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Louis Cardinals on your iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows phone. If this match is covered by U-TV live streaming you can watch Baseball match Chicago Cubs St. Louis Cardinals live stream online if you are registered member of U-TV, the leading online betting company that has streaming coverage for more than 140.000 live sports events with live betting during the year. A win’s a win.You can watch Chicago Cubs vs. “We knew it was one of those games that you’d look back on when you’re retired and say, ‘That’s an unbelievable game,’” said Bowa, who went 5-for-8 with an RBI that day. “… Anytime you get a W, it doesn’t matter if you win 23-22 or 2-1. The nearly 15,000 on hand that day at Wrigley sure got a treat, even though things ended in disappointment for the Chicago faithful. The slugfest proved to be an all-time classic, leading MLB Network to name it the 20th greatest game of all time. Watch the whole thing here.įun note: Despite Kingman's three homers and Schmidt's two bombs, it was the Cubs' Bill Buckner who led both teams with seven RBIs. The totals: 45 runs, 11 homers, 10 doubles, two triples, 27 singles and 15 walks. Not the best showing for those who toed the rubber on either side. “I knew from the first inning on, even though we got seven, I knew that wasn’t going to be enough, no matter who was pitching,” Phillies shortstop Larry Bowa told MLB Network in 2011. MORE: 10 single-season MLB feats we'll probably never see again Lovable losers, indeed.īut baseball being weird and all, players sensed something crazy was about to happen pretty much from the beginning. In fact, 1979 was in the middle of stretch in which the Cubs had 11 straight non-winning seasons (they finished 81-81 in 1977). “A very sad finish to one of the greatest games anybody has ever seen anywhere,” Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse said.Ĭubs fans were used to sad finishes. Again, it was very pre-2016 Cubs. After all the crazy, wind-aided fun, and all the what-will-happen-next drama, the Cubs went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 10th. But in the 10th, future Hall of Famer Schmidt went deep off future Hall of Famer Bruce Sutter to give the Phillies a 23-22 lead. Forsaking the opportunity for wild baseball heroics, neither team scored in the ninth inning. So, to summarize, the Phillies blew leads of 7-0, 17-6 and 21-9. The Cubs held the line in the top of the eighth, then put up three in the bottom half to tie things up. The Phillies scored a single run in the seventh. The Phillies didn’t score in the top of the sixth. The Cubs scored seven in their half of the fifth. TWENTY-ONE TO NINE! Certainly now things are under control. Heading to the bottom of the fifth, the Phillies led 21-9. After holding the Cubs scoreless in the bottom of the third and then putting two more runs on the board in the top of the fourth, the Phillies led 17-6 and probably thought they finally had things under control. Gary Maddox led off the inning with a double, and later capped the scoring with a two-run homer. The Phillies exploded again for eight runs in the top of the third after sending 13 men to the plate.
Somehow, neither team scored in the second inning. The Cubs answered with six runs in the bottom half, hitting for cycle that inning, which included Dave Kingman’s first of three homers on the day. The Phillies exploded with seven runs in the first inning on the strength of three home runs: a two-run shot from Mike Schmidt, a two-run shot from Bob Boone and a solo homer from Randy Lerch. Let’s take a look at some of the details. MORE: That time an MLB player got a hit for two teams on the same day More than four decades later, the game is regarded as one of the greatest in baseball history - not only because of the high offensive output, but because of the dramatic, back-and-forth way in which it unfolded. Yes, the wind was blowing out that day at Wrigley. On May 17, 1979, the Cubs put on an amazing offensive performance, scoring 22 runs on 26 hits, which would’ve been an amazing victory - had the Phillies not put up 23 runs on 24 hits.
It’s usually safe to assume that when a major league team breaks the 20-run mark in a game, that team will win that game.