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Many experts choose Game Six of the 1975 World Series between the Red Sox and the Reds.
Three days of rain in Boston interrupted the World Series with the Reds leading the Red Sox three games to two. With each day's delay, fans and players grew more excited with anticipation, and in the end, nobody was disappointed.
Boston took a 3-0 lead on a Fred Lynn home run in the bottom of the first. Cincinnati tied it in the fifth on a walk and three hits, then took the lead in the seventh when George Foster doubled home two runs. Cesar Geronimo slammed a home run to pad the lead to 6-3, but in the bottom of the seventh, pinch-hitter Bernie Carbo, little known before the Series, came to the plate with two on and two out. Earlier in the Series, Carbo had banged a home run in a losing effort, and here in Game Six, he did it again‹this one a three-run shot to tie the game.
The Sox loaded the bases in both the ninth and 10th innings to no avail, and in the top of the 11th, Dwight Evans made a spectacular game-saving catch of Joe Morgan's potential home run. Then, in the bottom of the 12th, catcher Carlton Fisk blasted one of the most memorable home runs in Series history to win the game for the Sox. It was a high fly down the left-field line, over the Green Monster; the only question was whether it would stay fair or hook foul. In one of the most widely seen baseball highlights, television cameras captured Fisk waving his hands to body-English the ball into staying fair.
Unfortunately for Boston, Game Seven proved the ultimate anticlimax. The Sox took a 3-0 advantage but lost the lead, the game, and the Series when Morgan blooped a single to drive home Ken Griffey with the winning run in the ninth inning. As had happened in 1946 and 1967 (and would occur again in 1986) the Sox had lost a thrilling seven-game World Series. The Curse of the Bambino, which began after the Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919 and is blamed for Boston's inability to win a championship, lived on in Boston.
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