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| 1973 National League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 6–10 | |||||||||
| Umpires | Ed Sudol (crew chief) Ed Vargo Chris Pelekoudas Bob Engel Bruce Froemming Jerry Dale | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC WOR-TV (Mets' broadcast) WLWT (Reds' broadcast) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | NBC: Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek (in Cincinnati) Jim Simpson and Maury Wills (in Queens, New York) WOR-TV: Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy WLWT: Charlie Jones and Wes Parker | |||||||||
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The 1973 National League Championship Series was played between the New York Mets and the Cincinnati Reds from October 6 to 10. New York won the series three games to two and advanced to the World Series, where they lost to the Oakland Athletics in what was the second of three straight world championships for Oakland. The Mets set a record for lowest win percentage by a pennant winner, finishing the regular season with an 82–79 record. However, most of the season was plagued by the injury jinx to their key players. In September they finally got healthy and just in time for the playoffs. The Mets' victory has gone down as one of the greatest upsets in MLB history, as they dominated the heavily favored Big Red Machine.
The 1973 NLCS was marred by a fight that broke out in the fifth inning of the third game, beginning with a tussle between Cincinnati's Pete Rose and New York's Bud Harrelson at second base. Players from both sides joined in a general melee that lasted for several minutes and set off rowdy fan behavior at Shea Stadium in New York. Photographs of the fight, autographed by Rose and Harrelson, are now available at a number of Internet sites.
This was the fifth National League Championship Series in all and the only NLCS between 1970 and 1980 not to feature either the Philadelphia Phillies or the Pittsburgh Pirates.[1][2] In fact, from 1969 to 1980 the NL East champion was either the Mets, Pirates or the Phillies.
- ^ Von Benko, George (July 7, 2005). "Notes: Phils–Pirates rivalry fading". Phillies.MLB.com. Major League Baseball. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
From 1974–80, the Phillies and Pirates won all seven National League East titles (Phillies four, Pirates three).
- ^ "Pirates perform rare three-peat feat 4–2". USA Today. September 28, 1992. p. 5C.
The Pirates...won three (NL East titles) in a row from 1970–72.
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