1976 World Series
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The <entity_3> was the <entity_2> of <entity_1>'s (MLB) <entity_5>. The 73rd edition of the <entity_2>, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion <entity_4> and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees. The <entity_4> swept the Series in four games to repeat as champions, avenging their 1939 and 1961 <entity_2> losses to the Yankees. The <entity_6> <entity_4> became, and remain, the only team to sweep an entire multi-tier postseason, one of the crowning achievements of the franchise's Big Red Machine era. The <entity_4> are also the last NL team to win back-to-back <entity_2>. The <entity_4> won the NL West division by 10 games over the Dodgers, then defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, three games to none, in the <entity_0> after losing seven of 12 games to the Phillies during the regular season. Game 3 in New York pitted effective <entity_6> NL Rookie of the Year Pat Zachry for the <entity_4> against newly acquired Yankee, Dock Ellis. A seventh inning home run by Jim Mason—the 500th home run in the history of the <entity_2>—cut the <entity_4>' lead to 4–2. It was the <entity_4>' second-straight <entity_2> victory and the second-straight time McEnaney would be on the mound for the Series' final out. <entity_3> (4–0): <entity_4> (N.L.) This was the last of 30 consecutive <entity_2> telecasts by NBC, which had aired the event since 1947; under <entity_1>'s new television contract, Series coverage would now alternate between NBC (in even-numbered years) and rival network ABC (in odd-numbered years) each year; this arrangement would end after the 1989 <entity_2>, and CBS would hold exclusive rights to MLB games for the next four years.
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