My dad pulled me out of my fifth grade class in Deerfield Illinois the morning of this game and told me we are going to see the Cubs play the Phillies. In the third inning, Phillies went up 9... dad wondered if we should just go home and I said no way. We moved down close to the Homeplate area as the game went on. What a memory😁
Richard Gazinia That was a long time ago my friend! 😊 I think back in the day it was not as popular to head over to Wrigley Field. Tickets were cheap and it was more of a field trip destination. The whole area in that town was more run down & the Experience itself was kind of lower rent? I do remember large groups of kids showing up for the games I would go to back in those days. Buses of kids coming in from little league, schools.
Hey from Pennsylvania! That is "Classic dad!" Our late father would pull that "Let's beat the traffic" plan once in a while and I vowed to NEVER do that to my children. With season tix to both Phillies and Eagles (30 years now) I have remained true to my pledge. Great story Jayhawk, we listened on our radios on the school bus ride home and caught the rest on TV when we got home. Hope you're hanging in there. Miss baseball/sports!
I am currently reading Kevin Cook's excellent "Ten Innings at Wrigley" about this game and the time period it took place in. Different world in so many ways. A must read for any baseball fan from the 70s.
I listened and watched the whole game! I was painting my parents house and kept leaving the outside every time I'd hear another HOME RUN so I did not get much painting done! It was one the greatest games ever! Dave Kingman hit 3 HOMERS that were LONG and FAR!!!!!
I was in Angel stadium watching the Tigers and started to notice this game on the score board. It was a riot. Now I can finally see the game, thanks for posting it.
Real shame it was called Anaheim Stadium then and they were playing the Brewers and it was a night game that started hours after this one ended so your story is complete ерунда, comrade
@@untexan I got the wrong team, probably a capital offense. Sorry it was a long time ago. I normally would have only gone to see the Tigers. My daughter must have talk me into going. It is very considerate of you to presume I made it up.
Racing home to catch the final few Innings of every home game during the week while school was still going on. Because we certainly weren't able to watch them at night back then were we. To this day even though the Cubs have been playing night game since 1988 they still play the fewest of any team in baseball thanks to their wonderful Neighbors wanting as much peace and quiet as they can get at night. If you want peace and quiet don't move next to a stadium?
I'll never forget this game. I was in Chicago the following summer taping NBC's "America's Toughest Bouncer" against Mr. "T", who also became my roommate at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The Dodgers were there along with most of the Cubs. In between taping the show, we had lunch. I had a drink with Rick Sutcliffe. We talked baseball for quite awhile. I'm 6'4" but when he stood up, he was even taller. When he realized I was representing the bouncers from the Boston area, we got into the Red Sox. It was a great day. Some of the Dodgers were really cool too. Especially Steve Garvey. Lots of celebrities, athletes, actors and musicians. Mr. T and I became good friends in just 4 days. Awesome guy he is. He took me to the Southside, and showed me where he was from. And I thought the housing project I grew up in was big..Damn! Then we went to the club he bounced at. It was called the BBC. It's on Division St. I think, but I'm not certain. Just a great time in Chi-Town. Love the people of Chicago. Reminds me of Boston. Hard working-class folks...
I was 12 years old and I'll never forget this game, because a couple of days later, the Phillies came home to play the Expos for a weekend series, I met Pete Rose for the first time on Kodak camera night. Got his Autograph too.
I met Mr T in 1980 jogging on a Sunday morning near Northwestern Community Hospital as I was going there to see a patient. He was at the moment sorta pacing himself and 2 guys walked up to him asking for a HIGH 5...but nope ..he wasn't in the mood.
I think the uppermost level seats cost about $3 then and with the other $7 you could buy a lot of food and drink then. I was 9 yr old that year. My Dad’s business was 8 blocks due west of Wrigley field and we often walked to the ballpark from there to see games that year and following.
I remember this game that day! I couldnt believe the score! Sadly I also remember exactly just one week later on May 25, Chicago suffered a major airline disaster at OHare Airport. American Airlines Flight #191.
Thanks for posting. I remember hearing about this game and had always wanted to see it. While there were a few wind blown HR's there was a lot of bad pitching too. Lots a meatballs pitches that were mashed up the alley's. Still a great and historic game to watch.
legendary game! This was just before my time (I was born in 1975) as I have fond memories of watching the Cubs in 1984 with Harry Caray and Steve Stone doing the play by play. I always heard about this game and read stories about it over the years....really cool to actually see the entire broadcast! When the wind is blowing out that badly, ANY fly ball turns into a possible home run! Really cool to hear Jack Brickhouse call most of the game, I had only heard clips of him doing famous calls.....this was the first time that I heard a full game. Legendary PBP guy right there, he's in the same league as Ernie Harwell, Vin Scully, Mel Allen, Caray (both Harry and Skip) and Jack Buck.
Jack was the legendary Chicago baseball announcer BEFORE Cub fans, especially the bandwagon ones Anointed Caray as the great Chicago announcer, which was/is a complete JOKE. Harry was a Cardinal legendary announcer. But the fans got amnesia on that, and latched on to Harry AFTER Brickhouse retired. In my opinion it was insulting
I’m not really a cub fan but this season was the apex of me buying topps baseball cards every Friday with my paper route money. This is the cubs lineup i think of when I think of the cubs.. forever. 😁
@@3Bullets4Alice Actually the game time was 4:03 and that was 10 innings...!!! Can you believe it?! Each team used only 5 pitchers. In today's game it would be a 6+ hr game and outfielders would be pitching the final innings....
My mother told me about this game when i got home from work. Being an usher at that time, I wasn't assigned to the game that day. My mother died January 19th, 1980, and WGN replayed the game on the 28th. She would have watched the whole game again, this time with me beside her. She really would have loved 2016.
Yes sir, Nick. "Working" from home. Missing baseball. On this date I was 13 and about to finish 8th Grade at St. Leo's here in Lancaster, PA. Hope all is well with you and yours, fellow baseball fan.
@MANCHESTER UNITED I like both sports but baseball is more exciting imo. A lot more ppl have read Harry Potter but that doesn't make it better than War and Peace.
