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Most memorable home runs in Phillies history

By Kerry Kauffman

Mike Schmidt,Third and First Baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies prepares to bat the during the Major League Baseball National League East game against the Chicago Cubs on 28 June 1988 at Wrigley Field, Chicago, United States. Cubs won the game 6 - 4. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Allsport/Getty Images)
Mike Schmidt,Third and First Baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies prepares to bat the during the Major League Baseball National League East game against the Chicago Cubs on 28 June 1988 at Wrigley Field, Chicago, United States. Cubs won the game 6 - 4. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Allsport/Getty Images) /
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Mike Schmidt: May 17, 1979

In one of the wildest games in MLB history, the Phillies and Cubs combined to score 45 runs. The Phillies scored seven in the first on a three-run homer by Schmidt, a three-run homer by Bob Boone and a solo shot by pitcher Randy Lerch. Ahead 7-6 after one, the Phillies built a 21-9 lead after 4 1/2.

The Cubs came all the way back to tie at 22, in large part due to six home runs, three by Dave Kingman. The Phillies took the lead to stay with two outs in the 10th when Schmidt belted his second home run of the game, this time off Bruce Sutter. The Phillies won the game, 23-22.

Mike Schmidt: October 4, 1980

On a cold early October day in Montreal, the Phillies held a slim one-game lead in the division with just two to play. Tied at four in the 11th, Mike Schmidt hit a bullet that hit deep into the left-field seats in near record time. As Phillies broadcaster Andy Musser called on the radio, “long drive to left field, he buried it, he buried it. Way back, outta here! Home run Mike Schmidt puts the Phillies up six to four!”

It was Schmidt’s 47th home run of the season and gave the Phillies the win to clinch the division.  The Phillies went on to defeat the Astros in the NLCS and the Royals for their first World Series title in franchise history.

Bake McBride: October 14, 1980

The Phillies got off to a slow start in their first World Series game in 1980, down 4-0 in the third. After getting two runs back, Bake McBride capped off the five-run third with a three-run shot to deep right to put the Phillies up, 5-4.  The Phillies won the game, 7-6 and the series in six games.

McBride hit .309 with a career-best 87 RBI that season and .292 with 44 home runs in five seasons with the team.  He hit three career postseason home runs but none more memorable, nor more influential than this one in the World Series.

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