1:36:49 God I miss that place. I little piece of heaven here on earth. $1.00 to get a seat in the 1980s and 1990s at the 700 level but ya just go up, and sneak down after a while. Sit anywhere you want. General admission.
This is my first time getting a chance to watch this series. Although I was alive, I don’t think I was old enough to to remember it. The best playoff series I remember was both LCSs from 1986
The 1980 NLCS was without a doubt one of the greatest league championship series of all time. There was drama in every game, I rank this in my top three of all time, #3 2017 ALCS #2 2004 ALCS #1 1980 NLCS Those are my three top league championship series of all time.
?? The 86 NLCS was over in 6. 4 games to 2. Not so great in reality. Then an error, ppl remember the final 10 innings. The error is the only reason that is even remembered. And it's a shame Buckner is now remembered for that. You can't put the 86 nlcs with the greatest series, not like this one. Or the 04 alcs. Watching all 5 games play out on this one, and watching the 86 nlcs, you see the difference. It ended great, but the Mets were done, got lucky, but ya need s lil luck sometimes. This series wasn't really any luck. 2 teams battling top to bottom
1:36:40 The Bull! Greg Luzinski hits the titanic two-run game-winning home run. The ONLY home run hit in the entire 1980 NL Championship Series. After three failed tries (1976, 1977, 1978), the Phillies finally win an NLCS game at home. And after two epic wins in Houston, they finally advance to the World Series. The World Series versus Kansas City was a great one but almost felt anti-climactic.
And the pitchers today don’t even ask how he did it. Lefty said recently no one listens to him or asks for advice. 25 years and almost never hurt. He would get 700 million contract today
@@richardstrom5150 and just for kicks, the NFC title game in 1980 between the Eagles and Cowboys was the first in 8 seasons that didn't feature either the Minnesota Vikings or Los Angeles Rams.
Orioles fan here: i appreciate the games here because with the new rule changes none of this would be possible. Those rule changes, made to placate the short attention span of the Gen Z crowd, have ruined the game.... P.S. I HATE Rob Manfred. P.S. II: I love the ABC/NBC crews that made these games so memorable with timeless calls...
This era is so great. Someone commented something like it’s so good that the modern era is so much better or something. I’m lost with that comment. And one that lives through both I believe would take that era over this era
Agree 100%. Gen Z can watch today’s games. Not me. Haven’t watched a game since 2021. Manfred ruined it. Yet since 2021 I’ve watched 69 World Series 5 times., and thousands of games 1960-91. Crazy how quickly they killed baseball.
I love the Phillies but I can’t stand Cosell. He turns a complement into an insult. Even the other play-by play guys can’t stand him. With comments like, “So and so would of caught that.” He’s an instigator and I would rather listen to Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn. Half of the time, while he’s on the air, he’s drunk. For once, I would love to hear Don Drysdale say, “Howard, shut up, please.” Cosell continues to report Steve Carlton’s pitching count because he isn’t quite pitching his kind of game. When Carlton strikes out the Astros player, Cosell says, well, that’s only his 3rd strike out. I would of loved somebody to pull off that rug on his ugly head.
Amazing the in game interview with McGraw asking him why he was dominating in 80, he said he didn’t know. 1979 he was awful. Grand slam to. Buckner in the 23-22 game. Slam to Ed ott in the pirates epic comeback game. He gave up 4 slams to 4 lefty hitters in 79, only pitcher ever to do that in one year. But in 80 he is striking everyone out! And in crucial season on the line situations time and time again. It’s incredible. Gotta respect him as maybe top 10 relief seasons EVER
See 1:40:29 for the still: Forsch is called out on the pick-off. Note that Trillo has yet to apply the tag. With replay system today, he would have been ruled safe. Cabell would single later in the inning; with Forsch on, would be runners on the corners, 1 out -- not 1 on, 2 out. Perhaps cost Astros the tying run in the 7th. Times have thankfully changed ...
You know with a runner on 2nd, that Carlton would pitch differently than just going after a guy with bases empty that single likely don't happen. A walk would be chosen over a single with first base open. Maybe a 2 run homer happens. But most likely Carlton works around it.
