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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cincinnati and Philadelphia match up almost perfectly for the league finale. Both teams have power hitters, tight defense and skittery base runners. Philadelphia has a pitching edge, but the Reds have Joe Morgan, last season's Most Valuable Player and this season, more valuable still. The experienced Reds should take the playoffs...
...Reds' bats are as mean as George Foster's countenance on the SI cover, they just may defeat Philadelphia for the National League title; but don't count on it. Just look at the match-ups: except for their second basemen, the talent is extremely close right down the line...
Those are the match-ups, and to be truthful, the statistics don't mean much in the five-game series which starts tonight. Since I've mentioned Sports Illustrated, I might as well use that publication to predict the winner. The Reds, you see, have made five SI covers in the last year (Johnny Bench twice, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and now Foster), and the Phils have made it just once, with Schmidt. The Reds, obviously, will get the ol' Si jinx...
Janet Clark, at number five, was the only loser in singles, as she fell victim to a 5-4 tiebreaker in the second set and lost her match...
...doubles matches it was the same old story--"One's company, two's a crowd"--as the squad went through its second match in a row without a doubles victory. Liz Livingston and jAbbie Greenbaumme lost 6-4, 6-2, and newcomers Linda Marr and Cathy Coakley also went by the baseline...