WEBVTT 00:00:01.239 --> 00:00:04.599 This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:13.300 .com for more sports history. This is the story 00:00:13.300 --> 00:00:16.100 of the fantastic Phillies. A team whose roots 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:19.440 date back to the distant year of 1883. A team 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.260 whose heritage is as rich as any team in Major 00:00:22.260 --> 00:00:24.539 League Baseball. But a team that had suffered 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:26.899 through the longest period of barrenness in Major 00:00:26.899 --> 00:00:31.570 League Sports. That is until 1980. pitch on the 00:00:31.570 --> 00:00:33.969 way to Booney he drops a bunt it's fielded by 00:00:33.969 --> 00:00:36.030 the pitcher throw to the plate throw is wild 00:00:36.030 --> 00:00:38.609 till he's winning the game check swing ground 00:00:38.609 --> 00:00:40.829 ball third base Schmidt plays to second there's 00:00:40.829 --> 00:00:44.030 one back to first double play here's Tug to the 00:00:44.030 --> 00:00:46.729 wind up in the 2 -2 pitch called third strike 00:00:46.729 --> 00:00:49.030 he struck him out with a fastball right across 00:00:49.030 --> 00:00:51.689 the middle he caught him looking and Tug McGraw 00:00:51.689 --> 00:00:54.770 strikes out the side in the eighth inning long 00:00:54.770 --> 00:00:58.130 drive to left field he buried it he buried it 00:00:58.130 --> 00:01:07.200 way back To be a Phillies fan in 1980 was something 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.819 special, something that will live with the millions 00:01:09.819 --> 00:01:13.200 of loyal fans for many years to come. Over the 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:15.560 years, generation after generation has followed 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.519 the fortunes of this team. There were many memorable 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.920 moments and many great players to be recalled. 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.540 However, that ultimate moment of glory had always 00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:28.060 eluded them. Then in 1980, when no one expected 00:01:28.060 --> 00:01:47.200 it, it happened. In retracing the Phillies' rise 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.000 to glory, you have to go back to the date of 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.739 August 31, 1979, when Dallas Green was appointed 00:01:52.739 --> 00:01:55.879 manager. It was not a job he desired. It was 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.840 not a job he intended to keep. His future lies 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.700 in the Phillies' front office. However, Dallas 00:02:01.700 --> 00:02:04.379 Green was the right man for the task at hand. 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:06.700 He had heard the stories of how the Phillies 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:08.939 were a team of talent, but a team that lacked 00:02:08.939 --> 00:02:12.539 desire, a team that lacked heart. With job security 00:02:12.539 --> 00:02:15.259 the furthest thing from his mind, Dallas Green 00:02:15.259 --> 00:02:18.300 responded to the challenge. He made no outrageous 00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:22.000 promises. All he said was, if I keep yelling 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:24.500 and screaming, they'll eventually be listening. 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:28.439 And listen, they did. When the 1980 season began, 00:02:28.539 --> 00:02:30.620 it was felt that Pittsburgh was the team to beat 00:02:30.620 --> 00:02:32.500 in the National League East, with the Montreal 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:35.560 Expos offering a serious threat. The Phillies? 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.740 Well, they're good, but you know that Philadelphia 00:02:38.740 --> 00:02:41.639 syndrome. Over the first couple of months, the 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:44.289 experts appeared right on target. as Pittsburgh 00:02:44.289 --> 00:02:46.909 ruled the roost with Montreal in close pursuit. 00:02:47.650 --> 00:02:49.750 But by mid -June, the National League East race 00:02:49.750 --> 00:02:52.129 took on a new look as the Phillies made their 00:02:52.129 --> 00:02:55.569 move. On June 18th, they found themselves just 00:02:55.569 --> 00:02:57.569 one half game from the top when they snapped 00:02:57.569 --> 00:03:00.229 a ninth inning one -to -one tie against San Diego 00:03:00.229 --> 00:03:03.169 en route to a five -to -one victory. Pinch hitter 00:03:03.169 --> 00:03:05.870 Keith Morland led the way with a clutch double. 00:03:19.460 --> 00:03:24.000 on a big pinch hit double by Keith Morland. Lefty 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.580 Steve Carlton, a two -time Cy Young Award winner, 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:28.599 appeared headed to another one of those years 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.139 as he was rolling along at a blistering pace. 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.680 On June 22nd, he picked up his eighth straight 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:39.039 win to improve his overall record to 13 -2. The 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.939 Fills broke the game open in the seventh with 00:03:40.939 --> 00:03:43.580 Lonnie Smith, Mike Schmidt, and Greg Luzinski 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:46.729 leading the way. Blue stretches. Here's the pitch 00:03:46.729 --> 00:03:49.250 to Schmidt. Swing and a fly ball right field. 00:03:49.550 --> 00:03:52.210 Deep. Jack Clark going away back. Can't get it. 00:03:52.210 --> 00:03:55.129 Fair ball off the fence. Lonnie Smith rounding 00:03:55.129 --> 00:03:58.009 third. He'll score. Schmidt to third base with 00:03:58.009 --> 00:04:01.090 a triple. And it's a tie ball game. Pitch to 00:04:01.090 --> 00:04:04.310 Gregg. Swing. Line drive right field. It's caught 00:04:04.310 --> 00:04:07.270 by Clark. Schmidt tags. Clark's throw to the 00:04:07.270 --> 00:04:10.169 plate. Off line. Mike scores and the Phillies 00:04:10.169 --> 00:04:12.879 lead it four to three. And Mike Schmidt is with 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:15.259 us now, and Mike, big blow there in a good ball 00:04:15.259 --> 00:04:17.480 game. Thank you. It was a good ball game. I'm 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:19.620 very happy about this game. Not only for Steve, 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:23.100 just getting his 13th win, but the last game 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:24.759 of the road trip gives us a little momentum to 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:27.439 go home with. We got some hitting out of the 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:28.939 middle of our order, the guys that haven't been 00:04:28.939 --> 00:04:32.000 swinging too well lately. Mike, the triple that 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.500 you hit off the right field fence, did you feel 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:36.300 like it was going to carry that far? Definitely. 00:04:36.420 --> 00:04:38.879 You called it a fly ball here. I'm not too appreciative 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.069 of that. The Phils were hanging tough, trailing 00:04:42.069 --> 00:04:45.410 the Expos by a couple of games. On June 30th, 00:04:45.430 --> 00:04:47.449 the Phils journeyed to Olympic Stadium to take 00:04:47.449 --> 00:04:50.569 on those Expos in a three game series. In the 00:04:50.569 --> 00:04:52.730 opener, the Phillies hit Montreal with a seven 00:04:52.730 --> 00:04:55.110 run fourth inning that resulted in a seven to 00:04:55.110 --> 00:04:58.089 five victory. Keith Morland and Pete Rose provided 00:04:58.089 --> 00:05:10.060 the bulk of the heroics in that big inning. Slam 00:05:10.060 --> 00:05:13.579 home run for Keith Marlin and the Phillies take 00:05:13.579 --> 00:05:17.500 a 4 -0 lead. 2 -1 pitch to Rose as a drive deep 00:05:17.500 --> 00:05:20.759 to right field. Office way, way back. That ball 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:24.480 is out of here. Pete Rose has his first home 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.759 run of the year. A two -run homer for Pete Rose 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.839 and the Phillies lead at 7 -0. The following 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:32.920 night, the Phillies again defeated the Expos. 