If tonight’s Game 6 between Washington and Houston is half as good as Game 6 between Cincinnati and Boston in 1975, it’ll be a great game.

Reds led the Series 3 games to 2. It had rained for three days, so Boston had its pitching aces back, Bill Lee and Luis Tiant.

Boston rookie sensation Fred Lynn hit a 3-run homer in the first. Tiant lasted until the top of the eight and left trailing 6-3.

But Boston’s Bernie Carbo hit a three-run pinch hit homer to tie it in the 9th.

Then things kept happening.

I was writing an English paper at the kitchen table, a high school junior, the TV on behind me so I could listen. By extra innings, everyone at my house had gone to bed and it was just me and the TV and baseball history.

Reds left fielder George Foster threw out Denny Doyle at the plate in the ninth.

Red Sox right fielder Darrell Evans robbed Reds Joe Morgan of extra bases and an RBI in the 11th with a running catch at the right field fence.

And in the bottom of the 12th there in cozy Fenway Park, Carlton Fisk hit the dramatic homer down the left field line and gave us one of the great caught-on-tape World Series moments as Fisk begged it to stay fair, pushing the air toward fair territory with his arms as he skipped sideways down the first base line.

The Reds won Game 7 and the Series, another great game. And there have been some wonderful Series since, including the one being played now.

But if you’re of my generation and you say “Game 6,” the game you think of is that one in ’75.

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