1970 Boston Red Sox season

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1970 Boston Red Sox
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Owner(s) Tom Yawkey
General Manager(s) Dick O'Connell
Manager(s) Eddie Kasko
Local television WHDH-TV, Ch. 5
Local radio WHDH-AM 850
(Ken Coleman, Ned Martin, Johnny Pesky)

The 1970 Boston Red Sox season involved the Red Sox finishing 3rd in the American League East with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses.

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[edit] Regular season: 52 Years And Counting

The decade of the 1970s began with a new manager and a blockbuster deal that was the first of the bad ones for Boston. After the firing of Dick Williams near the end of the 1969 season, General manager Dick O'Connell reached down into the farm system again for a replacement and came up with Eddie Kasko, who had managed the Red Sox AAA farm team at Louisville to a second-place finish in 1969. Eddie had been an infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox for 10 years (and would eventually become the scouting director for Boston).

Eddie took over a team in transition in 1970. Its leading pitcher was Ray Culp, with 17 wins. Jim Lonborg, the superstar of 1967, still was not back in form and went 4-1. Carl Yastrzemski led the team and the American League, with a .329 average, and Tony Conigliaro appeared to have recovered from the horrible beaning of 1967, hitting .266, with 36 home runs and 116 RBIs. Reggie Smith hit .303, and George Scott had a banner year at .296, with 16 homers and 63 RBIs. Unfortunately The Red Sox finished 21 games back of the rampaging Baltimore Orioles, who won 108 games and then went on to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970 World Series, 4 games to 1.

[edit] Season standings

Team Wins Losses Win % GB
Baltimore Orioles 108 54 .667 0
New York Yankees 93 69 .574 15.0
Boston Red Sox 87 75 .537 21.0
Detroit Tigers 79 83 .488 29.0
Cleveland Indians 76 86 .469 32.0
Washington Senators 70 92 .432 38.0

[edit] Roster

1970 Boston Red Sox roster
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Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders


Manager

Coaches

[edit] Player stats

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Other batters

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO

[edit] Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA

[edit] Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO

[edit] References

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1970 MLB season by team
   

AL East: Baltimore • Boston • Cleveland • Detroit • Milwaukee • New York
AL West: California • Chicago • Kansas City • Minnesota • Oakland • Washington

           
1970 All-Star Game • 1970 World Series
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