| Philadelphia Phillies | 2 |
| Chicago White Sox | 6 |
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| 1981 TCMA Oklahoma City 89ers #17 |
Rate Field - Chicago, IL
60-46, 2nd Place, 1 1/2 games behind the Mets
60-46, 2nd Place, 1 1/2 games behind the Mets
One Sentence Summary: Cristopher Sanchez stumbled through a rare bad outing and the Phillies offense couldn't figure out White Sox pitching in this 6-2 defeat.
What It Means: The Mets fell to the Padres, so the deficit in the pennant race remained at 1 1/2 games.
What Happened: Sanchez battled through 6 2/3 innings, but allowed four runs on seven hits. The two big blows were a two-run home run from Colson Montgomery in the second to tie the score and a two-run home run from Luis Robert Jr. in the fourth to give the Sox the lead for good. Seth Johnson surrendered two more runs in the eighth, putting the game out of reach. Bryce Harper accounted for both Phillies runs with a two-run double in the top of the third.
Featured Card: I was saddened to learn during the game Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg had passed away after a battle with cancer. Sandberg played in 13 games for the Phillies in 1981, batting .167 (1 for 6) before an ill-advised deal sent him to the Cubs with Larry Bowa, as a throw-in no less, for Ivan DeJesus. He'd return to the Phillies organization in 2011 as manager of the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs, and in 2013 was promoted to the role of bench coach under Charlie Manuel. Manuel was let go in August 2013 and replaced by Sandberg, who managed the team for 278 games between August 2013 and June 2015. He was 119-159 while leading the Phillies during their early rebuilding years.
What It Means: The Mets fell to the Padres, so the deficit in the pennant race remained at 1 1/2 games.
What Happened: Sanchez battled through 6 2/3 innings, but allowed four runs on seven hits. The two big blows were a two-run home run from Colson Montgomery in the second to tie the score and a two-run home run from Luis Robert Jr. in the fourth to give the Sox the lead for good. Seth Johnson surrendered two more runs in the eighth, putting the game out of reach. Bryce Harper accounted for both Phillies runs with a two-run double in the top of the third.
Featured Card: I was saddened to learn during the game Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg had passed away after a battle with cancer. Sandberg played in 13 games for the Phillies in 1981, batting .167 (1 for 6) before an ill-advised deal sent him to the Cubs with Larry Bowa, as a throw-in no less, for Ivan DeJesus. He'd return to the Phillies organization in 2011 as manager of the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs, and in 2013 was promoted to the role of bench coach under Charlie Manuel. Manuel was let go in August 2013 and replaced by Sandberg, who managed the team for 278 games between August 2013 and June 2015. He was 119-159 while leading the Phillies during their early rebuilding years.
I didn't have the chance to appreciate Sandberg as a Phillies player and his tenure as Phillies manager was hampered by bad teams on the field, but I can appreciate what he meant to baseball and especially Cubs fans.
For a few years in the early 1980s, this was by far the most "valuable" card in my collection. We had purchased a 1981 TCMA Oklahoma City 89ers team set from the Card Doctor in Millville, New Jersey, as my favorite player, Bob Dernier, was in the set. Unbeknownst to us at the time, Sandberg was also in the set and he'd go on to have a Hall of Fame career with the Cubs.
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