One of the greatest Cubs games ever - it had everything. Love hearing Jack Brickhouse after Rick Reuschel scored the winning run ... just priceless stuff!
Funny story, I met Pete Rose a couple years back at his store in Vegas and asked him if he remembered the game, he didn’t recall but responded, “I remember the 23-22 game!”
Ken Cummings very true. that 1977 team though really was one of my favorites ever, first year of watching baseball for me at 8 years old and it was magical 👍
I did too! I believe from Chicago tribune, there was a photo of a makeshift field with all the players faces at every position they played, murcer at 2nd, rosello at short ect
Can't help but wonder if Ken Griffey Jr. was at this game, with his dad on the road. Junior would have only been about 7 years old. How cool to think that one day...he himself would be standing at that same plate, smashing homeruns just like his dad did that day. Love this old footage. Thanks for posting. Hard to believe...this was almost 45 years ago. Hard to believe.
Went to the game with my parents and it was as exciting as the highlights showed!! My mom kept score and I still have the scorecard. Wish I still had the newspaper clippings. I think we had clippings from the Tribune and Sun-Times. I loved Bill Buckner!!
i agree. Everyone remembers the 1986 World Series....and in all fairness, he shouldn’t have been out there. I wish the Cubs would have hung onto Bill Madlock. It would have been great to see Madlock and Buckner in a Cubs line-up.
Joseph R. Costella Bill won the NL 1980 batting title with the Cubs. We don’t hear about that by the media. BoSox recent World Series wins and the media still rides him.
I was there! Sat in the dugout before the game with my uncle and got Ernie Banks autograph on Ernie Banks Day! Still have the program and baseball. My grandfather was a Fire Chief in Chicago and set it up for me.
I didn't get to watch this game because we were at my younger brother's Little League playoff game. But everyone was keeping track of the Cubs -- including my brother and his teammates. The coach yelled, "You guys care more about the Cubs than you do about yourselves!" He was right. The Cubs won. My brother's team lost. Alas, the Cubs -- who still led the NL East by 2.5 games after this win -- went 21-42 the rest of the season and finished 20 games behind.
I was in our 1975 station wagon with the family heading to a dinner in Chicago somewhere. Mom let me sit in the car and listen to the end of the game on the radio while the rest of the family went inside lol
A good chunk of those 42 losses were against Philly and Pittsburgh, who toyed with the Cubs in August and September. Herman Franks wanted to go into the all star break with the division lead and managed early July like it was late September. He rode Bruce Sutter like he was Man O War, got him sidelined, and paid for it dearly in the second half. Manny Trillo, having a career year early, stopped hitting and so did Bobby Murcer. Jerry Morales was in and out of the lineup the whole second half with a knee that he initially hurt in the all star game. Rick Reuschel, 16-4 after this game, went 4-6 the rest of the way.
Compare the interest and enthusiasm Jack Brickhouse has to the game he's calling in front front of him as opposed to Jon Schiambi talking about stats for nine innings.
Sutter was about a day and a half late in getting over to cover the bag. And Buckner was notorious for not wanting to race runners to the bag. He wanted the pitcher to cover if possible. Another note. I know the wind was howling out but good God, the outfielders were practically on the warning track. Runners should have been taking extra bases whenever possible.
I was a kid watching this game at a friend's house. After the first inning where Cincinnati scored seven runs, we figured the game was over got on our bikes and rode around. We get down by a few other houses with kids in the neighborhood and they are in the house screaming. At that time no one had central air so windows and doors were open. We went into the house and as Cubs had scored six in the bottom of the first. We then stayed and watched the rest of the game.
And in context, it was the B2B defending champ BIG RED MACHINE in mid-summer before the usual Cubs tease, then fold. The beer & circuses had to have been outstanding that day! HEY HEY!!
Hey hey...what a ballgame, after Scully retired the announcers can't hold a candle to these great announcers today....great characters the old ones...classic
I was thinking the same.....this is 9 years before the 1986 WS. Cant he get some therapy? But Billy Buck was awesome!!! Love the guy. Also, was Doug Harvey the Umps hair always grey?
