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The 1975 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 94th in the history of the franchise and their 89th in the National League.The Pirates' 92–69 record was good enough to win their fifth National League East title in six seasons by 6 1 ⁄ 2 games over their cross-state rivals, the Philadelphia Phillies.
The 1975 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1975 season. The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series .
The 1975 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five match-up in Major League Baseball’s 1975 postseason between the East Division champion Pittsburgh Pirates and the West Division champion Cincinnati Reds. It was the seventh NLCS in all. The Reds swept the Pirates in three games and went on to win the World Series against the ...
Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. (March 11, 1945 – December 19, 2008) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1968 through 1979, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won five National League Eastern Division titles in six years between 1970 and 1975 and won the World Series in 1971.
His 1975 trading card (#407) is the only Topps card ever issued showing the player's position as "pinch runner". May 7 – Paul Owens , the aggressive general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies , makes another trade, reacquiring 1960s Phil slugging star Dick Allen and backup catcher Johnny Oates from the Atlanta Braves for catcher Jim Essian ...
The Pirates have won three of five after a season-worst 10-game losing streak. Keller (9-3) gave up four hits and had five strikeouts and two walks. Keller cruises through 6, the Pirates score 5 ...
Although the Pirates hung in there briefly in the bottom of the inning, after the Padres walked in a run and then Michael Taylor scored on a wild pitch, the Padres held on for the one-run win.
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. The Reds won the series, four games to three.