Rose deserves to be in the hall of fame. Don't care if he broke the rules. He still played great ball. He played 110% gave us more some games. I pulled for the Braves. Still loved watching Rose play ball.Even if he played for the Philadelphia. He gave it all.

This announcing booth is tremendous. Keith Jackson can call any sport!

That's crazy how far off the plate Schmidt stood

Even at 39 Pete Rose still had great speed and was still a great athlete.

Man do I miss the 80 Phillies. What a year. The 3/5's of the earth is covered by water, the rest is covered by Gary Maddox. Tug Mcgraw, Big Lefty, Gene Garber, Luzinski, Bowa, Boone, Unser etc. etc. What a year, what a series, what finish. WHEW !!!

Pete Rose’s drive, competitiveness and fire was second to none and likely none will ever compare. The man went all out to get the win.

One of the greatest NLCS ever. Last four games all went extras.

Nobody in the modern era played baseball as hard as Pete Rose.

2 years ago Pete Rose was making one of his summertime tours of minor-league ballparks. He'd sign autographs, address the crowd, and act as a 1st and 3rd base coach for about 4 or 5 innings. . .I saw him do this one night in Wichita with an American Association team. . .Pete was coaching at 1st base and a guy hit a line drive into the gap in left-center. . .Pete was waving him on to second with everything he had. . .The kid made the turn and got almost halfway to 2nd and then just stopped and jogged back to 1st base. It would have taken an extremely long and perfect throw to nail him at 2nd. So when the kid got back to the bag at 1st, Pete charged up to him, threw his arm around him and had a face to face "chat" with him. I'll bet it went something like this, "Son, if you ever want to play in the major leagues you better stop making plays like that. I waved you on because you were gonna make it, but if you keep stoppin' like that and trottin' back to 1st, you better get used to playin' your whole career in the minor leagues!" I loved that Pete didn't just stand there, but instead went up to the kid and I'm sure gave him some great baseball advice.

I dont care what people say i grew up watching pete rose play He needs to be in the Baseball hall of fame no exceptions!!!!

GOD BLESS THE PHILLIES AND PETE ROSE. I HAVE BEEN A PHILLIES FAN FOR 56 YEARS.

Howard was right. That 3-0 pitch was several inches off the plate and that's what Schmidt was protesting when walking back to the dugout.

Now they smile and talk to each other throughout the game and point to the sky every time they get a single.

I love the way Pete Rose used to play the game.

Brings back a lot of good memories! 1970s & early 80s baseball. Got to love it!!

The most insane playoff series I’ve ever seen in my life

Great Stuff! Pete coming in like a Full Back. That Philly team was fun back then.

Only 28 players in MLB history have over 3000 career hits... and only 2 players have more than 4000 career hits... Pete Rose is the all time hits leader with 4256 hits.

One of the greatest and most underrated MLB playoff series ever.

There is a man that played the game for the love of the game. Everything he did was 100% full steam.

Real baseball…. I miss watching real baseball. And YES,!!!! Pete Rose should be in the Baseball HOF!!!

Great Baseball and great broadcasting....you'll never see this ever again.

It's hard to film a TV with a phone when you're standing up in a canoe.

This was a hell of a series! I was a young Astros fan and it brings back some good but heartbreaking memories. Every game went extra innings except for game 1, which I believe was a 2-1 final score.

I remember watching that series as a teenager, it was a great one as I recall.

Great memories! Mike Schmitt had every reason to complain about that pitch. It was way outside!

When baseball was baseball!

The greatest playoff series in the history of baseball. Fantastic play by both teams 😅

1980: C picks himself up and Houston plays ball. 2019: Runner is out, facing fine/suspension, benches and bullpens empty. Next Philly batter gets beaned, Houston batter gets beaned. Butthurt all the way around.

Remember watching that game when I was eleven years old.

Im a yankee fan , i admit this series had me glued to the set Best series i have watched

Bruce Bochy was so afraid that Pete Rose was COMING for him that he couldn't even catch the ball!!! 600+ Martial Arts, Tai Chi, and Fitness Videos at my channel!

Howard Cosell. Miss that guy.

Played that way and didn’t miss too many games. From 1973-1982 Rose only missed 5 games in 10 seasons and had 2 seasons where he played 163 games.

truly one of the greatest humans EVER that walked the face of the Earth PETER EDWARD ROSE

Heck of a line up the Philadelphia philies had back then

I love this time period when watching a game. The broadcaster would tell you about the game, instead of trying to be cute and making a joke with everything. The umpires also let the guys play and only ejected guys when they deserved it. Instead of thinking people come to see them and wearing maxi pads; having their feelings hurt and ejecting guys right away.

Bruce Bochy. One of the best Catcher, turned Managers ever.

Pete Rose had no business scoring on that play! Hard hit ball to LF by Bull Luzinski. Good bounce to Jose Cruz. Landestoy HAS the ball when Pete is crossing third! Pete really did have good speed for a stocky dude --- and he was 39 here! A Man's Play is about to take place. Gotta catch the ball & maneuver. Don't get mad. This play was vintage Charlie Hustle.

RIP all three announcers from this game.

damn all the way from first....that why they called him Charlie hustle.

Anyone notice that when the outfielders fielded base hits, they FIRED, not LOBBED, the ball back to the infield? Another small example of how the game has changed.

The first pitch was a FOOT outside. Glad to see nothing in baseball has changed.

Gosh, I miss this era of baseball. I had posters of Rose, Luzinski, Schmidt, Brett hanging up in my bedroom when I was a teenager. I left home from Michigan to Florida in the winter of 1981to follow a dream of being a Pro baseball player. The dream didn't come true of course. But, while in Florida baseball camp on the Campus of Fort Lauderdale College, I met Carl Yaztremski, Buck Dent, Mr. Chicago Cub Ernie Banks. What a thrill. I was 19 years old.

