Bats: 1975 Redux for Red Sox: Do You Agree With Obstruction Call?

The Red Sox win Game 1 of the World Series at home, by a lopsided score.

They lead Game 2 but lose it late, and the Series is tied 1-1.

In Game 3, the National League team wins in its last at-bat as a matter of obstruction proves crucial to the outcome.

This, of course, is this year's Series. But the story was the same in 1975, between the Red Sox and the Reds.

Boston won Game 1, 6-0; the Reds won Game 2, 3-2, after rallying with two runs in the ninth; and the Reds won Game 3 in the 10th inning moments after the famous play in which Ed Armbrister, having bunted, bumped Carlton Fisk, who then threw wildly to second base. Larry Barnett ruled (correctly, though we didn't know that until quite a while later) that interference should not be called because the contact was inadvertent.

My guess is that the similarities will end Sunday, since Luis Tiant can't come out of retirement to throw a complete-game victory on three days' rest, as he did in Game 4 in 1975. But so far, this is a little weird.

Inside Pitch I agree with Jim Joyce's call. If Allen Craig hadn't had to disengage himself from Will Middlebrooks's legs, he'd have scored easily. What do you think?