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Listen to the radio broadcast Starters: Mickey Lolich vs. Bob Gibson WP: Mickey Lolich   LP: Bob Gibson HR: STL: Mike Shannon (9th)

But after the pair faced off in Games 1 and 4, the Tigers rushed McLain to the hill for a must-win Game 6. McLain responded with a 13-1 drubbing of the Cardinals to force a seventh and deciding game. Thus it was up to the Tigers' Mickey Lolich to take on the fearsome Gibson. Despite, according to the Detroit News, an "ample midsection that showed through Lolich's uniform," Lolich had proven he was up to the challenge by recording two complete-game victories in the series thus far. For good measure, Lolich hit the only home run of his career in Game 2.

For his part, Gibson had also gone the distance in his two series wins, so it would be understandable if the two starters came out flat for the final game. But they didn't.

Through the first six innings, neither team managed a single run. Not until the seventh, when Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood misplayed Jim Northrup's two-run triple, did the first runs cross the plate. By the end of the inning, the Tigers had a three-run lead, and added a fourth run in the ninth before Mike Shannon broke up Lolich's shutout bid with a solo homer.

With the 4-1 victory, Lolich captured the World Series MVP Award, and the Tigers captured the franchise's first World Series title since 1940. Detroit became only the third team to rebound from a three-games-to-one deficit to win the championship.

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