The amazing thing about Pete Rose was that he played all out full tilt ALL The time and he didnt miss any ballgames . Most guys whp play like Rose ( if there are any ) inevitably get hurt alot and sit . Pete was one tough bastard

I'm in my mid 40s and this is how I was taught to play baseball

Wow...classic..Charlie Hustle...Howard Cosell..Keith Jackson....The Bull ..Manny..Larry..Shake..Dallas.. and Michael Jack Schmidt!!! Thanks for the post

When baseball was baseball

People think Pete Rose was just being reckless. But he understood tendencies of how fielders will react. He knew about throwing positioning about fielders and how the catcher will react when he barreling down.

Greg Luzinksi....Wow, what an athletic specimen he was.

Philadelphia Fever!! Nobody that ain't been born in Philly, like me, will ever feel it...I used to mow Larry Boa's lawn, when I worked for a yard service he used in South Jersey one summer in the 70's..I was 20 years old in 1980...everybody loved the Phillies back then, & those guys were absolute studs!

Pete Rose was awesome!

This is why Pete Rose was great. He was absolutely relentless. And all the announcers do a fantastic job breaking down this play. They all make excellent points.

jose cruz...most underated player ever

I was 14, grew up in Houston, remember being heartbroken at the result of this series. I'd completely forgotten how long this series was. This one hurt more than the Astros/Mets a few years later.

The greatest series of baseball I have ever watched. I was a sophomore at Elizabethtown College. I remember tearing out clumps of my hair from the constant tension.

Keith Jackson , Cosell and Big D (Don Drysdale) in the booth . Pete Rose and Mike Schmidt on the field with a future SF/SD manager behind the plate all in the NLCS no less !!!!!!

Great series as I remember-LOL though at a drunk Howard Cosell trying to call balls and strikes...

When the game was great to watch

I watched this when I was a kid then I blinked now I'm almost 50

Catcher did not have possession of the ball, and tried to block the plate anyway. pete had every right to kick his ass and did so!

The 3-0 to Schmidt was half a foot outside.

Thanks for posting...great memory

This is still one of the best playoff series

Luzinski looks like flatten anybody from today's game 😂

The good days of baseball!!!!

I miss when baseball was baseball - love my Phil’s

Just beatiful Baseball I miss it so much!!

The Phillies were competitive throughput the 70s but when Pete Rose signed with the Phillies in 1979, he turned them into World Series Champions in 1980 and National League Champs in 1983. Pete Rose absolutely deserves to be in the HOF!!

Damn I miss the Astrodome

I was 17 on this night, what a CLASSIC series this was !! I loved The Phil's in these days !! The year before of course, Pittsburgh won it all .." We Are Family !! " GREAT DAYS !!

When baseball was played like it should be. 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s were the greatest decades for baseball. Bochy just shook it off and got back behind the plate. Today there would have been a bench clearing brawl.

Charlie Hustle....Turning Singles to Doubles...Doubles to Triples. #HOF

Plus that was like Pete roses 20th season and still playing hard like that. Crazy

If only today's players had the determination of Charlie Hustle. Rose was running so hard he lost his helmet and kicked it and he still had momentum to go 90 ft. home.

Dude just gave him a forearm at full speed. What a guy! Today he'd be arrested.

Love it. That's the Pete Rose I know and love and that's how you play baseball: with intensity, passion and grit.

RIP Big D (Don Drysdale)

I remember watching this game when I was a kid

Larry Bowa looked a little overmatched in his AB

Pete played to win

Few things: Keith Jackson, Don Drysdale, Howard Costello on ABC…Drinking fountain in the dugout…And Charlie Hustle left it all on the field and absolutely should be in the HOF.

There!!!...right there is Howard Cosell

And Cosell has to insert a boxing reference? Cosell knew as much about baseball as an aardvarck knows about a bank holiday.

Perfectly legal. My thinking is I'll do a collision if there's a close play at the plate.

I didn’t care for bochy them and I love this play. Great series I loved it

Out-fucking standing. That's the game I remember! The "throw" wasn't bad, the catcher misplayed it.

Rose would have ran over Grandma if she was the catcher on this play.......

Back when baseball was worth watching. No more.

I remember this! What a competitor!!! Look at that old man run! Bowl cut hair flying in the breeze. Pete Rose was certainly talented, but even so, he was 10% talent, 90% sheer will.

Actually Rose started to step around the catcher and the catcher moved toward him, then he said ok and went right through him.

He treated Bochy like a bitch. Gave him a left to the head just for the hell of it.

Bruce Bochy has won more World Series Championships as a Manager than he did as a Player.

Best era of baseball

As an Astros fan this and the 86 NLCs pains me but Pete Rose is an uber chad that should be forgiven and put in the Hall of Fame where he should be.

They drank out of a water fountain....not a cooler of Gatorade and bottle water. I'm glad is was alive during this time of baseball. I've seen the best. I'll put up the shittiest team of the 80's against The Boston Red Sox of today anyday.

Big Phillies fan here. I do agree that Pete should stay away from MLB, but did anyone notice how Don and Howard are not saying how dispicable Pete's collision was? Because it wasn't. That was the game back then boys..... "Point is Don, the ball was there!" HA!

I have to say Pete Rose is one of my favorite players of all time! He played with such a passion you don't see these days! He bet on baseball, but not in a way that he would throw a game! Pete was a monster player!

Bochy bobbled and lost the ball, pure and simple...due in part to playing the hop wrong and in part to seeing Pete Rose coming at him like a freight train. Probably wet himself a little too,

J.R. Richard had a chance for the Hall of Fame, but Sambito and Thon had no chance.