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:35.779 this time in 11 innings. With the score tied 00:05:35.779 --> 00:05:38.000 at three, Pete Rose played it one run and the 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.259 Montreal era would prove to be their undoing 00:05:40.259 --> 00:05:43.220 in this five to four Philadelphia win. Pitch 00:05:43.220 --> 00:05:45.319 on the way to him, ground ball, base hit to left 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.519 field. Rose is being waved around. Here's LaFleur's 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:50.500 throw, it is off line. Philly's score, throw 00:05:50.500 --> 00:05:53.420 to third, the ball gets away. Picking up and 00:05:53.420 --> 00:05:57.079 coming on in is gonna be Booney and he scores. 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.360 Philly's got two runs. At the All -Star break, 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.699 the Phillies found themselves just one game from 00:06:03.699 --> 00:06:06.079 the top. One of the reasons for the Phillies' 00:06:06.180 --> 00:06:08.899 newfound success was the job turned in by rookie 00:06:08.899 --> 00:06:12.240 right -hander Bob Walk. One of those free spirits, 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.500 Walk won his sixth straight on July 16th when 00:06:15.500 --> 00:06:18.500 he turned back the Houston Astros on three hits. 00:06:18.899 --> 00:06:21.300 Then the next night, the old master himself, 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:24.079 Steve Carlton, did the rookie one better, allowing 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.540 the Astros a mere two hits in winning his 15th 00:06:27.540 --> 00:06:40.160 game of the season. However, there were storm 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.259 clouds on the horizon. The Phils started to slip. 00:06:43.980 --> 00:06:45.939 On August 10th, they dropped a doubleheader to 00:06:45.939 --> 00:06:48.500 Pittsburgh. They were now in third place, six 00:06:48.500 --> 00:06:51.980 games off the pace. But Dallas Green kept screaming 00:06:51.980 --> 00:06:55.279 and the Phils kept listening. On August 21st, 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:57.160 they had crawled back to within a game and a 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.490 half of the top. and they defeated the San Diego 00:06:59.490 --> 00:07:03.389 Padres in 17 innings. The game was finally resolved 00:07:03.389 --> 00:07:06.050 when fake McBride tripled home Mike Schmidt. 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.000 The Fills eventually reached the top of the division 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.620 on September 4th when home runs by Mike Schmidt 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:33.139 and Greg Luzinski powered them to a 3 -2 victory. 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.759 Very high fly ball, deep to right field, way 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:40.339 back, out of here, home run. Mike Schmidt has 00:07:40.339 --> 00:07:43.459 just hit his seventh career home run off Jerry 00:07:43.459 --> 00:07:46.899 Royce and the Phillies lead it 2 -0. Here's the 00:07:46.899 --> 00:07:50.199 2 -2 pitch. Swing and a line drive left field, 00:07:50.620 --> 00:07:56.149 deep it is, out of here, home run. a line over 00:07:56.149 --> 00:07:59.089 into the bullpen and left. And the Phillies lead 00:07:59.089 --> 00:08:02.170 at three to nothing for the bull, his 17. It 00:08:02.170 --> 00:08:04.230 was becoming evident that this race was going 00:08:04.230 --> 00:08:07.189 right down to the finish. On September 8th, the 00:08:07.189 --> 00:08:09.470 Pittsburgh Pirates struggling to stay in the 00:08:09.470 --> 00:08:11.930 race were in Philadelphia for a two -game series. 00:08:12.569 --> 00:08:14.449 In the opener, the Phillies down the Pirates 00:08:14.449 --> 00:08:17.230 62. Then the following night, they completed 00:08:17.230 --> 00:08:26.279 the sweep with a 14 -inning 5 -4 victory. The 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:42.399 next night, the Phils were at Shea Stadium to 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:45.019 take on the lowly New York Mets. Dallas Green 00:08:45.019 --> 00:08:47.399 took a gamble and sent rookie Marty Beistrom 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.519 to the mound. and came up a winner as the youngster 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.179 hurled a five to nothing shutout in his first 00:08:53.179 --> 00:08:56.120 major league start. Here's Elliott Maddox sending 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.419 a fly ball center field. This ought to do it. 00:08:58.419 --> 00:09:02.240 Gary Maddox camping. He waits. He takes it. Marty 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.500 Bystrom has pitched a five hit shutout. And the 00:09:05.500 --> 00:09:07.659 Phillies have won the ball game five to nothing 00:09:07.659 --> 00:09:11.399 to remain a half game behind the Montreal Expos. 00:09:11.659 --> 00:09:14.960 Marty, congratulations on just a super job in 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.279 your first hour. You have to be very, very happy. 00:09:17.629 --> 00:09:19.809 Were you nervous at all at the beginning? Well, 00:09:20.029 --> 00:09:22.470 just a little bit there, but not really. After 00:09:22.470 --> 00:09:24.330 throwing that one inning in L .A., I took all 00:09:24.330 --> 00:09:26.549 the nervousness away there and I just felt comfortable 00:09:26.549 --> 00:09:28.370 and relaxed. Went out there and threw strikes 00:09:28.370 --> 00:09:31.169 tonight. You appear to have command of all your 00:09:31.169 --> 00:09:36.090 pitches. Yeah, well, that's what helps me get 00:09:36.090 --> 00:09:39.330 these guys out up here. Everything worked out 00:09:39.330 --> 00:09:41.889 good. Then the following evening, veteran Dick 00:09:41.889 --> 00:09:44.889 Ruthman notched victory number 15 as he downed 00:09:44.889 --> 00:10:05.899 the Mets 5 -1. Pitch to McBride, playing fly 00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:09.299 ball center of field, Mookie Wilson there. Makes 00:10:09.299 --> 00:10:31.120 the catch. That ball is carrying well. That ball 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.840 is not going to be caught. It bounces out over 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.500 the fence. It'll be a ground rule double. And 00:10:36.500 --> 00:10:38.919 Gary Maddox will score the insurance run the 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.759 Phillies were looking for. Three to one Phillies 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.279 on the ground rule double by Dell Unser. The 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.100 set by Beringer. Here's the 2 -1 pitch to Rose. 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.340 Here's a hard hit ball. Prove for a base hit 00:10:50.340 --> 00:10:59.750 and two more runs are going to score. The Phillies 00:10:59.750 --> 00:11:02.289 lead it five to one. The Phillies were hanging 00:11:02.289 --> 00:11:04.990 tough, but a mini slump found them two and one 00:11:04.990 --> 00:11:07.570 half games behind after losing to Chicago on 00:11:07.570 --> 00:11:10.730 September 19th. However, the Expos were going 00:11:10.730 --> 00:11:13.330 into a mini slump of their own, and within two 00:11:13.330 --> 00:11:15.830 days, the Phillies would be again just one half 00:11:15.830 --> 00:11:20.090 game behind. On September 22nd, the Phillies 00:11:20.090 --> 00:11:22.230 pulled out a three to two victory over the St. 00:11:22.309 --> 00:11:24.820 Louis Cardinals in 10 innings. With rookie Keith 00:11:24.820 --> 00:11:27.639 Morland providing the offensive heroics as Steve 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:31.879 Carlton garnered win number 23. And Tug McGraw 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:36.039 notched save number 18. Seeming ready with a 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:40.539 2 -2 pitch. Fly ball right field. Dropping quickly. 