It's crazy that this was a day game which meant at the time any Dodger fans who had to work or go to school (I was a 4th grader) never saw this inning happen. I remember bursting in the door after school and my mom told me the Dodgers had won.... but I never had any idea about the chaos that had taken place.
Damb bro I was in 4th grade and I remember all of these great memories like it was yesterday let’s not forget the Rick Monday blast in 81 vs Expos VIVA LOS DODGERS ✌️👊⚾️
I was in the 6th grade. I forgot the Philllies were one out away from winning the pennant. I was rooting for them. Yes it was kool coming home from school joining the games in progress back then.
@@sha9infinite450That was game 3 of a best of 5 that was tied 1-1. Phillies were one out away from winning game 3 and taking 2-1 series lead. Instead Dodgers rallied to win and take series lead. Dodgers won pennant the next night 3 games to 1. Back then(1977) championship series series were best of 5. They went to best of 7 in 1985.
I'm about the same age. I was in 5th grade that year, and the game started during our lunch. A couple kids brought radios to school so we could listen, and one of them had an earpiece and would relay developments during the afternoon. Great stuff!
Thank you for posting this I remember checking out a documentary Dodger Blue the Championship Game watching the Dodgers history and mentioning this I was 12 in 2006 Dodger baseball was and still is life
Several comments here. Lost a lot of money on this game. This game was later called Black Friday. Ozark should have done what he did all year, replace Luzinski defensively in LF with Jerry Martin who would have caught that ball. Why didn't he? Love Luzinski but no reason for him to be out there 2 runs up in the 9th. Schmidt blew the play at 3B, but Bowa recovered and clearly threw the runner out at 1st. Blown call by Froeming. Saw him years later on TV and he still won't admit he blew it. For me, the Phillies worst loss ever. Hey how bout that Great Broadcast Team of Kalas and Whitey. The way Harry describes the action and Whitey's knowledge and humor were outstanding. What you notice about Whitey is that he doesn't feel that he must talk constantly, but only when it adds something to the game. They realized like good umpires do, that fans are not there to watch or see them, but just enjoy the ballgame. No camera shots like today of McCarthy, Davis and Kruck in the booth, just Hall of Fame announcing by the best broadcast team ever, Harry & Whitey. RIP
Mike, of course he won't admit it, he gutlessly blew the call in '77, and naturally he gutlessly won't admit that he blew it. Might as well stick to your gutless guns, huh Bruce? He probably called him safe because he didn't want to feel fat Lasorda's foul-mouthed, garlic-stenched breath in his face.
@@rocknrallsoul94rockero4 yeah. But you weren't robbed because of a bad call. Earlier this game Steve Garvey was ruled safe at home on play he never touched home plate, too.
@John Jacobs Garvey was the only guy in that infield that had any class, and that I had any respect for. The rest were absolutely obnoxious, especially Cey the midget.
As a kid in 7th grade of parochial school in LA, I watched part of the game at school towards the end of the day because our teacher brought in a black and white tv for us to watch it.
As a 9 year old Phillies fan this game ripped my heart out .I still detest the Dodgers to this very day and all my days left..Even beating them in ‘83,’08,and ‘09:didn’t completely make up for this
@@jameshoran8 He must have seen the ump signal "hit" and just winged it to second. It was a horrible game. Pitchers, hitters, fielders, umps all choking. The real crime was Garber throwing an 0-2 pitch that Mota could drive to the wall.
@@michaelgiebey7007 And the self-proclaimed best third baseman of all time, Mike Schmidt committed an egregious error on a routine ground ball in which Shortstop Larry Bowa almost saved Schmidt's butt with remarkable play and throw.
I don’t have a dog in the fight. This happened the year before I was born. I think Lopes got there as Hebner caught the ball. Tie goes to the runner. I also don’t believe that there’s indisputable visual evidence to overturn the call on the field. If Froemming would have called him out and LaSorda would have challenged the call, I think the call stands. It is not as egregious a call as Phillies fans make it out to be. The much bigger issue was not substituting Martin for Luzinski with a two run lead.
It was close....VERY close....but he WAS out....and he would have been ruled out if there was instant replay....even on that one replay u can see lopes was out....barely...
I was 11 years old, watching the NBC broadcast on television on a Friday afternoon. The starters were Larry Christensen and Burt Hooton. And the innings passed...but who could have foreseen what an unforgettable finish this one would have? The other thing Gene Garber's remembered for? Ending Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak the following season, while pitching for Atlanta.
I actually never knew (in reference to Luzinski's bobble of Manny Mota's deep fly to left) that if the ball touches the wall like that without touching the ground, it's not a catch.
