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October 7, 1984
1984 NLCS | Game 5
Padres Rally in Game and NLCS for Series Berth |
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JACK MURPHY STADIUM, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- It was the decisive Game 5 of the National League Championship Series. The Cubs had posted the NL's best record that season, and they had stormed out to a 2-0 series lead. But because of an old Major League Baseball rule at that time, the Padres had the home-field advantage and would play the final three games in San Diego because then the advantage simply shifted every other year. So the Padres had proceeded to win the next two at home, and now there was a full house to watch this final act that would send someone completely different into a Fall Classic.
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Starters: Rick Sutcliffe vs. Eric Show.
WP: Craig Lefferts LP: Rick Sutcliffe.
SV: Rich Gossage.
HR: Leon Durham (2), Jody Davis (2).
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The Cubs had a 3-0 lead after the top of the sixth inning, seemingly on their way to that elusive World Series behind NL MVP Ryne Sandberg and the league's best pitcher, Rick Sutcliffe (20-6 combined record with Cleveland and then Chicago).
In the sixth inning, the Padres cut the Cubs' lead to 3-2 with a pair of singles by Alan Wiggins and Tony Gywnn, a walk to Steve Garvey, and sacrifice flies by Graig Nettles and Terry Kennedy. Garvey said later that it was obvious to him that Sutcliffe was starting to tire at that point. "I thought they were going to lift him then," Garvey would say later, "but they left him in. They shouldn't have."
In the seventh inning, the Padres started off quickly and never looked back. Carmelo Martinez started the inning by walking on four pitches from Sutcliffe. The big right-hander would say later that those are the four pitches he wanted back. Garry Templeton sacrificed Martinez to second. Martinez then scored when pinch-hitter Tim Flannery hit a sharp grounder that trickled through first baseman Leon Durham's legs for an error.
Tie game. Then, before you knew it, it was 6-3, Padres. Wiggins hit a check-swing single and scored along with Flannery when Gwynn hit a hard smash that took a bad hop over Sandberg's shoulder and went for a double to the gap. Gwynn then proceeded to score on Garvey's liner to single. Sutcliffe was finally done . . . and so was the damage.
For the jubilant Padres, it was the first ticket to the World Series since they had joined the league in the 1969 expansion season. They would lose to Detroit, and they would make one more trip in 1998, losing to the Yankees.
Copyright 1984 by the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball
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| Game 1 - October 2, 1984 |
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| Game 2 - October 3, 1984 |
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| Game 3 - October 4, 1984 |
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| Game 4 - October 6, 1984 |
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