Cika wannan magana: Murtaugh ya san da yawan gwaninta a Pittsburgh, ya nemi a mayar da shi manajan bayan da aka kori Larry Shepard a makon da ya gabata na kakar wasa. Da zarar likita ya tsabtace, ya zama kyaftin na Pirates sau ɗaya. (A cikin sa'o'i bayan wannan sake daukar aiki a ranar 9 ga Oktoba, Don Hoak, dan wasan sa na uku a gasar zakarun duniya ta 1960 Pirates kuma manaja a tsarin gonar Pirates a 1969, ya mutu sakamakon bugun zuciya bayan ya yi imanin cewa shi ne babban dan takarar da zai jagoranci kungiyar iyaye.) Kungiyoyinsa biyu na farko sun lashe gasar zakarun Turai ta Gabas ta Gabas ta 1970-71. Ko da yake tawagar ta fadi a wannan kakar ta
Wasannin Gasar Zakarun Kasa zuwa Cincinnati Reds, Murtaugh's 1971 Pirates sun doke San Francisco Giants a cikin NLCS sannan kuma suka kame Wasannin Duniya na 1971 tare da dawowar da ba za a iya mantawa da ita ba daga rashin nasara wasanni biyu zuwa ɗaya a kan Baltimore Orioles. Wannan Wasannin Wasannin Duniya ya kasance sananne ne ta hanyar wasan kwaikwayon wasan kwaikwayon na Baseball Hall of Fame na gaba Roberto Clemente, wanda ya buga.414 tare da 12 hits don ya jagoranci tawagarsa zuwa gasar zakarun Turai.