In my opinion the first base ump (Bruce Froemming?) took the play off after he saw Schmidt kick the ball, then realized he had to make a call, and he chose the gutless route, probably because he didn't want to argue with foul-mouthed Lasorda. Lopes was out, and he was an obnoxious little puke to boot.
Schmidt IMO was overrated as a 3rd baseman. Never in the same category fielding as Brooks Robinson or Graig Nettles. It was Schmidts MO to misplay critical plays throughout his career; check out 1983 game 1 NLCS Phils-Dodgers, 9th inning, although Al Holland bailed him out.
For a couple of years at the end of his career. And I've heard he was a jerk there as well, just like in New York. Of course with that Dodger team, that means he fit in perfectly.
When i saw it on TV back then, I thought he caught it, it popped out, then he re-caught it. If Luzinski acted as if he caught it, I believe the umpires would have believed him because from their perspective it appeared to be a catch and re-catch.
Daniel Kelegian Exactly, if only Luzinski would have feigned the catch, the Phillies go to their first world series since 1950. Instead they have to wait another 3 years until 1980 and after the 1979 acquisition of Pete Rose, which was the missing ingredient since 1976.
I was 17 years old and at that time i was stationed in West Germany with the army , the games and the box scores were a day late, was making me home sick ,
Ozark replaced Luzinski with Jerry Martin all season in late inning games with the lead. Martin would of snagged that ball off Motas bat. Even if they won would of went 5 games. Who knows what would of happened
Oh the what-ifs that horrible inning. What if Sizemore plays in on Vic Davalillo, a 200 year-old bunting specialist? What if Ozark replaces Luzinski with Martin on the hit by Mota, as he had done all season? What if the Luzinski's throw doesn't hit a seam, allowing Mota to go to 3rd? What if Schmidt fields Lopes' smash cleanly? What if Hebner stretches even a LITTLE to get Bowa's throw? What if Froemming sees it differently and calls Lopes out? What if Garber doesn't throw away the subsequent pick-off attempt on Lopes? Awful, awful inning for an 11 year-old Phillies fan.
I was in my parents kitchen watching this game on a little black-and-white TV after school. I’ll never forget that game. Now that we have the Internet we can see it over and over again
Like any fair minded fan should say, even if the base runner is out, you don’t allow the opposing team to be in a position to steal the game from you. Yes, it was heartbreaking but since then, the recent Phillies have been very exciting to watch.
I had tickets to game 2 of the American League series, but I wanted to see the end of this game. We waited and waited . . . and waited, but finally we could wait no longer for the final out. When we got to Royals Stadium and looked at the scoreboard, it was WTAF?
Hate to say it but this looks like the defensive collapse (minus Steve Bartman of course lol)almost the same as say the 2003 Cubs in game 6 of the 2003 NLCS vs. the Marlins. Too young to remember but seems like the Phils should won this series. In 1976 and '78, the Reds and Dodgers respectably were the better teams.
I'm surprised that Luzinski didn't argue about that "double" by Mota. It looked like he caught that ball, without it touching the wall. What an inning.
Phillies beat themselves with bad defense with an assist from Bruce Froeming who called Lopes safe when he was clearly out. Bruce was a good umpire but assumed that there was no way Lopes could have been out on that play but he was wrong.
I don't think Froemming was a good umpire. In addition to this play he's notable for gypping Milt Pappas of a perfect game and then in his last year, 2007, he should have stopped the game when the midges were swarming the field in Cleveland which cost the Yankees a playoff game.
Stupid errors by Sizemore, and on the pickoff attempt. Dodgers lucky there was no instant replay review in those days. Lopes was definitely out, and Luzinski may have caught Mota's ball
The bull gets a lot of the blame but that was a tough catch for anyone - who knows if Jerry Martin would have caught that. Sizemore error was the real crime.
That was the way it was with the Dodgers in the 70's, you had to beat them AND the umpires. They would have done it to the Yankees in the series as well, but unfortunately for them, the Yankees were so much better that there weren't enough close plays for the umps to blow to make a difference.
@@jms1963 I'm no Dodger fan, believe me, but I honestly think Garvey had a legitimate gripe when he was called out at home by Nestor Chylak in game 1 of the 1977 World Series at Yankee Stadium. The next year, I definitely agreed with Lasorda that they shouldn't have let Reggie Jackson get away with that hip swivel in game 4.
@@hammer3353 they actually didn't. They got jobbed by the umpires in this game. Not just the blown call at first but in the 2nd inning they called Garvey safe and to this say, 44 years later, Garvey still hasn't touched home plate. And even on the fly ball to Luzinski, he caught the ball, hit the wall, the ball came out and he re-caught it. The ball never hit the wall or the ground. Hard to beat teams when they get 5-6 outs an inning. Then throw in that game 4 was played in a downpour that should have never been played completely rendering Carlton useless.
