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The 1975 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1975 season.The 72nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds.
In what many consider to be one of the greatest World Series ever played, the Reds defeated the Red Sox in seven games in a back-and-forth series. The Red Sox blew out the Reds in Game 1 as Luis Tiant allowed only five hits in a complete game performance, while the Reds took Game 2 by one run to tie the series. When the series shifted to ...
V The 1903, 1919, 1920, and 1921 World Series were in a best-of-nine format (carried by the first team to win five games). T The 1907, 1912, and 1922 World Series each included one tied game. A The Brewers were in the American League from 1969 to 1997, after which they moved to the National League. [8]
This was the last season that NBC was the exclusive national TV broadcaster of MLB, airing the weekend Game of the Week, Monday Night Baseball, the All-Star Game, both League Championship Series, and the World Series. Beginning in 1976, MLB would split the TV rights between NBC and ABC.
Heading into Game 5, the 2024 World Series had already seen its best start since 2017, averaging 14.98 million viewers. Game 4, the only win by the Yankees, had been tops with 16.7 million viewers ...
A 103-game winner in a Pittsburgh uniform, a hero of the Bucs' 1971 World Series triumph (two complete game victories, no losses, 1.00 earned run average), and the 1972 runner-up for the NL Cy Young Award, Blass suddenly and inexplicably developed severe control problems in 1973, forcing his retirement. He will go on to spend 34 years as a ...
After he proceeded to taunt the Boston crowd about the Cincinnati Reds beating the Red Sox in the 1975 World Series, Rose took a Tombstone Piledriver from WWE star Kane, which earned a roaring ...
A 7-6 Game 5 victory, a 4-1 conquest of the Yankees and the club's first World Series title since 2020 and first in a full season since 1988. DODGERS WIN WORLD SERIES: Celebrate with this ...