I always liked it when Boudreau took over the WGN mic - he was an ex-ballplayer who often had a story to tell about his playing days, gave additional info about the game you were watching, etc
@Doug Lowe One way that kids got in at our school was to be a mass server. Our pastor and associate pastor were both from Chicago and huge Cubs fans. They would take the altar boys over to Wrigley every year at the end of the school year. I was not an altar boy but am a big Cubs fan. I have been to Wrigley perhaps 25 times but have never seen a classic game. I once saw Dunston and Girardi hit singles up the middle in the exact same spot to walk off the Giants bit that was as exciting as it got for me. My younger brother is a huge Black Hawks fan who hates baseball. He never went to Wrigley with me and my mother when I was growing up. But he was a mass server so he finally got to go for free. What game does he get to see? Cubs-Cardinals in 1984 when Sandberg ties it up twice and Cubs finally win it in twelve!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. That's what I love about my Phillies. No matter how good they were or how bad they were, they always managed to make the games fun an exciting to watch. Wether it was because of Harry K an Whitey Putt-Putt Ashburn calling the games or just their amazing comebacks an crazy games, they always kept me at the edge of my seat.
@@davestencel1053It's weird, because My brother Is a Phillies an Bears fan. And I know many others who have both the Philly an Chicago connection when it comes to sports. I guess it's the long history in sports between the two cities that draws it to people.
Got home from high school, turned the game on, basically watched the last half of the game. It was truly nutty Oh, to go back and experience it one more time...
This is incredible! I never knew this existed... I have a copy of the Phillies radio broadcast, which I've listened to many times, but to finally see it is amazing! I actually listened to the game with a bunch of college aged friends in Ocean City... Partying and not paying close attention until about the 3rd or 4th inning. Thanks for posting!
The umpires had gone on strike in 1979. Dick Cavenaugh (home plate umpire) was a college ump and a replacement MLB ump in 1979. The strike had just ended and I think this might have been Cavenaugh's last MLB game. He admitted later that he got very drunk the night before and was very hung over for this game.
My favorite cub team right here.i was 14 living in lake county ill.my dad took me to my first cub game this year.we went to see cubs pirates in sept.fan appreciation day.my first game and I got a homerun ball when Bill madlock hit one right to us.i tried to catch it.it hit off my glove and fell in the basket.my dear departed dad grabs it and puts it in my glove .I still have the ball to this day.and it's the only footage of my dad on video that exists in this world.i often watch and pause it just to see my dad.god bless all of you in the trying days.and hey hey let's play 2 today.
I just read a book about this game, ten innings at wrigley, by kevin cook. Fascinating review of game, participants, and related relevant aspects. Unfortunately, when i was sick with corona virus, i started looking on internet and found this, and really wanted to see how sports has changed.
I love that: --they don't take an eternity between pitches (even in tense situations). --they don't take an eternity running around the bases on a home run in the first inning, and then another five minutes gesticulating, staring at the ball, pointing to the sky, arm-bashing their teammates, walking slowly back to the dugout. In other words, they let the home run speak for itself, and they get on with the game. It was a more fun, more exciting game to watch then. And the games were SHORTER.
Robert Ridley Ha, ha, I admire your absolutism! I will say simply that it is objectively true that there are many, many players and fans who find the things I described NOT fun, but off-putting and alienating, and that the game was exponentially more fun when these things didn’t take place.
The sound of a typewriter in the background late in the game. Man, I almost forgot what that sounded like. Also, no annoying graphics flashing on the screen - I wish they’d go back to that.
There were graphics; this a "clear feed" from a satellite receiver, so they're not captured. But other Cubs games from this era show the basic info (name, BA/HR/RBI, and the box score at the end of the half-inning.)
There was a difference in the replay. After the last out, WGN showed Ernie Banks hitting a homer and the announcer yelled, "Cubs win." A voiceover then said, "Well, we can dream, can't we?"
Love it at 8:24 . Player introductions while warming up. Camera pans to catcher with Brickhouse announcing Barry Foote as “Catcher” and he drops the ball
I will never forget this game. I was driving down the NJ Turnpike from NYC to Washington, DC that day in May of 1979 and caught much of it on the Philadelphia radio feed. The announcers, including Andy Musser , kept mentioning the wind was blowing out but as the runs kept coming , they were flabbergasted and kept saying : “Unbelievable Ballgame “. ⚾️ I lost the station as I got near Washington, and only found out who won when it was mentioned on that evening’s NBC Evening News”. Is this the record for most total runs in any major league game ? Great memories. 👍
im from Philly. I was about 5 years old during this game. I remember this game being on. I was intermittently watching and playing with star wars toys or someting
Hit the front porch of the 4th structure / 5th lot up Kenmore. 570-580 ft. A bit higher it would have cracked the guy right in the kneecap. Lou corrects himself on the replay. Not 3rd house Lou....4th house/5 lots away from Waveland.
@@dadp9917 the only other home run I saw which was in that range was when Glenallen Hill hit the ball over Waveland Avenue and on to the roof of the building across the street! I forget what year that was, sometime in the 1990's. It may have gone just as far or possibly a little farther than Kingman's home run. Had Kingman stuck around for a couple of more seasons, there was an outside chance that he would have hit 500 homers for his career. Problem was, he was such a bad hitter overall and he was strictly a DH by that point. Not to mention, this was during the height of MLB collusion between the owners under Peter Uberroth's directive. So, Kingman wasn't going to get what he was after contract-wise and decided to retire instead. Would Kingman be a Hall Of Famer with 500 HR's? My guess would be, probably not. You either got a home run or a strikeout when he was up at the plate, lol. My last memory of his playing days was when he was in Oakland in 1984 or thereabouts when Rickey Henderson was still there before the trade to the Yankees.
I miss the way WGN introduced the defense by putting camera on them one at a time. It made it easier to learn player's names and positions. Same goes for the umpires and coaches. I don't think anybody even shows the coaches anymore. The rest is shown quickly on the screen before one can really study it.
Yikes ! Roughest day ever for pitchers wearing powder blue & maroon, or blue pinstripes ( except 1922 ) . This was awesome to sit and watch this whole crazy game, great stuff. Thanx for showing this. Bob.G
Loved when they were talking about the possibility of the Bulls drafting Magic or Bird. Imagine the domino effect if the Bulls would have gotten either one. Probably no Jordan- etc. The history of the NBA as we know it, would have been forever changed!