@@Rockhound6165Actually, it can be blamed most on the manager. The whole city of Philadelphia was wondering why Jerry Martin wasn't in the game in left field with a 2-run lead in the 9th. I don't think there's any doubt he catches that ball. Game over...momentum back to the Phillies. You are right about how the next game shouldn't have been played in that rain, but the Dodgers had to play in it, too.
He was but there's almost no way the ump could have concluded he was definitely safe. It was remarkably close to the point that only replay could have confirmed it. Any ump could have missed that call. There's no way this mistake can even begin to compare to the absurd call Don Denkinger made in Game 6 of the 85 WS. But he was out.
How many managers who were one out away from playoff elimination would have sent two forty year old pinch hitters to the plate? Sometimes Tommy Lasorda was a genius.
we were just a scrappy lil team....btw...the ball hits off of Schimdt...then goes over to Bowa...and they think Lopes couldnt beat out the throw ?? LAUGHABLE
Yes that would have been a good NLCS in '80. We did get them in '83 though and beat them. Then in 2008 and 2009 we beat them. Games 4 in 2008 and 2009 were to the Dodgers what Game 3 in 1977 was to Phillies. Ironically Larry Bowa was with Dodgers in 2008 and 2009 while Davey Lopes was with Phillies. Bowa was never on winning side and Lopes never on losing side in that series history.
Stephen D'Ambrosio no irony sports are just scripted. They just wanted to clown dodger fans in the same way they clowned philly fans in the 70’s. Having Bowa on LA and lopes on Phi just adds to the joke
Harry Kalas...amazing broadcaster. Absolutely deserving of Hall of Fame induction. Sounds so much better when he is in the booth alone without some jacked-up hyena interrupting his description of what is happening!
@@Rockhound6165 Yes! And by "jacked-up hyena," I am thinking of a former catcher, but definitely not Richie Ashburn. That dude was a Hall of Famer all the way!
Looking at the play that Lopes was involved in, I can see why people would think he'd be out, but the slow mo replay shows the play was closer than many people think.
No one ever mentions this. It looks like it was a catch because the ball never hit the wall. However, Luzinski acted like it was not a catch and maybe that was a factor
From what I see, Luzinski caught the ball, even though it popped out of his glove, he still managed to hang on to it. The ball never hit the grown or the wall. It was an OUT!
No. I slowed it down as much as I could - the footage is too grainy, but it looks like the ball does hit the wall first. Then into Greg's glove. Considering the way he reacted, that is what I am sticking with.
Davey Lopes hits a ground ball to Mike Schmidt, off his glove, CLANK! Phillies lose the pennant. This settles the reason why Brooks Robinson is the best at 3B in defense.
Robinson didn't play most of his games on astroturf (likely just Kansas City and in the World Series against Pittsburgh). Schmidt played around 75% of his games on astroturf--his home games and many other stadiums (even the Giants had astroturf until the start of 1979). The ball already comes hot at 3B and even faster on astroturf. It's like the argument of Hank Aaron vs. Willie Mays being the better power hitter. Aaron played a lot of home games in Fulton County Stadium (easy HR park) vs. Candlestick (Mays had to adjust his swing to hit more to right center because the wind often blew straight in from left).
@@bananaspartan2234 Disagree about Aaron. He played more than half his career in Milwaukee but comparing him with Mayes they were pretty equal. They both retired with similar SLG.%. Aaron was .555 and Mays was .557 but Aaron was the better overall hitter.
To think they lost again to the dodgers the next years NL championship, but won the Whole thing in 1980 ! It’s hard to to see the struggle the Phillies had losing those championship games, only to feel refreshed & exhilarating when they won the World Series in ‘80 ! Love the Phillies ❤️
Guarantee no ballplayers today could drag bunt like that
I remember watching this live in TV. Friday afternoon after school. Still surreal all these years later.
The key was allowing both Mota and Davalillo to advance on the throw in from the outfield. Can't give away bases...it cost the Phillies the pennant.
yep, if mota is on second , Schmidt plays normal depth, and fields Lopes hot shot,
cost Philly the pennant? Three games to one for the series,LA beat Carlton to clinch and they hammered him in game one for 5 runs and 9 hits.
Oh the voice of Harry Kalas.
Yes sir, LOVE it!
