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Perhaps the best way for you to understand exactly how bizarre the Cubs’ 16-15 win over the Reds in 13 innings was is to watch this highlights package narrated by WGN-TV’s Rick Talley. It happened 40 years ago today:

That’s nearly 10 minutes of highlights, way more than you’d get almost anywhere on any televised sports show today for a single regular-season game. But that game had pretty much everything you could think of. The video is an excellent record of that era at Wrigley, with beer cups seen in the outfield basket, the grass not in great shape, and the wall behind home plate much farther away from the plate than it is now, with all the extra seats the Cubs added over the last decade or so. We don’t have a lot of good video like this from that era and this is well worth watching.

The Cubs trailed 6-0 before they batted, then hit two homers in the bottom of the first inning to make it 6-4. The five home runs the two teams combined for in the first inning set a National League record.

George Mitterwald homered in the second and the Cubs scored three to take a 7-6 lead, but the Reds came back with four in the third to lead 10-7.

By the end of the fourth inning it was tied 10-10 but the Reds hit more homers to take a 14-10 lead by the top of the eighth. You’ll see the name “Griffey” come up with one of those home runs. That, of course, is Ken Griffey Sr., the father of the future Hall of Famer.

Bill Buckner’s two-run homer and a solo shot by Jerry Morales made it 14-13 after eight, and that’s when the Cubs started running out of infielders. From the Retrosheet boxscore link above:

REDS 9TH: SUTTER REPLACED GROSS (PITCHING); ROSELLO REPLACED WALLIS (PLAYING SS); CARDENAL STAYED IN GAME (PLAYING 2B); Rose reached on an error by Cardenal [Rose to first]; Dave Rosello and Jose Cardenal switch 2B and SS based on batter's hand;

Cardenal had played infield before, but not since 1969 and then only briefly. (This gets more fun later.)

Cubs manager Herman Franks got himself tossed later in that inning disputing a close call at first base. If you look at the video above he was probably right; modern replay review would have overturned that call.

On the game went to extras. No one scored in the 10th or 11th. In the 12th the Reds took the lead and Bobby Murcer had to play the infield. Murcer had come up through the Yankees system as a shortstop, but hadn’t played there in 11 years, until this:

REDS 12TH: BROBERG REPLACED MORALES (PITCHING); CLINES REPLACED SUTTER (PLAYING CF); MURCER CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING 2B); ROSELLO CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING SS); Foster doubled to right; Bench walked; MURCER CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING SS); ROSELLO CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING 2B); Geronimo flied out to left; MURCER CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING 2B); ROSELLO CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING SS); Concepcion reached on a fielder's choice [Bench to second (error by Rosello; assist by Broberg), Foster scored (unearned) (no RBI)]; Bench advanced to third; MURCER CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING SS); ROSELLO CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING 2B); Concepcion stole second; Lum was walked intentionally; SUMMERS BATTED FOR NORMAN; Summers struck out; Rose struck out; 1 R (0 ER), 1 H, 1 E, 3 LOB. Reds 15, Cubs 14.

Davey Rosello, the only real infielder among the two, made an error that allowed the lead run to score.

But Mitterwald’s second homer of the game tied the contest again in the bottom of the 12th.

Rick Reuschel, the Cubs’ best starter, came on to pitch in the 13th with two on and one out and got out of the inning. A good hitter, Reuschel singled with one out in the bottom of the 13th, advanced to third (watch him run on the video, he was an excellent baserunner despite his size) on a single by Steve Ontiveros, and scored on a single by Rosello, in a way atoning for his error.

The 11 home runs combined for the two teams remains the National League record for such things. It’s been done three times, all at Wrigley Field. The Cubs had 24 hits that day; they’ve had that many (or more) just eight times in franchise history (in the baseball-reference era, since 1913).

The Cubs struggled that July, but that win moved them to a 60-39 record and held a 2½-game lead in the N.L. East.

You know what happened after that and it doesn’t bear repeating here. This game was in many ways even wilder than the famous 23-22 loss to the Phillies two years later, in part because the Cubs won this one and in part because of the homer record, the outfielders used as infielders, and the guy making the key error redeeming himself.


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I still remember this game as a kid. I started watching at home, and then went to my Whitecap Little League game at Hanson Park. I was in the outfield, and between pitches, remember one of the dads yelling out "Cubs Win!"

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Jaw Breaker wrote:
I still remember this game as a kid. I started watching at home, and then went to my Whitecap Little League game at Hanson Park. I was in the outfield, and between pitches, remember one of the dads yelling out "Cubs Win!"

I don't remember this game, but I remember the crazy games against the Phillies over the next year or two....this will be fun to watch.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:18 pm 
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Jaw Breaker wrote:
I still remember this game as a kid. I started watching at home, and then went to my Whitecap Little League game at Hanson Park. I was in the outfield, and between pitches, remember one of the dads yelling out "Cubs Win!"


I watched it on TV too. Great game!


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didn't realize they didn't have seats in the left field corner...

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Can't believe all the big names on that Reds squad. It hit me that I didn't see Tony Perez involved, but his last year with the Reds was 76.

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For the life of me, I will never understand the Jack Brickhouse love. He can't do a single home run call without that raspy pre-pubescent voice.


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Caller Bob wrote:
For the life of me, I will never understand the Jack Brickhouse love. He can't do a single home run call without that raspy pre-pubescent voice.


Way to crap on the thread.

That was my 1st Cubs team I really go into. They collapsed like a cheap tent that year.

Thanks for the link, '77. Great watch.


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Peoria Matt wrote:
Caller Bob wrote:
For the life of me, I will never understand the Jack Brickhouse love. He can't do a single home run call without that raspy pre-pubescent voice.


Way to crap on the thread.

That was my 1st Cubs team I really go into. They collapsed like a cheap tent that year.

Thanks for the link, '77. Great watch.


You're welcome. That was the first team I really got into as well.

And they finally delivered the championship 39 years later - lol!


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Peoria Matt wrote:
Caller Bob wrote:
For the life of me, I will never understand the Jack Brickhouse love. He can't do a single home run call without that raspy pre-pubescent voice.


Way to crap on the thread.

That was my 1st Cubs team I really go into. They collapsed like a cheap tent that year.

Thanks for the link, '77. Great watch.

No kidding Matt, pretty shitty thing to say .

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No kidding Matt, pretty shitty thing to say .


We should table this discussion.


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He was a shitty broadcaster and I'm glad he's fucking dead.


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He had a glass topped casket.

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I just didn't think this thread would turn into a place to dump on Brickhouse.

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Rick Talley wrote a good book about the 69 Cubs cak in 1990. He died 5 years after that. Too bad. One of those books I can recall every detail now 27 years later.

Spary Anderson looked like he was 72 when he was in his 30s.


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