Fisk's home run gave the Sox a 7-6 win to send the series to a deciding seventh game, which the "Big Red Machine" won to clinch the first of back-to-back World Series championships. While there are many memorable moments from that game (among them Red Sox pinch hitter Bernie Carbo hitting a game-tying home run in the eighth Reds reliever Will McEnaney pitching out of a bases loaded, no out jam in the bottom of the ninth and Boston's Dwight Evans making a spectacular 11th-inning catch to rob Joe Morgan of a go-ahead home run), it is remembered in Boston for the walk-off home run hit in the bottom of the 12th by Carlton Fisk. The sixth game of the Series was a 12-inning classic at Boston's Fenway Park. The Reds won the series in seven games on a ninth inning single by Joe Morgan.
The Boston Red Sox won the American League East division by 4 ½ games over the Baltimore Orioles then defeated the three-time defending World Series champion Oakland Athletics, three games to none, in the American League Championship Series. The Cincinnati Reds won the National League West division by 20 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers then defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, three games to none, in the National League Championship Series. It was ranked as the second greatest World Series by ESPN. The 1975 World Series was between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.
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