It's crazy that this was a day game which meant at the time any Dodger fans who had to work or go to school (I was a 4th grader) never saw this inning happen. I remember bursting in the door after school and my mom told me the Dodgers had won.... but I never had any idea about the chaos that had taken place.
Damb bro I was in 4th grade and I remember all of these great memories like it was yesterday let’s not forget the Rick Monday blast in 81 vs Expos VIVA LOS DODGERS ✌️👊⚾️
I was in the 6th grade. I forgot the Philllies were one out away from winning the pennant. I was rooting for them. Yes it was kool coming home from school joining the games in progress back then.
@@sha9infinite450That was game 3 of a best of 5 that was tied 1-1. Phillies were one out away from winning game 3 and taking 2-1 series lead. Instead Dodgers rallied to win and take series lead. Dodgers won pennant the next night 3 games to 1. Back then(1977) championship series series were best of 5. They went to best of 7 in 1985.
I'm about the same age. I was in 5th grade that year, and the game started during our lunch. A couple kids brought radios to school so we could listen, and one of them had an earpiece and would relay developments during the afternoon. Great stuff!
Thank you for posting this I remember checking out a documentary Dodger Blue the Championship Game watching the Dodgers history and mentioning this I was 12 in 2006 Dodger baseball was and still is life
well well well
Several comments here. Lost a lot of money on this game. This game was later called Black Friday. Ozark should have done what he did all year, replace Luzinski defensively in LF with Jerry Martin who would have caught that ball. Why didn't he? Love Luzinski but no reason for him to be out there 2 runs up in the 9th. Schmidt blew the play at 3B, but Bowa recovered and clearly threw the runner out at 1st. Blown call by Froeming. Saw him years later on TV and he still won't admit he blew it. For me, the Phillies worst loss ever. Hey how bout that Great Broadcast Team of Kalas and Whitey. The way Harry describes the action and Whitey's knowledge and humor were outstanding. What you notice about Whitey is that he doesn't feel that he must talk constantly, but only when it adds something to the game. They realized like good umpires do, that fans are not there to watch or see them, but just enjoy the ballgame. No camera shots like today of McCarthy, Davis and Kruck in the booth, just Hall of Fame announcing by the best broadcast team ever, Harry & Whitey. RIP
youre right mike luzinski makes that catch game over what was Ozark thinking
Mike, of course he won't admit it, he gutlessly blew the call in '77, and naturally he gutlessly won't admit that he blew it. Might as well stick to your gutless guns, huh Bruce? He probably called him safe because he didn't want to feel fat Lasorda's foul-mouthed, garlic-stenched breath in his face.
Spot on 👍🏻
Wendlestadt calling Garvey safe in the 2nd was worse. He still hasn't touched home plate to this day.
As a Dodger fan, I have no problem saying that Lopes was out. Clear as a bell on the replay.
But those mental errors is what cost the Phillies.
Till this day I have nightmares of this game.
Aw come on you got us in 83 08 and 09 and that 08 nlcs Matt Stairs still gives me nightmares 😨
@@rocknrallsoul94rockero4 yeah. But you weren't robbed because of a bad call.
Earlier this game Steve Garvey was ruled safe at home on play he never touched home plate, too.
@John Jacobs Garvey was the only guy in that infield that had any class, and that I had any respect for. The rest were absolutely obnoxious, especially Cey the midget.
Listened on a small transistor radio @school 5th grade, most exciting game ever!
Same here
As a kid in 7th grade of parochial school in LA, I watched part of the game at school towards the end of the day because our teacher brought in a black and white tv for us to watch it.
Nice! LA in the early 80s? Must have been awesome?🎉🎉
@@CoreyT127 Yup, 70s as a child and then came of age in the early 80s...It really was a simpler time. Great memories.
Still amazing over 45years later. I was 12.
Was 11. Still trying to figure out how Reds didnt over take Dodgers in West Div w Seaver Acquisition. lol
Tommy Lasorda, Did a fantastic job with his personnel.
The biggest hit in Vic Davalillo’s life..
Lopes was clearly out at first...if replay existed, different game.
As a 9 year old Phillies fan this game ripped my heart out .I still detest the Dodgers to this very day and all my days left..Even beating them in ‘83,’08,and ‘09:didn’t completely make up for this
Yep, this series and that inning gave us PTSD. But watching it still brings back unhappy suppressed memories LOL
It’s ok.. us Dodgers fans hate the Phillies too! 👍
What the H-E Double Hockey Sticks was Ozark thinking! Martin----DEFENSE Don't leave him on the bench
A classic collapse! Unbelievable!
I remember this game. Phillies gloves gagged in the ninth.
Why was Luzinkski, a butcher in the field, even in the game? He eventually became a permanent DH in the American League.
