Here’s your morning baseball
briefing:
Game of the Day for Tuesday August 27:
Arizona
Diamondbacks 10, San Diego Padres 9 (10 innings)
Arizona, playing in their 20th extra-inning game this
season, faced their former ace Ian Kennedy, who was traded to San Diego four
weeks ago, in the dessert Tuesday night, and they tagged him for six runs in
less than five innings, sending him to the unfamiliar visiting locker room
showers early. The rest of the game featured
exciting back and forth action that had the home crowd sitting on the edge of
their seats in the late innings. Arizona
squandered a 7-3 eighth inning lead when they allowed San Diego to score four
runs to tie the game, but in bottom of the eighth they rallied to take a 9-7
lead on Martin Prado two-run double, only to see that lead disappear as they gave
up two more runs in the ninth, sending the game to extra innings. But this Diamondback team never gave up, and
in their half of the tenth, with the game tied at nine, rookie Adam Eaton
singled, MVP candidate Paul Goldschmidt followed with a another single, and
Aaron Hill won the game with yet another single as the Diamondbacks prevailed
10-9.
Rest
of the days’ scores:
Consecutive
days with a walk-off win (where the home team scores the winning run in the
ninth inning or later that immediately ends the game): 1. A
new walk-off streak began as the Arizona Diamondbacks walked-off winners on
Tuesday when Aaron Hill singled home Adam Eaton to in the tenth inning to beat
San Diego 10-9.
Longest
Winning Streak: 4 - Los Angeles Angels
Longest
Losing Streak: 5 - Seattle Mariners
A.L. MVP Watch: Mike
Trout, OF, Los Angeles Angels
Yesterday:
2-5, 1 HR, 1 RBI and 1 run scored
Season: .331, 23 HRs, 86 RBI, 90 runs scored and 28 stolen bases
On pace
for: .331, 28 HRs, 101 RBI, 113 runs
scored and 35 stolen bases
N.L. MVP
Watch: Paul Goldschmidt, 1B, Arizona Diamondbacks
Yesterday:
2-3, 1 RBI, 2 runs scored and 3 walks
Season: .300, 30 HRs, 104 RBI and 88 runs scored
On pace
for: .300, 38 HRs, 109 RBI and 109 runs
scored
A.L. Cy
Young Watch: James Shields, Kansas City Royals
Yesterday:
7.1 IP, 4 hits, 1 run and 7 K’s in a win at
Minnesota
Season: 9-8, 152 K’s and a 3.14 ERA
On pace
for: 11-10, 192 K’s and a 3.13 ERA
N.L. Cy
Young Watch:
Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
Yesterday:
5.2 IP, 7 hits, 1 run, 3 walks and 9 K’s in a loss
vs. Chicago Cubs
Season: 13-8, 197 K’s and a 1.72 ERA
On pace
for: 16-9, 245 K’s and a 1.70 ERA
News &
Notes: The New York Mets traded outfielder Marlon Byrd and catcher
John Buck to the Pirates for minor league infielder Dilson Herrera and a player
to be named later.
History –
1975 World Series
Winner: The Cincinnati Reds beat the
Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3.
The Cincinnati Reds reached their second World
Series of the decade (they lost the 1972 World Series to Oakland) by winning
the N.L. West by 20 games, then sweeping the Pittsburgh Pirates, while the
Boston Red Sox won the A.L. east by 4.5 games, then swept the three-time
defending World Series champions Oakland A’s to reach their first World Series
since 1967, which they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals.
This Fall
Classic would be arguably one of the most exciting ever played, with many
memorable plays, twists & turns. The
Red Sox had home field advantage and they won Game 1 easily by a 6-0 score as
Luis Tiant shut them out on just six hits.
The Reds provided the first drama of the series in Game 2 when trailing
2-1 in the ninth, they scored twice and hung on to win 3-2, tying the series as
it headed west to Cincinnati.
Game 3 featured
six home runs, three by each team, but none more dramatic than Dwight Evans’
ninth inning two-run blast that tied the game at five as it went into extra
innings. In the bottom of the tenth,
Reds second baseman Joe Morgan drove in the winning run on a deep sacrifice fly
to center, and Cincinnati had a 2-1 series lead.
Game 4 was yet
another close game, with all the scoring taking place in the first five innings,
and all of Boston’s runs coming in the fourth when they scored five times. It was all they would need to tie the series at
two as they won 5-4.
Game 5 was
the Tony Perez show. The Hall of Fame
first baseman for Cincinnati was hitless in the series up to that point, and he
snapped out of his slump in a huge way by belting two home runs and driving in
four runs as the Reds prevailed 6-2 to take a 3-2 series lead heading back to
Boston.