7:32 Brickhouse said Buckner knew he didn't have time to throw on the Morgan play @ 1B but the problem was there was no pitcher covering. The wind was really blowing this day. Murcer's opposite field job looked like a weak fly ball coming off his bat. Best of all, here we have video confirmation that Rick Rueschel did indeed once go from first to third on a single to right.
I would have been watching this game from start to finish including Lead-Off Man and 10th inning shows since it was summer of my fourth grade year. Wind must have been doing it's usual late summer blowing out a ton. I mean, Murcer going oppo, Mitterwald reaching Waveland, and Griffey hitting it about 450. That ball was jumping. Great stuff though. Sutter's splitter which nobody could hit because they didn't study video like they do today, two blown calls at 1B because no replay back then, guys mostly just throwing their hands at the ball trying for hits, and Reuschel hitting which he was pretty good at.
What a wacky game this was. Where was the pitching?!? The two teams combined for 43 hits and 11 homers. Five different players had three hits and Ken Griffey had 5. There were 17(!) walks in the game, 10 by Cubs pitching. The Reds stole six bases; the Cubs didn't run off Bench that day. A final note: the loss dropped the Reds to .500 on the year, twelve and a half games in back of the Dodgers. The Cubs? The win put them 21 games over .500, atop the NL East, leading the Pirates by two-and-a-half and the Phillies by 3. Amazingly they would finish the year at .500, 81-81, and 20 games behind the Phillies. Talk about an epic collapse!
The late Rick Talley was primarily a newspaper sports columnist. If I recall, he was not the regular sports anchor. I was away at school this summer so I cannot remember the name of the normal anchor. WGN used many people in that era. Talley also wrote the book "The '69 Cubs." It was a tender look back at one of the best teams that didn't win anything. He eventually left Chicago for LA, wrote for a now-defunct newspaper. I had the chance to meet him at the LA Coliseum, as we were both covering a Raiders/Chargers game, probably 1989. He passed away very young. Let me say, simplygu -- I have a feeling you are young. TV was much simpler then. No flash, no special effects. You will note the lack of graphics on the WGN telecast. And, the writer of Talley's copy didn't really mention the changing score. But....devoting 14 minutes to baseball highlights....mind blowing. This is like a mini ESPN, only during the local news. Before you bash, check your history. You are sorely lacking in that department.
@@markz6676 Preach! This is true about WGN's sports desk in the late 70s. Some nights, Brickhouse would take the desk (on a side note, he probably was unavailable that night LOL! He didn't even get the final score & innings right at the end!! Oh Jack, you sooooo crazy!!), as well as Vince Lloyd & some young "punk" (LOL!) named Bob Costas. What became of him? Check that history!
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One of the greatest Cubs games ever - it had everything. Love hearing Jack Brickhouse after Rick Reuschel scored the winning run ... just priceless stuff!
Funny story, I met Pete Rose a couple years back at his store in Vegas and asked him if he remembered the game, he didn’t recall but responded, “I remember the 23-22 game!”
Thats an excellent point. The 23-22 game took place less than two years after this one and quickly erased this one from the archives for many.
Ken Cummings very true. that 1977 team though really was one of my favorites ever, first year of watching baseball for me at 8 years old and it was magical 👍
Pete belongs in the hall of fame....
I still have the newspaper clipping of this game from the next day. I'll never forget this game as long as I live.
I did too! I believe from Chicago tribune, there was a photo of a makeshift field with all the players faces at every position they played, murcer at 2nd, rosello at short ect
I saw this game on TV with my Mom on WGN back in the day, plus she let me stay up for the highlights on WGN News.
Sutter unhittable in '77
Can't help but wonder if Ken Griffey Jr. was at this game, with his dad on the road. Junior would have only been about 7 years old. How cool to think that one day...he himself would be standing at that same plate, smashing homeruns just like his dad did that day. Love this old footage. Thanks for posting. Hard to believe...this was almost 45 years ago. Hard to believe.