Burt Hooten must've been so relieved after his 2nd inning meltdown
Luzinskli claimed the ball never hit the fence. I saw an angle where you can see the ball pop up and back into his glove never touching the fence.
You may be right but why did he immediately turn around and fire the ball into the infield?
@@jameshoran8 He must have seen the ump signal "hit" and just winged it to second. It was a horrible game. Pitchers, hitters, fielders, umps all choking. The real crime was Garber throwing an 0-2 pitch that Mota could drive to the wall.
@@michaelgiebey7007 And the self-proclaimed best third baseman of all time, Mike Schmidt committed an egregious error on a routine ground ball in which Shortstop Larry Bowa almost saved Schmidt's butt with remarkable play and throw.
Yea yea whatever
@@jameshoran8 any type of stretch from hebner and it's not even close
I don’t have a dog in the fight. This happened the year before I was born. I think Lopes got there as Hebner caught the ball. Tie goes to the runner. I also don’t believe that there’s indisputable visual evidence to overturn the call on the field. If Froemming would have called him out and LaSorda would have challenged the call, I think the call stands. It is not as egregious a call as Phillies fans make it out to be. The much bigger issue was not substituting Martin for Luzinski with a two run lead.
I agree, but of course there was no replay challenge then. If so, Ozark definitely would have.
It was close....VERY close....but he WAS out....and he would have been ruled out if there was instant replay....even on that one replay u can see lopes was out....barely...
I hear ya. But I promise you any team that throws the ball around and is sloppy like the Phil's were here is gonna lose esp in the post season
I was there at Vet, climbed in of course. Most memorable game I've ever attended
I was 11 years old, watching the NBC broadcast on television on a Friday afternoon. The starters were Larry Christensen and Burt Hooton. And the innings passed...but who could have foreseen what an unforgettable finish this one would have?
The other thing Gene Garber's remembered for? Ending Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak the following season, while pitching for Atlanta.
I remember that drag bunt and then the greatest pinch hitter of all time doubling off Luzinski's glove. Unbelievable. Two great teams.
Snuck in. That's classic. Not many guys can say they snuck into a stadium. Awesome.
I would like some details about how you climbed in. TY
@@leonardshevlin7260 Are you familiar with the Vet?
Great memories of Mota n Davallio
I actually never knew (in reference to Luzinski's bobble of Manny Mota's deep fly to left) that if the ball touches the wall like that without touching the ground, it's not a catch.
Yea you can’t catch the ball off the wall silly…the real question is, did it ever even touch the wall
Looking @ it without sound I thought he made the catch. What a wild inning!
Luzinski trapped the ball,schmidt booted the ball at third,and lopes was safe at first,its phillies at there finest.😂🤣
Reggie October!!!!!!!
A true classic "All-Rules" game.
#MLB #History #Wheaties
The replay rule would have changed history here
Lopes was out, but you also had a 10x GG winner in Schmidt misplay a ball he probably handled cleanly 99% of the time.
Looks like the first baseman's foot was off the bag Also, if you freeze it @1:31, that's when the ball entered the glove. Is Lopes foot on the bag?.
Any kind of a stretch by Hebner and Lopes is out
In my opinion the first base ump (Bruce Froemming?) took the play off after he saw Schmidt kick the ball, then realized he had to make a call, and he chose the gutless route, probably because he didn't want to argue with foul-mouthed Lasorda. Lopes was out, and he was an obnoxious little puke to boot.
@@jms1963 I think you're right about Froemming. He didn't think Bowa could throw it over there.
Schmidt IMO was overrated as a 3rd baseman. Never in the same category fielding as Brooks Robinson or Graig Nettles. It was Schmidts MO to misplay critical plays throughout his career; check out 1983 game 1 NLCS Phils-Dodgers, 9th inning, although Al Holland bailed him out.
Good to see some Phillies plans still feeling the pain...
See 2008 NLCS series. We are fine
Classic phillies choke
The Phillies are at their best when they choke.
Bowa made that great play. He was out.
Jerry grote played for l.a ?
For a couple of years at the end of his career. And I've heard he was a jerk there as well, just like in New York. Of course with that Dodger team, that means he fit in perfectly.
Small ball something I haven't seen from the current Dodger team.
Davllio won 2 World series.
What a *collapse by the *Philadelphia Phillies!
Looked like the ball popped out of Luzinskis glove then he caught it??
He trapped it against the fence. Not a catch.
Correct. Once the ball hits the fence it can't be a catch.
When i saw it on TV back then, I thought he caught it, it popped out, then he re-caught it. If Luzinski acted as if he caught it, I believe the umpires would have believed him because from their perspective it appeared to be a catch and re-catch.
