Great Lakes bracket: 2019 Reds defeat 1973 Reds in six games

Game One: 1973 Reds 2, 2019 Reds 0
WP: Billingham (1-0)
LP: Castillo (0-1)
Save: Carroll (1)

Game Two: 2019 Reds 6, 1973 Reds 2
WP: Gray (1-0)
LP: Norman (1-1)
HR: Senzel (1)

Game Three: 1973 Reds 8, 2019 Reds 4 (10 innings)
WP: Borbon (1-0)
LP: R Iglesias (0-1)
HR: Tolan (1), Morgan (2), Griffey (1), Aquino (2), Suarez (2), Winker (1)

Game Four: 2019 Reds 5, 1973 Reds 4 (11 innings)
WP: Garrett (1-0)
LP: Baney (0-1)
HR: Morgan (3), Bench (3), Farmer (1)

Game Five: 2019 Reds 2, 1973 Reds 1
WP: Castillo (1-1)
LP: Billingham (1-1)
Save: Lorenzen (1)
HR: Senzel (2)

Game Six: 2019 Reds 5, 1973 Reds 0
WP: Gray (2-0)
LP: Norman (1-2)

Luis Castillo and Sonny Grey combined to allow one run in 27.6 innings over four starts as the 2019 Reds upset the Big Red Machine.

Game One, played in Riverfront Stadium, went to the favored 1973 team. Jack Billingham scattered eight hits over 8.2 innings but kept the 2019 team off the scoreboard. Clay Carroll entered with two outs in the ninth to get the final out. Joe Morgan doubled and scored in the first inning on Johnny Bench's single, and Darrel Cheney scored the other run on Pete Rose's double in the seventh.

Grey took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of game two. Nick Stenzel homered and doubled, he and Eugenio Suarez each scored a pair of runs. The 1973 Reds didn't score until the ninth.

Game Three, in Great American Park, featured a series of pinch-hit heroics. Aristides Aquino hit a two-run homer in the first off Don Gullett, but the visitors evened the score in the third with doubles by Rose and Bench. Morgan and Suarez exchanged solo homers in the fifth and sixth innings respectively. Ken Griffey hit a pinch-hit homer in the top of the ninth; Jesse Winker hit a pinch-hit homer of his own in the bottom of the inning. But in the 10th Phil Gagliano came off the bench to deliver a pinch-hit triple. Bobby Tolan followed with a homer, and the 1973 Reds won by four.

The '73 squad jumped out in front early in Game Four, posted a 4-1 lead after the top of the third. But the home team scored single runs in four straight innings, and their bullpen -- David Hernandez, Robert Stephenson and Amir Garrett -- clamped down on the 1973 hitters for secen scoreless innings. In the bottom of the 11th, Nick Stenzel scored from second base on a two-base error by third baseman Cheney, and the series was even.

Castillo and Billlingham locked up in another pitchers duel in Game Five. Stenzel led off with a homer, and Yasiel Puig scored a second run with the aid of two wild pitches. Billingham and reliever Pedro Borbon didn't allow another run, but the only tally the 1973 team got came on a homer by Dave Concepcion in the eighth off Garrett. Michael Lorenzen retired all four men he faced for the save.

Gray was a little less effective in Game Six than he had been in Game Two. This time he allowed two hits, although he did work into the eighth inning. Jose Iglesias drove in two runs and scored one on three hits, and Phillip Ervin scored a pair of runs.

Player availability: No injuries, and with two days off the bullpen will be fully rested for Round Three

Projected rotation: Castillo-DeSclafani-Gray-???-(Castillo)-(DeSclafani)-(Gray)

 

Stat break: 1973 Baltimore Orioles

 

Hitters

Name                AB     R   H   RBI   2B  3B   HR   BB   SB   Avg,

Baker                  2       1      0     0      0     0     0      0      0      .000

Baylor               33       9   12     6       3     1     1      2      3      .364 
Belanger           35       4     4     1       0    0      0      4      1      .114
Blair                  38       5   11     6       3    1      1      5      1      .289
Bumbry             30       8  13      9       1     0     4      2      2      .433

Cabell                 6       1     3     0       0    0      0      0      0      .500

Coggins            29       6   13     4       0    0      1      1      0      .448

Crowley              4       1     1     1       0    0      1      0      0      .250
T Davis            21       2      5     4       1     0     1      0      0      .238
Etchebarren    12        2     6     2       2     1     0      1      0      .500
Grich                41      5    11     8       3     0     1      8      0      .268

Hendricks           4      1      2     1      1     0     0      0      0      .500

Powell              14      0      2     3       0     0     0      4      0      .143

Rettemund       19      5      7     5       0     1     0      3       0     .368

Br Robinson     42      5    12     3       0     0      0      5       0     .286

