1973 World Series
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The 1973 World Series matched the defending champion Oakland Athletics against the New York Mets, with the A's winning in seven games to repeat as World Champions.
Managers: Dick Williams (Oakland), Yogi Berra (New York)
Umpires: Marty Springstead (AL), Augie Donatelli (NL), Jerry Neudecker (AL), Paul Pryor (NL), Russ Goetz (AL), Harry Wendelstedt (NL)
Series MVP: Reggie Jackson (Oakland)
Television: NBC (Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek, Monte Moore and Lindsey Nelson announcing)
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[edit] Summary
AL Oakland Athletics (4) vs. NL New York Mets (3)
Game Score Date Location Attendance
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(1) Mets - 1, Athletics - 2 October 13 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 52,918
(2) Mets - 10, Athletics - 7 October 14 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 53,224 (12 innings)
(3) Athletics - 3, Mets - 2 October 16 Shea Stadium 49,410 (11 innings)
(4) Athletics - 1, Mets - 6 October 17 Shea Stadium 49,410
(5) Athletics - 0, Mets - 2 October 18 Shea Stadium 49,410
(6) Mets - 1, Athletics - 3 October 20 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 52,737
(7) Mets - 2, Athletics - 5 October 21 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 56,040
[edit] Matchups
[edit] Game 1
The Mets and A's opened the WS in Oakland with John Matclack and Ken Holtzman facing eachother. Willie Mays played in place of the injured Rusty Staub and batted 3rd in his final big league start.
The A's got two in the third when Holtzman doubled and scored when Bert Campaneris hit a routine bouncer right through Feliz Millan's legs at second. Campy then stole second and scored on Joe Rudi's single to right. The Mets added a run in the 4th on an RBI single by John Milner that scored Cleon Jones. However, that was all the Mets could muster off Holtzman as the A's won 2-1.
October 13, 1973 at Oakland Coliseum (Oakland Athletics)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - -
New York Mets 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 2
Oakland Athletics 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 X 2 4 0
PITCHERS: NYM - Matlack, McGraw (7)
OAK - Holtzman, Fingers (6), Knowles (9)
WP - Holtzman
LP - Matlack
SAVE - Knowles
HOME RUNS: NYM - none
OAK - none
ATTENDANCE: 46,021
[edit] Game 2
Game 2 was one of the wildest games in WS history. Vida Blue opposed Jerry Koosman, but neither would pitch well. In the first, the A's jumped on Koosman for 2 runs and scored in the second on Rudi's single scoring Campaneris, who had tripled. The Mets got solo shots from Cleon Jones and Wayne Garrett in the 2nd and 3rd innings, respectively. The A's were up 3-2 going into the 6th when all hell broke loose. 4 runs would scored and 2 came home when Daryl Knowles got a comebacker but threw wildly home while trying to start a 1-2-3 double play. The A's came back however with a run in the 7th and a pair of runs in the ninth on RBI singles by Reggie Jackson and Sal Bando.
The game went on till th 12th when Willie Mays drove in Bud Harrelson with a single up the middle that gave the Mets the lead. Then two more runs scored when secondbaseman Mike Andrews let a easy grounder go through his legs with two outs. The very next batter hit a chopper to Andrews and he threw wildly to first to let a fourth run score. The A's added a run in the ninth on a Jackson triple, but Andrews errors were too much to overcome and Oakland lost 10-7.
A's Owner Charlie Finley was furious and proceeded to punish Andrews by placing him on the DL with a fake injury not allowing him to play again in the WS. The Commissioner of baseball stepped and disciplined Finley along with reactivating Andrews for the series.
October 14, 1973 at Oakland Coliseum (Oakland Athletics)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
New York Mets 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 15 1
Oakland Athletics 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 7 13 5
PITCHERS: NYM - Koosman, Sadecki (3), Parker (5), McGraw (6), Stone (12)
OAK - Blue, Pina (6), Knowles (6), Odom (8), Fingers (10), Lindblad (12)
WP - McGraw
LP - Fingers
SAVE -freak
HOME RUNS: NYM - Jones, Garrett
OAK - none
ATTENDANCE: 49,151
[edit] Game 3
Game 3 matched up Tom Seaver and Catfish Hunter. Catfish got into trouble right away in the 1st when Garret homered to right and MIllan scored on a wild pitch. Seaver kept the A's off the board until the 6th when consecutive doubles by Bando and Gene Tenace produced a run. Then in the 8th Rudi came up with another clutch when he singled in Campaneris to tie the game. Met reliever Paul Lindblad lost the game in the 12th when Campy smacked home the winning run with a single to center. Rollie Fingers got the save.
