Phillies Clinch NL East (9/30/07): Condensed Game

[@vital20]

Oozing nostalgia

[@jaidnfnfasnbcc4249]

That old intro . Man oh man the best memories of my child hood just came full circle

[@nachocheez9690]

I friggn miss that intro so much.

[@JohnHarrisIV]

Let's win it for Harry!

[@showmeyourdaleel6568]

The game that got the 07-11 period started.

[@JRube24]

watching this video right now because we have the chance to do it tonight

[@ugiswrong]

How the hell did Howard pull that ball at 06:45; that’s insane

[@HeyJaymye]

So much nostalgia, this was when I first started watching baseball in middle school. I really hope we win it all this year!

[@johnskudris4058]

One of the best days of my then 19 year old life. Had never seen the Phillies make the playoffs.

[@lertmelernyers8672]

I too was 19, good times

[@rossnanfeldt5729]

I was 19 as well, listening to the game on the radio at work. I'll never forget hearing the crowd in the background start cheering before they announced that the Mets were losing in the 1st. Don't remember much of the game itself other than it feeling totally surreal that they were finally going to the playoffs.

[@mariobacco2687]

Here I am 21 years old now and haven’t seen the Phil’s in the playoffs really , I didn’t start watching sports til I was about 10 years old so my first year I watched was the last time the Phillies made the playoffs , I can’t wait for the day man hopefully Harper can get it done

[@johnmcglynn9570]

I can listen to harry kalas all day

[@jacobreagan2344]

maybe one day we'll see playoff baseball in CBP again... maybe

[@PaladinLarec]

Me and my grandma watched this on TV the day it happened. We recorded it on vhs, dancing and yelling after that last out. We were so psyched. She died April of 2008 and never got to see the world series win. I still think she gave me that win. The Phil's won because she willed it from heaven

[@leostenson4476]

It was awesome to win the whole thing the following year, but this right here was so special for me because I was 12 the last time we made the playoffs before this in 1993 and lost the world series to the Blue Jays

[@PaladinLarec]

This game is special to me because I sat at home with my grandmother, who was a huge Phils fan and we watched this. Even recorded the after celebration (with the hose) on VHS. My grandmother died of lung cancer 6 months later and never got to see the 2008 world series champs. But this moment, she got to see with me.

[@gabters215]

post that gem☺️

[@THR33STEP]

1980 and 2008 were very special but 2007 come from behind to win the NL East over Billy Wagner and the Mets was absolutely AMAZING!!!!

[@jbdixon4020]

one of my favorite images was wagner walking to the dugout after utley’s hit

[@Rockhound6165]

God I miss Harry Kalas. And God I miss the days when Phillies baseball was fun. I'm old enough to have gone through the years 1975-83 when those Phillies teams went from learning how to win to finally winning it all to their final year of glory before sinking to the depths of mediocrity and finally the end of the career of the finest ballplayer I ever saw in Mike Schmidt. It would be 4 long years after that before baseball was fun again. That only lasted 1 year. Then the 2000's came and we had a front office who recognized talent and built us up a farm system. We had J-Roll, Utley, Howard, Ruiz, Hamels, Myers, Burrell, and say what you want about Ed Wade but he refused to part with any of them. This gave us 5 season of utter bliss. Sadly we only got 1 championship out of this crew. Now, this team is hard to watch.

[@Be-nf1rs]

I am not sure if they will ever be good again. It doesn’t seem like it could ever happen.

[@SoteroA]

The phillies will make the playoffs this year and will win it all next year. ✌🏽

[@lertmelernyers8672]

Adam Eaton got us there! Wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for that blazing 6.29 era!

[@Rockhound6165]

The fact that this clown had the audacity to come back to get his ring was one of the most idiotic things I ever saw.

[@MRI3421]

Miss you Harry !! God Bless Your Family !!

[@JustCallMeRock]

Every regular season home game was like a playoff game from 2007 to 2011

[@therealjd4life]

Brett Meyers was great as a closer, he had the perfect personality for it and he loved it too as you can sew here

[@psychothof]

My favorite Phillies game ever. Electric atmosphere and Jimmy’s triple just made CBP explode

[@peteharwan553]

I was there. Section 430, Row 5 Seat 13. Still the most fun I've ever had at a baseball game.

[@brettfriedman587]

sometimes when the division is tied, the last few days of the regular season are more exciting than the postseason

[@phillyphan1994]

1:15-1:35 was some of the wildest and exciting TV I have ever watched live lol. Our game hadn’t even started yet!!

[@spinner9057]

This was the first memorable feeling I've ever had as a Phillies fan. Prior to this, the last time this team won their division was 1993, but I was three. When this happened, I was like "FINALLY!!!" or "PHINALLY!!!" with the short-term reaction. With the long-term reaction, I thought about all of the Veterans Stadium hold overs like the Pat Burrells, the Chase Utleys, the Jimmy Rollins, etc. etc. All the suffering they went through, playing in front of half-empty crowds, watching the Braves dominate their division. On this warm, sunny afternoon, this was their moment as much as it was everybody's.

