Gameday #2 featured a pair of walk-off victories, one of which was by the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, leaving them as the league’s lone undefeated team after just two games. The 1971 Oakland Athletics had the other walk-off win, and it came in the 12th inning. Somehow, Pete Rose has three home runs in two games for the 1975 Cincinnati Reds.
Standings: Pittsburgh 2-0, Baltimore 1-1, Cincinnati 1-1, Los Angeles 1-1, New York 1-1, Oakland 1-1, Philadelphia 1-1, Boston 0-2
Oakland 3, Los Angeles 2 (12 inn.)
An error and an RBI single helped the A’s to a 2-0 lead in the second inning. It stayed that way until the top of the ninth. With two runners on and one out, the Dodgers’ Ron Cey hit a sacrifice fly, and Joe Ferguson followed with an RBI single to tie the game. In the bottom of the 12th, after the first out and a single by Dave Duncan, Dodger reliever Charlie Hough melted down, issuing three straight walks, the last one with the bases loaded to Joe Rudi to end the game.
1974 LA DODGERS AB R H BI 1971 OAK ATHLETICS AB R H BI
Davey Lopes 6 0 1 0 Bert Campaneris 5 0 1 0
Bill Buckner 5 0 1 0 Joe Rudi 4 0 1 1
Jim Wynn 4 1 0 0 Reggie Jackson 5 0 1 0
Steve Garvey 5 0 0 0 Mike Epstein 4 0 0 0
Willie Crawford 5 1 2 0 Sal Bando 4 1 2 0
Ron Cey 4 0 1 1 Tommy Davis 5 1 0 0
Joe Ferguson 3 0 1 1 Rick Monday 5 0 0 0
Steve Yeager 5 0 2 0 Dave Duncan 4 1 2 1
Bill Russell 5 0 0 0 Dick Green 4 0 0 0
TOTALS 42 2 8 2 TOTALS 40 3 7 2
1974 LA DODGERS 000 000 002 000 -- 2
1971 OAK ATHLETICS 020 000 000 001 -- 3
LOB--1974 LA DODGERS 8, 1971 OAK ATHLETICS 10. ERR--Davey
Lopes, Tommy John YZ (2). 2B--Davey Lopes, Willie Crawford,
Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Joe Rudi. SACF--Ron Cey.
SACB--Joe Rudi. SB--Willie Crawford, Bert Campaneris.
1974 LA DODGERS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Tommy John YZ 8.00 5 2 1 3 1 0
Geoff Zahn Z 3.00 1 0 0 0 1 0
Charlie Hough Y [L] 0.33 1 1 1 3 0 0
1971 OAK ATHLETICS
Catfish Hunter Y 9.00 7 2 2 2 8 0
Bob Locker YZ 2.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
Rollie Fingers XZ [W] 1.00 0 0 0 1 1 0
Philadelphia 3, New York 1
The Phillies went up 2-0 on Garry Maddox’s two-run single in the fifth inning. The Yankees broke up the shutout on Reggie Jackson’s RBI single in the eighth, but left the potential tying run stranded on third base. Philadelphia went back up by two in the bottom of the eighth thanks to a Davey Johnson home run.
1977 NY YANKEES AB R H BI 1977 PHI PHILLIES AB R H BI
Mickey Rivers 4 0 1 0 Bake McBride 3 0 0 0
Roy White 4 1 2 0 Garry Maddox 3 0 1 2
Thurman Munson 4 0 1 0 Mike Schmidt 4 0 0 0
Reggie Jackson 3 0 1 1 Greg Luzinski 4 0 1 0
Chris Chambliss 4 0 1 0 Davey Johnson 4 1 3 1
Lou Piniella 4 0 1 0 Jay Johnstone 4 0 0 0
Graig Nettles 4 0 0 0 Bob Boone 4 1 3 0
Willie Randolph 4 0 0 0 Ted Sizemore 3 0 0 0
Bucky Dent 3 0 0 0 Larry Bowa 1 1 0 0
TOTALS 34 1 7 1 TOTALS 30 3 8 3
1977 NY YANKEES 000 000 010 -- 1
1977 PHI PHILLIES 000 020 01x -- 3
LOB--1977 NY YANKEES 7, 1977 PHI PHILLIES 7. 2B--Lou
Piniella, Roy White, Greg Luzinski, Bob Boone. HR--Davey
Johnson. SACB--Bake McBride. SB--Garry Maddox.