00:11:40.820 --> 00:11:43.960 Is it fair ball or fair ball? Extra bases. Bull 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.220 was rounding third, he's going to score and Moreland's 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:49.659 in the second with a double. And the Phillies 00:11:49.659 --> 00:11:52.899 lead it three to two on Keith Moreland's pinch 00:11:52.899 --> 00:11:56.399 hit double down the right field line. The Phillies 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.220 return home on September 24th for their final 00:11:59.220 --> 00:12:01.820 home stand of the season. In the opener of the 00:12:01.820 --> 00:12:03.860 home stand, the Phillies and Mets were at a nothing 00:12:03.860 --> 00:12:06.840 nothing standoff after the regulation nine innings. 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.700 Then on the 10th, Pete Rose snapped an 0 for 00:12:09.700 --> 00:12:12.740 15 slump and the Phillies had a one to nothing 00:12:12.740 --> 00:12:16.019 victory. Neil Allen getting his sign. Checks 00:12:16.019 --> 00:12:18.600 the runner at second. Loviglia with a long lead. 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:35.299 The pitch. Grounded up the middle. Pete, was 00:12:35.299 --> 00:12:37.980 that the good curveball you hit there? No, sir. 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.080 The first pitch was a curveball, and I guess 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:41.500 he thought I'd be looking for a curveball. I 00:12:41.500 --> 00:12:42.919 don't know what they're going to do in that situation, 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:43.919 Rich. I don't know if they're going to try to 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.080 get me to go for a bad pitch or what, but the 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:47.840 first one just ripped right off the table for 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:49.419 a strike, and he came back with the fastball. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:52.519 And so the beat went on. The next night, the 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:54.840 Phillies moved into first place by a half game 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.779 when they again beat the Mets 2 to 1. The game 00:12:57.779 --> 00:12:59.919 was scoreless in the fifth. When the combined 00:12:59.919 --> 00:13:03.059 bats of Manny Trio, Gary Maddox, Larry Boa and 00:13:03.059 --> 00:13:05.679 Lonnie Smith provided the two runs that it took 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:07.879 to win. Hit to the right field corner giving 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:10.860 chase is Washington. He can't get that ball. 00:13:11.059 --> 00:13:14.179 It's in play off the wall. Manny Trio round second. 00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:17.519 He's heading for third and Manny will have a 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.480 stand up triple. Right left field and a base 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.960 hit. Run scores. Phillies lead it one to nothing. 00:13:23.530 --> 00:13:27.370 Gary Maddox lines Jackson's first pitch to left 00:13:27.370 --> 00:13:29.909 field and Gary has a seventy first run batted 00:13:29.909 --> 00:13:32.370 in and the Phillies have a lead. Jackson has 00:13:32.370 --> 00:13:35.929 his sign. And here's the pitch to him. Bouncing 00:13:35.929 --> 00:13:37.950 ball back the middle. It's through for a base 00:13:37.950 --> 00:13:40.590 hit. Larry Bowe is going to score. Bystrom holds 00:13:40.590 --> 00:13:43.169 it second. Phillies lead the ball game two to 00:13:43.169 --> 00:13:46.809 nothing on a RBI single by Lonnie Smith. Now 00:13:46.809 --> 00:13:49.529 the Montreal Expos were in town for a big three 00:13:49.529 --> 00:13:52.330 game series. In the first game a score was tied 00:13:52.330 --> 00:13:54.590 at 1 1 entering the bottom of the ninth inning. 00:13:54.950 --> 00:13:57.590 When Baker McBride caught hold of a Dave Palmer 00:13:57.590 --> 00:14:00.490 pitch in the Phillies led the division by a game 00:14:00.490 --> 00:14:34.659 and a half. Palmer's pitch to it. However, the 00:14:34.659 --> 00:14:36.960 Expos came back to win the final two games of 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.059 the series, and the Phillies were now down a 00:14:39.059 --> 00:14:41.639 half game. The issue would be resolved in the 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.620 final week of the season. On September 29th, 00:14:44.659 --> 00:14:47.159 the Chicago Cubs were in town. They had a chance 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.419 to play the spoilers, and they were doing a good 00:14:49.419 --> 00:14:52.200 job of it. The game was tied at 3 -3 when the 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.919 Cubs scored two runs in the top of the 15th inning 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.899 to take the lead. A loss could well have cost 00:14:57.899 --> 00:15:00.879 the Phillies the division championship. But Gary 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.100 Maddox and Manny Trio would not let that happen. 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.860 1 -1 pitch. Swing and a base hit. Center field 00:15:07.860 --> 00:15:12.799 tie game. Gary Maddox, a two -out line drive 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:16.620 single to center. And the Pills are still alive. 00:15:17.460 --> 00:15:22.139 It's 5 -5 in the 15th. The 1 -1 pitch. Swing 00:15:22.139 --> 00:15:37.610 and a ground ball. Base hit. Five and fifteen 00:15:37.610 --> 00:15:41.990 innings. The key blows. Game time. Two outs. 00:15:41.990 --> 00:15:46.269 Single by Maddox. And the game winning. Two outs. 00:15:46.330 --> 00:15:50.250 Single by Manny Trejo. That win was the turning 00:15:50.250 --> 00:15:52.549 point for the Phillies. The Phillies wouldn't 00:15:52.549 --> 00:15:54.490 lose again until the National League East had 00:15:54.490 --> 00:15:57.049 been resolved. The Phillies followed up that 00:15:57.049 --> 00:16:00.500 game with a 14 to 2 pounding of the Cubs. In 00:16:00.500 --> 00:16:02.840 the third game of the series, Steve Carlton recorded 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.100 his 24th win of the season with a 5 -0 blanking 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:09.600 of Chicago. In the final regular season home 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.820 game, the Phillies were to claw their way to 00:16:11.820 --> 00:16:34.960 a share of first place with the Expos. The set 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.659 by Caudill, pitch on the way. Line drive, center 00:16:37.659 --> 00:16:41.419 field base hit. Unser being waved around. Here 00:16:41.419 --> 00:16:44.639 comes Martin's throw back in. Not in time. And 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.399 the Phillies lead the ball game 2 -1. Here's 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.220 the one strike pitch to Bittner. Check swing, 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:51.320 ground ball, third base. Schmidt plays to second. 00:16:51.379 --> 00:16:54.600 There's one, back to first. Double play! Phillies 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:56.659 got the twin killing. They're out of trouble 00:16:56.659 --> 00:16:59.740 in the eighth inning. So it was on to Montreal. 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.899 The mission was now clear cut. win two out of 00:17:02.899 --> 00:17:05.619 three and become National League Eastern Division 00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:08.319 champs. The Phillies' destiny was in their own 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.420 hands. In the first game, the Phillies went up 00:17:11.420 --> 00:17:37.170 by one. to the wind up in the two two pitch called 00:17:37.170 --> 00:17:39.509 third strike he struck him out with a fastball 00:17:39.509 --> 00:17:41.589 right across the middle he caught him looking 00:17:41.589 --> 00:17:44.609 and Tug McGraw strikes out the side in the eighth 00:17:44.609 --> 00:17:47.809 inning. Olympic Stadium in Montreal Harry Callis 00:17:47.809 --> 00:17:49.750 with you where the Phillies have down the Expos 00:17:49.750 --> 00:17:52.349 by a score of two one brilliant pitching tonight 00:17:52.349 --> 00:17:56.089 by Dick Ruthven Starkey line especially Tug McGraw. 