Forsch is a pitcher. He almost certainly would not have made it to 3rd. The right thing to do is pinch run, IMMEDIATELY for forsch, get the pitcher off the bases put speed on. But Virdon didnt. And Bob Boone and Manny Trillo got him. Grasping at straws here 40 years later.
Trust me, DO NOT judge this series in this 1 game. Even though its a nail biter if you dont know the outcome and for the ppl watching live, this gets better and better. To the point it cant get any better.
I think KC was a better team than NY and Philadelphia was clearly better than Houston but Houston was gutsy this year. Philly was knocking on the door every year.
If you get a heapin bowl of cherries and then a triple scoop ice cream cone of burgundy cherry ice cream and then some dark cherry lollipops, that makes watching these Phillies 1980s games so much cooler! Does not prevent run-on sentences. But still very cool. Did Rocky Cherry pitch for the Phils? No other team comes as close to the burgundy power the Phillies had in the 70s and 80s! Yea hoagies and wooder!
These Phillies were competing against recent past demons,having been defeated in the LCS By the Reds and Dodgers in 1976,77,and 78 and in 1979 having been expected to dominate,got off to a great start,21-7,I think,and then fell flat in the 2nd half and had a mediocre year. 1980 was a vindication year for the Phillies. But a very good young Astros team almost beat them,probably should have beaten them.
MLB does. Pricks have all great old games and there's no reason they shouldn't be available, in fact, free to watch. It's old, it's history. But they have it all stashed. Ad revenue clone could help these players that didn't make much.
Danny Ozark, the Phils manager from 1974-1979 let the inmates run the asylum so to speak. Dallas Green was a no nonsense manager who took no crap and whipped the team into shape. The players didn't like it but they responded.
He was a hardcore tyrant play by my rules or suffer my wrath manager. Interestingly, Pete rose said in 2022 interview that they wouldn’t have won if not for Dallas green approach.
Morgan was nursing a strained knee in game 1 that's why he didn't play. He injured it the day before in the 1 game playoff between the Dodgers and Astros. IIRC Morgan didn't play until game 3.
I wish someone could invent a device that muted Howard Cosell's voice. What an annoying know nothing jerk. Drysdale set him straight. I loved Drysdale's analysis and his voice.
1:40:00 Virdon was an idiot for not pulling Forsch for a pinch runner. Landestoy failed to protect the runner. Forsch was an incompetent baserunner. Houston did not deserve to advance to the WS.
1:36:49 God I miss that place. I little piece of heaven here on earth. $1.00 to get a seat in the 1980s and 1990s at the 700 level but ya just go up, and sneak down after a while. Sit anywhere you want. General admission.
Best playoff series of my lifetime, without question
This is my first time getting a chance to watch this series. Although I was alive, I don’t think I was old enough to to remember it. The best playoff series I remember was both LCSs from 1986
Looks like you'll get to see another good series. Go Stros 🤘🏻
@@RADRICK19 freakin cheaters
Ya. Me too. Never seen such dramatic games as 86. 80 was great but I don’t think 86 will ever be beat.
This was the best series in baseball history. Game 1-5. Two gutsy teams that wouldnt die, all 5 games, and game 5 particularly was epic!
A big thank you to whoever taped this in Omaha Nebraska originally!
Pete Rose is so fun to watch! Truly a baseball weapon
1st at bat and he's killing him
For me he is the most valuable player on the field. So many little things to win.
The 1980 NLCS was without a doubt one of the greatest league championship series of all time. There was drama in every game, I rank this in my top three of all time,
#3 2017 ALCS
#2 2004 ALCS
#1 1980 NLCS
Those are my three top league championship series of all time.
Agreed.
I don’t know man. 86 both alcs and nlcs seemed better. But all great.