Wow, that has to be one of the 3 best Cubs games along with Sandberg/McGee game in the 1984 and the 26-24 game in 1979.
Went to the game with my parents and it was as exciting as the highlights showed!! My mom kept score and I still have the scorecard. Wish I still had the newspaper clippings. I think we had clippings from the Tribune and Sun-Times. I loved Bill Buckner!!
Its just a dam shame that some people don't realize what a great player Bill Buckner was!
i agree. Everyone remembers the 1986 World Series....and in all fairness, he shouldn’t have been out there. I wish the Cubs would have hung onto Bill Madlock. It would have been great to see Madlock and Buckner in a Cubs line-up.
Maybe they do.
Joseph R. Costella Bill won the NL 1980 batting title with the Cubs. We don’t hear about that by the media. BoSox recent World Series wins and the media still rides him.
Rick Lasse Sutter and Willie Hernandez!
Joseph R. Costella I agree with you 100% 👌
I was there! Sat in the dugout before the game with my uncle and got Ernie Banks autograph on Ernie Banks Day! Still have the program and baseball. My grandfather was a Fire Chief in Chicago and set it up for me.
I used to live right down the street at this time. Didnt know what baseball was. Now I cant live without it!!! GO CUBS!
I didn't get to watch this game because we were at my younger brother's Little League playoff game. But everyone was keeping track of the Cubs -- including my brother and his teammates. The coach yelled, "You guys care more about the Cubs than you do about yourselves!" He was right. The Cubs won. My brother's team lost. Alas, the Cubs -- who still led the NL East by 2.5 games after this win -- went 21-42 the rest of the season and finished 20 games behind.
I was in our 1975 station wagon with the family heading to a dinner in Chicago somewhere. Mom let me sit in the car and listen to the end of the game on the radio while the rest of the family went inside lol
A good chunk of those 42 losses were against Philly and Pittsburgh, who toyed with the Cubs in August and September.
Herman Franks wanted to go into the all star break with the division lead and managed early July like it was late September. He rode Bruce Sutter like he was Man O War, got him sidelined, and paid for it dearly in the second half. Manny Trillo, having a career year early, stopped hitting and so did Bobby Murcer. Jerry Morales was in and out of the lineup the whole second half with a knee that he initially hurt in the all star game. Rick Reuschel, 16-4 after this game, went 4-6 the rest of the way.
Compare the interest and enthusiasm Jack Brickhouse has to the game he's calling in front front of him as opposed to Jon Schiambi talking about stats for nine innings.
As a 11yr old Reds Fan. Remember this game and couldnt believe what I just saw. lol
@ 3:07... Cubs pitcher Donnie Moore also hit a triple in the Phillies-Cubs 23-22 slugfest in 1979. He didn't start either game.
Morgan (R.I.P.) was safe
Yes he was
Sutter was about a day and a half late in getting over to cover the bag. And Buckner was notorious for not wanting to race runners to the bag. He wanted the pitcher to cover if possible.
Another note. I know the wind was howling out but good God, the outfielders were practically on the warning track. Runners should have been taking extra bases whenever possible.
That would've been overturned if they had replay back then.
Yep..he sure was..😀
No doubt!
Back in the day the Cubs were good for at least one of these softball games a year (23-22, the Barry Foote game in 1980, the Sandberg game).
I was a kid watching this game at a friend's house. After the first inning where Cincinnati scored seven runs, we figured the game was over got on our bikes and rode around. We get down by a few other houses with kids in the neighborhood and they are in the house screaming. At that time no one had central air so windows and doors were open. We went into the house and as Cubs had scored six in the bottom of the first. We then stayed and watched the rest of the game.
That story is so cool. Could have happened in our neighborhood in Elmhurst. That's just how stuff was back then. 70's were the best.