00:17:56.289 --> 00:17:58.609 Tug going the last two innings striking out five 00:17:58.609 --> 00:18:01.269 of the six men he faced so the Phillies have 00:18:01.269 --> 00:18:05.839 a game lead on Montreal. 20th save of the year, 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.900 you looked like you had outstanding stuff tonight. 00:18:09.299 --> 00:18:11.539 Harry, it's strange. It really is. This game 00:18:11.539 --> 00:18:14.880 of baseball is weird. Warming up tonight, I felt 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:17.259 a little bit stiff, maybe because of the coolness 00:18:17.259 --> 00:18:20.359 of the weather up here. I was extremely nervous. 00:18:20.940 --> 00:18:23.380 Once I got out on the field, everything seemed 00:18:23.380 --> 00:18:26.740 to be real calm, and the pitches just seemed 00:18:26.740 --> 00:18:29.400 to come from nowhere. I really didn't feel as 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:31.960 though I had really great stuff tonight. I think 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.619 when you feel that way, Harry, it makes you concentrate 00:18:34.619 --> 00:18:38.400 all that much more, and it makes you work on 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:40.299 your mechanics and make sure you do everything 00:18:40.299 --> 00:18:42.140 right. Doug, it looked to me like you caught 00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:44.220 a couple of hitters looking for the Scrooge and 00:18:44.220 --> 00:18:46.619 zipped that fastball. Well, you know, Harry, 00:18:46.660 --> 00:18:50.039 like I said earlier, I just really didn't feel 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.500 as though I had overpowering stuff. And so what 00:18:52.500 --> 00:18:54.720 Booney and I did was try to mix up the pitches 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:57.680 a lot. I shook off a whole bunch of signs. I 00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:59.890 kept shaking my head. Sometimes he'd give me 00:18:59.890 --> 00:19:02.069 the pitch I wanted and I'd shake my head and 00:19:02.069 --> 00:19:04.769 until he come back to it Just just to try to 00:19:04.769 --> 00:19:06.910 use everything we could to try to keep the hitters 00:19:06.910 --> 00:19:09.410 from sitting on any one particular pitch and 00:19:09.410 --> 00:19:12.390 and I think I think they they were really aware 00:19:12.390 --> 00:19:16.430 of the screwball tonight and actually I The eighth 00:19:16.430 --> 00:19:18.509 inning I did I did make some real good pitches 00:19:18.509 --> 00:19:20.690 with the screwball as it turned out in the ninth 00:19:20.690 --> 00:19:22.609 They were all sitting on the screwball and I 00:19:22.609 --> 00:19:24.269 was able to get them with the fastball in the 00:19:24.269 --> 00:19:26.630 slider So tonight was one of those nights where 00:19:26.630 --> 00:19:28.839 fortunately everything worked out real well Then 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.920 in game two, after an eternal rain delay, the 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:34.480 Phillies said to themselves, let's get this thing 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.779 over. The pitch to Boone. Back through the middle. 00:19:38.099 --> 00:19:41.079 Base hit. Here's Blake McBride being waved around. 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:44.220 Here's the throw. It's going to be way off target. 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.359 Boone goes into second. Phillies have tied the 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:50.839 game. The pitch to Schmidt. Long drive to left 00:19:50.839 --> 00:20:22.640 field. in the ninth inning of the game never 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.970 would have gone over time and when he. It's been 00:20:25.970 --> 00:20:28.470 a scuffling year for you. This has to make you 00:20:28.470 --> 00:20:30.490 feel pretty good. It feels great, Rich. I already 00:20:30.490 --> 00:20:32.670 came up here feeling very confident in this series. 00:20:33.430 --> 00:20:35.190 I just feel like with Tug out there, we just 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:37.869 got the magic. And with all the converse and 00:20:37.869 --> 00:20:39.730 all the frustrations that we've experienced, 00:20:39.950 --> 00:20:43.049 this is just a super. It's still the first stopping 00:20:43.049 --> 00:20:46.170 point for us. And we've had a goal all year to 00:20:46.170 --> 00:20:48.910 get to the playoffs, but to go on past them. 00:20:49.430 --> 00:20:52.410 So we're ready. And we've got the big guy going 00:20:52.410 --> 00:20:54.589 with us. two extra days rest is going to be really 00:20:54.589 --> 00:20:56.589 important to us. I'm just excited about it. We 00:20:56.589 --> 00:21:01.589 want to get in that series. Michael Jack, you 00:21:01.589 --> 00:21:05.289 just drove Harry Kelly's car with that whole 00:21:05.289 --> 00:21:07.569 month. Buddy, this has been quite a year. Nice 00:21:07.569 --> 00:21:10.789 going, buddy. Thank you, Rich. How do you feel? 00:21:11.430 --> 00:21:13.049 Without a doubt, I feel as good as I've ever 00:21:13.049 --> 00:21:17.170 felt in my life. Booney got the biggest hit of 00:21:17.170 --> 00:21:21.630 his career. Gary against the Cubs, I think, initiated 00:21:21.630 --> 00:21:24.529 this whole week for us with that hit that he 00:21:24.529 --> 00:21:27.569 got with two outs. Well, here's the guy, Doug 00:21:27.569 --> 00:21:32.349 McGraw and Doug day after day. I have never seen 00:21:32.349 --> 00:21:35.069 a release pitcher pitch the way you have, buddy. 00:21:36.650 --> 00:21:39.950 Beautiful. Richie, I'll tell you, this is a ball. 00:21:41.289 --> 00:21:43.150 I didn't know that last inning whether I was 00:21:43.150 --> 00:21:44.829 ever going to be able to get it to the catcher 00:21:44.829 --> 00:21:48.670 or not. Today was an eighth title all day. That 00:21:48.670 --> 00:21:51.170 rainy leg got up this morning, took three, took 00:21:51.170 --> 00:21:53.089 three more when the game finally started, and 00:21:53.089 --> 00:21:55.329 then going out for the last inning, had to pump 00:21:55.329 --> 00:21:58.430 down a couple more, and we got it up there. I 00:21:58.430 --> 00:22:00.349 believe you're going to get a day off tomorrow, 00:22:00.630 --> 00:22:03.130 Doug, and I believe we can safely tell the fans 00:22:03.130 --> 00:22:04.710 they can stay out tonight. They don't have to 00:22:04.710 --> 00:22:07.269 get through. get your rest tonight but I'll tell 00:22:07.269 --> 00:22:11.549 you what Phyllis and Grandma Dad Uncle Hank and 00:22:11.549 --> 00:22:14.490 Mark and Carrie save some champagne for when 00:22:14.490 --> 00:22:17.329 we get home we'll have a party together. Paul 00:22:17.329 --> 00:22:21.170 Owens now is here folks God love you Vice President 00:22:21.170 --> 00:22:23.089 General Manager of the Phillies this is your 00:22:23.089 --> 00:22:25.930 fourth division crown how does this one feel 00:22:25.930 --> 00:22:31.279 compared to the other? I don't know. The other 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:33.400 years I kind of felt we might do it and this 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.140 year we had her ups and downs early with her 00:22:36.140 --> 00:22:38.140 pitching. I don't know, I just got a pressure 00:22:38.140 --> 00:22:39.880 one out of this and our guys have fought like 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:42.460 hell. I think it's September and we won all our 00:22:42.460 --> 00:22:45.970 games in a row. They can talk about having a 00:22:45.970 --> 00:22:47.990 little trouble down at clubhouse, but these guys 00:22:47.990 --> 00:22:50.250 all want to win. I guarantee you that. It's pretty 00:22:50.250 --> 00:22:54.509 evident right now. Dick Ruppert is here. Ruppert's 00:22:54.509 --> 00:22:56.849 winning the big game last night. How does this 00:22:56.849 --> 00:23:01.809 one feel? This feels great. I mean, all the adversity 00:23:01.809 --> 00:23:03.849 and everything for six months in to come in and 00:23:03.849 --> 00:23:06.410 do it. And I'll tell you what, we can't say enough 00:23:06.410 --> 00:23:09.170 for Tug and Marty in the month of September as 00:23:09.170 --> 00:23:13.660 far as the feds and staff. That made it for us. 