1974 National League Championship Series
| 1974 National League Championship Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 5 – 9 | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Nick Colosi, Paul Pryor, Lee Weyer, John McSherry, Shag Crawford, Satch Davidson | ||||||||||||
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| Television | NBC | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers |
Jim Simpson and Maury Wills (Game 1) Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek (Games 3–4) NBC did not televise Game 2 due to conflicts with its NFL coverage. |
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Los Angeles Dodgers (3) | Walter Alston | 102–60, .630, GA: 4 | |
| Pittsburgh Pirates (1) | Danny Murtaugh | 88–74, .543, GA: 1½ |
The 1974 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series that matched the East Division champion Pittsburgh Pirates against the West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won the Series three games to one and lost the 1974 World Series to the Oakland Athletics.
Los Angeles won the series, 3–1.
Saturday, October 5, 1974, at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Dodgers had been winless in six games played a Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium during the regular season but they remedied that situation in postseason play. In the opening game, Don Sutton was opposed to Jerry Reuss. The Pirate lefty yielded just one run in seven innings, but left the game in favor of an ineffectual pinch-hitter. Dave Giusti came on in the eighth inning and gave up two insurance runs. Meanwhile, Sutton set the Pittsburgh club down on four hits and no runs.
Sunday, October 6, 1974, at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[1]
The Pittsburgh string of scoreless innings was extended to 15 before the Bucs finally got on the board in the seventh inning of Game 2. But when they did score, there were no big base hits. One run came in on a groundout and the other on a high bouncer that escaped an infielder's glove and was scored on a single. But those two runs were enough to enable the Pirates to equalize the two runs that Los Angeles had scored earlier off Jim Rooker. With the game tied going into the eighth inning, it was a battle between ace relievers Mike Marshall, of Los Angeles, and Giusti. Marshall retired six straight batters in the last two innings but Giusti couldn't retire even one. He was clubbed for three runs and four hits before getting the hook. An error by his catcher, Manny Sanguillén, didn't help matters.
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