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The 1974 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five matchup in Major League Baseball's 1974 postseason between the East Division Champion Baltimore Orioles and the West Division Champion Oakland Athletics. It was a rematch of the previous year's series and third meeting between the two teams in four seasons.
The documentary begins with highlights of the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry over the years and then shows some highlights from Game 3, which was won by the Yankees 19–8 at Fenway Park in Boston. The show's narrative begins with Game 4. The Yankees stood just three outs away from sweeping the Red Sox at Fenway Park and advancing to their 40th ...
On June 18, 1977, in the New York Yankees' 10–4 loss to the Boston Red Sox in a nationally televised game at Fenway Park in Boston, Jim Rice, a powerful hitter but a slow runner, hit a ball into right field that Reggie Jackson seemed to get to without much speed, and Rice reached
For all of the League Championship Series telecasts spanning from 1969 to 1975, only Game 2 of the 1972 American League Championship Series (Oakland vs. Detroit) is known to exist. [111] However, the copy on the trade circuit of Game 2 of the 1972 ALCS is missing the Bert Campaneris–Lerrin LaGrow brawl. There are some instances where the only ...
The Dodgers' 12–1 blowout win in Game 4 was the largest margin of victory in an LCS game, which would be broken by the Atlanta Braves in the fifth and seventh games of the 1996 NLCS. This was the first of three NL pennants won by the Dodgers during the 1970s, as they would win it again in 1977 and 1978 , defeating the Philadelphia Phillies ...
The 1978 American League East tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1978 regular season.The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston on the afternoon of Monday, October 2 between the rival New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to determine the winner of the American League's (AL) East Division.
November 3, 1973: Horacio Piña was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago Cubs for Bob Locker. [4]December 12, 1973: Rico Carty was released by the Athletics. [5]February 22, 1974: Reggie Jackson won an arbitration case for a $135,000 salary for the season, nearly doubling his previous year's $70,000.
Johnstone, 28, will bat.303 in 462 games for the 1974–1978 Phillies, and in the 1976 NLCS, he'll be a bright spot in a losing cause when he goes seven-for-nine (.778) in "The Big Red Machine's" three-game sweep. April 4 – In his first at bat of the 1974 National League season, on Opening Day at Riverfront Stadium, Hank Aaron smashes the ...