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Base-hit bleeders, bad hops in the infield, and rare errors by Joe Morgan and Dave Conception paved a yellow brick basepath early for the Yankees. However, the best the Bronx Bombers could manage were two scattered runs in the first and fifth innings on clutch hits by Chris Chambliss and Thurman Munson...
...infield, the Reds have a slight edge. Chris Chambliss, who missed his calling in pro football, batted about .290 this year and had nearly 20 homers. Tony Perez, for the Reds, batted in the .260 range but with about five more round trippers than Chambliss...
Mickey Rivers, who exploded for four consecutive hits, led off the Yankee's half by slicing a triple to the opposite field. He raced home on Roy White's infield single...
...Yankees pulled into the lead in the bottom of the third after Rivers bounced a single up the middle and loped home on Munson's second RBI single. Chambliss made it 4-3 for New York when White scored on his infield roller...
Thanks to an infield pop-up of a punt by the Lions' McKeon, the Crimson next took over on Columbia's 33, and this time Kubacki wasn't as generous...