@@jmadratz it sure looks like it even now. If that ball hit the wall it would have bounced back further. Weird play.
Daniel Kelegian Exactly, if only Luzinski would have feigned the catch, the Phillies go to their first world series since 1950. Instead they have to wait another 3 years until 1980 and after the 1979 acquisition of Pete Rose, which was the missing ingredient since 1976.
I was 17 years old and at that time i was stationed in West Germany with the army , the games and the box scores were a day late, was making me home sick ,
Not only the game sucked for Phillies fans; I also believe Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down the same weekend. What an awful time!
Danny Ozark could only lead that team so far. No defensive replacement for Luzinski. What a disaster!
After this, game 4 was played in a downpour because Chub Feeney wouldn't postpone the game.
And that is the reason we have instant replay.
why wasnt luzinski's catch an out?
Ozark replaced Luzinski with Jerry Martin all season in late inning games with the lead. Martin would of snagged that ball off Motas bat. Even if they won would of went 5 games. Who knows what would of happened
Oh the what-ifs that horrible inning. What if Sizemore plays in on Vic Davalillo, a 200 year-old bunting specialist? What if Ozark replaces Luzinski with Martin on the hit by Mota, as he had done all season? What if the Luzinski's throw doesn't hit a seam, allowing Mota to go to 3rd? What if Schmidt fields Lopes' smash cleanly? What if Hebner stretches even a LITTLE to get Bowa's throw? What if Froemming sees it differently and calls Lopes out? What if Garber doesn't throw away the subsequent pick-off attempt on Lopes?
Awful, awful inning for an 11 year-old Phillies fan.
I was in my parents kitchen watching this game on a little black-and-white TV after school. I’ll never forget that game. Now that we have the Internet we can see it over and over again
Like any fair minded fan should say, even if the base runner is out, you don’t allow the opposing team to be in a position to steal the game from you. Yes, it was heartbreaking but since then, the recent Phillies have been very exciting to watch.
I had tickets to game 2 of the American League series, but I wanted to see the end of this game. We waited and waited . . . and waited, but finally we could wait no longer for the final out. When we got to Royals Stadium and looked at the scoreboard, it was WTAF?
Hate to say it but this looks like the defensive collapse (minus Steve Bartman of course lol)almost the same as say the 2003 Cubs in game 6 of the 2003 NLCS vs. the Marlins. Too young to remember but seems like the Phils should won this series. In 1976 and '78, the Reds and Dodgers respectably were the better teams.
Ozark should have subbed in Martin for Luzinski in LF. Martin likely catches that ball instead of the Bull misjudging it.
If anybody is to blame for the Cubs 2003 meltdown, it is Moises Alou.
Don't forget Leon Durham's error that opened the door to the Padres' winning rally in game 5 of the 1984 NLCS.
I'm surprised that Luzinski didn't argue about that "double" by Mota. It looked like he caught that ball, without it touching the wall. What an inning.
trap
I thought he caught it
Luzinski would've argued the call if he actually caught it. He must've known that the ball scraped the wall.
Phillies beat themselves with bad defense with an assist from Bruce Froeming who called Lopes safe when he was clearly out. Bruce was a good umpire but assumed that there was no way Lopes could have been out on that play but he was wrong.
I don't think Froemming was a good umpire. In addition to this play he's notable for gypping Milt Pappas of a perfect game and then in his last year, 2007, he should have stopped the game when the midges were swarming the field in Cleveland which cost the Yankees a playoff game.
Lopes was out but what sloppy defense. Embarrassing for an MLB team.
Stupid errors by Sizemore, and on the pickoff attempt. Dodgers lucky there was no instant replay review in those days. Lopes was definitely out, and Luzinski may have caught Mota's ball
And Garvey was out in the 2nd.
Vic davaillio was like 94 yrs old lol
Eric Collins lol
His brother was also the shortest man (besides Eddie Gaedel) to ever play in the major leagues.
So was Mota.
@@ronmackinnon9374 Dodger reserves really came through. Lasorda really had a knack for sticking people in at the right times
Lopes was out, but with the naked eye it was a difficult call to make. Today with replay the call would have obviously been overturned
Lopes is out. Black Friday up next. Phils lose again. Win all 3 years later in 1980!
The bull gets a lot of the blame but that was a tough catch for anyone - who knows if Jerry Martin would have caught that. Sizemore error was the real crime.
"Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Manny Mota, Mota, Mota"
Fine, fine line between a "comeback", and a BLOWN CALL by an umpire.
Where was the blown call?