E Williams        42      7    12     7      2      0      2      5       0     .286

Pitchers

Name                G    GS   IP        H    R    ER   BB    K     Sv.     W    L     ERA

D Alexander      2     2    12       20    10      9      3       6      0      0     1        6.75
Cuellar              3      3    22       13     7       4      8      9      0      1     0        1.63
Jackson            3      0      5.6      2     1      1      2      1        1     1     0        1.59
Jefferson          4      0       7         9     1      1      4      0       0      1     0        1.29
McNally            2      2    16.6    14     2      1      3     11      0       2     0       0.54
Palmer             3      3    18.3     17   14    13    12      8       0      1    0         6.38
O Pena             4      0      6          2     1      0      0      4      1      1    1         0.00

Reynolds          2      0      3         5     3      3      0       5      0      0    0         9.00

Watt                 2      0       7         5    0      0      0       2       1     1     0        0.00

Stat break: 1973 Pittsburgh Pirates

 

Hitters

Name              AB   R   H   RBI  2B  3B  HR  BB  SB  Avg,
Alley                6     0     1     1        1    0    0     0      0    .167
Cash               37     4   13     2        0   0    0      3      0    .351
Clines               7     4     3    0        0    0    0      1      1    .429 
Davallilo           8    1     1     0        1    0   0      0      0    .125
Hebner            27    3     6     6        0    0    2     0      0    .222
J Hernandez      6    0     0     0        0    0   0      0      0    .000
Maxvill           17     1    1     1        0    1    0     2      0    .059
M May           15     2     4     0       2    0     0      0     0    .267
Oliver             46     6   12    4        4    0     2      0     0    .261
Parker             11     0     2    1        0    0     0     0      0    .182 
Robertson       40    3    10    5       1    0     1      2     0     .250
Sanguillen      40     2   18    3       5    1     1       0    0     .450
Stargell           42     6     7    6       4     1    1       6     0     .167
Stennett           42    8   14    4       3     1    4       3     0     .333
Zisk                 37    5   12  10       2     2    1       3     0     .324

Pitchers

Name              G    GS   IP        H    R    ER   BB    K     Sv.   W    L     ERA

Blass                2      0      2.6      4     3     3       3      3        0      0     0     10.11
Briles               3      3    19        22   12   11       5   10        0      1     1       5.21
Ellis                 3      3    23        16     6     6     11    17        0      1     0      2.16

R Hernandez   3      0      5.3       6     7     7       5      2        0      1     1    11.82

Guisti              5      0      7          6     2     2       1      5        2       0     0      2.57

B Johnson       5      0      7        12     8      8       1      1        0      0    2     10.29

Kison              1      1      6          4     2      2       2      5        0     0     0       3.00 

Moose             4       2     7.3     19   14      9       4      2       0      0     2     11.05
Morlan            2      0      3.6       6     1      1       1      2        0     0     0       2.45 
Rooker            2      2    13          9      5     5       3      4       0      1     1       3.46

Walker            3      0      7          4      2     2       2      6       0       0     0      2.57

Metroplex bracket: 1973 Orioles sweep 1973 Pirates

Game 1: Orioles 10, Pirates 7
WP: Jefferson (1-0)
LP: B Johnson (0-1)
Save: Watt (1)
HR: Robertson (1), Bumbry 2 (3), Stinnett (3)

Game 2: Orioles 4, Pirates 2
WP: McNally (2-0)
LP: Rooker (1-1)
Save: Pena (1)

Game 3: Orioles 4, Pirates 3 (11 innings)
WP: Pena (1-1)
LP: B Johnson (0-2)
Save: Jackson (1)
HR: Oliver (2), Bumbry (4)

Game 4: Orioles 9, Pirates 5 (13 innings)
WP: Jackson (1-0)
LP: R Hernandez (1-1)
HR: Crowley (1), Stinnett (4)

Although it was a sweep, every game was competitve, with two of them going multiple extra innings.

The Pirates got off to a strong start in Game One in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Bob Robertson's three-run homer in the second gave the Buccos a 4-1 lead, and Palmer issued a pair of bases loaded walks in the fourth to make the score 6-2. But Al Bumbry's two-run homer in the fifth helped chase Nelson Briles, and Bumbry hit a three-run homer in the sixth off Bob Johnson as the Orioles took the lead.  Eddie Watt threw three scoreless innings to get the save for Jesse Jefferson.

Dave McNally scattered 10 hits and three walks in 7.2 innings in Game Two, and Orlando Pena retired all four men he faced. Paul Blair had an RBI triple in the fourth and the Orioles scored two runs in the fifth on four straight two-out singles.

