There have been plenty of memorable games at Wrigley Field but A&E has decided to memorialize one of these classic games. Back in 1979, the Phillies and Cubs played in a game where they combined for 45 runs on 50 hits in ten innings on May 17, 1979. There were plenty of hitting stars and plenty of pitching goats and you can check out the details here. This is a fun game to own for $12.95.
It’s hard to say who was the hitting star. Mike Schmidt hit a pair of home runs and Dave Kingman went yard three times. Larry Bowa had five hits and Bill Buckner had seven RBIs. If you want to know how the flip side fared, the two teams threw a combined eleven pitchers, nine of which gave up runs and seven of which gave up four or more each.
How the scoring went down was interesting too. The Phillies jumped out to a seven run lead in the first but the Cubs answered with six in the bottom half of the inning. By the fourth, the Phillies held a 17-6 after four and a 21-9 lead after five but the Cubs managed to tie it up with some impressive offense. Ironically nobody scored in the ninth but the Phillies put it away in the tenth. A really fun game.
