May 17th, 1979 - Phillies vs Cubs

WGN TV & KYW Radio (@mrodsports mix)
Wild One at Wrigley!

[@libertybellbill4439]

The Classic Game Phillies Fans Will Never Forget

[@MrAitraining]

This is def one of the best rewatchable reg season games ever. What a blast of a game. Literally

[@lesgordon8010]

Great to hear the Philly local broadcast with this classic game I will never forget this one

[@ClassicPhilliesTV]

It’s a really fun game to watch! Awesome ending too

[@AMEER-114-]

@@ClassicPhilliesTV why does your picture seem sharper than the version posted by the channel "SPORTS REVISITED" ?

[@AMEER-114-]

@@ClassicPhilliesTV kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6u7aaFvodySobM

[@LouisFatale-fv1rb]

@ClassicPhilliesTV…as I’m watching this, it occurred to me to ask: have you ever thought of doing this same type of merging of radio audio and TV video for any other classic Phillies games? First that come to mind is 1980 NLCS Game 4 , 1980 WS game 5 and 6, and the Kalas call of Schmidt’s 11th inning HR to clinch the NL EAST (the only audio I’ve ever heard is the Andy Musser feed). I don’t recall seeing any of the above (with Phillies announcers) but if I’m mistaken, please direct me to where I can find them. THANKS…and keep up the GREAT work!!

[@towhee89]

Looks like it's from a different source, possibly ? Less video compression too. I ly thing with this one is the aspect ratio is cropped to make it fill the screen, I prefer the original aspect ratio but I'm not complaining I'm glad to have the game in such excellent quality. BTW have you seen Dave Volskys channel? The best quality vintage games I've seen so far​@@AMEER-114-

[@benjaminwilson4558]

Thankyou for even "Syncing" the radio broadcast with this! And what is remarkable about this game is : the amount of runs scored,plate appearances by so many players, and the number of pitchers used all was accomplished in 4 hours!

[@frankienewman9664]

This game never gets old. What a classic . I love all of the Phillies old announcers. This game gets me ready for baseball season!! Thanks for posting this classic.

[@Landrew1208]

I love listening to Andy, Richie & Harry on Sunday afternoons. Also, the familial relationship with The Cubs. So many ex-Phils!

[@torchyblane7904]

Just stumbled upon this channel..watching and listening to this brought me back to my youth. Thank you for making my day❣

[@hmhm856]

Just some MLB history lesson: Ironically, the highest scoring game in MLB history (both teams combined) was also a Cubs-Phillies game back in 1922 in Wrigley Field as well (back then it was called "Cubs Park") Cubs won that game, 26-23 , except that that game didnt go to extra innings Cubs in that game had two innings scoring 10+ runs That game was a blowout, until the Phillies started to get close in the 9th inning, so it wasnt as spicy as this 1979 game Only 3 home runs were hit in that game, all by the Cubs Cubs were winning that game at one point 25-6, so if the Cubs lost that game, it would have been the biggest comeback in MLB history (19 runs comeback)

[@lowrollerscraps2477]

Thanks for posting. Enjoying my afternoon at the ballpark!

[@jamesford3648]

Oh the days of Hearing the Phil’s on WDEL in Wilmington Del. The nights of having my Dog King next to me, In bed listening to the games is something I will NEVER forget. Kalas & Ashburn were FANTASTIC..

[@jayrusnak]

I remember we were leaving for our summer family vacation so I got to hear the first inning and a half on the radio in the car and then we got far enough away we lost WGN. Didn't learn what happened until I saw the paper the next day.

[@Marcuswelby-nx2te]

Wgn can cover 300 miles easily

[@dalethelander3781]

​@@Marcuswelby-nx2te50,000 watt blowtorch.

[@Marcuswelby-nx2te]

Yes indeed I get it great on a portable at 100 miles out

[@Marcuswelby-nx2te]

If you have a station between 530-740 kilo hertz those signals can cover a bit of ground during daylight hours as well.Even lower power stations

[@richardgazinia5482]

Wow, you got out of school(?) early in May. In PA we had school until almost the middle of June.

[@mariepavlov2425]

Andy Musser (PBP) & Richie Ashburn (C) 1-2/7 Harry Kalas (PBP) & Ashburn (C) 3-4/8-9 Ashburn (PBP) 5-6/10

[@frankienewman9664]

They were the absolute best!!

