petersburg Times] .Game 7
Wednesday,
October 22 ,1975 atFenway Park inBoston, Massachusetts Linescore
Road=Cincinnati|RoadAbr=CIN
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=2|R7=1|R8=0|R9=1|RR=4|RH=9|RE=0
Home=Boston|HomeAbr=BOS
H1=0|H2=0|H3=3|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|HR=3|HH=5|HE=2
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WP=Clay Carroll (1-0)|LP= [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/burtoji01.shtml Jim Burton] (0-1)|SV= [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcenawi01.shtml Will McEnaney] (1)
RoadHR=Tony Pérez (3)|HomeHR=|After an exciting Game 6, there was no worry about Game 7 being anti-climactic. Reds starter
Don Gullett started having control problems in the third inning. After giving up an RBI single toCarl Yastrzemski , Gullett walkedCarlton Fisk to load the bases. He then walkedRico Petrocelli andDwight Evans to force in two more runs. However, that would be it for the Sox scoring.Bill Lee shut out the Reds through five innings, but, in the sixth with a man on, he tried to throw a slow lob pitch (his famous "Leephus pitch or Space Ball") to
Tony Perez . Perez hung back, waited for it perfectly, and blasted it for a two-run homer, his third in three Series games. Now, the score was 3-2.The Reds tied it in the seventh when Ken Griffey walked, stole second, and scored on a two-out single by
Pete Rose .In the ninth, Griffey led off with a walk, was sacrificed to second by
César Gerónimo , and went to third on a groundout. Sox pitcherJim Burton then walked Rose to set up a forceout, but then gave up a bloop single toJoe Morgan to score Griffey with the go-ahead run.Will McEnaney retired the Sox in the ninth, closing out an unbelievable World Series.Composite Box
1975 World Series (4-3):
Cincinnati Reds (N.L.) overBoston Red Sox (A.L.)Linescore
Road=Cincinnati Reds
R1=2|R2=0|R3=0|R4=6|R5=7|R6=5|R7=3|R8=2|R9=3|R10=1|R11=0|R12=0|RR=29|RH=59|RE=2
Home=Boston Red Sox
H1=5|H2=1|H3=3|H4=5|H5=0|H6=2|H7=7|H8=3|H9=3|H10=0|H11=0|H12=1|HR=30|HH=60|HE=6Total Attendance: 308,272 Average Attendance: 44,039 |Winning Player’s Share: – $19,060 Losing Player’s Share – $13,326cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/wsshares.shtml|title=World Series Gate Receipts and Player Shares|accessdate=2008-05-07|publisher=Baseball Almanac] Statistics Summary
Series Batting Stats
Cincinnati Reds
SERIES STATS | REGULAR SEASON Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB | AB H HR BA OPS SB +-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+----+---+-----+-----+---+ Ed Armbrister 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .000 .667 .000 0 | 65 12 0 .185 .454 3 Johnny Bench 7 29 5 6 2 0 1 4 2 4 .207 .258 .379 0 | 530 150 28 .283 .878 11 Jack Billingham 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 65 7 0 .108 .313 0 Pedro Borbon 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 24 7 0 .292 .625 0 Clay Carroll 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 19 0 0 .000 .000 0 #Darrel Chaney 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0 | 160 35 2 .219 .574 3 Dave Concepción 7 28 3 5 1 0 1 4 0 1 .179 .200 .321 3 | 507 139 5 .274 .679 33 *Terry Crowley 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 .500 0 | 71 19 1 .268 .728 0 *Pat Darcy 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0 | 47 4 0 .085 .191 0 *Dan Driessen 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 210 59 7 .281 .814 10 Rawly Eastwick 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 15 1 0 .067 .133 0 George Foster 7 29 1 8 1 0 0 2 1 1 .276 .300 .310 1 | 463 139 23 .300 .875 2 *César Gerónimo 7 25 3 7 0 1 2 3 3 5 .280 .357 .600 0 | 501 129 6 .257 .690 13 *Ken Griffey 7 26 4 7 3 1 0 4 4 2 .269 .367 .462 2 | 463 141 4 .305 .793 16 Don Gullett 3 7 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 .286 .286 .286 0 | 62 14 0 .226 .520 0 *Will McEnaney 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 0 | 14 0 0 .000 .000 0 *Joe Morgan 7 27 4 7 1 0 0 3 5 1 .259 .364 .296 2 | 498 163 17 .327 .974 67 Gary Nolan 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 68 12 0 .176 .474 0 #Fred Norman 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 60 7 0 .117 .292 0 Tony Perez 7 28 4 5 0 0 3 7 3 9 .179 .258 .500 1 | 511 144 20 .282 .816 1 Merv Rettenmund 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0 | 188 45 2 .239 .669 5 #Pete Rose 7 27 3 10 1 1 0 2 5 1 .370 .485 .481 0 | 662 210 7 .317 .838 0 +-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+----+---+-----+-----+---+ Total 7 244 29 59 9 3 7 29 25 30 .242 .315 .389 9 |5203 1430 124 .275 .753 168
* - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, ? - unknown, else - bats right-handed A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.
