Game 31 - Phils Can't Complete Sweep Due to Costly Error

1980-87 SSPC HOF #33

1976 Shakey's Pizza Hall of Fame #86

2012 Panini Cooperstown #129

Washington Nationals	4
Philadelphia Phillies	2

Thursday Night, May 1st

Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia, PA
17-14, 2nd Place, 3 1/2 games behind the Mets

One Sentence Summary:  A costly sixth inning error from Bryce Harper led to three unearned runs and an eventual 4-2 win by the Nationals.

What It Means:  The Diamondbacks come to town next for a weekend series.  Entering the series, both Phillies and Diamondbacks have an identical 17-14 record.

What Happened:  Taijuan Walker battled through 5 2/3 innings, making a few nice defensive plays, before the wheels came off in the sixth.  CJ Abrams doubled to start the inning, and James Wood lined a ball off Walker's leg with Walker recovering and throwing out Abrams at first.  Nathaniel Lowe singled to tie the game and Keibert Ruiz reached on an error by Bryce Harper, making it all the way to third and giving the Nationals a 2-1 lead.  Two more unearned runs would score in the inning.

The Phillies got RBI singles from Alec Bohm in the fifth and from Nick Castellanos in the sixth.

Featured Card:  The Phillies as a franchise played their first game on May 1, 1883, and the team made the interesting decision to "retire" three more player logos to be displayed among other retired numbers and insignias behind Ashburn Alley.  Uniform numbers weren't a thing until later in the franchise's history.  I've posted the link to the modest press release from the Phillies below, and the three Hall of Fame outfielders get the shared honor here of featured cards.

I have a few cards of each in my Phillies Collection, none of which are from their actual playing days.

On the 142nd anniversary of our very first game, we are proud to bestow our club's highest honor upon Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton, and Sam Thompson as we retire their uniform insignias. The only outfield in major league history where every player hit .400 (1894) – will take their rightful [1/2]

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— Philadelphia Phillies (Bot) (@notphillies.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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Game 51 - Phils' Historic Pace Continues in Sweep of Rangers

1980-87 SSPC HOF #146

Phillies 5, Rangers 2
Game 51 - Thursday Afternoon, May 23rd in Philadelphia
Record - 37-14, 1st Place, 6 games ahead of the Braves

One Sentence Summary:  Zack Wheeler's solid start and a two-run triple from Cristian Pache led to this 5-2 win over the Rangers, completing the series sweep.

What It Means:  The Phillies have won 29 of their last 35 games, tying the franchise record (set in 1892!) for most wins in a 35-game span.  This also marked their seventh series sweep of 2024.  Things are going well.

I tried to watch as much of this game as possible while toiling away in my office.

What Happened:  Wheeler won his sixth game of the year, allowing a pair of runs on five hits while striking out five.  Jose Alvarado and Jeff Hoffman closed the door over the final two innings, with Hoffman earning his fourth save.

J.T. Realmuto tied the game at 1-1 in the third with a solo home run, his seventh of the season.  Pache tripled to deep center in the fourth, giving the Phillies a 3-1 lead, and Kyle Schwarber then singled Pache home.  An insurance run was added when Nick Castellanos hit a solo home run, his fifth of the season, in the eighth inning.

Featured Card:  I've run out of Phillies cards for Pache to feature, Hoffman has no Phillies cards yet, and I'd like to save up my Wheeler cards for a game in which he truly shines.  So here's a card of Hall of Famer Sam Thompson, an outfielder on that 1892 Phillies team, that went on to a fourth place finish in the National League with a record of 87-66-2.

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Game 141 - More Pain

1980 Oklahoma City 89ers
Team Issue #26

Rockies 11, Phillies 2
Game 141 - Friday Night, September 10th in Philadelphia
Record - 71-70, 2nd Place, 4 1/2 games behind the Braves

One Sentence Summary:  Everything continued to fall apart as the Phillies suffered one of their most embarrassing losses of the season, losing 11-2 to the Rockies.

