Ringo bracket: 1969 Oakland Athletics defeat the 1973 San Francisco Giants in five games

Call it a reversal of form. The '69 A's were swept in Tournment One; the '73 Giants were the champions of Tournament Three. But in this one, Tournament Four, the A's dismissed the Giants rather swiftly.

Game One: A's 3, Giants 2: Reggie Jackson and Sal Bando hit back-to-back homers in the first inning, and Tommie Reynolds scored in the second after a lead-off triple. After that Ron Byrant and two relievers shut down the A's, but that was enough for Catfish Hunter, who allowed two unearned runs in 6.2 innings, with Jim Roland getting the final out of the seventh and Rollie Fingers threw two innings for the save.

Game Two: A's 8, Giants 4: The A's got homers from Jackson and Danny Cater and Blue Moon Odom alled six hits and four runs in eight innings for the win. The Giants led 4-3 after six, but Oakland scored two in the seventh, one in the eighth and two more in the ninth to pull away.

Game Three: A's 9, Giants 2: Oakland didn't score until the fifth, but then started roughing up four San Francisco hurlers, scoring in each of their final four hitting innings. Chuck Dobson gave way to a pinch hitter in the fifth (Bob Johnson tripled in two runs) but got credit for the win.

Game Four: Giants 5, A's 1: Juan Marichal scattered eight hits in seven innings but held the A's to a single run. Lew Krausse, hurt to a degree by the fielding. allowed all five runs, three earned in 4-plus innings. 

Game Five: A's 5, Giants 0: Hunter gave up just three hits in eight innings as the Athletics wrapped up the series. Oakland got two unearned runs in the first off Bryant, then were shut down until the ninth when they turned four walks, a double and a single into three runs.  Cater drove in two with the double. The other scored on a wild pitch by Elias Sosa, who didn't retire any of the three men he faced.

Projected rotation: Hunter-Odom-C Dobson-Nash(?)-(Hunter)-(Odom)-(Dobson). Krausse, Pizzaro and Talbot are also options for the fourth game. The bullpen will be fully available for the start of the second round.