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.