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:16.700 Pete Rose has just joined us. Pete's been talking 00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:19.680 to a million and one writers. And Pete, you've 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:21.519 been through it before, but what a ballgame. 00:23:21.619 --> 00:23:24.200 What a win. What a division championship. Well, 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:25.900 I think it was more like a three -ring circus 00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:28.480 today, Harry, than it was a ballgame. But they 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:30.940 bowed us tough. And Booney got a keen hit for 00:23:30.940 --> 00:23:33.180 us. And of course, Smitty hit his 48th home run. 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:36.240 And he's been hot this week. And our pitching 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.759 was excellent again. And we could stand here 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:41.099 all day and talk about Tugger. As far as I'm 00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:42.259 concerned, he's the best reliever in the league 00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:44.440 right now. So what do you think? Petey, I don't 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:45.980 think there's any question about it. Let me tell 00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:49.440 you, you're a walking encyclopedia of every game 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:51.299 that's ever been played and every game you've 00:23:51.299 --> 00:23:53.319 ever been involved in. I want to see you replay 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:55.799 this one one time in 10 years. I know who made 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:59.839 the errors, I know that. But you know, we were 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:01.579 trying to be too aggressive on the bases, Dan. 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:04.099 I think some of us forgot that the turf was wet. 00:24:04.460 --> 00:24:05.880 And it's like when Schminnie hit the base at 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:08.119 the left field and we held me up, they thought 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:25.009 I was going. So the Phillies were East Division 00:24:25.009 --> 00:24:27.690 champions, but they had been in the same position 00:24:27.690 --> 00:24:33.230 in 1976, 77, and 78. Could they overcome that 00:24:33.230 --> 00:24:36.329 worn out jinx of not being able to win in postseason 00:24:36.329 --> 00:24:50.430 play? They were ready. The fantastic Phillies 00:24:50.430 --> 00:24:53.109 were in the playoffs. Could they lick that terrible 00:24:53.109 --> 00:24:55.170 curse that had seemingly been cast upon them? 00:24:55.869 --> 00:24:57.869 Before game one, much was made of the fact that 00:24:57.869 --> 00:25:00.329 the Phillies had won only one postseason game 00:25:00.329 --> 00:25:02.990 in Philadelphia in their history. That was on 00:25:02.990 --> 00:25:06.930 October 8, 1915, when Grover Cleveland Alexander 00:25:06.930 --> 00:25:09.789 beat the Boston Red Sox 3 -1 in the opener of 00:25:09.789 --> 00:25:13.410 the World Series. Now it was October 7, 1980, 00:25:13.609 --> 00:25:17.430 almost 65 years to the day. It was time to end 00:25:17.430 --> 00:25:20.609 that famine. Their opponent was the scrapping 00:25:20.609 --> 00:25:22.609 Houston Astros who had won the National League 00:25:22.609 --> 00:25:25.930 West some 24 hours earlier in a divisional playoff 00:25:25.930 --> 00:25:28.809 game with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After an all 00:25:28.809 --> 00:25:31.390 -night flight from Los Angeles, the Astros figured 00:25:31.390 --> 00:25:34.569 to be a little weary for game one. However, it 00:25:34.569 --> 00:25:37.269 surely didn't appear that way. The pitching matchups 00:25:37.269 --> 00:25:40.250 pitted Ken Forch against Steve Carlton. Lefty 00:25:40.250 --> 00:25:42.769 a 24 -game winner during the regular season was 00:25:42.769 --> 00:25:45.509 shaky as he struggled to find his rhythm. The 00:25:45.509 --> 00:25:47.819 Astros nicked him for a run in the third. But 00:25:47.819 --> 00:25:50.779 it could have been more. But Carlton, being the 00:25:50.779 --> 00:25:53.000 competitor that he is, battled his way out of 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.059 jam after jam. For that matter, all the Phillies 00:25:56.059 --> 00:25:59.319 were battling. History was not on their side. 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.960 Finally in the sixth, their efforts were rewarded. 00:26:08.059 --> 00:26:14.920 For the moment, it appeared as though the monkey 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:17.279 was off their back. And in the seventh, the Phillies 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:33.960 made it a 3 -1 game. Out of the bullpen came 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:36.720 Tug McGraw for the final two innings. And he 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:38.920 simply shut the door on Houston. And the Phillies 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:41.500 had a 3 -1 victory in the first game of this 00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:46.700 best of five series. However, the Astros bounced 00:26:46.700 --> 00:26:48.839 back the next night to even the series at a game 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.359 of peace with a 7 -4 victory in 10 innings. Now 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:54.799 the scene shifted to the spacious Astrodome in 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:57.960 Houston, Texas. In game three, the Astros eked 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:00.640 out a 1 -0 victory in extra innings to take a 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:04.700 2 -1 lead in the series. Suddenly, history was 00:27:04.700 --> 00:27:07.599 staring in the Phillies' faces again. Would they 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.599 fail once more in postseason play? Game four 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:13.880 of the series was one that will live in baseball 00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:17.259 history. Just about everything imaginable occurred 00:27:17.259 --> 00:27:20.240 in this game. In the fourth, with the game scoreless, 00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:22.740 the Astros pulled off what they thought was a 00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:25.579 triple play, but turned out to be a double play. 00:27:48.970 --> 00:27:51.549 That was not. Bern rule even doesn't think that 00:27:51.549 --> 00:27:54.190 he that he caught the ball. That was a short 00:27:54.190 --> 00:27:57.150 hop. Maddox is out at first. Everybody else is 00:27:57.150 --> 00:28:18.720 safe. But all that craziness aside, the Phillies 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.359 were fighting for their lives. With the hourglass 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:23.400 dwindling, the Phillies came to bat in the eighth 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.220 and trailing two to nothing. Pitch on the way 00:28:26.220 --> 00:28:28.579 to Rose. Bouncing ball right side. It has eyes. 00:28:28.700 --> 00:28:31.220 It goes through. Being waved around is the lead 00:28:31.220 --> 00:28:34.119 man, Gross. He's going to score. Play to third. 