After a few "rain outs" we finally got to game 4 in the ALCS. The Leo RedsSox went with their 4th-starter Luis Tiant against game 1 starter Vida Blue for the Bay Area Alteses.
The Alteses did make a couple lineup changes swapping in Bobby Bonds for Gary Mathews and Chris Speier for Bert Campaneris. Both moves paid dividends.
In the bottom of the 1st, Bonds homered to make it 1-0.
Tiant had more trouble in the second:
- Sal Bando leadoff with a single and moved to second on Garry Maddox's gound-ball
- Speier hit one into the gap, Bando scored and Speier ended up on third with a triple
- Tito Fuentes singled him home to make it 3-0
- After Blue sacrificed Fuentes to second, Bill North singled and Fuentes scored
- North then scored on Bonds second extra base hit in as many innings - a double making it 5-0
The RedsSox fought back in the top of the 3rd:
- With 1-out Pete Rose walked
- Joe Morgan then doubled - Rose holding at third
- The red hot Tony Perez then singled to left, scoring Rose, Morgan to 3rd
- Blue got out of the inning with a Reggie Jackson foul popup and Carl Yastrzemski grounding out to Willie McCovey at first
Tiant got in more trouble in the 3rd loading the bases with singles by Gene Tenace and Bando and walking Maddox. Roger Moret came in and got 3 outs without allowing a run to keep it close at 5-1
The Leos stuck again in the top of the 5th:
- Perez singled with one-out
- After Jackson struck out, Yaz singled
- Perez then scored on a base hit from Reggie Smith
- Blue struck out Concepcion to end the inning, but the score tightened to 5-2
Back-to-back walks to Johnny Bench and Andy Kosco start the 6th inning ended the night for Blue
- Darold Knowles made his first appearance in the series got a ground out from Rose that moved the runners up to second and third
- Knowles then got a key 3rd strike call on Joe Morgan
- With Perez coming to the plate, Knowles came out and and Horacio Pina came in to face him. Perez smashed a hard liner - but right to Bando at 3rd base to end the inning.
That defensive spark opened the flood gates in the bottom of the 6th:
- With 1-out Fuentes singled, Chris Arnold, pinch-hitting for Pina singled as well and the North followed with the 3rd straight single off of Bobby Bolin to load the bases.
- The the strike zone shrunk
- Bolin walked Bonds, scoring Fuentes
- Ray Culp came in to face the left-handed hitting McCovey, and walked him, scoring Arnold
- Mel Stottlemeyer then came in to face Tenace and again walked him, scoring North before recording the final outs of the inning.
The damage was done making it 8-2
As in their game 1 loss, the RedsSox ended on a high note:
- Back-to-back doubles from Perez and Jackson in the top of the 9th off of Tom Bradley ended teh scoring and the game 8-3
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