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{{Short description|Nickname for Cincinnati Reds baseball teams during the 1970s}}
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[[File:Rose walking onto field.jpg|thumb|[[Pete Rose]] pictured during the Big Red Machine era]]
The '''Big Red Machine''' is a nickname for the [[Cincinnati Reds]] [[baseball]] team that dominated the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] from [[1970 in baseball|1970]] to [[1979 in baseball|1979]] and is widely recognized as being among the best in baseball history.<ref>{{cite news |title=Big Red Machine Rates Among Best Ever; Balance of Offense, Defense made '75 Cincinnati Team So Great |last=Peterson|first=Bill |newspaper=Rocky Mountain News |publisher=Scripps Howard news Service |date=1995-04-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Shannon |first=Mike |title=Riverfront Stadium: Home of the Big Red Machine |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2003 |isbn=0-7385-2324-0 |page=43}}</ref>

The team won six [[National League West Division]] titles, four National League pennants, and two [[World Series]] titles.<ref>{{cite web|work=Baseball-Reference.com |title=Cincinnati Reds Team History & Encyclopedia |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/ |publisher=Sports Reference LLC}}</ref> Between 1970 and 1979, it averaged over 95 wins a season, with a total record of 953 wins and 657 losses.

The core of that Reds team had the best record in the Major Leagues in 1981, but did not make the postseason because of [[Bowie Kuhn]]'s split-season playoff format due to the player's strike.