For Cubs fans of a certain age, next week could bring back some bad memories.
Not only will the Cubs likely face the Padres in a wild-card series, conjuring images of the team’s collapse in the 1984 playoffs, but the best-of-three series could air on the same network that the ’84 series did.
ESPN has the rights to all four MLB wild-card series Tuesday-Thursday. The network will air one of those series on ABC. In 1984, Don Drysdale, Reggie Jackson and Earl Weaver called the National League Championship Series between the Cubs and Padres, who lost the first two games at Wrigley Field before taking all three in San Diego to win the pennant and prolong the Cubs’ World Series drought.
Drysdale’s call of Steve Garvey’s walk-off, two-run homer to give the Padres a 7-5 victory and tie the series at 2 was a doozy: “Deep right field, way back. [Henry] Cotto going back to the wall … it’s gone! Home run Garvey! And there will be tomorrow!”
Never mind what happened “tomorrow.”
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