Thursday, October 26, 2000
1975 World Series: Game 4
Red Sox got money's worth from Tiant
Game 4, at Cincinnati, Oct. 15, 1975
There's no way New York Yankees starting pitcher Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez — or any other pitcher in 2000 — would be allowed to throw 163 pitches in one game.
But 25 years ago, pitchers in general — and Red Sox starter Luis Tiant in specific — were built differently. Tiant threw 163 pitches in Game 4.
Most of those pitches were pretty good ones, as the Red Sox beat the Reds 5-4 behind Tiant's complete game.
Reds manager Sparky Anderson wasn't immune from the second guess: He held back on utilizing his terrific left-handed hitter, Dan Driessen, waiting for the right situation. It never came.
In the sixth inning, with two out and a runner on first, Anderson chose light-hitting Darrell Chaney to pinch-hit; he struck out. In the ninth, with one on and one out, Anderson already had two left-handers coming up, but Ken Griffey Sr. (robbed of a game-tying hit by Sox center fielder Fred Lynn) and Joe Morgan (pop-up) were stymied.
Anderson was grilled about his inability to get Driessen into the batter's box. The worst of it came from Sparky's 14-year-old son, Albert, who said to his dad: “I'm really sorry to hear Danny Driessen died.”
— John Erardi
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1975 World Series: Game 4