@jack brandt well, it was actually pretty close. Let's not be disingenuous
@jack brandt any kind of a stretch by hebner and lopes is out
That was the way it was with the Dodgers in the 70's, you had to beat them AND the umpires. They would have done it to the Yankees in the series as well, but unfortunately for them, the Yankees were so much better that there weren't enough close plays for the umps to blow to make a difference.
@@jms1963 I'm no Dodger fan, believe me, but I honestly think Garvey had a legitimate gripe when he was called out at home by Nestor Chylak in game 1 of the 1977 World Series at Yankee Stadium. The next year, I definitely agreed with Lasorda that they shouldn't have let Reggie Jackson get away with that hip swivel in game 4.
Hebner barely stretched for the ball.
Bowa should have been playing closer to 2nd on that Russell hit.
Wow today dodgers beat phils...and Phil's had a catch just like that woooowwww
Wish Luzinski should have "sold" that play at the wall. Still, looked like a catch to me; even though it might not have been.
Black Friday. ugh Not too sure that Luzinski didnt catch Motas Fly. Didnt trap it. Glove was between ball and wall.
Damn, but even though luzinski bobbled it, he still caught it right? How come it wasn’t an out?
Ohh I guess they say it touched the wall? It didn’t look like it
Phillies made too many mistakes in those three series 1976-1978.
They weren't beating the Reds in 1976.
@@Rockhound6165 Yes, but the Phillies were the best team in baseball in 1977. They just choked.
@@hammer3353 they actually didn't. They got jobbed by the umpires in this game. Not just the blown call at first but in the 2nd inning they called Garvey safe and to this say, 44 years later, Garvey still hasn't touched home plate. And even on the fly ball to Luzinski, he caught the ball, hit the wall, the ball came out and he re-caught it. The ball never hit the wall or the ground. Hard to beat teams when they get 5-6 outs an inning. Then throw in that game 4 was played in a downpour that should have never been played completely rendering Carlton useless.
@@Rockhound6165Actually, it can be blamed most on the manager. The whole city of Philadelphia was wondering why Jerry Martin wasn't in the game in left field with a 2-run lead in the 9th. I don't think there's any doubt he catches that ball. Game over...momentum back to the Phillies. You are right about how the next game shouldn't have been played in that rain, but the Dodgers had to play in it, too.
well the city of philadelphia is one big mistake so not surprised. philly cheesesteaks are the most overrated sandwich.
Lopes was out 1:29
He was but there's almost no way the ump could have concluded he was definitely safe. It was remarkably close to the point that only replay could have confirmed it. Any ump could have missed that call. There's no way this mistake can even begin to compare to the absurd call Don Denkinger made in Game 6 of the 85 WS. But he was out.
@John Jacobs He was just barely out. It was so close any ump could've made either a safe or out call.
C-H-O-K-E
Lopes was out but it never should have come to that ….
☹I WILL NEVER FORGET HOW AWFUL I FELT AFTER THE PHILLIES LOST THAT GAME AND SERIES...
Looks like outfielder actually caught that ball? Looks like it popped outta his glove when he hit the wall! But the ball didn’t hit the wall.
How many managers who were one out away from playoff elimination would have sent two forty year old pinch hitters to the plate? Sometimes Tommy Lasorda was a genius.
This wasn't an elimination game. It was game 3. Dodgers took a 2-1 lead.
Lasorda had a knack for putting in the right reserve at the right time. It's too bad he couldn't handle his pitching staff the same way
What it comes down to is the Phillies were not good enough to beat the stronger dodger team.
True. Dodgers were lucky. But they were clearly a better team.
we were just a scrappy lil team....btw...the ball hits off of Schimdt...then goes over to Bowa...and they think Lopes couldnt beat out the throw ?? LAUGHABLE
I'm not a Dodgers or Phillies fan and I saw this game live. I thought Lopes was out then and I still do now.
Anyone here after WS game 5, 5th inning?
The blazers...the Dodgers..the 70s ugg
We still won a WS (1980) before the Dodgers (1981) though. 😊
Dodgers won before philly 1955,59'63'65 sooooooooo lol
I was talking about for those 2 particular teams during that era.
@@stephendambrosio7270 shame that the dodgers didnt beat houston in the west divison playoff game to face philly agin that year
Yes that would have been a good NLCS in '80. We did get them in '83 though and beat them. Then in 2008 and 2009 we beat them. Games 4 in 2008 and 2009 were to the Dodgers what Game 3 in 1977 was to Phillies.
Ironically Larry Bowa was with Dodgers in 2008 and 2009 while Davey Lopes was with Phillies. Bowa was never on winning side and Lopes never on losing side in that series history.