?? The 86 NLCS was over in 6. 4 games to 2. Not so great in reality. Then an error, ppl remember the final 10 innings. The error is the only reason that is even remembered. And it's a shame Buckner is now remembered for that. You can't put the 86 nlcs with the greatest series, not like this one. Or the 04 alcs. Watching all 5 games play out on this one, and watching the 86 nlcs, you see the difference. It ended great, but the Mets were done, got lucky, but ya need s lil luck sometimes. This series wasn't really any luck. 2 teams battling top to bottom
@@Nolan33177Buckner’s error was in the World Series, not the LCS. Both LCS in ‘86 were epic.
1:36:40 The Bull! Greg Luzinski hits the titanic two-run game-winning home run. The ONLY home run hit in the entire 1980 NL Championship Series. After three failed tries (1976, 1977, 1978), the Phillies finally win an NLCS game at home. And after two epic wins in Houston, they finally advance to the World Series. The World Series versus Kansas City was a great one but almost felt anti-climactic.
5 games, 1 HR. Baseball was SUCH a different game back then.
A classic BULL BLAST. I was sitting in the section above the "BULL RING". Great Series, Great Memory. :)
@@chrisuncleahmad The astrodome caused a lot of pitchers numbers to be great, and many hitters to get less home runs.
a gift from the umpire. Everyone watching and their mothers, know that beautiful pitch Forsch broke off was strike 3
@@xman777b I thought the pitch by Carlton was an even better strike
Having perennial gold glovers like Boone, Trillo, Bowa, Maddox and Schmidt doesn't do any harm ⚾🏆
@ 5:10 Drysdale: Good ole Montreal! The irony of that statement is chilling. He succumbed to a heart attack in Montreal, 1993.
Died in a spot he liked
1 of of the greatest players of all time at 1st one of the greatest 3rd baseman of all time one of the greatest left handed pictures of all time
Steve Carlton, a man who threw 280 innings and works fast, what a concept!!!
hoopsheavenpa 304 innings. But I get your point.
Yep that's lefty!
And the pitchers today don’t even ask how he did it. Lefty said recently no one listens to him or asks for advice. 25 years and almost never hurt. He would get 700 million contract today
Keith Jackson LEGEND
It always feels like the first two games in Philly get overlooked in this incredible series.
The only non-extra inning game of this series, easily the best LCS of the best-of-5 era
watching that LCS was exhausting. I don't think I could have made it if the series was 7 games
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C ... That's because soccer is so easy to play and all of the non-athletic boys can say they play a sport.
Easily the best 5 game LCS!!
@M Soccer sucks.
@@areguapiri Soccer requires great conditioning to play at high levels.
1st NLCS in 9 seasons that didn't feature either the Cincinnati Reds or Los Angeles Dodgers
Good one. Fascinating. 71 giants and then every year dodgers reds total domination! And 80 dodgers 1 game from being in nlcs again.
@@richardstrom5150 and just for kicks, the NFC title game in 1980 between the Eagles and Cowboys was the first in 8 seasons that didn't feature either the Minnesota Vikings or Los Angeles Rams.
Pete Rose lead of the bottom of the first inning with a "15-pitch" at-bat! ...WOW!!!
Orioles fan here: i appreciate the games here because with the new rule changes none of this would be possible.
Those rule changes, made to placate the short attention span of the Gen Z crowd, have ruined the game....
P.S. I HATE Rob Manfred.
P.S. II: I love the ABC/NBC crews that made these games so memorable with timeless calls...
This era is so great. Someone commented something like it’s so good that the modern era is so much better or something. I’m lost with that comment. And one that lives through both I believe would take that era over this era
Agree 100%. Gen Z can watch today’s games. Not me. Haven’t watched a game since 2021. Manfred ruined it. Yet since 2021 I’ve watched 69 World Series 5 times., and thousands of games 1960-91. Crazy how quickly they killed baseball.
42 years later these two teams will face in the 118th GREAT FALL CLASSIC
When Curt Gowdy called a game it was always a good game. The man could announce paint drying and it would be worth listening too.
