Editor’s note: Tournament games are played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Each of the Cy Young winners will start every game with a maximum of 10 innings. The designated hitter is being used. Injuries are in-game only during this single elimination event.
Perhaps only perfection would have been better for Randy Jones.
However, the end result was perfect as the 1976 San Diego Padres won the championship game of the 1970s Cy Young Tournament with a 6-0 victory over the 1971 Chicago Cubs.
Jones (4-0) added to his tourney performance with a four-hitter against the Cubs with three walks and a pair of strikeouts. He allowed two singles by Glenn Beckert, while Joe Pepitone and Jim Hickman also singled.
Overall in the tournament, Jones had complete game shutouts in all four of his starts allowing 18 hits in 36 innings with four walks and four strikeouts.
In the title contest, the Padres scored an unearned run in the third to grab an early lead Cubs starter Fergie Jenkins.
Doug Rader singled and went to second as Cubs rightfielder Johnny Callison misplayed the ball.
Fred Kendall drove Rader home with a single before Jenkins retired the next three hitters.
In the sixth, Jenkins ran into trouble as he gave up a single to Johnny Grubb and a double to Tito Fuentes to begin the frame.
After a mound visit by Cubs manager Leo Durocher, Jenkins surrendered a RBi single to Willie Davis before a three-run homer by Dave Winfield end the pitcher’s day.
Burt Hooton came on to end the San Diego rally without another run scoring as the Padres led 5-0.
Bill Hands gave up a solo homer to Grubb that was the final San Diego tally of the contest. Juan Pizarro finished up for the Cubs with a scoreless eighth.
Jenkins (3-1) gave up five runs on seven hits in five innings with three strikeouts.
1970s Cy Young Tournament
Championship Game
1976 San Diego Padres 6, 1971 Chicago Cubs 0
Semifinals
1971 Chicago Cubs 6, 1979 Baltimore Orioles 4
1976 San Diego Padres 3, 1974 Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Second Round Results
1979 Baltimore Orioles 3, 1970 Minnesota Twins 2
1971 Chicago Cubs 4, 1978 New York Yankees 2
1976 San Diego Padres 1, 1972 Cleveland Indians 0
1974 Los Angeles Dodgers 1, 1973 New York Mets 0
First Round Results
1970 Minnesota Twins 6, 1970 St. Louis Cardinals 1
1979 Baltimore Orioles 5, 1979 Chicago Cubs 3 (13 innings)
1971 Chicago Cubs 4, 1971 Oakland A’s 2
1978 New York Yankees 2, 1978 San Diego Padres 0
1972 Cleveland Indians 1, 1972 Philadelphia Phillies 0
1976 San Diego Padres 1, 1977 New York Yankees 0
1973 New York Mets 2, 1973 Baltimore Orioles 1
1974 Los Angeles Dodgers 8, 1974 Oakland A’s 3