Bird was drafted the season before but didn't sign. Back then there was a rule where NBA teams could draft college players but if they didn't sign them by the next draft the player would go back in the pool so the announcers obviously didn't realize this and as we all know Bird ended up signing with the Celtics before the 1979 NBA draft or he would have been a Bull more than likely or a Knick.
I was learning to be a caddy at Billy Caldwell and we got verbals reports of the game on like the 15th hole, even in the pre-web days word had a way of getting around.
Wow I was there at 13 years old!! Billy Buck was my favorite Cub and boy did he come thru!!! Billy Buck played 22 years and has more hits than 70% of all Hall of Famers!!!!
Love the Philly uniforms. Talking to a Bulls player at 1:12 about upcoming NBA Draft. The Bulls lost coin flip & Magic Johnson went to Lakers& Bulls, drafting second picked David Greenwood.
Kingman was one of those great sluggers who possessed such brobdingnagian power that few could turn away when he was at bat. It is not known how many feet some of his longest bombs went but it is said that some of them have yet to land.
I'm a 64 year old lifelong Phillies fan and I'll never forget when Kingman was on the Mets in '81 and he hit a moonshot off of Tug McGraw at Veterans Stadium which went waaaay up into the left field upper deck. Luckily for Tug and the Fightin's the ball was just barely foul. If it had stayed fair it would've rivaled Willie Stargell's mammoth shot which was marked in the upper deck in right field. I attended a good number of games at the Vet and I had never seen anyone come close to hitting a ball that far. It was an incredible shot.
Wheels fell off of this season after this game. Phils were 24-10 and were 3 1/2 games up in first place after this game but ended up going 60-68 the rest of the way finishing in 4th place.
@@Rockhound6165 baseball doesn’t start till June. As a cubs fan it breaks my heart with how many 20-10 starts in April early may the cubs would have, only to end the season missing the playoffs by 2 games.
Reminds me of a joke my dad liked to tell....... A guy was walking by the park and he stopped to watch a group of kids playing ball. After a few minutes he called over to one of the outfielders and asked him what the score was. The kid said, "It's 22-0". They guy responded, "Wow, that's too bad!", to which the kid replied, "I'm not worried, our team hasn't come to bat yet!"
LOL this game took about 3 hours and 40 minutes to play. That is pretty much a 5-4 nine inning game in today's home run strikeout game that baseball has become.
A few days after this game was played, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia aired WGN's tape for Phillies fans, because the game had not been telecast live in Philly. Jack Brickhouse's live call of the game was replaced by Phillies' play-by-play announcer Harry Kalas and color-man Rich ("Whitey) Ashburn. An amusing moment took place during that re-broadcast after the Phillies made a pitching change during one of the Cubs' big innings. Kalas, who was calling the game as if it were happening live (the way radio re-creations were done in years past), said something like, "Well, hopefully [the new pitcher] can cool off the Cubs hitters and the Phillies can hold their lead." To which, Ashburn (who was a master of the sardonic remark) replied, "Somehow, Harry, I just don't think that's going to happen."
I remember this game we were eating dinner and listening to the radio. It was something the ball was flying out. Schmidt 4 homers if my memory serves me right.
bobby G Keep in mind this was played in 1979 right before the start of regional sports networks in America. At that I think WPHL TV in Philadelphia was the only local tv for Phillies baseball at that time. Now every game is on TV in some form either on say NBC Sports Net Philadelphia or on a few handful of games on the Local NBC Philly station.
Interesting because I always assumed WPHL would have aired it because they did air most Phillies games then that I used to get to see on cable in New York (which also had Red Sox games on WSBK-TV, Channel 38 in Boston at the time). I did see the replay of this on WPHL-TV (Channel 17) and always thought it was a re-air of the live broadcast.
Schmidt loved Wrigley Field. I calculated that had Schmidt played his home games in Wrigley as opposed to Veteren Stadium he would have 699 career homeruns and not 548. Schmidt hit 50 homeruns in 138 games at Wrigley.
Always great to see Kong's 575 footer at the 2:38 mark. Sorry boys it hit the front porch of the 4th house (where the guy comes out on) 5 lots up Kennmore and NOT the 3rd house (530 ft) that he gets credited for. However, his 76 poke may have been further.........many different stories on that one.
So much better than the games of today. Batters aren't all armored up and stepping out of the box after every pitch. Pitchers aren't stepping off the rubber every chance they get. The overall pace of this game is perfect. TV coverage superior, too. No constant inane chatter from the six or seven "color" analyst that talk about everything that's on their minds and sometimes even the game you are watching. No constant shots of the stands and of the fans and what idiotic thing they may be doing. This is just pure baseball in the broad daylight-- as it should be. This video makes today's game almost seem unwatchable by comparison.
There was a similar game between the Cubs and the Phillies in about 1976, when the wind was blowing out at Wrigley. I sat and watched it for a while, but the Cubbies went up something like 13-2 and I was disgusted and watched something else. I channel surfed back to it an hour later and the Phillies were ahead something like 24 - 20. I've been pissed at myself for missing tht one ever since.
These where the good old days of Wrigley Field. You will never see high scoring games anymore. Ownership ruined Wrigley. The structures built around the ballpark cut down on the south and southwest winds. Also cutting down on day games. The summer winds stop blowing around 6-7 pm. in Chicago.
And the lighting at Wrigley is the worst in the league now that the Braves left Turner field. There is no backlighting creating shadows watching the game from the outfield.
@@Mark-sj3xb The worst lighting in the MLB is still American Family Field in Milwaukee. Braves all star Freddie Freeman said about that stadium, “I have played in little league parks with better lighting.”
As a Phillies fan I wondered why you don't hear about these crazy types of games at Wrigley anymore. Thanks for providing the reason. Didn't the Phillies and Cubs have a game several years earlier which had slightly less scoring but Schmidt hit four HR's?
2:51:07: Attendance was 15,000 plus. A day game in May when schools were still open. This was 9 years before lights were installed there and with salaries increasing there is no way the team could have survived with day time only ticket sales.
Actually, the 1984 postseason forced the Cubs to install lights when the following year MLB was going to make the Cubs play postseason games in St. Louis unless they installed light (though they could have used Comiskey for that purpose).
It was 17-6 got on my bike and headed to Hebrew school. As I got out at 5 put on my transistor radio the score was then 22-19 I race home on my bike got home to see Steve ontiveros rounding third to tie the game. Only to see Bruce throw one right over the plate something you don't do with Schmidt at the plate end of game.
