Me too...the radio cept my baseball commentators were chuck thompson, john miller, and joe angel. Baltimore

Game wasn't televised in Philadelphia.

That was Ashburn who said that.

It was probably a Cubs fan.

Scooby Carr I think it was Andy Messer. He was always a little jealous of Andy Musser.

Dry noodle!

Scooby always a "contrary Mary" in the house. ALWAYS! LQQK there is 5 Contrary Mary's now!

Dennis Lamp. I'd say Randy Lerch, but he got a homer in this game and his team got the W.

Yanks guy was Frank Messer

Anna Hutchinson I believe that 3rd Homerun by Kingman needed no help from the wind. He got every bit of it.

remmber when he hit 4 in a game at Wrigley

I think there is an arrest warrant still out on Mike Schmidt in Chicago for what he did to our Cubbies over the years.

in a losing effort. Mike Schmidt hit a game winning homerun

Didnt he hit a slam later?

@@davidruda831 no that was his last homer of the day

4th structure / 5th lot up Kenmore 570-580' A bit higher the ball would have cracked the guy in the kneecap.

@@davidruda831 Bill Buckner hit the slam

My favorite

Tom Strauss and it is great.

Playing LEFT field? I always think of him as a barely-adequate first baseman.

@@maxshenkwrites with massive power. And no steroids.

​@@1thepner"Sky King" 👑⚾

Nothing was stranger than seeing Mike Schmidt batting leadoff in the 1978 NLCS

You got it!

If I may recall the Cubs won 23-6 against the Padres.

In 1964 the hapless NY Mets beat the Cubs 19-1 at Wrigley. A fan in NY asked the publisher of the sports page, "Did they win?" 😆⚾

@NJ CardFan first, his name is Lerch, second, i'm sure instead of thinking what you thought he thought, "crap the wind is blowing out, i'm in trouble today" like most pitchers that have pitched in Wrigley with the wind blowing out

@@steveswangler6373 word of advice. Grow a sense of humor.

A lot of Yankees games that are posted here feature announcer Frank Messer. I’m guessing it’s a typo

you're welcome

Yes, that game put them into a funk. The Phillies lost most of the pitching staff to injuries that year. At the All-Star break the Phillies were 3 1/2 back, but after losing 7 of 8 to the Pirates in August, they were done. Danny Ozark was fired after a particularly bad August homestand and replaced by Dallas Green.

That's baseball for you - sometimes you have some real good seasons but get one awfully bad season. But this was just a bump in the road for the Phillies as they would win the World Series the next year.

Von Noosh Arne Harris was producer-director of Cubs telecasts for 37 years at WGN, along a with a core group of Joe Cornejo & Jack Rosenberg, who was the long time WGN sports editor.

And it was Lou Boudreau that famously called Dave Kingman's titanic 530-foot homer onto Kenmore Avenue: "Hey, kiss it goodbye, it is gone! I thought he had hit the other one hard! That one's in Milwaukee!"

And when Mike Schmidt hit that tiebreaking homer in the 10th, Jack Brickhouse famously called that shot that defeated the Cubs a gone goose. Could that have been Garfield Goose?

That's not true. The Phillies broadcast the game on Channel 17 on this date. The reason Musser starts the call of the game on this broadcast is because Kalas did the play by play on TV for the early innings. No surviving video exists of the Philadelphia telecast that I'm aware of and the WGN tape probably only exists because of the historical nature of the game. Jack Brickhouse was great during the game. If you watch the video you can hear a bunch of kids yelling "Let's go Cubs" in the background at times. Other things that are interesting of note, because the game was played at 2:00 pm East Coast time and most people were at work, Channel 17 rebroadcast the game the same evening so people could see it. Kalas at the beginning of the broadcast talks about "Photo Night" on the coming Saturday night against the Expos. This was the same night that the Phillies wore solid maroon uniforms for the first and only time. I was there that night and have pictures of most of the Phillies wearing them. On a sad note, all three of the men who broadcast this game almost 40 years ago is gone. I miss Harry the K, Whitey, and the underrated Andy Musser.

This game is on the baseball greatest games dvd

That's ok. Phillies won it all the following year.

Donnie Moore never recovered from giving up that game tying HR to Dave Henderson in the '86 ALCS.

Frank Messer was the Yankees Announcer!

There's nothing like that ballgame when I was not quite 13 at the time when my Mom and I were watching that ballgame.

36 runs in two games wow

No, they wore the all Maroon Uniforms as a "Saturday Night Special" for the one and only time on fan photo night on Saturday, May 19th, 1979. I know because I was there that Saturday night.

Wow! I didn't know this unknown fact ...

@@richardgazinia5482 the "Burgundy Beauties ". Players said they didn't fit well.

This game is on dvd by mlb greatest games

MLB has this one.

It's out there, Padres-Reds 9-11-1985, I love listening to those record breaking games.

chris wheeler was not on the broadcast team in 1979

The Clever He did home games only from 1977 until the mid-80s, if I'm not mistaken.

William T Dunphy Also, Ashburn did play-by-play in the 10th in addition to 5-6.

Noah Yingling, you're right on the 1977 start year, but he actually worked until 2014....either way the phillies broadcast teams were the best.

The Clever Yeah, I knew he did Phillies games until 2014 but I think he only did home games from 1977-mid 80s. I think he started doing road games once they had more games being televised. One thing I hadn't heard before was Whitey doing PBP. Now, I can say that I have.

Duhh, this is the Philly broadcast and the Phillies lead man in the booth this day and for 38 years was KALAS. The other Harry worked for the Cards and the Chicago teams.