Boston Red Sox
SERIES STATS | REGULAR SEASON Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB | AB H HR BA OPS SB +-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+----+---+-----+-----+---+ Juan Beniquez 3 8 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 .125 .222 .125 0 | 254 74 2 .291 .760 7 Rick Burleson 7 24 1 7 1 0 0 2 4 2 .292 .393 .333 0 | 580 146 6 .252 .634 8 Jim Burton 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 *Bernie Carbo 4 7 3 3 1 0 2 4 1 1 .429 .500 1.42 0 | 319 82 15 .257 .892 2 Reggie Cleveland 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 0 | 0 0 0 0 *Cecil Cooper 5 19 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 .053 .050 .105 0 | 305 95 14 .311 .899 1 *Denny Doyle 7 30 3 8 1 1 0 0 2 1 .267 .312 .367 0 |+325 97 4 .298 .742 5 Dick Drago 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 Dwight Evans 7 24 3 7 1 1 1 5 3 4 .292 .393 .542 0 | 412 113 13 .274 .809 3 Carlton Fisk 7 25 5 6 0 0 2 4 7 7 .240 .406 .480 0 | 263 87 10 .331 .923 4 Doug Griffin 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 287 69 1 .240 .560 2 *Bill Lee 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .167 .167 .167 0 | 0 0 0 0 *Fred Lynn 7 25 3 7 1 0 1 5 3 5 .280 .345 .440 0 | 528 175 21 .331 .967 10 *Rick Miller 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 108 21 0 .194 .557 3 Bob Montgomery 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 195 44 2 .226 .559 1 #Roger Moret 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 Rico Petrocelli 7 26 3 8 1 0 0 4 3 6 .308 .379 .346 0 | 402 96 7 .239 .644 0 Dick Pole 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 Diego Segui 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 Luis Tiant 3 8 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 .250 .400 .250 0 | 1 0 0 .000 .000 0 Jim Willoughby 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 Rick Wise 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 | 0 0 0 0 *Carl Yastrzemski 7 29 7 9 0 0 0 4 4 1 .310 .382 .310 0 | 543 146 14 .269 .776 8 +-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+----+---+-----+-----+---+ Total 7 239 30 60 7 2 6 30 30 40 .251 .333 .372 0 |4522 1245 134 .275 .761 66
* - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, ? - unknown, else - bats right-handed A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.
Series Pitching Stats
Cincinnati Reds
SERIES STATS | REGULAR SEASON Player G ERA W-L SV CG IP H ER BB SO | W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV +-------------------+-+-----+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+----+-----+-----+---+--+ *Don Gullett 3 4.34 1-1 0 0 18.2 19 9 10 15 | 15-4 160 2.42 1.15 98 Jack Billingham 3 1.00 0-0 0 0 9.0 8 1 5 7 | 15-10 208 4.11 1.43 79 Rawly Eastwick 5 2.25 2-0 1 0 8.0 6 2 3 4 | 5-3 90 2.60 1.13 61 22 *Will McEnaney 5 2.70 0-0 1 0 6.2 3 2 2 5 | 5-2 91 2.47 1.26 48 15 Gary Nolan 2 6.00 0-0 0 0 6.0 6 4 1 2 | 15-9 211 3.16 1.10 74 Clay Carroll 5 3.18 1-0 0 0 5.2 4 2 2 3 | 7-5 96 2.62 1.30 44 7 Pat Darcy 2 4.50 0-1 0 0 4.0 3 2 2 1 | 11-5 131 3.58 1.48 46 1 *Fred Norman 2 9.00 0-1 0 0 4.0 8 4 3 2 | 12-4 188 3.73 1.31 119 Pedro Borbon 3 6.00 0-0 0 0 3.0 3 2 2 1 | 9-5 125 2.95 1.33 29 5 +-------------------+-+-----+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+----+-----+-----+---+--+ Total 3.88 4-3 2 0 65.0 60 28 30 40 | 94-47 1300 3.37 1.310 598 50
* - throws left-handed, ? - unknown, else - throws right-handed A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.