October 16, 1973 at Shea Stadium (New York Mets)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oakland Athletics 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 10 1
New York Mets 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 2
PITCHERS: OAK - Hunter, Knowles (7), Lindblad (9), Fingers (11)
NYM - Seaver, Sadecki (9), McGraw (9), Parker (11)
WP - Lindblad
LP - Parker
SAVE - Fingers
HOME RUNS: OAK - none
NYM - Garrett
ATTENDANCE: 54,817
[edit] Game 4
The tide began to turn in the Mets favor beginning in Game 4. Holtzman couldnt make it out of the first after Rusty Staub smashed a three run homer to leftcenter. Blue Moon Odom relieved and gave up a two run single to Staub in a three run Mets 4th. Matlack got the win by pitching 8 innings of 5 hit ball.
October 17, 1973 at Shea Stadium (New York Mets)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Oakland Athletics 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 1
New York Mets 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 X 6 13 1
PITCHERS: OAK - Holtzman, Odom (1), Knowles (4), Pina (5), Lindblad (8)
NYM - Matlack, Sadecki (9)
WP - Matlack
LP - Holtzman
SAVE - Sadecki
HOME RUNS: OAK - none
NYM - Staub
ATTENDANCE: 54,817
[edit] Game 5
Game 5 was a rematch up Blue vs Koosman. This time both men threw well. Milner drove in a run for the Mets in the 2nd inning with a RBI single through the right side. Don Hahn's triple to center scored Jerry Grote with the second Met run in the 6th. Koosman blew away the A's and got a win with a save from Tug McGraw (who had coined the phrase "You Gotta Believe" during the season).
The Met fans at Shea couldnt be happier as the team that just barely made it into the playoffs but had beaten the vaunted big Red Machine in the LCS was now one win away from upsetting the defending champs for the title.
October 18, 1973 at Shea Stadium (New York Mets)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Oakland Athletics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
New York Mets 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 2 7 1
PITCHERS: OAK - Blue, Knowles (6), Fingers (7)
NYM - Koosman, McGraw (7)
WP - Koosman
LP - Blue
SAVE - McGraw
HOME RUNS: OAK - none
NYM - none
ATTENDANCE: 54,817
[edit] Game 6
The A's were in need of a win and they got it thanks to the clutch pitching of Catfish Hunter (who outdueled Tom Seaver) and the timely hitting of Reggie Jackson. Jackson doubled in Rudi in the first and Bando in the 3rd to give Oakland a 2-0 lead. In the eighth, the Mets threatened knocking Hunter out of the game after Ken Boswell singled in a run. Reliever Daryl Knowles (who pitched in every game - a WS record) put out the fire by striking out Rusty Staub on three pitches with two men aboard. In the bottom half, the A's added an insurance run when Jackson singled, advanced to third on CF Hahn's error, and scored on Felipe Alou's sac fly. Fingers got the save in the ninth to force a seventh game.
October 20, 1973 at Oakland Coliseum (Oakland Athletics)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - -
New York Mets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 2
Oakland Athletics 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 3 7 0
PITCHERS: NYM - Seaver, McGraw (6)
OAK - Hunter, Knowles (8), Fingers (8)
WP - Hunter
LP - Seaver
SAVE - Fingers
HOME RUNS: NYM - none
OAK - none
ATTENDANCE: 49,333
[edit] Game 7
John Matlack who had pitched brilliantly in the series matched up with Holtzman who was coming back from getting knocked out in the first inning of game 4. The third inning proved to be the difference. Matlack surrendered a 2run opposite field homer to Campaneris (Oaklands first of the series) and then another 2run blast to Jackson making it 4-0 A's. The Mets came back with 2 runs after Oakland increased their lead to 5-0 in the fifth, but it was not enough. Garrett popped out to SS to end the series and Jackson was named MVP.
October 21, 1973 at Oakland Coliseum (Oakland Athletics)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - -
New York Mets 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 8 1
Oakland Athletics 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 X 5 9 1
PITCHERS: NYM - Matlack, Parker (3), Sadecki (5), Stone (7)
OAK - Holtzman, Fingers (6), Knowles (9)
WP - Holtzman
LP - Matlack
SAVE - Knowles
HOME RUNS: NYM - none
OAK - Campaneris, Jackson
ATTENDANCE: 49,333
[edit] Trivia
- Oakland reliever Darold Knowles became the only pitcher to appear in every game of a seven-game World Series.
- At 82-79, the 1973 New York Mets had the worst record of any team to ever play in a World Series. They had only the ninth-best record in the 24-team majors behind the Oakland Athletics, the Cincinnati Reds (who they beat in the NLCS), Baltimore Orioles (who was defeated by Oakland in the ALCS), Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals (none of whom made the postseason).
- The Mets have the second-lowest winning percentage of any postseason team (the San Diego Padres finished 82-80 in 2005).
- The great Willie Mays would record his final hit of his career in Game 2.
- Yogi Berra became the second manager to win pennants in both leagues. The first was Joe McCarthy.
[edit] External links
- 1973 World Series by Baseball Almanac
- 1973 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com
- 1973 World Series at WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)
- 1973 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org
- History of the World Series - 1973 at SportingNews.com
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