[@bossu2005]

Good job of overlaying the Philly radio broadcast

[@crabbyoldman8209]

Very good point. I didn't even realize it was dubbed in for the first couple innings.

[@fredduncan1610]

Baseball was such a better game to watch back then. Interesting that the Cubs had two guys play, Buckner and Donny Moore, who had infamous finishes to their careers,

[@spider_hoss]

Moore was also involved in that Padres/Braves brawl in 84, too.

[@bluebird925]

R.I.P. Bill Buckner and Donnie Moore

[@TheBatugan77]

Moore's finish was permanent.

[@ervinghenderson4780]

I am a huge Phillies fan.... but I can't stop watching the homer that Dave Kingman hit.

[@tlist1970]

If you cut some of Kingman’s bombs in half he’d easily be in the 500hr club instead of 442

[@jmadratz]

@@tlist1970What do you mean? Cut them in half distance wise? Even if distance is what you are cutting, how does that increase his home run totals; wouldn’t it reduce his home run numbers. Please explain the logic behind your statement.

[@tlist1970]

@@jmadratz Yeah I’m referring to how long they were. I’d be curious to see his numbers like exit velocity and distance like you do now

[@jeffjones8866]

This was by far his best season he ever had.

[@tlist1970]

@@jeffjones8866 better than 1980?

[@cjones3710]

This is great. Thanks for so.many great ball.games in my fav. Era.of basebll before un matching belts, stirrup socks and shoes.polished nicely Goofy ads on everything, and silly rule changes. When life was good. Basebal was an American game then. I do wish Philly would wearblue road jerseys on the road instead of at home...

[@TheBatugan77]

The Phillies wear what I TELL them to wear, sport.

[@Rockhound6165]

Funny thing about this game. It wasn't even televised in the Philadelphia area. They ended up showing it like a week later on WPHL under the title of Shootout in Chicago(kind of apropos considering Chicago's current state of affairs). So we were reduced to listening to this on the radio(KYW carried the Phils in those days IIRC). Also, after winning this game the Phils were 24-10 and 3 1/2 games in first. The rest of the season was down hill as they went 60-68 the rest of the way and finished in 4th place and Danny Ozark was replaced by Dallas Green.

[@richardgazinia5482]

My recollection is similar to yours but I'm not sure if it was as long a wait as you describe. I thought they rebroadcasted the game that night but it's been almost 45 years so maybe it was later than that. I do remember bouncing a superball off the wall of my parents' garage and listening to the game on my Getty Gas portable AM/FM radio. KYW carried the Phillies well into the 1980s. I listened to Andy Musser (the main PBP announcer on the radio when the Phillies were on TV) when I was backpacking (briefly) in the area of Southwestern Virginia/ Northeastern Tennesse in the summer of 1983. Same Getty Gas portable radio IIRC.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@richardgazinia5482 it wasn't that night. Maybe a few days later or soemthing.

[@stagflation4985]

As I recall, on the re-broadcast on TV, they also re-did the audio. That is, Harry and Richie re-announced it as if it were the first time they were seeing it and Richie in particular got very lazy about pretending he didn't already know what was going to happen. I seem to remember that on one of the two triples in the game Richie declared it a triple before the runner was even around first base!

[@towhee89]

That would explain why the poster dubbed the radio audio right?​@@stagflation4985

[@hondaphan4172]

I don't remember that at all. I was a freshman in college at that time and I'm almost positive I watched the entire game in real time on the TV in my Atlantic City apartment that I shared with a friend. For some reason in those days Yankees games would be telecast in the Atlantic City area which I didn't question at the time.

[@Rockhound6165]

How times have changed. Runners being able to ditch their helmets and Pete Rose & Bake McBride wearing helmets without ear flaps. And no change of baseballs when the ball hits the dirt.

[@docadams7099]

No lights at Wrigley Field; and NO DH in the NL. One of my favorite games was played at Wrigley. Three years before they installed field lights, Pete Rose (by then a Red again) got his 4.191st hit, equaling Ty Cobb's record. The Reds and Cubs played to a 5-5 tie. Later, we found out that Cobb actually had 4,189 hits, so technically Rose broke the hit record at Wrigley.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@docadams7099 no DH to the point where the Phillies pitcher Randy Lerch hit a homerun and then didn't get out of the bottom of the first.