[@MovieFinatic]

What a time it was to be alive.

[@elvisbrows27]

love your account! So many great memories associated with the team revisited thanks to you! I wish MLB's website let you see more highlights from pre 2009 but something on their site prevents it. So many great games & walk offs we can only remember in our minds for now. Once again, thanks!

[@NothingifnotInconsistent]

preach man, i'll be eternally annoyed that I can never watch the entire 08 season again

[@LV-sc8fi]

Anyone watching in 2021? 2006,07,08 were awesome!

[@lovesgucci1]

2023!

[@JohnHarrisIV]

2024!! NL EAST 2022-24

[@GatsbyCioffi]

Finally, in 2022, the Magic number is 1. Hope to see another celebration like this down in Houston tonight.

[@RyansColoradoRailProductions]

Do you have the full game? The copy I found elsewhere didn’t have a scoreboard graphic

[@josephvanhorn5347]

I just remember watching the digit to the right of FLA change from 0 to 1 to 4 to 5 to 7 before the Phillies game even started. It was like “Okay. The Mets choked. This is really going to happen.” Because remember, the Phils JUST MISSED the playoffs in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006. Then after they took a one game lead on the Mets with 2 games to go, they immediately lost the next day 4-2. Meanwhile, New York obliterated Florida 13-0 on the strength of a combined one hit, 15 strikeout performance by their pitching staff. The Mets had Glavine for the last game. We had Moyer. It was supposed to be a stressful day. That went out the window when the Marlins put up a touchdown and the extra point in the first inning while the teams were warming up for our game.

[@dicdragin12]

One of the only times I can tell you exactly where I was when a moment in time happened for me. I was sitting in my brothers car in the parking lot at Big Diamond Speedway. When Myers struck out that last batter, many car horns started going off in the parking lot, that was really cool to hear. This was the start of something special. I think it could have been a lot more special than what it turned out to be but still every special. I was around for the 1993 Phillies and I LOVE them, but I think I love these guys just as much. Man..............2007 through 2011 were such great years. The highest of highs and lowest of lows.............but mainly miss that sweet voice of Harry the K...........

[@JoshAlexBrian]

Rollins at the absolute height of his powers here. Few SSs have ever been as good as he was in the fall of 2007

[@michaelpascarello895]

This never gets old!!!

[@215_Philly_4for4]

I’ll always remember jimmy’s triple and that lady shrieking in the background of the broadcast 😂

[@mnmf15]

NOSTALGIA

[@michaelsilver2215]

What a great video! Love hearing Harry. "Well hit! Watch this baby! Outta here!" - Man, Ryan Howard was a beast in his prime.

[@snopesshop1903]

Charlie. Manuel.

[@NightOwl2O]

I miss when you didn’t have to have a cable subscription to watch baseball. Bring back base baseball to the CW!

[@joedominick7986]

I was at this game. I actually slept outside the stadium just for standing room only tickets

[@THR33STEP]

Winning a World Series is special but winning THIS game was something huge!!! Yes, it was their last win of 2007 but it DEFINITELY turned people into believers!!!

[@mikecornaglia4432]

Please do more of these

[@starkey8512]

Man if Jimmy never stole those 2 bases they would have never gotten that 1st run. Thats some amazing baseball

[@ugiswrong]

Chris Wheeler was better at play by play than Color. I’d still take Andy Musser but it’s close

[@markgrunza9301]

Mets fans wish glavine was nowhere near the mound that day

[@michaelpascarello895]

This is my favorite non world series winning moment. Love the PHILLIES and absolutely hate the Mets. Loved them choking in 07 and Jimmy saying "we are the team to beat in the NL East" in 08!!! He was right of course.

[@stephen8196]

This is awesome. I've been doing research to find them for the past couple years but do you have the 2007 and 2008 NLDS games? There was a channel with all them a couple years ago that got taken down

[@NothingifnotInconsistent]

sadly no, im in the same boat, i think your best bet would be to comment on "ClassicPhilliesTv" channel, he's might know better than I would

[@stephen8196]

@@NothingifnotInconsistent Didn't see this till today, it's so odd how hard mid-late 2000s postseason footage is to find. Hopefully MLB puts up one of these games during the quarantine uploads. And thanks for the reference

[@zacheryalderton-xo2hh]

Who are they taking on

[@Susquehanna80]

'One city built upon the foundation of liberty.. The other city built on the foundation of rats and feces (NY)'

[@travisknerr1690]

I was there and was amazing!!

[@eddym4378]

I love you!!! ❤️

[@mattf.1233]

As great as this was it all evaporated against Colorado.

[@larrycopeland2413]

Yeah, they probably had used up most of their emotional energy just to get to the playoffs, and Colorado pretty much won every game from mid-September until they dropped off a cliff against the Red Sox in the WS that year. But the Phils really used 2007 to springboard into 2008... nobody could touch them in the playoffs, 11-3 record. Which, by the way, no WS champ since then has lost as few as 3 games.