What It Means:  The Braves won, and the Phillies are 4 1/2 games behind them with 21 games to play.

What Happened:  Without a fifth starter available anywhere in their organization, the Phillies had another bullpen game.  Sam Coonrod pitched a scoreless first, but then Bailey Falter again looked miserable, giving up three runs on a pair of hits and a pair of walks.  Since his return from the Covid injured list on August 15th, Falter has appeared in eight games, allowing nine runs on 11 hits for an 8.38 ERA.  Ramon Rosso (7.94 ERA) and Enyel De Los Santos (6.75 ERA) were also hit hard with JD Hammer allowing a ninth inning grand slam to make it painfully clear the Phillies weren't winning this game.

The Phillies offense failed to advance a runner past second base until Didi Gregorius hit a meaningless solo home run in the bottom of the ninth.  This team stinks.

Featured Card:  The current state of the Phillies forces me to go to an "on this date" format for the featured card, as I'm fairly annoyed with the entire roster at this point, save Harper and Suarez.  As Tweeted by Larry Shenk, on September 10, 1980, Marty Bystrom made his first big league start and he'd finish the month with a 5-0 record, helping to propel the Phillies into the play-offs.  Had The Phillies Room (or the internet for that matter) existed back in 1980, I would have posted this card, the only card issued for Bystrom that season.

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1980 to 1999 Phillies Team-Issued Photo Cards Want List

 1980 Phillies Photo Cards - 5 Needed

Luis Aguayo

Ruben Amaro CO

Scott Munninghoff

Mike Schmidt

Bobby Wine CO

1981 Phillies Photo Cards -  Needed

Ruben Amaro CO

Billy DeMars CO

Lee Elia CO

Tim McCarver (Broadcaster)

Herm Starrette CO Manny Trillo

1982 Tastykake Phillies Photo Cards - 8 Needed

 

Warren Brusstar

Marty Bystrom

Dick Davis

Mark Davis

Bill Robinson (No Tastykake Logo)

Dick Ruthven

Manny Trillo (With Hat)

Del Unser

1983 Tastykake Phillies Photo Cards - Phanatic Variation (not on ATV) 

1988 Tastykake Phillies Photo Cards - Mike Schmidt Variation (smaller sized card)

1990 ALS Autograph Party - Larry Bowa (coach), Larry Bowa (player), Dallas Green MG, Greg Gross, Hal Lanier (coach), Greg Luzinski, Garry Maddox, Bake McBride, Tug McGraw, Paul Owens GM, Manny Trillo, Del Unser

1991 ALS Autograph Party - Harry Anderson, Gene Garber, Maje McDonnell CO, Ron Reed, Eddie Sawyer MG, Curt Simmons

1992 ALS Autograph Party / Late Season Additions

1992 Phillies - Jay Baller, Stan Javier, Joe Millette, Todd Pratt, Mike Williams

Phillies Alumni - Dick Allen, Steve Bedrosian, Dave Cash, Sparky Lyle, Garry Maddox, Tug McGraw, Dickie Noles, Bobby Shantz

Non-Phillies - Joe Coleman, Jr., Joe Coleman, Sr., Joe Torre, Elmer Valo

1993 ALS Autograph Party - Mark Davis, Tim Mauser, Dale Murphy, Mike Schmidt, Kevin Stocker (running)

1996 ALS Autograph and Auction Party / Late Season Additions - Rich Hunter, Bobby Munoz, Glenn Murray, Ricky Otero, Desi Relaford, Scott Rolen, Jim Wright CO

1997 ALS Autograph and Auction Party - Matt Beech, Wayne Gomes

1998 ALS Phillies Phestival - Yorkis Perez, Mike Welch, Jon Zuber

1970 to 1979 Phillies Team-Issued Want List / 2000 to 2022 Phillies Team-Issued Want List

1980 Philadelphia Phillies Photo Cards

Number of Cards:  38
Card Size:  3 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Description:  As was the case with all Phillies team-issued photo cards issued since 1970, these cards feature a black and white photo with the players' name below.  The backs of the cards are blank and there's no indication on the cards themselves they're from 1980.  Some of the cards contain blue facsimile autographs, as noted on the checklist below.  One way to tell if the photo card is from 1980 is the fact that these are the only photo cards from this era on which the majority of the players' names aren't all in capital letters.  I've listed below those few cards on which the player's name is in all capitals.  (Thanks to Phillies collector Rick and his scanned checklist shown here.)