I just found out Bruce Sutter passed. I remember in 76, his first appearance. I still have the 77 team photo. I remember him always blowing on his hand in the cold. What a closer. 9 pitches, 3 outs. No one could hit that split finger. My God, R.i.p
Dennis Lamp is one of the all-time greats and should someday be in the hall of fame. He won 96 games and lost exactly 96. Had the same career e.r.a. as Jack Billingham. Gave up Cal Ripken's all-time first MLB hit. Also gave up Lou Brock's 3,000 hit! Plus, he also worked behind the seafood counter at Bristol Farms. Invest in Lamp's 1977 rookie card.
For all the folks who never saw Pete Rose play, just watch him tag up from second on a sac fly short fly to left to make the score 20-9 and then score on another sac fly for the Phillies 21st run. Watch the hustle in a blowout at the time. He played like this whether up by 12 or down by 12. A true all-time great. I have zero respect for the HOF people who continue their charade against Pete. Without Pete Rose & Dick Allen in the HOF there IS NO hall of fame. It's the "kinda" HOF.
My first ever major league game was at Wrigley in the summer of 1966. Leo the Lip. Against the Mets. Who knew they'd win three years later? Favorite part of this game was the Philly pitcher's homer in the first inning (the 7th run) and the announcer going "Ah, c'mon......." Funny as hell considering they only one by one run.
My dad pulled me out of my fifth grade class in Deerfield Illinois the morning of this game and told me we are going to see the Cubs play the Phillies. In the third inning, Phillies went up 9... dad wondered if we should just go home and I said no way. We moved down close to the Homeplate area as the game went on. What a memory😁
Was there a bunch of school kids there that day? You cane hear them screaming from time to time.
Richard Gazinia That was a long time ago my friend! 😊 I think back in the day it was not as popular to head over to Wrigley Field. Tickets were cheap and it was more of a field trip destination. The whole area in that town was more run down & the Experience itself was kind of lower rent? I do remember large groups of kids showing up for the games I would go to back in those days. Buses of kids coming in from little league, schools.
Bet u are glad u went. A good game.
MGM.
Not low rent back then. Wrigley is on northside not southside.
Hey from Pennsylvania! That is "Classic dad!" Our late father would pull that "Let's beat the traffic" plan once in a while and I vowed to NEVER do that to my children. With season tix to both Phillies and Eagles (30 years now) I have remained true to my pledge. Great story Jayhawk, we listened on our radios on the school bus ride home and caught the rest on TV when we got home. Hope you're hanging in there. Miss baseball/sports!
OMG this was 40 years ago yesterday man am I getting old
I am currently reading Kevin Cook's excellent "Ten Innings at Wrigley" about this game and the time period it took place in. Different world in so many ways. A must read for any baseball fan from the 70s.
its amazing how fast forty years has flown bye...by the way, sixty is the new forty
I listened and watched the whole game! I was painting my parents house and kept leaving the outside every time I'd hear another HOME RUN so I did not get much painting done! It was one the greatest games ever! Dave Kingman hit 3 HOMERS that were LONG and FAR!!!!!
I was in Angel stadium watching the Tigers and started to notice this game on the score board. It was a riot. Now I can finally see the game, thanks for posting it.
Real shame it was called Anaheim Stadium then and they were playing the Brewers and it was a night game that started hours after this one ended so your story is complete ерунда, comrade
@@untexan I got the wrong team, probably a capital offense. Sorry it was a long time ago. I normally would have only gone to see the Tigers. My daughter must have talk me into going. It is very considerate of you to presume I made it up.
In my Top5 of Regular Season games. Best after school game EVER! Since the age of 7. For Life!
Racing home to catch the final few Innings of every home game during the week while school was still going on. Because we certainly weren't able to watch them at night back then were we. To this day even though the Cubs have been playing night game since 1988 they still play the fewest of any team in baseball thanks to their wonderful Neighbors wanting as much peace and quiet as they can get at night. If you want peace and quiet don't move next to a stadium?
I'll never forget this game. I was in Chicago the following summer taping NBC's "America's Toughest Bouncer" against Mr. "T", who also became my roommate at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The Dodgers were there along with most of the Cubs. In between taping the show, we had lunch. I had a drink with Rick Sutcliffe. We talked baseball for quite awhile. I'm 6'4" but when he stood up, he was even taller. When he realized I was representing the bouncers from the Boston area, we got into the Red Sox. It was a great day. Some of the Dodgers were really cool too. Especially Steve Garvey. Lots of celebrities, athletes, actors and musicians. Mr. T and I became good friends in just 4 days. Awesome guy he is. He took me to the Southside, and showed me where he was from. And I thought the housing project I grew up in was big..Damn! Then we went to the club he bounced at. It was called the BBC. It's on Division St. I think, but I'm not certain. Just a great time in Chi-Town. Love the people of Chicago. Reminds me of Boston. Hard working-class folks...
I was 12 years old and I'll never forget this game, because a couple of days later, the Phillies came home to play the Expos for a weekend series, I met Pete Rose for the first time on Kodak camera night. Got his Autograph too.
@@johnts1 Now that's really cool! Pete belongs in the Hall of fame!
Paul Sullivan thanks for sharing!
Fantastic story! Thanks for sharing.
I met Mr T in 1980 jogging on a Sunday morning near Northwestern Community Hospital as I was going there to see a patient. He was at the moment sorta pacing himself and 2 guys walked up to him asking for a HIGH 5...but nope ..he wasn't in the mood.
I was at this game and it cost me less then $10 the entire day.
Was at school. Saw the rest on TV.
Good old Jack brickhouse, "Hey! Hey!"
I was 9 and was "sick", missed school and watched this lying on the couch. I was a little too excited telling my dad about it at dinner.
23 to 22 and lasted 3 and a half hours. That's the time a regular baseball game with a normal score takes today.
I think the uppermost level seats cost about $3 then and with the other $7 you could buy a lot of food and drink then. I was 9 yr old that year. My Dad’s business was 8 blocks due west of Wrigley field and we often walked to the ballpark from there to see games that year and following.
Everyone says this and that about how cheap things were back then..many forget what was min wage $2.90hr. If that
This game is four days old and the Cubes still haven't bat... - Priceless!
That HR by Kingman in the 1st is probably still in flight 41 years later.
YUP, ITS ORBITING EARTH TO THIS DAY!
