Sunday, March 9, 2008

April 19th, 1975 Game 12 Boxscore

Bench Gets 5th Homerun to Lead Reds in 8-2 Win Over Astros; Rose and Concepcion hit first homers of year







Note: Due to a glitch, I am only able to post the write up


HOUSTON AT CINCINNATI

Astros.......... 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 5 1

Reds.............. 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 8 8 2

Win:Billingham(1-1) Loss:Konieczny(1-2)Homeruns- P.Rose(1st), D.Concepcion(1st), J.Bench(5th)


Jack Billingham had a strong outing and Pete Rose hit one over the fence asthe Cincinnati Reds outscored the Houston Astros 8 to 2. Billingham(1-1) simply dominated Houston. He was stingy on the mound,allowing just 5 hits and no walks in 9 innings lowering his ERA to 3.27. The pitchers took over after the 3rd inning as neither team was able to score again.

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