Game 6 in
Boston was one for the ages, and one that gave fans in New England chills and a
feverish hope all in one night. The Reds
held a 6-3 eighth inning lead and were four outs away from winning the championship,
when with two on and two out, Boston sent pinch-hitter Bernie Carbo to
bat. Carbo hit a pinch-hit home run
earlier in the series, and admittedly stoned on drugs and alcohol, he smashed a
three-run home run to left center field on a 2-2 count, tying the game at
six. Still tied at six in the bottom of
the twelfth, Boston catcher and future Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk sent everyone
home with a dramatic home run off the top of the left field foul pole, using
his body language to will the ball fair as he hopped along the first base line,
a scene that is replayed throughout baseball annals to this day. However, the series wasn’t over, Game 7 would
be played the next night.
Just when you
thought this series couldn’t get any more dramatic, Boston held a 3-2 lead in
Game 7 with six outs to go, but the Reds tied the game when Ken Griffey Sr.
walked, stole second, and scored on Pete Rose’s single. The game remained tied as it went to the
ninth, and once again Ken Griffey walked, advanced to second on a sacrifice
bunt, moved to third on a groundout, and scored the winning run on a single up
the middle by Joe Morgan. Cincinnati
retired Boston in order in the bottom of the ninth as Carl Yazstremski flyed out
to center to end the series, giving the Reds their third World Series title in
franchise history, and first since 1940.
For the
series Boston outscored Cincinnati 30-29 and outhit them 60-59, but the Red Sox
committed six errors to the Reds two.
Hall of Famers in the series included for Cincinnati: manager Sparky
Anderson, first baseman Tony Perez, second baseman Joe Morgan, and catcher
Johnny Bench; and for the Boston: catcher Carlton Fisk and outfielder Carl
Yazstremski.
Tomorrow: 1976 World Series – New York Yankees vs. Cincinnati Reds
Trivia -
Today’s Question: Cincinnati third baseman and baseball’s all-time hits leader
Pete Rose remains noticeably absent when I list the Hall of Famers playing for
the Reds. Why is he not in the Hall of
Fame?
Yesterday’s
Question: What is the only American
League team never to have played in a World Series?
Answer: The Seattle Mariners, who entered the
American League in 1977 and have reached the American League Champion Series
just once, falling short of the World Series by losing to the New York Yankees
in 2001.
Vegas Bet: Lastly, here’s an
actual bet you can make at a Las Vegas Sports Book: Over/Under 8 combined runs in the Baltimore – Boston game tonight.
Yesterday’s
Bet: Over/Under
a combined 3 HRs and RBI by Detroit
slugger Miguel Cabrera today vs. Oakland.
Result: Under. Cabrera went 0-2 with no HRs or RBI.
Standings:
| American League | National League | |||||||||
| EAST | W | L | GB | STRK | EAST | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Boston | 78 | 55 | - | Won 3 | Atlanta | 79 | 52 | - | Won 2 | |
| Tampa Bay | 74 | 56 | 2.5 | Lost 3 | Washington | 66 | 65 | 13 | Won 1 | |
| Baltimore | 70 | 60 | 6.5 | Lost 1 | Philadelphia | 60 | 72 | 20 | Lost 1 | |
| NY Yankees | 70 | 62 | 7.5 | Won 1 | NY Mets | 59 | 71 | 20 | Won 1 | |
| Toronto | 59 | 74 | 19 | Lost 1 | Miami | 49 | 81 | 30 | Lost 2 | |
| CENTRAL | W | L | GB | STRK | CENTRAL | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Detroit | 77 | 55 | - | Lost 2 | St. Louis | 78 | 54 | - | Won 2 | |
| Cleveland | 71 | 60 | 5.5 | Lost 1 | Pittsburgh | 76 | 55 | 1.5 | Lost 3 | |
| Kansas City | 67 | 64 | 9.5 | Won 3 | Cincinnati | 74 | 59 | 4.5 | Lost 3 | |
| Minnesota | 57 | 73 | 19 | Lost 3 | Milwaukee | 58 | 73 | 20 | Won 2 | |
| Chicago Sox | 55 | 76 | 22 | Won 1 | Chicago Cubs | 56 | 76 | 22 | Won 1 | |
| WEST | W | L | GB | STRK | WEST | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Texas | 77 | 55 | - | Won 2 | LA Dodgers | 77 | 55 | - | Lost 1 | |
| Oakland | 74 | 57 | 2.5 | Won 2 | Arizona | 68 | 63 | 8.5 | Won 2 | |
| LA Angels | 59 | 71 | 17 | Won 4 | Colorado | 62 | 72 | 16 | Lost 1 | |
| Seattle | 59 | 72 | 18 | Lost 5 | San Francisco | 59 | 73 | 18 | Won 1 | |
| Houston | 44 | 87 | 33 | Lost 1 | San Diego | 59 | 73 | 18 | Lost 2 | |
Schedule for Wednesday August 28 with probable pitchers in parentheses. My picks to win
are highlighted. Yesterdays’ Picks: 11-4
Overall: 782-588
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