The series moved to Three Rivers Stadium, where Mike Cuellar dominated for six innings (two singles, no walks) before leaving with a minor injury. Al Oliver hit a three-run homer off Bob Reynolds in the eighth to tie it at 3. That score held into the 11th, when Don Baylor led off with a walk, stole second, went to third on a Jackie Hernandez error and scored on Tommy Davis' pinch-hit single.

Game Four took even longer. Pittsburgh scored three runs off Doyle Alexander in the first two innings and held a 5-2 lead after five. That score held until the eighth, when the Orioles scored a pair of runs off Bob Moose, and then in the ninth Terry Crowley tied it with a pinch-hit homer off Dave Giusti. Grant Jackson worked four scoreless innings and left for a pinch-hitter in Baltimore's four-run top of the 13th, and Reynolds nailed it down in the bottom of the inning.

Player availability: Cuellar will be recovered from his injury, and the bullpen will be rested for Round Three.

Projected rotation: Palmer-McNally-Cuellar-Alexander-(Palmer)-(McNally)-(Cuellar)

Stat break: 1969 New York Yankees

 

Hitters

Name                AB     R   H   RBI   2B  3B   HR   BB   SB   Avg,

Boehmer           3      0     0     0       0    0      0      0      0      .000

Clarke             45    12   16     1       1    1      0      8      5      .356

Cox                 18      0     0     1       0    0      0      0      0      .000

Ellis                 17      2     5     2       1    0      1      2      0      .294

F Fernandez   19      1     2     4       1    0      0      6      0      .105

Gibbs              18      1     3     2       1    0      0      1      0      .167

Hall                  14     3     4     2       1    0      1      2      0      .286

Kenney            33     4      9    3       1    0      0      2      0      .273

Lyttle                  4     0      0     0      0    0      0      0       0     .000

Michael           46      6    10     4      2    1      0      2      0      .217

Mercer            41      6    14     8      4     1     1      1      0      .341

Munson             6      1     2     1      0    0      0      0      0      .333

Pepitone         48      3    10     7      0    3      0      1     1      .208

Bi Robinson    19      3     6     5      3    0      1       2       0     .316

White              45      9   13   11      4    2      0      6       0     .289

Woods            14      1     1     1      0    0      0      2      0      .071

Pitchers

Name                G    GS   IP        H    R    ER   BB    K     Sv.     W    L     ERA

Aker                6      0       9.6       2     2     2       4      6       3       1    0     1.86

Bahnsen         3      3     15.6     20   10   10       7    13       0       2    0     5.74

Burbach         1      0       2.6       2     3     0      5       0       0       0    0     0.00

Downing         1      0       2         5     3     3      3       3       0       0    0    13.50

Hamilton         3      0       2.6      2     1     1      2       0       0      0     0     3.37

K Johnson      2       0      3.3       1     1     1      1      2       0      0     0     2.70

Kekich            2       0      1.3       0     0     0      0       0       0      0     0     0.00

McDaniel       5       0       6.6      1     1     1      0        6      1      1     0     3.00

Peterson        5      5      22.6    27   12   12      2     14       0       1    2     4.76

Stottlemyre    5      5      39       39   17   16      7     14       0      3     2      3.69

Stat break: 2019 New York Yankees

 

Hitters

Name              AB   R   H   RBI  2B  3B  HR  BB  SB  Avg,
Encarncion     36     5     9     6        3    1    3     4      0    .250
C Frazier        17     3     3     2        1    0    1     2      0    .176
Gardner          39     8   11     5        1    0   1      4      1    .282
Gregorius       32     2     5     4        0    0    2     1      0    .156
A Hicks          36     7   10    9        1    0    3      6      0    .278
Judge              39     8    8     5        0     0    3     6      0    .205
LeMahieu       52     5  14     6        3    0     1      2      0    .269
Maybin           11     3    4     4        3    1     2      1      0    .364
Romine           15    1     6     0        0    0     0      1      0    .400 
Sanchez          33     6    9   11        1    0    4       3     0    .273
Tauchman       18    2     4    1         1    0    1       0    0     .222
G Torres         48     7  16    6        1     0    2       3     0     .333
Urshela           41     4  15    6        2     0    1       4     0     .366
Voit                 20     3    2    0        1     0    0      5     0     .100

Pitchers

Name              G    GS   IP        H    R    ER   BB    K     Sv.   W    L     ERA

Britton             6      0      5          3     0     0       0      4        0      1     0      0.00
Cessa               4      0      8          6     0     0       3      6        0      0     0      0.00
Chapman         3      0      3          1     0     0       0      2        1      0     0      0.00

Cortes              3      0      8          9     5     5       2      5        0      0     0      5.63

Green               6      0     6.6       3     0     0       6      7        0       0     0      0.00

Happ               3      3    16        19   11      7      4     12        0      0     3      3.94

Kahnle             6      0      4.3      3     2      2       3      4        0     0      1      4.16