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:36.680 Not in time. Play to second. Not in time. Runners 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:39.599 second and third. Phillies trail the game two 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:42.359 to one. Here's the three -two pitch. Swing and 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:44.619 a bouncing ball back to middle. It's curved by 00:28:44.619 --> 00:28:48.299 Morgan. No throw. Everybody safe. Tie ball game. 00:28:48.900 --> 00:28:53.099 Ready to go. Half the belt. The 1 -2 pitch to 00:28:53.099 --> 00:28:56.140 trio. Punch shot right field being charged. And 00:28:56.140 --> 00:28:58.660 that ball is caught. The runners are tagging. 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:01.119 Here's the throw to the plate. Rose scores. But 00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:03.079 the Astros tied it up in the ninth, and this 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:05.819 one was headed for extra innings. In the tenth, 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.609 Pete Rose started things with a single. Then 00:29:08.609 --> 00:29:11.069 with pinch hitter Greg Luzinski at bat Astros 00:29:11.069 --> 00:29:13.789 catcher Bruce Bochy was about to find out what 00:29:13.789 --> 00:29:17.130 it's like to play against Pete Rose The one nothing 00:29:17.130 --> 00:29:19.930 pitch driven to left field hard hit ball down 00:29:19.930 --> 00:29:22.450 into the corner that ball one hops against the 00:29:22.450 --> 00:29:24.869 fence Here comes Pete Rose digging around third. 00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:27.349 He's gonna keep right on gone. Here's the play 00:29:27.349 --> 00:29:32.490 at the plate He knocked Bochy over the throw 00:29:32.490 --> 00:29:35.289 was there, but he knocked him over both. He didn't 00:29:35.289 --> 00:29:38.109 hold the ball and the Phillies lead the game. 00:29:38.369 --> 00:29:40.750 Manny Trio followed with another key hit that 00:29:40.750 --> 00:29:42.650 scored Luzinski, and the Phillies were on their 00:29:42.650 --> 00:29:45.849 way to tying up this series with a 5 -3 victory. 00:29:48.890 --> 00:29:51.109 In game five, the Phillies again found themselves 00:29:51.109 --> 00:29:53.269 on the short end of the score, entering the eighth 00:29:53.269 --> 00:29:56.549 inning trailing 5 -2. But as they had done the 00:29:56.549 --> 00:29:58.829 day before, they put together an eighth inning 00:29:58.829 --> 00:30:02.930 rally, this time tallying five times. The one 00:30:02.930 --> 00:30:05.410 strike to Trio, line drive, left field, safe 00:30:05.410 --> 00:30:24.029 hit! The Astros refused to quit, and they tied 00:30:24.029 --> 00:30:26.470 it up in the bottom of the eighth. After a scoreless 00:30:26.470 --> 00:30:28.509 ninth inning, this one would have to be resolved 00:30:28.509 --> 00:30:31.349 in extra innings for the fourth game in a row. 00:30:31.829 --> 00:30:34.150 In the tenth. Pinch hitter Dell Unser and center 00:30:34.150 --> 00:30:36.789 fielder Gary Maddox parlayed a pair of doubles 00:30:36.789 --> 00:30:39.490 into a run, and the Phillies were on top to stay. 00:30:39.670 --> 00:30:41.829 Pinch on the way to Maddox. Line drive, center 00:30:41.829 --> 00:30:45.130 field, sinking, face hit. That ball's in play. 00:30:45.529 --> 00:30:48.309 Phillies lead. The ball gets guy pool. Maddox 00:30:48.309 --> 00:30:50.950 goes to second. In the bottom of the tenth, Dick 00:30:50.950 --> 00:30:53.230 Ruthven, working out of the bullpen on this night, 00:30:53.390 --> 00:30:57.079 put down the Astros 1 -2 -3. And the Philadelphia 00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:59.380 Phillies were the National League champions. 00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:02.700 The winds up by Ruthven. The 3 -2 pitch. Here 00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:05.220 is a punch shot to center field. Maddox racing 00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:08.660 over. He catches the ball! Phillies win the parents! 00:31:09.140 --> 00:31:11.819 The Phillies have won the parents! The Phillies 00:31:11.819 --> 00:31:14.940 win the ball game 8 -7. They go to the World 00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:17.440 Series for the first time in 30 years. We came 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:19.119 a long way as a team this year Richie. You know 00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:21.480 that as well as anybody. It took every ounce 00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:23.740 of everything we had to win this playoff and 00:31:23.740 --> 00:31:27.109 actually to win our division as well. I think 00:31:27.109 --> 00:31:30.670 we're so happy about this, going into the World 00:31:30.670 --> 00:31:33.490 Series for the first time in so many years. It's 00:31:33.490 --> 00:31:35.630 the biggest problem we're going to have is getting 00:31:35.630 --> 00:31:37.410 over these hangovers we're going to have tonight. 00:31:37.829 --> 00:31:39.910 I'm very excited. This is the biggest three of 00:31:39.910 --> 00:31:42.309 my life. And like I said, I just want to thank 00:31:42.309 --> 00:31:45.609 my teammates, the Philadelphia organization for 00:31:45.609 --> 00:31:48.470 making it possible for me to make my dream come 00:31:48.470 --> 00:31:51.549 true, getting a house for me and my family. I'm 00:31:51.549 --> 00:31:53.809 so excited. I don't know. I think I'm going to 00:31:53.809 --> 00:31:55.890 have a hard time. I was going to worry when they 00:31:55.890 --> 00:31:58.109 went in. You know, when they went ahead three 00:31:58.109 --> 00:32:01.250 to two, you know, I thought we could still come 00:32:01.250 --> 00:32:02.809 back. And then when they scored on the wow pitch, 00:32:03.309 --> 00:32:04.970 you know, I went in and told Larry, you're really 00:32:04.970 --> 00:32:06.490 better now because one run down, we still got 00:32:06.490 --> 00:32:08.890 two at bat. Then they come up with Hal, got another 00:32:08.890 --> 00:32:11.269 base hit. Trimple was driving another run. And 00:32:11.269 --> 00:32:13.710 you know, three down at that time is difficult. 00:32:14.269 --> 00:32:15.809 One's not that quite difficult. You've got some 00:32:15.809 --> 00:32:17.890 guys get to follow the ballpark. But we came 00:32:17.890 --> 00:32:19.609 back with five. And I just couldn't believe they 00:32:19.609 --> 00:32:22.190 tied up into that. But you know, Cruz, a tremendous 00:32:22.190 --> 00:32:24.269 hitter. And they got the base runners. The pool 00:32:24.269 --> 00:32:26.750 had a great night. And we just didn't get the 00:32:26.750 --> 00:32:28.730 key guys out in the right situations except the 00:32:28.730 --> 00:32:30.630 ninth inning. I did a lot of praying on that 00:32:30.630 --> 00:32:32.930 field yesterday and today, and all of my prayers 00:32:32.930 --> 00:32:35.589 were answered, Harry. And I watched most of that 00:32:35.589 --> 00:32:37.250 game today. I was a lot of dead weight out there 00:32:37.250 --> 00:32:39.589 myself. And Manny Trio reached back and played 00:32:39.589 --> 00:32:41.470 the best game I've ever seen a second baseman 00:32:41.470 --> 00:32:44.549 play. The best game bar none I've ever seen a 00:32:44.549 --> 00:32:46.650 second baseman play. It took everything else 00:32:46.650 --> 00:32:49.450 and everything this team had. They said we couldn't 00:32:49.450 --> 00:32:51.789 beat them down here two games, got down three 00:32:51.789 --> 00:32:54.230 runs, just 2 -5 right at them. 13 years in the 00:32:54.230 --> 00:32:56.750 big leagues. I loved every one of them, but not 00:32:56.750 --> 00:32:59.329 as much as this year. I feel so happy for these 00:32:59.329 --> 00:33:04.289 guys. I think these guys have buried some ghosts 00:33:04.289 --> 00:33:06.569 that have been following me around a long time. 00:33:06.710 --> 00:33:09.470 They've been following the 64 team a long time. 00:33:10.309 --> 00:33:13.890 The John Tightpant's tightest team in 1915, I 00:33:13.890 --> 00:33:16.670 think we laid them to rest. So the Phillies were 00:33:16.670 --> 00:33:18.750 in the World Series for the first time since 00:33:18.750 --> 00:33:21.650 1950, and only the third time in their history. 00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:23.819 They would lock horns with the American League 00:33:23.819 --> 00:33:26.000 champion, Kansas City Royals, and attempt to 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:28.940 win their first championship ever. Game one of 00:33:28.940 --> 00:33:30.819 the World Series was played at Veterans Stadium 00:33:30.819 --> 00:33:33.880 on Tuesday, October 14th. Because of having to 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:36.000 go the full route in the playoffs, the Phillies' 00:33:36.180 --> 00:33:38.500 pitching situation was not in the best of shape. 