How Distributed:  The cards were handed out to fans individually and supplied to the players in order to reply to fan mail or honor autograph requests.  I could be wrong, but I don't believe these cards were ever available in complete set form.

I'm theorizing that the cards with the players' names in capital letters were issued later in the season, as Ramon Aviles, Dan Larson and Bob Walk were not on the opening day roster and all made their 1980 debuts in late April or May.  Nino Espinosa and Warren Brusstar are the outliers here as those pitchers made their 1980 debuts in July and their names on their cards use upper and lower case letters.  Brusstar, who started the season on the disabled list and first pitched for the Phillies on July 13th, is the latest player to appear in a game in 1980 and appear on one of these photo cards.

Complete Standard Checklist (Unnumbered, presented here alphabetically): 

1. Luis Aguayo 2. Ruben Amaro CO 3. Ramon Aviles (capitals) 4. Bob Boone  5. Larry Bowa 6. Warren Brusstar 7. Steve Carlton 8. Larry Christenson 9. Billy DeMars CO (auto) 10. Lee Elia CO (auto) 11. Nino Espinosa 12. Dallas Green MG (auto)           13. Greg Gross

14. Lerrin LaGrow (auto) 15. Dan Larson (capitals) 16. Randy Lerch  17. Greg Luzinski 18. Garry Maddox (auto) 19. Bake McBride (auto) 20. Tug McGraw (auto) 21. Keith Moreland (auto) 22. Scott Munninghoff 23. Dickie Noles (auto) 24. Ron Reed 25. Pete Rose (batting, auto) 26. Pete Rose (portrait, auto, capitals)

27. Dick Ruthven (auto) 28. Mike Ryan CO 29. Kevin Saucier 30. Mike Schmidt 31. Lonnie Smith (auto)   32. Herm Starrette CO (auto) 33. Manny Trillo 34. Del Unser 35. George Vukovich 36. John Vukovich 37. Bob Walk (capitals) 38. Bobby Wine CO

One and Only Phillies Baseball Card (3):  LaGrow, Larson, Munninghoff

First Appearance in Phillies Team Issued Set (4):  Aguayo, Moreland, G. Vukovich, Walk
Returning Players in Phillies Team Issued Set (24):  Aviles, Boone, Bowa, Brusstar, Carlton, Christenson, Espinosa, Gross, Lerch, Luzinski, Maddox, McBride, McGraw, Noles, Reed, Rose (2), Ruthven, Saucier, Schmidt, Smith, Trillo, Unser, J. Vukovich

Manager (1):  Green
Coaches (6):  Amaro, DeMars, Elia, Ryan, Starrette, Wine

Surprises:  Not to sound like too much of a weirdo, but the seven-year-old me would have loved to have added Scott Munninghoff's card to my collection.  He was one of those guys who was in the prospect section of the yearbook and no one in my little circle of young Phillies fans had any idea who he was.  Munninghoff made the team's opening day roster, appeared in four games, and was sent back to Oklahoma City in early May where he'd stay the rest of the season.

Omissions:  The entire opening day roster, every coach and manager Dallas Green all received cards.  Every player to have suited up for the Phillies in 1980 prior to September also received cards, with Espinosa and Brusstar, as noted above, being the latest additions.  The Phillies had 9 September additions to their roster who understandably did not receive photo cards:  Jay Loviglio, Marty Bystrom, Bob Dernier, Tim McCarver, Orlando Isales, Mark Davis, Sparky Lyle, Don McCormack and Ozzie Virgil.

Variations/Rarities:  Rose appeared on two different versions of photo cards in 1980, no doubt due to high autograph request demands.  Phillies collector Rick sent me a scan of his checklist for this set cluing me in to the fact that cards for Bake McBride and Dickie Noles can be found both with and without facsimile autographs.  A few years back, I also added Lerrin LaGrow and Keith Moreland cards to my collection without facsimile autographs.  Also, fellow collector Steve indicates there could be a Nino Espinosa variation card available and for the sake of completeness, I've added it here too.

Finally, while not part of the team-issued set, there is a 1980 black and white photo card of the Phillie Phanatic issued by Harrison/Erickson and this card is roughly the same size as the rest of the 1980 set.

No Facsimile Autograph       1. Lerrin LaGrow 2. Bake McBride 3. Keith Moreland 4. Dickie Noles

Mystery Variation?  1. Nino Espinosa

Harrison/Erickson   1. Phillie Phanatic

Resources:  The Trading Card Database; Beckett.com; Phillies collectors Steve and Rick (@rickphils).

It was only through the awesome photos provided at The Trading Card Database for this set I was able to originally identify these cards as being from 1980.  Collector Dave Sosidka uploaded the checklist and scans of all cards to the database back in 2011.  However, The Trading Card Database entry for this set omits the card for Munninghoff and the portrait version of Rose's card.

The Beckett database entry for this set lists the set as "Phillies Postcards" and omits the cards for Garry Maddox, Noles, John Vukovich and the second Rose card.

This set was originally featured in a post back in December 2014, and I'm going to slowly go through these team-issued set posts and update them with new information gathered (if any) over the past five years.

1979 Phillies Team-Issued Photo Cards / 1981 Phillies Team-Issued Photo Cards

1980-1999 Phillies Team-Issued Photo Cards Want List / Phillies Team Issued Sets Index Page

Game 9 - 1980 Topps #90 Manny Trillo

Braves 5, Phillies 2 (Game 1 - 7 Innings)
Game 9 - Sunday Afternoon, August 9th in Philadelphia
Record - 4-5

One Sentence Summary:  The Braves bullpen held the Phillies to three hits as the Phillies bullpen continued its struggles in this 5-2 loss.

What It Means:  Spoiler alert for the second game, but as pointed out in this Doug Kern Tweet, this was to be the first double header in which the Phillies offense was held to four hits or less in both games since August 13, 1968 against the Astros.  Making it somewhat worse, the Braves went with a full bullpen game and six different relievers stifled the Phillies offense.

What Happened:  Phillies starter Vince Velasquez went four innings (76 pitches) and allowed a run on three hits while striking out six.  The bullpen duo of Deolis Guerra and Morgan combined for 2/3 of an inning, with four runs on four hits, including the two-run home run allowed by Guerra to Ronald Acuna, Jr.  The lifeless Phillies line-up had a pair of singles and a double.  Both Phillies runs came courtesy of productive outs from Andrew McCutchen - a ground out in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.

Featured Card:  This was supposed to be Alumni Weekend, with second baseman Manny Trillo getting inducted into the Phillies Wall of Fame.  Instead, Trillo's ceremony will be postponed and the entire 1980 team was present in the ballpark only in the form of cutouts in the right field seats.  (Photo below from Tyler Kepner's Twitter feed.)

Transaction:  Kyle Garlick (of) was added as the 29th man for this double header.

Memory Lane - Past Induction Ceremonies/Alumni Weekends

2009 - Harry Kalas

2010 - Darren Daulton

2011 - John Kruk

2012 - Mike Lieberthal

2013 - Curt Schilling

2014 - Charlie Manuel
2015 - Pat Burrell
2016 - Jim Thome
2017 - Tribute to Jim Bunning, Dallas Green and Darren Daulton
2018 - Roy Halladay and Pat Gillick
2019 - Bobby Abreu (Part One and Two)
2020 - Manny Trillo (Postponed)

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Game 159 - 1980 Phillies Photocards Dickie Noles

Nationals 6, Phillies 3
Game 159 - Thursday Afternoon, September 26th in Washington
Record - 79-80, 4th place, 18 games behind the Braves

One Sentence Summary:  The late season swoon continued for the Phillies, as they lost their final road game of the year, 6-3, and the Nationals completed the five-game series sweep.