My cousin played for the Phillies here. His name is Ramon Aviles. What a great series
I love the Phillies but I can’t stand Cosell. He turns a complement into an insult. Even the other play-by play guys can’t stand him. With comments like, “So and so would of caught that.” He’s an instigator and I would rather listen to Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn. Half of the time, while he’s on the air, he’s drunk. For once, I would love to hear Don Drysdale say, “Howard, shut up, please.” Cosell continues to report Steve Carlton’s pitching count because he isn’t quite pitching his kind of game. When Carlton strikes out the Astros player, Cosell says, well, that’s only his 3rd strike out. I would of loved somebody to pull off that rug on his ugly head.
Look up Al Michaels and Howard Cosell during the 1984 ALCS. Believe Michaels was fed up with Howard's drunken self
Thought I was the only one noticing what a D bag Howard is even just in the first inning to Drysdale
Amazing the in game interview with McGraw asking him why he was dominating in 80, he said he didn’t know. 1979 he was awful. Grand slam to. Buckner in the 23-22 game. Slam to Ed ott in the pirates epic comeback game. He gave up 4 slams to 4 lefty hitters in 79, only pitcher ever to do that in one year. But in 80 he is striking everyone out! And in crucial season on the line situations time and time again. It’s incredible. Gotta respect him as maybe top 10 relief seasons EVER
Umpires (Game 1)
HP Bob Engel (CC) (4th)
1B Terry Tata (2nd)
2B Bruce Froemming (3rd)
3B Doug Harvey (4th)
LF Ed Vargo (4th)
RF Jerry Crawford (1st)
See 1:40:29 for the still: Forsch is called out on the pick-off. Note that Trillo has yet to apply the tag. With replay system today, he would have been ruled safe. Cabell would single later in the inning; with Forsch on, would be runners on the corners, 1 out -- not 1 on, 2 out. Perhaps cost Astros the tying run in the 7th. Times have thankfully changed ...
Ya. And he looked safe in real time before replay. Clearly safe. Key play. Leadoff man on.
You know with a runner on 2nd, that Carlton would pitch differently than just going after a guy with bases empty that single likely don't happen. A walk would be chosen over a single with first base open. Maybe a 2 run homer happens. But most likely Carlton works around it.
Forsch is a pitcher. He almost certainly would not have made it to 3rd. The right thing to do is pinch run, IMMEDIATELY for forsch, get the pitcher off the bases put speed on. But Virdon didnt. And Bob Boone and Manny Trillo got him. Grasping at straws here 40 years later.
Players were much more honest back then
everyone was. Except politicians. That never changes
42 years later, these same two teams meet in the world series
Trust me, DO NOT judge this series in this 1 game. Even though its a nail biter if you dont know the outcome and for the ppl watching live, this gets better and better. To the point it cant get any better.
A New York / Houston World Series would have been so much better. Imagine Reggie Jackson versus J. R. Richard.
Richard didn't play in this series.
I think KC was a better team than NY and Philadelphia was clearly better than Houston but Houston was gutsy this year. Philly was knocking on the door every year.
ahhh back when they used to do station ids during games
If you get a heapin bowl of cherries and then a triple scoop ice cream cone of burgundy cherry ice cream and then some dark cherry lollipops, that makes watching these Phillies 1980s games so much cooler! Does not prevent run-on sentences. But still very cool. Did Rocky Cherry pitch for the Phils? No other team comes as close to the burgundy power the Phillies had in the 70s and 80s! Yea hoagies and wooder!
It's a good thing the new current game is so much better & improved !
What you been smokin?
You are being sarcastic I assume
1:53:20. If they think Maddox wouldn't have been sent home from second with two outs, they have no clue how the phillies played that year.
Ya. No kidding. Clearly they would have risked it with 2 out. Just like Rose risked it in game 4 and bochy booted the throw.
Better best-of-five series: Phillies-Astros 1980 NLCS or Yankees-Mariners 1995 ALDS?
billny33 I think Phil’s-Astros
@@josecolon2201 Agreed. this series was just draining on so many levels. and my team won..
Phillies/Astros
80 greatest best of 5. 1986 greatest best of 7’s.
