page_title: 1975 World Series
section_title: Game 1
hierarchical_section_title: 1975 World Series / Matchups / Game 1
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional baseball player Luis Tiant
context_page_description: The 1975 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 1975 season. The 72nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League champion Boston Red Sox and the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. The Reds won the series, four games to three. In 2003, ESPN ranked it the second-greatest World Series ever played.
  The Reds, at the height of their Big Red Machine dynasty, recorded a franchise-high 108 victories in 1975 and won the NL West division by 20 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers, then defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, three games to none, in the NL Championship Series. The Red Sox won the AL East division by ​4 ¹⁄₂ games over the Baltimore Orioles, then defeated the three-time defending World Series champion Oakland Athletics, three games to none, in the AL Championship Series. The sixth game of the World Series was a 12-inning classic at Boston's Fenway Park, which culminated with a walk-off home run by Carlton Fisk to extend the series to seven games. The Reds won the seventh and deciding game of the series on a ninth-inning single by Joe Morgan.
context_section_description: Aces Luis Tiant and Don Gullett were locked in a scoreless pitching duel until the seventh inning. Tiant led off with a single and later scored Boston's first run on a single by Carl Yastrzemski. Then the floodgates opened: Reds reliever Clay Carroll walked Carlton Fisk to force in a run, Rico Petrocelli slapped a two-run single, Rick Burleson had an RBI single, and Cecil Cooper ended the scoring with a sacrifice fly. Tiant finished with a five-hitter against a team that had scored an MLB high 840 runs during the regular season.
caption: Luis Tiant
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