Post the box score of your first Phillies game

by **Drugs Delaney** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:45:27

The first Phillies game I ever attended was on July 31, 1988. I was a Phillies fan since I was five years old, but it took me until I was 14 to talk my non-baseball fan dad to take me to a game. Highlights of the game include seeing Mike Maddux beat his younger, more successful brother Greg with each brother getting a hit off the other. I also got to see Ricky Jordan's first career double and it ended up being the only game I ever saw Mike Schmidt play in person. He was my hero as a little kid so I'm glad I did get to see him once, even though he did go 0-3 with a walk.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 7310.shtml

My FG articles · by **MattS** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:48:39

cool idea. i went to this game:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 9250.shtml

but my family only showed up in the top of the 3rd and left in the top of the 6th. still, they won, and i saw john russell hit that homerun.

by **CFP** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:49:51

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 9070.shtml

by **Drugs Delaney** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:53:13

CFP wrote:http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI199609070.shtml

Ha, that's the game where Rolen got hurt. He wouldn't have been eligible for Rookie of the Year the next year had he gotten one more AB.

by **WilliamC** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:54:15

I had been to a few before that I have no idea what the dates were but this one is the first one I have any recollection of and the date is easy for me to remember.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 8310.shtml

by **dajafi** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:55:36

I'm not absolutely certain, but I think this was it:

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1980/B07140PHI1980.htm

My dad got a new car that day--a Toyota Celica--and took me to the game. We left early, though, and what I mostly remember is listening to it on the radio on the way home, hoping we'd keep hitting red lights so I could hear the end.

Later that year I'm pretty sure we saw this one:

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1980/B09130PHI1980.htm

though as I remember it nearly three decades later, Lefty threw a shutout, which evidently wasn't the case. :?

by **Wizlah** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:55:48

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 9080.shtml

Mike Hampton broke a water cooler. A great, great day.

by **smitty** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 16:56:20

This is cool:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 7261.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 7262.shtml

A double header loss to the Cards in 1964. This experience got me used to following this club.

by **phuturephillies** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 17:00:45

Had to be a game in 1985, because I can vaguely remember Ozzie Virgil playing in the game, and his last season with the Phillies was 1985. We had the Sunday plan when I was a kid.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 17:06:00

It would have been spring of 1979. 700 level, of course. Can't remember the exact game. Late May/Early June.

by **The Red Tornado** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 17:23:39

I have no idea I was 7 so it was summer 1977, it was against the Dodgers at the Vet and Luzinski hit a homer.

by **Drugs Delaney** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 17:36:02

The Red Tornado wrote:I have no idea I was 7 so it was summer 1977, it was against the Dodgers at the Vet and Luzinski hit a homer.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 8050.shtml

That's the only game in which Luzinski hit a homer against the Dodgers in Philly in 1977.

by **Barry Jive** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:15:24

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 7170.shtml

I don't remember all that much from this game. I remember Strawberry hitting that double, and how I thought he was out at second. But I wasn't quite 7 years old, so I probably didn't have any idea.

What a weird box score. Schilling had a complete game and there were no pinch hitters or defensive replacements, so the Phillies ended up only using nine guys in a game they won by 8. Also, Joe Millette?

by **VoxOrion** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:16:37

I have no idea. I remember the game, it was night and cold, I'd suspect the fall rather than the spring. My aunt and uncle took me. Probably around 1977-1978, I believe the Phillies lost. I got a ridiculously large button with a picture of the Phanatic on it. I thought it was dopey even then.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:37:33

It's fascinating to me how some people remember stuff like this so well. I don't. I have a terrible head for remember details like that. The only Phillies game I remember those kind of details was Schilling's World Series game. Other significant events in my life I remember well, but those details like what were my wife and I watching on TV the first time we started making out? Total blank.

by **philliesphhan** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:39:07

I also can't remember my first game. I don't even remember what year it may have been.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:39:51

philliesphhan wrote:I also can't remember my first game. I don't even remember what year it may have been.

I only remember the year because I know it was spring of 7th grade.

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:40:48

philliesphhan wrote:I also can't remember my first game. I don't even remember what year it may have been.

by **Barry Jive** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:44:22

I probably wouldn't remember, but my dad kept the book and it's probably still in my house somewheres.

by **z ipper** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 18:56:42

this is the first game that i remember going to, though i don't think it was the first. we left in the 7th when they were down 9-0 so we could go to what's the scoop. we got home just in time to see them lose 10-9. i've hated them ever since.

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