@@richardstrom5150 1986 had 3 great best of 7s, which one of those were you referring to?
These Phillies were competing against recent past demons,having been defeated in the LCS By the Reds and Dodgers in 1976,77,and 78 and in 1979 having been expected to dominate,got off to a great start,21-7,I think,and then fell flat in the 2nd half and had a mediocre year. 1980 was a vindication year for the Phillies. But a very good young Astros team almost beat them,probably should have beaten them.
Tons of pressure! Especially with 101 wins in 76 and 77. They squeaked this one out
Great game. Nolan up in Game 2. Cant wait.
gotta love iT!
These artificial turfs during the series must have been terrible in every way…ground balls zipping, bad for the legs to run etc
Philadelphia got lucky. RIP J.R. Richard.
Philadelphia is truly America's Most Burgundy City!
Here it is, the only game of this NLCS not to go extra innings.
Funny they are talking about pitch count. In today's game Carleton would be out of there
Doesn't seem like anyone has a decent video copy of this game! Greg Luzinski HR 1:36:20
MLB does. Pricks have all great old games and there's no reason they shouldn't be available, in fact, free to watch. It's old, it's history. But they have it all stashed. Ad revenue clone could help these players that didn't make much.
What was wrong with the Phillies manager? Why didn't the team care for him personally?
Danny Ozark, the Phils manager from 1974-1979 let the inmates run the asylum so to speak. Dallas Green was a no nonsense manager who took no crap and whipped the team into shape. The players didn't like it but they responded.
@@Rockhound6165 when I was at a spring training Cubs game (he was GM at the time), I overheard Cubs coaches saying he was a very egotistical SOB
@@xman777b he got you Ryne Sandberg didn't he? For nothing mind you.
@@Rockhound6165 lol. I'm no Cubs fan. Nor do I have an opinion on Dallas Green. This was 1985, and just passing that on..
He was a hardcore tyrant play by my rules or suffer my wrath manager. Interestingly, Pete rose said in 2022 interview that they wouldn’t have won if not for Dallas green approach.
o whom it may concern, I have the whole phillies season of 1993 on VHS tapes. Are you interested? Also 1992 and some 1994. LMK Todd
Have you posted any of the '92 games?.....
1980 great suff
Why was cosell even there!!!
Howard is awesome. I miss him very much
@@xman777b well good for u Marty.LOL!!
@@christopherdelgaudio9484 who is Marty? Don't get it?
THE ASTROS TEAM LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE TO TAKE A MONSTER POOP THE ENTIRE GAME....
J.R. Richard.......one of the "what if" cases of baseball. All of the game was robbed.
The great Albert Pujols' old man behind the plate for the Stros.
In case you're not joking, that's not his dad there's no relation
I always thought Luis was his dad. Turns out they are cousins therefore related.@@cd.cd.cd.cd-cd
@@matta3968 ok, didnt know that
Astros manager Bill Virdon foolishly sat out 2 time MVP Joe Morgan against lefty Carlton. He figured Joe couldn't hit left handed pitchers.
Morgan was nursing a strained knee in game 1 that's why he didn't play. He injured it the day before in the 1 game playoff between the Dodgers and Astros. IIRC Morgan didn't play until game 3.
He must of been a philosophy manager and not a stats guy cuz Joe hit lefties well I believe???
Morgan was hurt.
I wish someone could invent a device that muted Howard Cosell's voice. What an annoying know nothing jerk. Drysdale set him straight. I loved Drysdale's analysis and his voice.
@Angelo F definitely. I miss his presence very much
Total d-bag Cosell was here
1:40:00 Virdon was an idiot for not pulling Forsch for a pinch runner. Landestoy failed to protect the runner. Forsch was an incompetent baserunner. Houston did not deserve to advance to the WS.
Your ignorance is astonishing.
THE ASTROS GOT AN ALL FASHIONED ASS WHIPPING IN THIS GAME...
3-1 was an ass whipping?
Let's go astros
What was wrong with the Phillies manager? Why didn't the team care for him personally?
A lot of the players thought he was a dick. He was very blunt.