1977 NY YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Don Gullett XW [L] 7.00 7 2 2 3 3 0
Sparky Lyle YZ 1.00 1 1 1 0 2 1
1977 PHI PHILLIES
Larry Christenson [W] 7.67 6 1 1 1 2 0
Gene Garber XZ [S] 1.33 1 0 0 0 0 0
Cincinnati 8, Boston 1
Pete Rose hit a pair of solo homers and Johnny Bench added a two-run blast as the Reds won big. George Foster had a two-RBI single during a three-run seventh inning that made it 8-0. Boston broke up Gary Nolan’s shutout bid on back-to-back doubles by Butch Hobson and Rick Burleson in the eighth inning.
1975 CIN REDS AB R H BI 1978 BOS RED SOX AB R H BI
Pete Rose 5 3 3 2 Rick Burleson 4 0 1 1
Ken Griffey 5 1 1 0 Jerry Remy 4 0 2 0
Joe Morgan 5 2 3 1 Jim Rice 4 0 0 0
Johnny Bench 5 1 3 2 Carl Yastrzemski 4 0 1 0
Tony Perez 5 0 1 0 Carlton Fisk 4 0 0 0
George Foster 5 0 1 2 Fred Lynn 3 0 2 0
Dan Driessen 4 0 1 0 George Scott 4 0 1 0
Dave Concepcion 5 1 1 0 Dwight Evans 3 0 0 0
Cesar Geronimo 5 0 2 1 Butch Hobson 3 1 1 0
TOTALS 44 8 16 8 TOTALS 33 1 8 1
1975 CIN REDS 110 030 300 -- 8
1978 BOS RED SOX 000 000 010 -- 1
LOB--1975 CIN REDS 10, 1978 BOS RED SOX 6. ERR--Dave
Concepcion, Rick Burleson, Jerry Remy. 2B--Cesar Geronimo,
Johnny Bench, Rick Burleson, Butch Hobson, Jerry Remy.
HR--Pete Rose (2), Johnny Bench. SB--Joe Morgan, Dave
Concepcion.
1975 CIN REDS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Gary Nolan Z [W] 8.00 8 1 1 0 4 0
Clay Carroll Z 1.00 0 0 0 1 1 0
1978 BOS RED SOX
Luis Tiant Z [L] 6.00 7 5 5 1 2 3
Tom Burgmeier 1.00 5 3 3 0 2 0
Bill Campbell XZ 2.00 4 0 0 0 1 0
Pittsburgh 4, Baltimore 3
The Pirates took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh on Gene Alley’s solo homer. In the top of the ninth, Baltimore loaded the bases with no one out, but only managed one run to tie the game at three. In the bottom of the ninth, Bob Robertson led off with a single. He was sacrificed to second, then scored on Al Oliver’s walk-off hit.
1969 BAL ORIOLES AB R H BI 1971 PIT PIRATES AB R H BI
Don Buford 4 1 2 1 Dave Cash 4 0 0 0
Paul Blair 5 0 2 1 Vic Davalillo 4 0 0 0
Brooks Robinson 4 0 0 0 Roberto Clemente 4 0 1 0
Boog Powell 4 0 0 0 Willie Stargell 3 1 1 0
Frank Robinson 4 0 1 0 Manny Sanguillen 4 0 1 0
Davey Johnson 3 1 1 0 Bob Robertson 3 2 1 0
Mark Belanger 3 0 1 0 Richie Hebner 3 0 0 0
Marv Rettenmund 3 1 1 0 Al Oliver 4 0 2 3
Elrod Hendricks 3 0 0 1 Gene Alley 2 1 1 1
TOTALS 33 3 8 3 TOTALS 31 4 7 4
1969 BAL ORIOLES 100 010 001 -- 3
1971 PIT PIRATES 000 200 101 -- 4
LOB--1969 BAL ORIOLES 8, 1971 PIT PIRATES 6. 2B--Davey
Johnson, Don Buford, Marv Rettenmund, Al Oliver. HR--Gene
Alley. HBP--Willie Stargell. SACB--Richie Hebner. SB--Mark
Belanger.
1969 BAL ORIOLES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Jim Palmer Y 8.00 5 3 3 2 2 1
Dick Hall ZZ [L] 0.33 2 1 1 0 0 0
1971 PIT PIRATES
Dock Ellis Y 8.00 7 2 2 3 2 0
Bob Miller [W] 1.00 1 1 1 2 0 0
