Cincinnati @ Boston
Network: NBC
Announcers: Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek, Ned Martin
Format: DVD (1 disk)
Quality: 9.0
Notes: Commercials edited out... Includes post-game... Commercial release from A&E's Cincinnati Reds' 1975 Championship set.
Game Notes
Reds rebound to beat the Red Sox 4-3 and capture the Big Red Machine's 1st championship.
A night after Boston forces a final game with late-inning heroics, Cincinnati stages the rally and wins it in the 9th on Joe Morgan's run-scoring single.
Don Gullett struggles with control, and Boston takes a 3-0 lead in the 3rd after Bernie Carbo walks and then scores on Carl Yastrzemski's single and then Denny Doyle and Yastrzemski score on a bases-loaded walks to Rico Petrocelli and Dwight Evans.
Bill Lee is cruising along until a long 5th seems to tire him, and a routine double play not turned comes back to haunt Boston when an ephus pitch by Lee is crushed over the leftfield wall by Tony Perez for a 2-run HR.
The Reds tie it on MVP-winner Pete Rose's RBI single in the 7th.
Starting pitchers:
Reds - Gullett
Red Sox - Lee
Winning pitcher: Clay Carroll
Losing pitcher: Jim Burton
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