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The 1976 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1976 season. The 73rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees .
The 1976 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in Major League Baseball's 1976 postseason which pitted the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Royals for the American League pennant and the right to represent the American League in the 1976 World Series. The Yankees defeated the Royals in five games to advance to ...
The Reds entered the season as the reigning World Series champions. The Reds dominated the league all season and won their second consecutive National League West title with a record of 102–60, finishing ten games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
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With two outs, none on and the game tied 2-2 in the top of the ninth, Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres hit a fly ball to deep left field that, for a second, looked like a go-ahead homer.
The 1976 Major League Baseball season ended with the Cincinnati Reds winning their second consecutive World Series championship.. This was the last season of the expansion era (dating back to 1961) until 1993 in which the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) had the same number of teams.
In 1914, the Giants' record dipped to 84-70, as they missed their first World Series in four years. Snodgrass' final at bat as a Giant came on August 17, 1915 as a pinch hitter. [ 14 ] After the game, he was released with a .194 batting average, with first baseman Fred Merkle assuming center field duties over the rest of the season.
He would be the Dodgers starting catcher from 1980 to 1992 and was a 2-time All-Star and two-time World Series Champion with the Dodgers (1981 and 1988). After his playing career ended he became the manager of the Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels and would win another World Series as their manager in 2002 .