Great memories.....Chicago Cub baseball, WGN channel 9 ....⚾️
And in context, it was the B2B defending champ BIG RED MACHINE in mid-summer before the usual Cubs tease, then fold. The beer & circuses had to have been outstanding that day! HEY HEY!!
I remember the Cubs playing the Reds pretty tough in those days, regardless of the standings.
But Big Dawg and Bench killed the Cubs like Wallach & The Hawk
Reds were going for three in a row.
Hey hey...what a ballgame, after Scully retired the announcers can't hold a candle to these great announcers today....great characters the old ones...classic
Two home runs for George Mitterwald. I remember him mostly as a catcher for the Twins when they won the AL West in 69 & 70.
Billy Buck (22) played 22 years having more hits than 70% of all Hall of Famers!!!!
Cubs had a good team 1976 to 1979 but the heat of summer finished them off in August or September. No lights. Wrigley didn't believe in them.
Buckner was the best one legged ballplayer in MLB history.
Billy Buck (22) played 22 years having more hits than 70% of all Hall of Famers!!!!
Guess the wind must have been blowing out that day! Looks like a helluva game.
I remember the Cubs were 25 games ABOVE .500 in '77!! And finished at .500, 81-81...😔😔😔
WOW WEE!!! Bobby Murder was sure special 🙌
Dave Rosello! Ended up the hero that day. As Brickhouse himself might have said, " Put that in your soup and eat it!"
Love this. 3 innings, 6 Ks. Bruce Sutter's 1977 season is the greatest relief pitching season in history, in my opinion.
i have a funny feeling the wind was blowing out that day
Was there ever a time when Billy Buck wasn't limping?
I was thinking the same.....this is 9 years before the 1986 WS. Cant he get some therapy? But Billy Buck was awesome!!! Love the guy. Also, was Doug Harvey the Umps hair always grey?
His rookie year in '74
2,715 career hits with a bad leg
@@millypoo7713 Billy Buck (22) played 22 years having more hits than 70% of all Hall of Famers!!!!
Note Bobby Murcer playing 2B in the 12th inning
And shortstop! Rosello and Murcer would switch between short and second depending on the hitter.
Murcer was a shortstop when he was first called up by the Yankees.
@@marksieving7925 And he began the 1969 season as the Yanks starting third basemen, before being moved to center in early May.
7:32 Brickhouse said Buckner knew he didn't have time to throw on the Morgan play @ 1B but the problem was there was no pitcher covering.
The wind was really blowing this day. Murcer's opposite field job looked like a weak fly ball coming off his bat.
Best of all, here we have video confirmation that Rick Rueschel did indeed once go from first to third on a single to right.
both teams combined for 43 hits 😮
Good ole days!! JERRY MOOORALES!!
The Vince Lloyd cowbell going over for the home runs.
This was such a joy to watch .
Ah, back when Wrigley was just a ballpark and not a theme park.
Glad to see Dave Rosello's moment of glory.
Cubbies have always good for a high scoring game.
I would have been watching this game from start to finish including Lead-Off Man and 10th inning shows since it was summer of my fourth grade year. Wind must have been doing it's usual late summer blowing out a ton. I mean, Murcer going oppo, Mitterwald reaching Waveland, and Griffey hitting it about 450. That ball was jumping. Great stuff though. Sutter's splitter which nobody could hit because they didn't study video like they do today, two blown calls at 1B because no replay back then, guys mostly just throwing their hands at the ball trying for hits, and Reuschel hitting which he was pretty good at.
Jack Brickhouse lol Whoooweeeeeeeee! lol
Yup, and people forget he has been an MVP candidate in his career a few times
For a big Guy and a pitcher, Reuschel could really run.
And hit!
I'm a Cubs fan but Morgan was safe
i can't believe no one could be bothered giving the score as all those runs were scored.
Man, I could listen to JACK BRICKHOUSE all day long.....HEY HEYYYYY
A ton of HOFers in this game.
The end was getting near for the big red machine.....love seeing Bobby Murcer.