Stephen D'Ambrosio no irony sports are just scripted. They just wanted to clown dodger fans in the same way they clowned philly fans in the 70’s. Having Bowa on LA and lopes on Phi just adds to the joke
It looks like Greg Luzinski caught it
1:31 , 1:31.5 , 1:32
Harry Kalas...amazing broadcaster. Absolutely deserving of Hall of Fame induction. Sounds so much better when he is in the booth alone without some jacked-up hyena interrupting his description of what is happening!
He and Richie Ashburn were pure gold.
@@Rockhound6165 Yes! And by "jacked-up hyena," I am thinking of a former catcher, but definitely not Richie Ashburn. That dude was a Hall of Famer all the way!
What a disaster.
i hate the dodgers all i got to say is Reggie Reggie Reggie
Pretty sure at that time I could have outrun Davalillo..Probably still can.
The funny thing is that his form on that bunt is absolutely horrible, he did everything wrong. And he still got down a perfect bunt.
‘He did EVERYTHING WRONG.”? Then I’m glad he did!
@@tracksmith72 Everything. My Legion coach would roll over in his grave if he saw that bunt.
jms1963 ok. How many games did your coach play in a World Series? Or a MLB game? Aha.......
@@jms1963 Idiotic.
Take Garber out. Geez
another phillies choke job he was out but still should never came to that
Davey Lopes was safe on that play!
Out at first!
Sorry,a tie at first,lopes was safe.
Lopes was out. The Phillies should have won the game but were robbed by the umpire.
Looking at the play that Lopes was involved in, I can see why people would think he'd be out, but the slow mo replay shows the play was closer than many people think.
too close to call. Tie goes to the runner. I remember watching this game and this series in 5th grade classroom at school during the day.
@@robertwheatley3225 It wasn't too close to call, he was clearly out. If they had replay, the game would have been over. It was simply a blown call.
@@floydparr8006 As close as that play was no way that's a blown call. It was just a really close play.
@@robertwheatley3225 there is no rule "ties go to the runner."
If the ball hits your glove then hits the wall but you keep the ball from hitting the ground, isn't that an out?
No one ever mentions this. It looks like it was a catch because the ball never hit the wall. However, Luzinski acted like it was not a catch and maybe that was a factor
No.
Its a trap
From what I see, Luzinski caught the ball, even though it popped out of his glove, he still managed to hang on to it. The ball never hit the grown or the wall. It was an OUT!
No. I slowed it down as much as I could - the footage is too grainy, but it looks like the ball does hit the wall first. Then into Greg's glove. Considering the way he reacted, that is what I am sticking with.
Lopes was out
Davey Lopes was out
Davey Lopes hits a ground ball to Mike Schmidt, off his glove, CLANK! Phillies lose the pennant. This settles the reason why Brooks Robinson is the best at 3B in defense.
Robinson didn't play most of his games on astroturf (likely just Kansas City and in the World Series against Pittsburgh). Schmidt played around 75% of his games on astroturf--his home games and many other stadiums (even the Giants had astroturf until the start of 1979). The ball already comes hot at 3B and even faster on astroturf.
It's like the argument of Hank Aaron vs. Willie Mays being the better power hitter. Aaron played a lot of home games in Fulton County Stadium (easy HR park) vs. Candlestick (Mays had to adjust his swing to hit more to right center because the wind often blew straight in from left).
In the 1970 World Series the games in Cincinnati were on astroturf and he was the MVP putting on a defensive display never seen before ever.
Brooks Robinson never made a bad play?
@@bananaspartan2234 Disagree about Aaron. He played more than half his career in Milwaukee but comparing him with Mayes they were pretty equal. They both retired with similar SLG.%. Aaron was .555 and Mays was .557 but Aaron was the better overall hitter.
@@jamesmatthews1595 but he didn't play the majority of his career on Astroturf especially that concrete pad in Philadelphia.
To think they lost again to the dodgers the next years NL championship, but won the Whole thing in 1980 ! It’s hard to to see the struggle the Phillies had losing those championship games, only to feel refreshed & exhilarating when they won the World Series in ‘80 ! Love the Phillies ❤️
Yep i remember every nlcs phillies always lose with Dodgers
I hate the Dodgers. The putrid Dodger blue....yuck.
i love a good looking guy in dodger blue. best uniform in baseball. yankee pinstripes second . phillies uniform around 19 of 30.
Phillies choked in 77
Looked like the umpire choked. I'm not a fan of either team but I thought he was out when I watched it live. Still do.
we crushed the Dodgers in 08 09
The Phillies looked worse than the bad news bears in that inning lol
Lopes was out