Thanks for the upload. Graduated high school in '79. Brickhouse and a young Steve Stone, "The Lead Off Man." Classic.
Kingman, Rose, Schmidt---ahhh what a time
Yeah -- 40 (count em) years ago . . .
I remember this game that day! I couldnt believe the score! Sadly I also remember exactly just one week later on May 25, Chicago suffered a major airline disaster at OHare Airport. American Airlines Flight #191.
Thanks for posting. I remember hearing about this game and had always wanted to see it. While there were a few wind blown HR's there was a lot of bad pitching too. Lots a meatballs pitches that were mashed up the alley's. Still a great and historic game to watch.
yeah, this would of been a really high scoring game without the wind. Pitchers throwing batting practice. Line drive after line drive
I heard there was so many singles because the outfielders had to play very deep because of the wind.
In the 1st inning, you had a home run by one pitcher and a triple by another. Gotta love baseball.
Now you'll never see it again.
legendary game!
This was just before my time (I was born in 1975) as I have fond memories of watching the Cubs in 1984 with Harry Caray and Steve Stone doing the play by play. I always heard about this game and read stories about it over the years....really cool to actually see the entire broadcast! When the wind is blowing out that badly, ANY fly ball turns into a possible home run!
Really cool to hear Jack Brickhouse call most of the game, I had only heard clips of him doing famous calls.....this was the first time that I heard a full game. Legendary PBP guy right there, he's in the same league as Ernie Harwell, Vin Scully, Mel Allen, Caray (both Harry and Skip) and Jack Buck.
Fishing hard for likes eh?
Jack was the legendary Chicago baseball announcer BEFORE Cub fans, especially the bandwagon ones Anointed Caray as the great Chicago announcer, which was/is a complete JOKE. Harry was a Cardinal legendary announcer. But the fans got amnesia on that, and latched on to Harry AFTER Brickhouse retired.
In my opinion it was insulting
I’m not really a cub fan but this season was the apex of me buying topps baseball cards every Friday with my paper route money. This is the cubs lineup i think of when I think of the cubs.. forever. 😁
Hah...ditto here in Detroit. I think 79 Topps were 15 cents?
Now you need another 30.00 to by junk made on china
Classic game, thanks for this.
This game is four days old and the Cubs haven't batted yet-Jack Brickhouse
caught that line too...laughed out loud and it's 2 AM. one good side of pandemic
@@3Bullets4Alice Actually the game time was 4:03 and that was 10 innings...!!! Can you believe it?! Each team used only 5 pitchers. In today's game it would be a 6+ hr game and outfielders would be pitching the final innings....
@@3Bullets4Alice Brickhouse was hilarious with a lot of his commentary .😆
@@billyhollister8768 JACK WAS DA' FUCKING BOMB..!
I watched this entertaining game on WGN-TV in 1979, i thought the game would never end! ⚾️ 😎
I didn't think the 1st inning would ever end!
My mother told me about this game when i got home from work. Being an usher at that time, I wasn't assigned to the game that day. My mother died January 19th, 1980, and WGN replayed the game on the 28th. She would have watched the whole game again, this time with me beside her. She really would have loved 2016.
Anyone else passing the time on quarantine??
Yeah -- and it's gotten 3 weeks more miserable since you posted (!)
Yes sir, Nick. "Working" from home. Missing baseball. On this date I was 13 and about to finish 8th Grade at St. Leo's here in Lancaster, PA. Hope all is well with you and yours, fellow baseball fan.
@MANCHESTER UNITED I like both sports but baseball is more exciting imo. A lot more ppl have read Harry Potter but that doesn't make it better than War and Peace.
Absolutely!!
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I always liked it when Boudreau took over the WGN mic - he was an ex-ballplayer who often had a story to tell about his playing days, gave additional info about the game you were watching, etc
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I loved boodie too..but my personal is not Harry Carey..is the man calling this game..Brickhouse
Now this game means more to me to watch this again now that Buckner is gone. RIP Billy Buck
Bill Buckner was a sensational ball player. He got a raw deal from those fair weather idiots in Boston.
Billy Buck
Buckner cost my Sox a world series title. Fuck that guy.
@@greysonG10 Yeah, you would have made a million dollars if your Red Sox had won the title right?
@@antonioacevedo5200 Nah, I'm only playing man. RIP Billy Buck!
You know it's getting interesting when we hear "Aw come on! A homerun from the pitcher?" XD
I remember watching this game,I was 14 so much fun .Those homeruns Kingman hit were unbelievable. That was before the the steroid era!
I was 8 1/2 that summer.
Top of the 1st inning...."C'mon! A homer by the pitcher..?"
Classic Jack Brickhouse moment.
Man thanks for the upload. All I could ever find was just the scoring plays
I've been searching for this game. Thanks for posting!
Sameeeeee
Not enough day-baseball these days. And not enough kids.
frstbse1 man you got that right!!!
@Doug Lowe One way that kids got in at our school was to be a mass server. Our pastor and associate pastor were both from Chicago and huge Cubs fans. They would take the altar boys over to Wrigley every year at the end of the school year.
I was not an altar boy but am a big Cubs fan. I have been to Wrigley perhaps 25 times but have never seen a classic game. I once saw Dunston and Girardi hit singles up the middle in the exact same spot to walk off the Giants bit that was as exciting as it got for me.
My younger brother is a huge Black Hawks fan who hates baseball. He never went to Wrigley with me and my mother when I was growing up. But he was a mass server so he finally got to go for free. What game does he get to see? Cubs-Cardinals in 1984 when Sandberg ties it up twice and Cubs finally win it in twelve!
@@kencummings953The "Sandberg game"
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. That's what I love about my Phillies. No matter how good they were or how bad they were, they always managed to make the games fun an exciting to watch. Wether it was because of Harry K an Whitey Putt-Putt Ashburn calling the games or just their amazing comebacks an crazy games, they always kept me at the edge of my seat.
Growing up in Chicago as a White Sox fan the Phillies we're my National League team. I played 3rd base in little league and Mike Schmidt was my guy.
@@davestencel1053It's weird, because My brother Is a Phillies an Bears fan. And I know many others who have both the Philly an Chicago connection when it comes to sports. I guess it's the long history in sports between the two cities that draws it to people.
Got home from high school, turned the game on, basically watched the last half of the game.