The beginning of the end of the Big Red Machine was when Tony Perez was traded to the Expos before the 1977 season.
Cubs in the hunt '77-'79
Oh brother whatta ballgame!
The old Hawkeye Larry Biittner making some key plays
RIP Larry!!
What a game.
Jack Brickhouse (PBP) 1-4/7-13
Lou Boudreau (PBP) 5-6
What a wacky game this was. Where was the pitching?!? The two teams combined for 43 hits and 11 homers. Five different players had three hits and Ken Griffey had 5. There were 17(!) walks in the game, 10 by Cubs pitching. The Reds stole six bases; the Cubs didn't run off Bench that day. A final note: the loss dropped the Reds to .500 on the year, twelve and a half games in back of the Dodgers. The Cubs? The win put them 21 games over .500, atop the NL East, leading the Pirates by two-and-a-half and the Phillies by 3. Amazingly they would finish the year at .500, 81-81, and 20 games behind the Phillies. Talk about an epic collapse!
9:08 We're singing Go Cubs Go...Go Cubs Go...
7:00 Morgan was just mad he got beat by a guy running on one leg.
Watch the replay. He was safe. And the pitcher didn't cover first, or it would have been an easy out.
@@thehaughtcorner Oh, he was absolutely safe, no doubt about it.
I was just joking.
Lol. Morgan was safe! 7:37.
Yes he was
20 runs in -- by the end of the 4th inning!
8:45-- look at Reuschel hauling butt!!
That ain’t nothing. Wait until 1979 with the Phillies.
I remember Jack Taylor and those MNF jackets they wore on WGN. I don’t live in Chicago anymore is Tom Skilling still working there?
yes
Wow that’s great!
588-23Hundred... Empire!
On any day the cubs were capable of beating anyone team.especially the big red machine.ha ha cubs win!!!!!!!.
Rick could run!
7:00 the classic “make-up” call!
They need to review this game in its entirety in the the future on August 4th 2018
I love the Cubs but at 7:40 Morgan was safe
WAFG!!! Wooeee!
Does marquee have this game in their library
I remember this season. The reds gave up so many...big leads ..they had horrible pitching all year..I don't see how they managed second place....
joe morgan was 100% safe
As of this moment there are 2 👎 Must be Reds fans
2:09 I think he likes it
Woo wee que cuecada. Boooooo
Kiss it Good bye
Bill Buckner sure didnt in play like this 10 years later in the World
Billy Buck (22) played 22 years having more hits than 70% of all Hall of Famers!!!!
This Sports Anchor was terrible! Stumbling over the words throughout the highlights... and very boring!
The late Rick Talley was primarily a newspaper sports columnist. If I recall, he was not the regular sports anchor. I was away at school this summer so I cannot remember the name of the normal anchor. WGN used many people in that era. Talley also wrote the book "The '69 Cubs." It was a tender look back at one of the best teams that didn't win anything. He eventually left Chicago for LA, wrote for a now-defunct newspaper. I had the chance to meet him at the LA Coliseum, as we were both covering a Raiders/Chargers game, probably 1989. He passed away very young. Let me say, simplygu -- I have a feeling you are young. TV was much simpler then. No flash, no special effects. You will note the lack of graphics on the WGN telecast. And, the writer of Talley's copy didn't really mention the changing score. But....devoting 14 minutes to baseball highlights....mind blowing. This is like a mini ESPN, only during the local news. Before you bash, check your history. You are sorely lacking in that department.
@@markz6676 Preach! This is true about WGN's sports desk in the late 70s. Some nights, Brickhouse would take the desk (on a side note, he probably was unavailable that night LOL! He didn't even get the final score & innings right at the end!! Oh Jack, you sooooo crazy!!), as well as Vince Lloyd & some young "punk" (LOL!) named Bob Costas. What became of him? Check that history!
Rick Talley was fantastic.
@@WLKeogh Rick was great writer loved his book on the 69 Cubs
Tally's book on the '69 Cubs is superb