Ottovino          5       0      5.3     1     0      0       3      5       0      0     0       0.00
Paxton             3      3     18.3    11      1     1       6    15        0     2     0       0.49 
Sabathia          3      3     16       11      4     4       6    13       0       2     1       2.25

Tanaka            4      4     22.3    19    14   12       4    14       0       2     1       4.84

Metroplex bracket: 1969 Yankees defeat 2019 Yankees in seven games

Game One: 2019 Yankees 3, 1969 Yankees 2
WP: Britton (1-0)
LP: Stottlemyre (1-2)
HR: Tauchman (1), Judge (3)

Game Two: 2019 Yankees 10, 1969 Yankees 3
WP: Tanaka (2-1)
LP: Peterson (1-1)
HR: LeMahieu (1), C Frazier (1), Hicks (2)

Game Three: 1969 Yankees 3, 2019 Yankees 2
WP: Bahnsen (2-0)
LP: Happ (0-2)
Save: McDaniel (1)

Game Four: 1969 Yankees 3, 2019 Yankees 2
WP: Stottlemyre (2-2)
LP: Sabathia (2-1)
HR: Sanchez (4)

Game Five: 2019 Yankees 3, 1969 Yankees 0
WP: Paxton (2-0)
LP: Peterson (1-2)
Save: Chapman (1)

Game Six: 1969 Yankees 10, 2019 Yankees 8
WP: Aker (1-0)
LP: Kahnle (0-1)
HR: Gregorius (2), B Robinson (1), Ellis (1)

Game Seven: 1969 Yankees 5, 2019 Yankees 2
WP: Stottlemyre (3-2)
LP: Happ (0-3)
HR: Judge (3)

The 1969 Yankees were down two games to none and three games to two, but they outsluged the 2019 powerhouse in Game Six to even the series and then played an ace to take the decisive Game Seven.

That ace was Mel Stottlemyre, who in all three starts and won two of them.

The loss came in Game One in new Yankee Stadium. Stottlemyre took a 2-0 lead into the eighth inning, but Brett Gardner singled to lead off the inning and Aaron Hicks followed with a game-tying homer. In the bottom of the ninth, Mike Tauchman homered with one out for the win. Zack Britton, the third bullpener to work behind starter James Paxton, was the winner.

The 2019 Yankees pounded Fritz Peterson for seven runs in 3.2 innings in Game Two, with Clint Frazier hitting a homer and a double, scoring twice and driving in a pair. The 2019 Yankees had more extra base hits (eight) tham the 1969 Yankees had hits (seven).

The series shifted to the original Yankee Stadium for Game Three. The 2019 Yankees scored two runs on one hit in the first inning (there were two walks, an error and a passed ball) and none after that. The 1969 Yankes scored three runs in the sixth. sll unearned, and that was enough. Stan Bahnsen allowed two hits in six innings and retired 16 in a row at one point. Lindy McDaniel allowed a single in three innings for the save.

Game Four repeated Game Three's final score (3-2 for 1969). Roy White doubled in two runs in the fifth for a 3-0 lead, and Stottlemyre shut out the 2019 team until Gary Sanchez hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth. Stottlemyre then struck out Luke Voit to end the game and even the series.

James Paxton and four relievers combined to shut out the 1969 Yankees on four hits in Game Five, never allowing more than one runner in an inning. Aaron Hicks hit a two-run double in the fifth off Fritz Peterson, who was pitching on short rest and allowed three runs in six innings.

Game Six, inthe 2019 version of Yankee Stadium, it was a wild one. Joe Pepitone tripled in a pair of runs in the first inning and the 1969 Yankees scored five runs off Masahiro Tanaka. Didi Gregorius hit a three-run homer in a five-run fourth as Bahnsen, also on three days rest, was driven from the mound. The 2019 Yankees took an 8-6 lead off Al Downing in the sixth, but the 1969 team came back with four runs in the top of the seventh, with Bill Robinson hitting a three-run homer off Tommy Kahnle to cap the rally. Jack Aker threw three scoreless innings and was awarded the win even though Downing was the pitcher of record when they took the lead.

Workhorse Stottlemyre took the ball again for Game Seven, this time against J.A. Happ. The 1969 Yankees scored three runs in the third with two sacrifice flies and added two more in the fourth to knock out Happ. Aaron Judge homered in the bottom of the fourth as 2019 got two runs back. But Stottlemyre allowed no more runs; he finished with an eight-hitter, with one walk and two strikeouts.

Player availability: Aker should not pitch multiple innings in Game One of the third round, and if he pitches in that game should be out for Game Two.

Projected rotation: Peterson (full rest)-Downing-Stottlemyre-Bahnsen (full rest)-(Peterson)-(Stottlemyre)-(Bahnsen with penalty or Downing on full rest)