It was truly nutty
Oh, to go back and experience it one more time...
Crazy game! Thank you for uploading!
This is incredible! I never knew this existed... I have a copy of the Phillies radio broadcast, which I've listened to many times, but to finally see it is amazing! I actually listened to the game with a bunch of college aged friends in Ocean City... Partying and not paying close attention until about the 3rd or 4th inning. Thanks for posting!
20:26 “”Well, Arnie just came on the intercom and said, ‘I’ll tell ya something, 6 runs won’t win this game.”
Neither would 22.
the game wouldn't be decided until the 10th inning..incredible..
Now 22 likes lol
Arnie Harris Director-WGN SPORTS. at the time
I watched this game on WGN the whole game. I Was 23 years old. Today I'm 67 and I will do what I did in high school. Cliff notes 😆
I lost track of my age I was 25 in 1979.
I've watced this game in full maybe a dozen times and I still yell "ahh phuck" when the Phils get a hit
I know. If only they could have held the Phillies to 21.
The umpires had gone on strike in 1979. Dick Cavenaugh (home plate umpire) was a college ump and a replacement MLB ump in 1979. The strike had just ended and I think this might have been Cavenaugh's last MLB game. He admitted later that he got very drunk the night before and was very hung over for this game.
His strike zone reflected his hangover. He really squeezed these pitchers and was a contributor to the high score of this game. Pitiful umpiring.
Disco Stu loves disco music!
Ah. That's why I didn't recognize any of the umpires' names.
My favorite cub team right here.i was 14 living in lake county ill.my dad took me to my first cub game this year.we went to see cubs pirates in sept.fan appreciation day.my first game and I got a homerun ball when Bill madlock hit one right to us.i tried to catch it.it hit off my glove and fell in the basket.my dear departed dad grabs it and puts it in my glove .I still have the ball to this day.and it's the only footage of my dad on video that exists in this world.i often watch and pause it just to see my dad.god bless all of you in the trying days.and hey hey let's play 2 today.
I just read a book about this game, ten innings at wrigley, by kevin cook. Fascinating review of game, participants, and related relevant aspects. Unfortunately, when i was sick with corona virus, i started looking on internet and found this, and really wanted to see how sports has changed.
Had the radio broadcast on cassette tape, Philly announcers. The first time I've seen the Cubs broadcast. 😎
Jack Brickhouse (PBP) 1-4/7-9
Lou Boudreau (PBP) 5-6
Ray Meyer (in the 5th)
Great upload. I love watching bizarre baseball games...45 runs! Crazy!
today is 5/17/2022 - watching this video in its entirety on the 43rd anniversary of the game. Watched it on WGN TV Channel 9 Chicago originally.
I love that:
--they don't take an eternity between pitches (even in tense situations).
--they don't take an eternity running around the bases on a home run in the first inning, and then another five minutes gesticulating, staring at the ball, pointing to the sky, arm-bashing their teammates, walking slowly back to the dugout. In other words, they let the home run speak for itself, and they get on with the game.
It was a more fun, more exciting game to watch then. And the games were SHORTER.
Your comment makes no sense. I am criticizing new generation baseball. Read what I wrote again.
Because God forbid if someone actually has FUN while playing a GAME.
We have different definitions of "fun".
@@nicholasfox966 yes, mine, and the players, is objectively true, and yours is objectively false.
Robert Ridley Ha, ha, I admire your absolutism! I will say simply that it is objectively true that there are many, many players and fans who find the things I described NOT fun, but off-putting and alienating, and that the game was exponentially more fun when these things didn’t take place.
RIP Donnie Moore. He never recovered from the HR he gave up in the '86 ALCS
Thanks for the game, lovin this !
The sound of a typewriter in the background late in the game. Man, I almost forgot what that sounded like. Also, no annoying graphics flashing on the screen - I wish they’d go back to that.
There were graphics; this a "clear feed" from a satellite receiver, so they're not captured. But other Cubs games from this era show the basic info (name, BA/HR/RBI, and the box score at the end of the half-inning.)
corporate geeks took over pro sports in the 90s.
Randy Learch: Man, even I can't blow a 7 run first inning lead.
*Lasts 1/3 of an inning*
even after he smashed a dinger in the top half of the first inning!
He held the Cubs to six in the first so technically he did hold the lead.
I remember that this game was such a classic that WGN replayed the game during the winter.
There was a difference in the replay. After the last out, WGN showed Ernie Banks hitting a homer and the announcer yelled, "Cubs win." A voiceover then said, "Well, we can dream, can't we?"
today is 5/17/2023 - watching this video in its entirety on the 44th anniversary of the game. Watched it on WGN TV Channel 9 Chicago originally.
It was included in the “Baseball’s Greatest Games” package hosted by Steve Garvey. I have that production on DVD (originally on VHS but transferred)
Love it at 8:24 . Player introductions while warming up. Camera pans to catcher with Brickhouse announcing Barry Foote as “Catcher” and he drops the ball
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Lol thats hilarious! A foreshadowing of what Chicago's defense in general would be like that day.
I will never forget this game. I was driving down the NJ Turnpike from NYC to Washington, DC that day in May of 1979 and caught much of it on the Philadelphia radio feed. The announcers, including Andy Musser , kept mentioning the wind was blowing out but as the runs kept coming , they were flabbergasted and kept saying : “Unbelievable Ballgame “. ⚾️ I lost the station as I got near Washington, and only found out who won when it was mentioned on that evening’s NBC Evening News”. Is this the record for most total runs in any major league game ? Great memories. 👍
No but the same 2 teams played a game in the 20s that was higher scoring
Pre -Analytics and not listening to "exit velocity" and "launch angle"....This was the game I grew up with!
im from Philly. I was about 5 years old during this game. I remember this game being on. I was intermittently watching and playing with star wars toys or someting
Wow! I was only 22 months old... lol when this amazing game was played.. ironically this was my first times seeing this, 42 years later... mind blown.
What an epic HR by Kong at 2:38:14
Hit the front porch of the 4th structure / 5th lot up Kenmore. 570-580 ft. A bit higher it would have cracked the guy right in the kneecap. Lou corrects himself on the replay. Not 3rd house Lou....4th house/5 lots away from Waveland.