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.559 As a result, rookie Bob Walk would have to do 00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:43.880 the hurling against Kansas City's 20 -game winner, 00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:46.960 Dennis Leonard. It's unusual to start a rookie 00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:49.619 in a World Series. It's so unusual that it had 00:33:49.619 --> 00:33:52.519 been 28 years since it had happened, when Joe 00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:54.599 Black towed the rubber for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:57.940 But then again, this had been an unusual season 00:33:57.940 --> 00:34:01.039 for the Phillies. At the outset, things looked 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:03.119 bleak for the Phillies, as Amos Otis and then 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:05.420 Willie Akins cracked two run homers to give the 00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:08.320 Royals a four to nothing lead. But in the third, 00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:10.960 the Phillies came roaring back. It started with 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.780 the bats of Larry Boa, Bob Boon, Lonnie Smith, 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.219 and a fielding mix -up by the Royals, George 00:34:16.219 --> 00:34:19.760 Bratt. Leonard rides in the 2 -2 pitch to Boa. 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.900 Swing base hit center field. Boa has the Phillies' 00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:25.599 first hit of the World Series. Look at that point. 00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:28.480 Dennis Leonard had retired seven pills in a row. 00:34:29.079 --> 00:34:31.760 There goes Boa. The pitch to Boon. A called strike. 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:34.639 Throw to second. Not in time. Stolen base Larry 00:34:34.639 --> 00:35:08.469 Boa. The pitch to Boon. Swing. That made the 00:35:08.469 --> 00:35:11.150 score four to two, but it also cleared the bases. 00:35:11.929 --> 00:35:13.889 However, the Phillies were far from through. 00:35:14.170 --> 00:35:16.670 First Pete Rose was hit by a pitch, and then 00:35:16.670 --> 00:35:19.250 Mike Schmidt walked, bringing to the plate, Bate 00:35:19.250 --> 00:35:36.860 McBride. In the fourth, the Phils made it a 6 00:35:36.860 --> 00:35:39.539 -4 ball game. With a runner on third in two outs, 00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:42.380 Bob Boone, who already had one RBI for the night, 00:35:42.840 --> 00:36:00.079 played it another. Meanwhile Bob walk had settled 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.139 down since being touched for the two home runs. 00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:17.639 It was pitching good baseball Walk finally weakened 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:19.780 in the eighth when Willie Akins hit his second 00:36:19.780 --> 00:36:22.039 to run home run in the game to make it a seven 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:25.920 to six game Out of the bullpen came the ubiquitous 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:28.400 tug McGraw to shut the door and the Phillies 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:31.440 had captured the first game of the 1980 World 00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:48.579 Series to pitch to Willie Wilson Game 2 figured 00:36:48.579 --> 00:36:50.679 to be the pitching masterpiece of the series, 00:36:50.860 --> 00:36:53.480 pitting the Phil's 24 -game winner Steve Carlton 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:55.659 against the Royals' outstanding left -hander 00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:58.179 Larry Gura. The game was scoreless through the 00:36:58.179 --> 00:37:00.239 first four innings, but Lefty was struggling. 00:37:00.980 --> 00:37:03.420 However, when he needed it, he had it, and the 00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:13.809 Phillies' defense took it from there. And the 00:37:13.809 --> 00:37:16.190 pitch to Amos Otis. Curve ball, ground ball, 00:37:16.349 --> 00:37:19.590 shortstop might be two. Oh, and a 3 -0 -1, the 00:37:19.590 --> 00:37:22.230 relay. Yes, double play. And the Phillies get 00:37:22.230 --> 00:37:24.769 out of the inning. It's still a nothing -nothing 00:37:24.769 --> 00:37:28.130 ball game. Meanwhile, Gura was outstanding, retiring 00:37:28.130 --> 00:37:31.449 the first 13 batters to face him. In the fifth, 00:37:31.570 --> 00:37:34.190 he suddenly lost it, and the Phillies capitalize. 00:37:34.469 --> 00:38:11.860 A pitch to Moreland. Ground ball in. Phillies 00:38:11.860 --> 00:38:14.739 lead at one to nothing. Swing and a line drive. 00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:17.719 It's a hit to the left. Gary Maddox scores and 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:20.400 the Phillies lead at two to nothing. The Royals 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.579 finally got to Carlton in the sixth for a run. 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:24.940 It could have been more except for that Phillies 00:38:24.940 --> 00:38:28.519 combo of Boa to Trio to Rose as they reeled off 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:31.239 their third double play of the night. Here's 00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:34.519 a stretch by Carlton. The pitch to White. Swing 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:37.059 a hard ground ball right at Boa. Might be two 00:38:37.059 --> 00:38:46.420 to Trio. The Royals were too good a team to be 00:38:46.420 --> 00:38:49.099 repelled too many times. In the seventh, Lefty 00:38:49.099 --> 00:38:51.559 lost his control, walking three batters, and 00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.019 the end result was three runs that gave Kansas 00:38:54.019 --> 00:38:58.119 City a 4 -2 lead. But there was no panic with 00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:00.139 the Phillies. They had been in this situation 00:39:00.139 --> 00:39:02.719 before and had survived. In the eighth, with 00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:05.099 the Royals ace reliever Dan Quisenberry on the 00:39:05.099 --> 00:39:07.519 mound, they opened up with a four -run assault 00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:10.400 that gave them a 6 -4 lead to send the city of 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:13.539 Philadelphia into a state of unknown euphoria. 00:39:14.539 --> 00:39:17.659 first base with a walk and nobody out. Dale Unser 00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:21.559 facing the side wheeling Dan Quisenberry. Here's 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:23.920 the pitch to Unser. Playing in a drive in the 00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:26.960 gap in left center field. Otis chasing. Can't 00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:29.519 get it. Going all the way back to the fence. 00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:32.139 Here's Boone rounding third. He's being weighed 00:39:32.139 --> 00:39:35.800 home. Boone scores. Unser at second with a clutch 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:39.099 pitch double. Quisenberry's pitch to McBride. 00:40:19.309 --> 00:40:21.610 In the ninth, Big Ron Reed rambled out of the 00:40:21.610 --> 00:40:24.050 bullpen, and as McGraw had done the night before, 00:40:24.369 --> 00:40:26.530 he blew the Royals away, and the Phillies were 00:40:26.530 --> 00:40:30.090 up two games in this World Series. Ron Reed trying 00:40:30.090 --> 00:40:34.110 to lock up game two of the World Series. Here's 00:40:34.110 --> 00:40:37.909 a stretch by Big Ron. The 2 -2 pitch. Swing and 00:40:37.909 --> 00:40:41.329 a miss! He struck, game out! John Wathen goes 00:40:41.329 --> 00:40:48.119 down, swinging, and the Phillies win 6 -4. Now 00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:50.480 it was on to Kansas City for the next three games. 