Visitor:  Kansas City Royals

Home:  Philadelphia Phillies

Date:  October 15, 1980

World Series Game 2

 

Scoring:

Team         1       2       3       4       5       6       7       8       9         R    H      E

KC           0       0       0       0       0       1       3       0       0         4     11     0

PHI           0       0       0       0       2       0       0       4       x         6     8       1

 

Visitor playmakers:

CF Amos Otis, RF John Wathan

 

Home playmakers:

2B Manny Trillo, SS Larry Bowa, Keith Moreland, CF Del Unser, LF Bake McBride, 3B Mike Schmidt

 

Network:  NBC (WMAQ Chicago)

Announcers:  Joe Garagiola, Tom Seaver, Tony Kubek

 

Pregame:  Yes

Postgame:  No

Commercials:  No

 

Grade:  90/100.  Minor ghosting, clumsy commercial edits, but a very good copy.

 

Notes:  Game 2 was a pitcher's duel between left-handers Larry Gura and Steve Carlton. Carlton looked in control up 2-1 until, acting on Manager Jim Frey's complaint that Carlton was using a foreign substance on the ball, the umpires made Carlton wash his hands.[1] Carlton then loaded the bases with three walks and Amos Otis ripped a double into the left field corner driving in two and setting up a third score. The Fightin' Phils refused to give up again, and down 4-2 they rallied to go up on the Royals in the eighth. The big hits in this inning came via a game tying RBI double by Del Unser and a go ahead RBI single by Bake McBride past the drawn in infield. Mike Schmidt drove in an insurance run with a double off the right-center field wall and Ron Reed picked up the save in the ninth as Philadelphia went up 2-0 heading to Kansas City.

 

George Brett left the game in the sixth inning after going 2-for-2 with a walk...it was later revealed he was suffering from hemorrhoids

 

Thanks Richard!

 

Running time:  2:44 (2 discs)