[@stevereber]

Wow awesome I love the games from the 70s early 80s, I thought this channel did mostly 90s. It's all Good . Great to see the players I used to emulate and had cards for. Loved Mike Schmidt! Tug McGraw, Gary Maddox, My favorites were Rod Carew, Thurman Munson etc. Not Phillies but I liked the Phillies alot, Pittsburgh Pirates Willie Srargell. Is see Pete Rose awesome stuff.

[@cjones3710]

This why my generation of the 80s and 90s loves baseball. Just the game. No nonsense, guady annoying music, silly accessories, or commentators talking about stuff other than baseball. Watxhimg current Masn telecasts or Orioles games is really depressing. Unbalanced shedule needs to go. Interleagie play can go. Led boards should at least look like a scoreboard but they dont, instead uswd for ads and crowd primpting.junk. a nice game thanks again. How many ppl are face in thier phone instaed of watching and living? Now we got neta seperating ua from.the game thanks mlb. Not a fan of those nets.

[@LouisFatale-fv1rb]

AGREE with everything you said except I would designate 60’s, 70’s, & most of 80’s as the golden era. Game was so much purer back then. So sick of the: ghost runner, pitch clock, bullpen games, Taking pitchers out after 5 inns. w/a no-hitter, analytics, no blocking the plate, and the death of small ball and manufacturing runs. The only good thing that has happened in the last 60+ years is REPLAY…to finally show - IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS - how terrible the umpires are AND were back in the day. Other than that, the game has devolved into a PATHETIC shell of its former self!! SO DAMN SAD!!!!!

[@robmorris4168]

Wheels, Whitey and Harry were the best Phillies commentators imo

[@andrewm4564]

I grew up listening to By Saam, Bill Campbell, and Richie Ashburn in the 60's. They were pretty good, too.

[@63002]

And andy

[@philchigges2955]

Dave kingman made Mike Schmidt look like a singles hitter.kong rules.my favorite cub of all time.the whole stadium stopped everytime he came up.and 442 times he jacked it out of there.he was the modern babe ruth.without steroids.

[@edx21x]

A singles hitter with over 100 more home runs than Kingman. Just kidding, I’m a Phillies fan but always enjoyed watching Kingman bat.

[@patrickflaherty6586]

If Kingman was a modern day Babe Ruth without steroids what was Schmidt??... Schmidt never did steroids and hit a hundred more home runs than Kingman🤔

[@crabbyoldman8209]

Yeah Phil. Schmidt out-homered Kingman by 106 over their careers, also without steroids. And in this game, Schmidt was walked intentionally twice or three times; that's how much the Cubs feared him. Oh, and who hit the game winning home run...? Yeah: Michael Jack Schmidt. I loved watching Kingman; he was awesome. But he didn't out-anything Mike Schmidt.

[@TheBatugan77]

Schmidt won 16 Gold Gloves. Kingman couldn't catch measles in an epidemic. Kingman was a one-trick pony. Let's cut the crap.

[@TheBatugan77]

@phil Stupid post, phil

[@Landrew1208]

Steve Ontivaros played in Japan from 1980 to 1985 and hit .312 with 82 home runs and 390 RBI. Wow!

[@frankpalancio8471]

Replacement Umpire contributed a lot to this slugfest with a tight strike zone. Phillies did a lot of damage against 2 future closers in Donnie Moore and Willie Hernandez

[@bluebird925]

Both future closers pitched early on in the game (Hernandez relieved Moore).

[@TheBatugan77]

Dennis Lamp got lit up. The umps never got to call pitches against him. He got railed. Lamp got lit. Get it? 😊😅😂😁😄😳😆

[@Jessica_Roth]

Hooo-eee! I've had the WGN broadcast for years, but I didn't know radio call had surfaced. Can't wait for them to call the Lerch HR, lol!

[@edx21x]

1:38:53 Rose tags up from second on a routine fly ball to center with an 11 run lead. Always trying to get an extra base. Paid off as he scores on a sacrifice fly the next batter (Greg Gross).

[@LouisFatale-fv1rb]

If the modern Phillies would have played with that type of attitude, they might easily have had one or two more titles. The inability or unwillingness to master and play small ball led DIRECTLY to their elimination the last two years!!!

[@TheBatugan77]

How about that Kimbrel? 😊😅😂😄😁😆

[@benjamindavid6089]

Classic Phils!!!

[@fredduncan1610]

It’s also worth pointing out how many of these Cubs played for the Phils at some point

[@richardgazinia5482]

Once Dallas Green becomes GM in Chicago the number jumps up. The 1984 Cubs had a bunch of ex-Phillies on the team. I think some folks referred to them as "The Phillies West" at some point in 1984. Matthews, Dernier, Moreland, Bowa, Sandberg, and I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting.

