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50 Greatest Phillies Games: 10. The wildest two-act play in Phillies history

Until March 27, we’ll be counting down the 50 greatest Phillies games of the last 50 years. This is 50 of 50.

And this is No. 10.

THE DATE: Oct. 11, 1980

THE GAME: Phillies vs. Houston Astros, Houston Astrodome, Houston, Texas

THE STAKES: Game 4, National League Championship Series

THE GREAT: This series.

This God-awful, stomach-churning, blood-boiling series of baseball games. I wasn’t alive. I wish I was. But I’m sort of glad I wasn’t.

The 1980 Phillies lived on the fault line, teetering between glory and flat-lining.