Cubs vs. Padres 1984 playoffs, game #5

[@brainscott8198]

"Jody, Jody Davis, king of the wild frontier..." R I P Harry Carey.

[@SweetestSweden]

I wasn't alive when this game was played, but my parents sure were, and mom still gets tears in her eyes when she thinks of this game.

[@scottinsd1]

I was standing watch atop the USS Blueback (a diesel submarine, stationed in San Diego at the time) when this game was playing - and I heard a collective roar from all around when the Padres won this game to punch their ticket to the World Series. What a great time! Too bad the Detroit Tigers were so good that year - although the Padres managed to win a game in their stadium before drop the series in 5 games.

[@stevehickey9826]

Don Drysdale was a great play-by-play announcer. I loved him when he did games for the White Sox in the 80s.

[@chicagomike4587]

I'm such a psycho that it literally took me playing poker with a San Diego guy in Vegas 30 years later and hearing how special this memory was for him and his father to finally get over this crushing 84 loss in San Diego. He even had sympathy for me and said how he never thought about the flipside to his great memory - our brutal pain in Chicago..lol - it was a cathartic poker session...like therapy.(that I OBVIOUSLY needed)

[@eightinches3671]

In a 5 game series the Cubs were up 2 games to nothing coming into SD and they couldn't even win 1 game. It would be another 32 years before the Cubs won the World Series after more than a Century. It'll be another Century before they win one again. 🤣

[@brileyvandyke5792]

Gotta love Earl Weaver, rebutting Reggie Jackson on national tv and Jackson laughing knowing that Earl got the best of him. Absolute legend.

[@scoobycarr5558]

But even if the Cubs managed to defeat the Padres, they would have still be manhandled by the Tigers in the World Series.

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

I was delivering the San Diego Union Tribune on my bicycle probably a few miles away from the stadium still coming down from the high that was game 4 where I actually go to to in person. My transistor radio was tied to my bike listening to the game. When the game ended you could literally hear the whole city screaming because it was during the day. The only other time that happened that I remembered was when the Chargers beat the Bills in a playoff game a few years before. San Diego was at its peak as a city from 75-85.

[@ab8588]

Eric Show almost killed Andree Dawson.

[@1818JoseRizal1898]

it was the first time for the padres to be in the world series, nobody expected them to win and even the team thought just that against the mighty tigers...but what makes 1984 sweet for the padres was they were the first to come back winning 3 games in a row in the nlcs, the first time is always the best experience and memorable for everyone, the fans weren’t expecting much, it was the thrill of being in the world series, wow, even the players in the locker room after this game were in shock saying, “we’re going to the world series”...not so much “we’re gonna win the world series”...definitely field of dreams experience for the city...but hey, the cubs eventually broke the curse :)....i’m sure that feeling was the same when the padres won game 5 :)...someday, the pads may finally win that very first world series

[@coreywhitacre6581]

That game was the stuff of nightmares for this 9 year old Cub fan 😢

[@jennifursun3303]

THANK YOU DAVE< TONY FLAN AND JERRY(OH DR. YOU WERE THE BEST JERRY)

[@Lawomenshoops]

Earl Weaver must have felt so bad for Jim Frey, the Cubs manager, who used to be on Weaver's coaching staff in Baltimore!

[@thepracticingguitarist]

Thank you, again, for uploading all of this amazing Padres content. What a team.

[@WolverinePete]

They sold alot of Cub Busters t-shirts that year.

[@germansanchez1291]

Fans. The. Padres. For. 45. Years.

[@victorialouden1912]

watching Larry BLOWA REALLY BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF I HATE I HAD FOR HIM AND THE CUBS!!

[@Abr022575]

Heartbreaking season for Chicagoans.

[@jamesj3857]

I was at that game just a kid at 14 great memory