[@andrewm4564]

I'd like to win a case of Tastykakes! My mom put them in my lunchbox most of my school days growing up in South Jersey.

[@stevecvino]

I'm from Burlington, I remember this game like yesterday and I love Tastykakes as well and pork roll.

[@rjsmith44-op8fy]

I was there! Loved Billy Buck (22) who had a grand slam with 7 RBIs!!! King Kong Kingman’s 3rd Homer still hasn’t landed yet!!!

[@mptr1783]

But Kong struck out when it counted most........thank God

[@rjsmith44-op8fy]

@@mptr1783yes for u Phillies fans!!!lol

[@bossu2005]

The Shootout in Chicago!

[@inkedvillan80]

Holy crap ive never saw such a start lol

[@peterrichards931]

Holy smoke the Phillies' announcer even got excited about Kingman's record blast across Waveland Avenue.

[@JP-wx6uh]

McBride and the ride got it going early.

[@StuMarston]

this was payback for August 25, 1922. Phillies had been planning for this day.

[@bluebird925]

3 future closers playing for the Cubs (Donnie Moore, Willie Hernandez, Bill Caudill, in succession) having success with their later teams.

[@andrewanders6692]

Donnie Moore blew so many games for the Angels later on ,, its like u can't even count em'

[@johnzywko5885]

This lineup is awesome,mostly bat on ball hitters..no rallyenders

[@richardgazinia5482]

This is Chicago (WGN) video with Phillies radio play by play. It's a great version because we don't have to hear Jack Brickhouse call one of the most unforgettable Phillies games in history.

[@ClassicPhilliesTV]

It was fun putting together! Whitey has some great calls in this game.

[@WaltGekko]

I believe this game also aired on WPHL-TV (Channel 17) in Philly as I used to get Channel 17 on cable in New York and WPHL re-aired this game a few days after it was played for those unable to see it live.

[@edx21x]

@@WaltGekko I’m sure it was on channel 17 as they aired all the away games with home games on Prism.

[@WaltGekko]

@@edx21x Prism as I remember wasn't around yet. I used to see Phillies home games on Channel 17 on cable in New York (which carried WPHL-TV and WSBK-TV, Channel 38 out of Boston which had Red Sox games) then.

[@edx21x]

@@WaltGekko actually Prism went on the air in 1976 and started covering the Phillies, 76ers and Flyers home games soon after. It was owned by Flyers owner Ed Snider. I do think that 17 and later channel 29 aired Sunday home games, at least sometimes

[@bluebird925]

3 former Dodgers in the infield for the Cubs (Buckner, Sizemore, DeJesus).

[@andrewanders6692]

little did Buckner know what was coming someday ,...

[@user-yg1rh3og2q]

Gotta love that pitching!!

[@abbasrizvi9389]

Dennis Lamp was a decent pitcher but all the huge blow outs from my childhood, he was the starting pitcher.

[@bluebird925]

Larry Bowa and Ivan DeJesus would eventually switch teams in later years.

[@KT72273]

2:17:52 Maybe the longest home run in Wrigley Field history!

[@kyleg8098]

3 days before I was born

[@scottmichaelsen4696]

i was there. too cold left early.darn

[@TheBatugan77]

Quitter.

[@andrewanders6692]

it was the middle of May ,..

[@scottmichaelsen4696]

obviously never been to chicago and wrigley field. in the shade by the lake@@andrewanders6692

[@Landrew1208]

28:33 Donnie Moore had a sweet swing.

[@michaelwilber774]

This game is insane. 23 to 22. I swear it's rigged lol. Mlb made some money that day haha. I knew 60 70 80s baseball hit different, was more exciting, but Jesus, football scores with alot of action

[@mptr1783]

20 mph wind had more to do with it

[@billfletcher7602]

Brought back memories to see Billy Buck field that grounder by Larry Bowa in the top of the 2nd. This time, it didn't go between his legs. ;)

[@spider_hoss]

I read your comment right when that play happened. Wow what a flashback.

[@bluebird925]

Buckner's ankles were in much better shape at the time.

[@TheBatugan77]

😮😳

[@timdailey2690]

22:46 KONG

[@bluebird925]

Hitters night.

[@rampant59]

Andy Musser

[@theshrivelstein7118]

Stealing each others signs all day!