@@dadp9917 the only other home run I saw which was in that range was when Glenallen Hill hit the ball over Waveland Avenue and on to the roof of the building across the street! I forget what year that was, sometime in the 1990's. It may have gone just as far or possibly a little farther than Kingman's home run. Had Kingman stuck around for a couple of more seasons, there was an outside chance that he would have hit 500 homers for his career. Problem was, he was such a bad hitter overall and he was strictly a DH by that point. Not to mention, this was during the height of MLB collusion between the owners under Peter Uberroth's directive. So, Kingman wasn't going to get what he was after contract-wise and decided to retire instead.
Would Kingman be a Hall Of Famer with 500 HR's? My guess would be, probably not. You either got a home run or a strikeout when he was up at the plate, lol. My last memory of his playing days was when he was in Oakland in 1984 or thereabouts when Rickey Henderson was still there before the trade to the Yankees.
It hit the 3rd porch on Kenmore av behind the LF wall !
I miss the way WGN introduced the defense by putting camera on them one at a time. It made it easier to learn player's names and positions. Same goes for the umpires and coaches. I don't think anybody even shows the coaches anymore. The rest is shown quickly on the screen before one can really study it.
Oh I remember seeing this great game and oh to be 19 again. In fact its always great when you were 19
Yikes ! Roughest day ever for pitchers wearing powder blue & maroon, or blue pinstripes ( except 1922 ) . This was awesome to sit and watch this whole crazy game, great stuff. Thanx for showing this. Bob.G
If Dave Kingman would have been on steroids he to be hitting balls into Indiana
lol he would have hit 80 home runs....
Ain't that the truth!
Those would be foul balls. Wisconsin would be in fair territory.
Or Wisconsin
I think that ball landed in Evansville!
My late brother Rick ($chmitty) Smith was at this game. RIP Bro🐻 Must add loved Lou Boudreau play by play..Jack Brickhouse 🐐
Wish they were playing ⚾ in 2020 !
All 30 baseball teams, right now, are in first place and undefeated...
Loved when they were talking about the possibility of the Bulls drafting Magic or Bird. Imagine the domino effect if the Bulls would have gotten either one. Probably no Jordan- etc. The history of the NBA as we know it, would have been forever changed!
Bird was drafted the season before but didn't sign. Back then there was a rule where NBA teams could draft college players but if they didn't sign them by the next draft the player would go back in the pool so the announcers obviously didn't realize this and as we all know Bird ended up signing with the Celtics before the 1979 NBA draft or he would have been a Bull more than likely or a Knick.
I was learning to be a caddy at Billy Caldwell and we got verbals reports of the game on like the 15th hole, even in the pre-web days word had a way of getting around.
Wow I was there at 13 years old!! Billy Buck was my favorite Cub and boy did he come thru!!! Billy Buck played 22 years and has more hits than 70% of all Hall of Famers!!!!
Love the Philly uniforms.
Talking to a Bulls player at 1:12
about upcoming NBA Draft. The Bulls lost coin flip & Magic Johnson went to Lakers& Bulls, drafting second picked David Greenwood.
A coin flip?! That's crazy! I guess fate smiled on them with Michael Jordan but wow that's crazy.
Kingman was one of those great sluggers who possessed such brobdingnagian power that few could turn away when he was at bat. It is not known how many feet some of his longest bombs went but it is said that some of them have yet to land.
his at bats were epic, every time you felt, this could be the time he hits it to the Moon.
@@sportsrevisited9699 Agreed. Moonshots. He hit so many that NASA was jealous.
I'm a 64 year old lifelong Phillies fan and I'll never forget when Kingman was on the Mets in '81 and he hit a moonshot off of Tug McGraw at Veterans Stadium which went waaaay up into the left field upper deck. Luckily for Tug and the Fightin's the ball was just barely foul. If it had stayed fair it would've rivaled Willie Stargell's mammoth shot which was marked in the upper deck in right field. I attended a good number of games at the Vet and I had never seen anyone come close to hitting a ball that far. It was an incredible shot.
That Phillies team was loaded. Won their first series a yr later.
Wheels fell off of this season after this game. Phils were 24-10 and were 3 1/2 games up in first place after this game but ended up going 60-68 the rest of the way finishing in 4th place.
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@@JimA-pp2nu that's pretty good. With practice you might be able to learn the other 23 letters.
@@Rockhound6165 baseball doesn’t start till June. As a cubs fan it breaks my heart with how many 20-10 starts in April early may the cubs would have, only to end the season missing the playoffs by 2 games.
Reminds me of a joke my dad liked to tell....... A guy was walking by the park and he stopped to watch a group of kids playing ball. After a few minutes he called over to one of the outfielders and asked him what the score was. The kid said, "It's 22-0". They guy responded, "Wow, that's too bad!", to which the kid replied, "I'm not worried, our team hasn't come to bat yet!"
Kingman was in the zone that day.
Jack Brickhouse!
When I was a kid, I was really into box scores. I think I studied this one in wonder for about an hour.
I used to read the box scores in the sporting news for hours, good times..
LOL this game took about 3 hours and 40 minutes to play. That is pretty much a 5-4 nine inning game in today's home run strikeout game that baseball has become.
You got that right! Or not quite half of any Yankees-Red Sox game airing on national tv .....
Or any NYY-BOS game after 5 innings ......
A few days after this game was played, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia aired WGN's tape for Phillies fans, because the game had not been telecast live in Philly. Jack Brickhouse's live call of the game was replaced by Phillies' play-by-play announcer Harry Kalas and color-man Rich ("Whitey) Ashburn. An amusing moment took place during that re-broadcast after the Phillies made a pitching change during one of the Cubs' big innings. Kalas, who was calling the game as if it were happening live (the way radio re-creations were done in years past), said something like, "Well, hopefully [the new pitcher] can cool off the Cubs hitters and the Phillies can hold their lead." To which, Ashburn (who was a master of the sardonic remark) replied, "Somehow, Harry, I just don't think that's going to happen."
They could have synced it with the radio broadcast which is available.
I had no idea that fans in Philadelphia didn't see it live
I remember this game we were eating dinner and listening to the radio. It was something the ball was flying out. Schmidt 4 homers if my memory serves me right.
bobby G Keep in mind this was played in 1979 right before the start of regional sports networks in America. At that I think WPHL TV in Philadelphia was the only local tv for Phillies baseball at that time. Now every game is on TV in some form either on say NBC Sports Net Philadelphia or on a few handful of games on the Local NBC Philly station.