00:40:50.900 --> 00:40:53.260 In game three, the Phillies again came from behind 00:40:53.260 --> 00:40:56.079 to tie the contest. But this was not to be their 00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:58.420 night, as the Royals would win the game in ten 00:40:58.420 --> 00:41:01.659 innings. The next afternoon, the Royals tied 00:41:01.659 --> 00:41:04.119 up the series at two games apiece with a 5 -3 00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:07.519 victory. However, something very meaningful occurred 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:09.760 in this game as far as the Phillies were concerned. 00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:12.079 It was in the fourth inning, and the Royals' 00:41:12.179 --> 00:41:14.179 George Brett was at bat against the Phillies' 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:18.739 Dicky Knowles. No two pitch to Brett. George 00:41:18.739 --> 00:41:23.059 Brett has to hit the dirt on a high inside fastball 00:41:23.059 --> 00:41:26.159 and Brett goes down in a hurry at home plate. 00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:29.519 Here comes Jim Fry Kansas City Major out of the 00:41:29.519 --> 00:42:02.289 dugout. To many across North America and throughout 00:42:02.289 --> 00:42:04.929 the baseball world, Knowles was cast as a villain. 00:42:05.329 --> 00:42:07.329 But the ballplayers knew what was happening. 00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:20.039 To that point the momentum or as the players 00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:22.699 might say the Big Mo had been in the Royals favor. 00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:26.559 Someone had to stem the tide, halt it. Knoll's 00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:29.559 purpose pitch did the job. From that moment on 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:31.980 the Royals would be as docile as lamb, scoring 00:42:31.980 --> 00:42:34.940 only four runs in the final 22 innings of the 00:42:34.940 --> 00:42:40.239 series. In game five the Phillies sent their 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:43.039 September sensation Marty Beistrom to the mound 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.420 to be opposed by the Wiley veteran Larry Gura. 00:42:45.710 --> 00:42:48.510 For three innings, they matched each other. Then 00:42:48.510 --> 00:42:51.329 in the fourth, the Phillies took the lead. Here's 00:42:51.329 --> 00:42:54.750 the pitch to Schmidt. Fastballs. Playing at a 00:42:54.750 --> 00:42:58.329 high, towering drive to deep right center. Otis 00:42:58.329 --> 00:43:02.809 going way back. This ball is out of here. Home 00:43:02.809 --> 00:43:05.909 run Mike Schmidt. And the Phillies lead it two 00:43:05.909 --> 00:43:08.610 to nothing. The Royals finally got on the scoreboard 00:43:08.610 --> 00:43:10.860 in the fifth. And in the sixth they came up with 00:43:10.860 --> 00:43:13.360 two more to take a three to two lead. It could 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:15.780 have been more except for a perfect relay throw 00:43:15.780 --> 00:43:19.139 by Manny Trio from Bank McBride to cut down Darryl 00:43:19.139 --> 00:43:22.260 Porter at home plate. Fastball swaying in a long 00:43:22.260 --> 00:43:25.559 drive to deep right field. Bank McBride going 00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:28.619 away back. He'll never get it. Off the fence. 00:43:29.019 --> 00:43:46.789 Here's Darryl Porter being waved around. It remained 00:43:46.789 --> 00:43:49.070 a one -run ball game as the innings wound down 00:43:49.070 --> 00:43:51.130 and both teams went to their aces out of the 00:43:51.130 --> 00:43:53.929 bullpen. Quisenberry for the Royals. McGraw for 00:43:53.929 --> 00:43:56.530 the Phils. Finally it was the top of the ninth. 00:43:56.849 --> 00:43:59.610 Last call for the Phillies. Mike Schmidt got 00:43:59.610 --> 00:44:02.429 things started with an infield hit. Now Del Unser 00:44:02.429 --> 00:44:05.530 was at the plate. Unser had already had one big 00:44:05.530 --> 00:44:07.989 hit in the series off Quisenberry. Could he do 00:44:07.989 --> 00:44:16.929 it again? Schmitt is heading for third base, 00:44:17.230 --> 00:44:20.230 being waved around third. Here is the relay throw 00:44:20.230 --> 00:44:23.409 to the plate, and Schmitt is safe at home plate. 00:44:23.809 --> 00:44:25.849 Phillies have tied the game here in the ninth, 00:44:25.989 --> 00:44:29.789 3 -3. Del Unser, another clutch, pinched double. 00:44:30.130 --> 00:44:32.090 Unser eventually moved to third, and with two 00:44:32.090 --> 00:44:34.909 outs and Manny Trio at the plate, he would score. 00:44:35.070 --> 00:44:48.460 Here's the pitch to Trio. In the bottom of the 00:44:48.460 --> 00:44:50.500 ninth McGraw seemed to be struggling as he loaded 00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:53.360 the bases on walks. But when he needed it most, 00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:57.440 it was there. Bases loaded with Royals, two down, 00:44:57.699 --> 00:44:59.800 bottom half of the ninth inning, Phillies lead 00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:03.400 by a run. It all boils down to Tug McGraw and 00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:09.280 ex -teammate Jose Cardinal. Tug is ready. A one 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:27.369 -two pitch. So now it was back to Philadelphia 00:45:27.369 --> 00:45:30.809 and history. In game six, the Phillies sent Steve 00:45:30.809 --> 00:45:32.710 Carlton to the mound while the Royals countered 00:45:32.710 --> 00:45:35.469 with right -hander Rich Gale. The game was scoreless 00:45:35.469 --> 00:45:37.429 through two innings. When in the third with the 00:45:37.429 --> 00:45:39.670 bases loaded, Mike Schmidt, who would be the 00:45:39.670 --> 00:45:56.000 series MVP, put Philadelphia on the board. In 00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:57.760 the fifth, the Phillies made it a three -to -nothing 00:45:57.760 --> 00:45:59.980 ball game. And in the sixth, they upped the count 00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:02.960 to four -to -nothing. Here's the pitch by Squidor, 00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:05.800 playing in a line drive left field. It's a fair 00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:08.619 ball going to the corner. Larry Bowe, rounding 00:46:08.619 --> 00:46:11.300 first, on his way to second. He's there with 00:46:11.300 --> 00:46:30.929 a stand -up double. The 0 -1 pitch to Boo. Carlton 00:46:30.929 --> 00:46:33.610 was back in midseason form as he whistled through 00:46:33.610 --> 00:46:36.469 the Royals batting order. But in the eighth Carlton, 00:46:36.670 --> 00:46:39.690 who was now up to 331 innings pitch for the season, 00:46:40.090 --> 00:46:43.510 tired. And the Royals got to him for a run. Once 00:46:43.510 --> 00:47:03.260 more out of the bullpen came the Tugger. The 00:47:03.260 --> 00:47:05.500 Royals were fighting for their baseball lives. 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.039 In the night, they again loaded the bases with 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:10.559 one out. But there would be no call from the 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:13.719 governor. Their execution was about to be completed. 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:33.500 Less than 24 hours later, the Philadelphia Phillies 00:48:33.500 --> 00:48:36.340 and more than one million of their faithful convened 00:48:36.340 --> 00:48:39.400 in a parade and celebration unmatched in sports 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.440 history. It was truly a loving between a city 00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:48.420 and its team. Philadelphia Phillies, world champions 00:48:48.420 --> 00:49:00.119 of baseball. The man who guided this band of 00:49:00.119 --> 00:51:04.469 world first game and now 97 years five months 00:51:04.469 --> 00:51:08.010 and 21 days later they have finally reached the 00:51:08.010 --> 00:51:11.449 summit. They are the world champions of baseball.