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Carlton Fisk's 1975 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series on October 21, 1975, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 7–6, forcing a deciding seventh game, when Carlton Fisk hit a home run in the 12th inning home run to cap off what many consider to be the best World Series game ever play
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 ...
The 1975 Boston Red Sox season was the 75th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished first in the American League East with a record of 95 wins and 65 losses. Following a sweep of the Oakland Athletics in the ALCS , the Red Sox lost the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in seven games.
In a ceremony before the Red Sox' 2005 game against the Cincinnati Reds, the pole on the left field foul line atop the Green Monster was named the Fisk Foul Pole, or Pudge's Pole, in honor of Carlton Fisk. [84] Fisk provided one of baseball's most enduring moments in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series against the Reds. Facing Reds right-hander Pat ...
Tiant would win double-digit games in seven straight seasons in Boston and started Game 1 of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds where he pitched a complete game five-hit shutout.
October 7 – The Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds win their respective league championship series in three-game sweeps and by identical 5–3 scores—and make a date for what will be a scintillating World Series. In Oakland, the Red Sox dethrone the three-time world champion Athletics behind starting pitcher Rick Wise and brilliant defense ...
Getty. Boston Red Sox players celebrate on the field after their 10-3 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium.