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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
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| 1990 Reds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | |
| 1975 Reds | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 4 | 9 | 1 |
Time for a recap of tonight’s titanic Strat-O-Matic Dream struggle….
FINAL
1990 Cincinnati Reds 2
1975 Cincinnati Reds 4
WP: J. Billingham (1-0)
LP: D. Jackson (0-1)
S: F. Norman (1)
PLAY BY PLAY
Player of the Game
–Jack Billingham. Billingham pitched seven strong innings, allowing no runs while scattering 6 hits. Billingham struck out four, and walked two. At the plate, he also had a triple and a walk in two at-bats, with an RBI.
Heroes
–Pete Rose (1 RBI) and George Foster (1 run scored) each went 2-4. No other 1975 Red had more than one hit.
–Billy Hatcher went 3-5 for the 1990 Reds, with two doubles. He continues his hot hitting from the actual 1990 World Series.
–Todd Benzinger hit a two-run homer in his only at-bat, the only runs the 1990 Reds would score on the night.
–Rob Dibble was, well, Rob Dibble. In his only inning of work, Dibble allowed the first two batters to reach via hit and walk. In typical fashion, however, Dibble promptly struck out the next three hitters.
ETC.
–This was a game that the 1990 Reds could easily have won. They equaled the hit total of the 1975 Reds, and had twice as many extra-base-hits. As they were known to do, however, the Big Red Machine put together timely hits and got some runs across.
–Danny Jackson was pitching a pretty strong game until the seventh inning. Perhaps manager Lou Piniella should have pulled Jackson after six, and turned the final third of the game over to The Nasty Boys. Yes, it’s possible that a managerial misstep may have cost the 1990 Reds a chance of tying up the series.
–Unlike the actual game 2 of the 1990 series, the game didn’t go into extra innings, Billy Bates didn’t make an appearance, and Marty Brennaman didn’t have to send out a call over the radio for Tom Browning to return to the stadium in case he might have to pitch.
–The 1975 Reds lead this best-of-seven series, two games to zero.
–Game three starting pitchers: Gary Nolan (15-9, 3.16 ERA in 1975) vs. Tom Browning (15-9, 3.80 ERA for the 1990 Reds).
–The series will resume at 1990 Riverfront Stadium for Game Three.
interesting semi-related note
tonight the MLB channel showed the 1st game of the 1970 Reds/Orioles series
I had never seen this game as I was too young and somehow never watched a recording.
Nolan I thought pitched well in the 1st game but gave up HRs.
there were a number of things I noticed about the similarities/differences between current baseball and baseball from nearly 40 years ago
The strike zone was HUGE. Tons of pitches off the plate called strikes. Hitters wouldn’t take that today and not a single hitter complained in the slightest during the game.
Lots of batters DID NOT run-it-out to 1B. Gee…and people complain about it these days. @%#$%^#$% Rose didn’t run out a few!!!!!!!!!! Yea, mr I cheated and am making $$$ off the fact that I cheated, and I know I’m nick-named charlie hustle, did not hustle.
Nolan was good. I liked his Ks throwing fastballs on the outside of the plate
Bench looked mediocre behind the plate and honestly I don’t remember, other than him having a great arm. Was he a good defender as a C?
Perez was clearly NOT a 3B. This seems to have followed the Reds, who have had lots of good bats at 3B with no gloves. But now we have a washed up guy there who can still pick-it.
May made some great plays at 1B in that 1st World Series game
The announcing was SOOO much better than today’s idiots babbling away saying incorrect things.
1970 World Series game 1 and it was in black-n-white??? That was a shocker. Color TV was the norm by then.
The stands were not full and the commentator even mentioned on a HR to RF that “those seats were football seats and that’s why they were empty” WOW!!!!!
why am I pulling for the 1990 underdog in our simulated series??
I’ve known Jack Billingham for over twenty years and I could not believe he would ever hit a triple. I say this with love and affection but he can’t hit and he can’t run.
Leg out a triple? He never did.
Nor did he ever hit a homer.
Jack could throw the hell out of baseball but a career .111 average sorta tells the story at the plate.
I wish you guys could know him. He’s really a nice guy. A super human being.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Bench is reputed to be the first catcher to make one handed catches on throws from the OF and make a swipe tag. He was very quick and athletic behind the plate.
Billingham had 8 doubles, his only extra base hits, in 13 yeras/656 plate appearances. The odd part is he only struck out 20-30 times a year
that means he had 400-500 ground outs/fly outs.
[...] Tonight, the 1975 World Champion “Big Red Machine” Cincinnati Reds will be facing the 1990 World Champion “Wire to Wire” Cincinnati Reds in the third game of a “dream” seven-game series. You will recall that the 1975 Reds won the first game by a score of 9-2, and took game two, 4-2. [...]