Interesting because I always assumed WPHL would have aired it because they did air most Phillies games then that I used to get to see on cable in New York (which also had Red Sox games on WSBK-TV, Channel 38 in Boston at the time). I did see the replay of this on WPHL-TV (Channel 17) and always thought it was a re-air of the live broadcast.
What a game!!!! Great memories!!!!
Reminds me of my softball league when the wind was blowing out.
Schmidt loved Wrigley Field. I calculated that had Schmidt played his home games in Wrigley as opposed to Veteren Stadium he would have 699 career homeruns and not 548. Schmidt hit 50 homeruns in 138 games at Wrigley.
Even the pitchers got some big hits. Randy Lerch hit a HR in first inning and 41:00 Donnie Moore gets a triple.
Always great to see Kong's 575 footer at the 2:38 mark. Sorry boys it hit the front porch of the 4th house (where the guy comes out on) 5 lots up Kennmore and NOT the 3rd house (530 ft) that he gets credited for. However, his 76 poke may have been further.........many different stories on that one.
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Imagine scoring 22 runs and losing.
...only the Cubs can do THAT! 🤨
@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 or the Red Sox..lol
This was a real heart breaker for the Cubs!
John Smith yeah nah, the Red Sox were never cursed, they just sucked for 86 years.
The Cubs were, until 2016.
GO CUBBIES!!!
Cubs would soon regret letting Willie Hernandez go. They sort of could have used him in the 1984 postseason.
Just definitely not as a pinch hitter.
As a Tigers fan, I have this to say:
Bite me.
So much better than the games of today. Batters aren't all armored up and stepping out of the box after every pitch. Pitchers aren't stepping off the rubber every chance they get. The overall pace of this game is perfect. TV coverage superior, too. No constant inane chatter from the six or seven "color" analyst that talk about everything that's on their minds and sometimes even the game you are watching. No constant shots of the stands and of the fans and what idiotic thing they may be doing.
This is just pure baseball in the broad daylight-- as it should be.
This video makes today's game almost seem unwatchable by comparison.
same with the NFL and NBA and yet they can't seem to figure out why popularity is slipping. it's like the least important thing is the actual game.
Here we go, everyone and their brother was at this game
There was a similar game between the Cubs and the Phillies in about 1976, when the wind was blowing out at Wrigley. I sat and watched it for a while, but the Cubbies went up something like 13-2 and I was disgusted and watched something else. I channel surfed back to it an hour later and the Phillies were ahead something like 24 - 20. I've been pissed at myself for missing tht one ever since.
Brickhouse says "a very special occasion coming up here now." They had no idea other than the wind blowing out.
The Cubs honored the DePaul Basketball team prior to the game.
@@williamdunphy352 That was the stated special occasion. The game turned out bigger.
1:26:54 : "Of course sign stealing is a very respected art."
Houston Astros: Hold my beer.
These where the good old days of Wrigley Field. You will never see high scoring games anymore. Ownership ruined Wrigley. The structures built around the ballpark cut down on the south and southwest winds. Also cutting down on day games. The summer winds stop blowing around 6-7 pm. in Chicago.
And the lighting at Wrigley is the worst in the league now that the Braves left Turner field. There is no backlighting creating shadows watching the game from the outfield.
@@Mark-sj3xb The worst lighting in the MLB is still American Family Field in Milwaukee. Braves all star Freddie Freeman said about that stadium, “I have played in little league parks with better lighting.”
As a Phillies fan I wondered why you don't hear about these crazy types of games at Wrigley anymore. Thanks for providing the reason. Didn't the Phillies and Cubs have a game several years earlier which had slightly less scoring but Schmidt hit four HR's?
well what can you say..50 hits.. 10 homers ... legends galor. what a game..45 runs.. harry carey..wrigley.. and big dave kingman. thanks
You mean Jack Brickhouse. Harry Carey was the White Sox announcer at the time
Gary Garland's Son is a Great NBA player for Cleveland Cavs today. Gary and Mark Aguirre were the Top players that year for Depaul
Back when you had to stay tuned or call SportsPhone to get the score during the game.
2:51:07: Attendance was 15,000 plus. A day game in May when schools were still open. This was 9 years before lights were installed there and with salaries increasing there is no way the team could have survived with day time only ticket sales.
Actually, the 1984 postseason forced the Cubs to install lights when the following year MLB was going to make the Cubs play postseason games in St. Louis unless they installed light (though they could have used Comiskey for that purpose).
It was 17-6 got on my bike and headed to Hebrew school. As I got out at 5 put on my transistor radio the score was then 22-19 I race home on my bike got home to see Steve ontiveros rounding third to tie the game. Only to see Bruce throw one right over the plate something you don't do with Schmidt at the plate end of game.
I just found out Bruce Sutter passed. I remember in 76, his first appearance. I still have the 77 team photo. I remember him always blowing on his hand in the cold. What a closer. 9 pitches, 3 outs. No one could hit that split finger. My God, R.i.p
Dennis Lamp is one of the all-time greats and should someday be in the hall of fame. He won 96 games and lost exactly 96. Had the same career e.r.a. as Jack Billingham. Gave up Cal Ripken's all-time first MLB hit. Also gave up Lou Brock's 3,000 hit! Plus, he also worked behind the seafood counter at Bristol Farms. Invest in Lamp's 1977 rookie card.
I believe i missed school this day of 4th grade for being sick
For all the folks who never saw Pete Rose play, just watch him tag up from second on a sac fly short fly to left to make the score 20-9 and then score on another sac fly for the Phillies 21st run. Watch the hustle in a blowout at the time. He played like this whether up by 12 or down by 12. A true all-time great. I have zero respect for the HOF people who continue their charade against Pete. Without Pete Rose & Dick Allen in the HOF there IS NO hall of fame. It's the "kinda" HOF.
Amen to that, Pete Rose is a Hall of Famer and its about time for him to be inducted.
"WOOO BOY!" - Jack Brickhouse
I got this game on dvd
I remember delivering newspapers the next day and reading the box score.
My first ever major league game was at Wrigley in the summer of 1966. Leo the Lip. Against the Mets. Who knew they'd win three years later?
Favorite part of this game was the Philly pitcher's homer in the first inning (the 7th run) and the announcer going "Ah, c'mon......." Funny as hell considering they only one by one run.