What It Means:  After a weekend series at home against the last place Marlins, the Phillies head into the 2019-2020 offseason with a lot of questions and lingering disappointment.

What Happened:  Stephen Strasburg struck out 10 Phillies in his six innings of work.  All Phillies runs came from long balls - Cesar Hernandez (13) with a solo shot in the fourth and Andrew Knapp (2) with a two-run home run in the eighth.  Jason Vargas closed out his season by getting chased in the fifth inning, having allowed five runs on six hits and three walks.

Featured Card:  Todd Zolecki Tweeted the last time the Phillies were swept in a five-game series was back in August 1979 against the Pirates.  Dickie Noles took the loss for the Phillies in the final game of that series sweep on August 5, 1979.

Just One Card & Missing Links - 1970s Phillies Edition

1975 Topps #405

1977 Topps #394

1979 Topps #169

1980 Topps #277

1981 Fleer #585

Having tackled the Phillies Missing Links from 1980 through 2008 at this point, I wanted to see what a Phillies Missing Links set from the 1970s would look like.  As far as I can tell, and please offer revisions in the comments if needed, listed below are the players who suited up with the Phillies between 1970 and 1979 and never received a Phillies baseball card.

Below this list, I've presented what I believe to be those Phillies players who received just one Phillies card, with most of these occurring in the team-issued photo card sets from the '70s.  I don't know if creating cards for these players is a project I'll tackle in the near-term, but with the checklist in place the next step would be hunting and gathering pictures of these players in red pinstripes (or baby blue road uniforms).

Phillies Missing Links of the 1970s - Initial Checklist
1 Del Bates (1970)
2 Mike Jackson (1970)
3 Manny Muniz (1971)
4 Dave Downs (1972)
5 Bob Terlecki (1972)
6 Dave Wallace (1973-1974)
7 John Stearns (1974)
8 Larry Fritz (1975)
9 Ron Clark (1975)
10 John Montague (1975)
11 Rick Bosetti (1976)
12 Bill Nahorodny (1976)
13 Mike Buskey (1977)
14 Manny Seoane (1977)
15 Dan Warthen (1977)
16 Orlando Gonzalez (1978)
17 Kerry Dineen (1978)
18 Todd Cruz (1978)
19 Horacio Pina (1978)
20 Dan Boitano (1978)
21 John Poff (1979)
22 Jack Kucek (1979)


Just One Card
1970
Doc Edwards - 1970 Phillies Photocards*
Bill Laxton - 1970 Phillies Photocards

1971
Bobby Pfeil - 1971 Phillies Photocards

1972
John Bateman - 1972 Phillies Photocards
Gary Neibauer - 1972 Phillies Photocards

1974
Allan Bannister - 1975 Phillies Photocards
Jesus Hernaiz - 1974 Phillies Photocards
Frank Linzy - 1974 Phillies Photocards
Pete Richert - 1974 Phillies Photocards
Erskine Thomason - 1976 SSPC #600^


1975
Cy Acosta - 1975 Phillies Photocards
Don Hahn - 1975 Phillies Photocards
Wayne Simpson - 1976 SSPC #599^

1976
Fred Andrews - 1977 Phillies Photocards
Tim Blackwell - 1977 Phillies Photocards

1977
Dane Iorg - 1977 Phillies Photocards

1978
Dan Larson - 1980 Phillies Photocards

1979
Rudy Meoli - 1979 Phillies Photocards

*As a coach, with two variations so he might not technically belong on this list.
^Wearing a Toledo Mud Hens uniform.

Just One Card Links
1970 to 1979
1980 to 1989
1990 to 1995
1996 to 1999
2000 to 2004
2005 to 2009