Boston Red Sox
SERIES STATS | REGULAR SEASON Player G ERA W-L SV CG IP H ER BB SO | W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV +-------------------+-+-----+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+----+-----+-----+---+--+ Luis Tiant 3 3.60 2-0 0 2 25.0 25 10 8 12 | 18-14 260 4.02 1.28 142 *Bill Lee 2 3.14 0-0 0 0 14.1 12 5 3 7 | 17-9 260 3.95 1.32 78
Reggie Cleveland 3 6.75 0-1 0 0 6.2 7 5 3 5 | 13-9 171 4.43 1.32 78 Jim Willoughby 3 0.00 0-1 0 0 6.1 3 0 0 2 | 5-2 48 3.54 1.28 29 8 Rick Wise 2 8.44 1-0 0 0 5.1 6 5 2 2 | 19-12 255 3.95 1.31 141 Dick Drago 2 2.25 0-1 0 0 4.0 3 1 1 1 | 2-2 73 3.84 1.38 43 15 *Roger Moret 3 0.00 0-0 0 0 1.2 2 0 3 1 | 14-3 145 3.60 1.43 80 1 Diego Segui 1 0.00 0-0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 | 2-5 71 4.82 1.61 45 6 *Jim Burton 2 9.00 0-1 0 0 1.0 1 1 3 0 | 1-2 53 2.89 1.45 39 1 Dick Pole 1 inf 0-0 0 0 0.0 0 1 2 0 | 4-6 90 4.42 1.49 42 +-------------------+-+-----+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+----+-----+-----+---+--+ Total 3.86 3-4 0 2 65.1 59 28 25 30 | 95-64 1426 3.98 1.360 717 31* - throws left-handed, ? - unknown, else - throws right-handed A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.
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Broadcasting
NBC broadcast the Series on television and radio, with
Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola alternatingplay-by-play along with team announcersNed Martin andDick Stockton (Red Sox) andMarty Brennaman (Reds) andTony Kubek doing color commentary.This was the final World Series broadcast for Gowdy, who had been NBC's lead play-by-play announcer for baseball since 1966. Garagiola would take over full-time as NBC's lead baseball announcer the following season.
This was also the final Series broadcast for NBC Radio, which had retained exclusive rights to the event since 1957. CBS Radio would become the exclusive national radio network for MLB beginning the following season.
Notes
References
*Adelman, Tom. (2003). "The Long Ball: The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played". Boston, MA: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-06899-3.
*cite web |author=Forman, Sean L. |title=1975 World Series |date= |work=Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Statistics and Information. |url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1975_WS.shtml |accessdate=2007-12-09
*Lowitt, Bruce. (1999). "Rats! Fisk's homer" St. Petersburg Times, November 23, 1999
*Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. (1990). "The World Series." 1st ed. New York: St Martins. ISBN 0-312-03960-3. (Neft and Cohen 355-360)
*Reichler, Joseph, ed. (1982). "The Baseball Encyclopedia" (5th ed.), p. 2197. MacMillian Publishing. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.References
External links
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1975_WS.shtml 1975 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1975 1975 World Series at "WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)"]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1975ws.shtml 1975 World Series at Baseball-Almanac.com]
* [http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/worldseries/1975.html History of the World Series - 1975 at SportingNews.com]
* [http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/25moments/4.html The Sporting News' Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments: Fisk Waves it Fair]
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/features/1997/wsarchive/1975.html Everything Came Up Reds at SI.com]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1975/YPS_1975.htm 1975 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org]
* [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/teams/1975reds.stm 1975 Cincinnati Reds at baseballlibrary.com]
* [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/teams/1975redsox.stm 1975 Boston Red Sox at baseballlibrary.com]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_75ws_gm6_cinbos MLB.com: Baseball's Best - Game 6]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_75ws_gm7_cinbos MLB.com: Baseball's Best - Game 7]
* [http://www.baseballdirect.com/audio_clips/508a.wav Audio: Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run in Game 6]
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