1980 NL West Playoff - Astros at Dodgers - Enhanced ABC Broadcast - 1080p 

The Oilers as well. They always disappointed

You had to stand up back then, had no choice. That’s about as American as North Korea. Remember the good ol days when America was like North Korea?

one of a kind

If I wanted to wear an Astro's throwback jersey today, I would wear the one's they're wearing in this game. I still don't care for the old sunset home jerseys. But, I know a lot of Astro's fans love them.

Yes, they were. Pinnacle of 70s design

@@oldiesgeek454 I have two Astros jerseys from 1989 that my dad got from Astros fantasy camp. One is the same design as the ones in this game, and that one has our last name on the back. The other has no name or number but is the full sunset home jersey. I would alternate wearing those when I would go to Astros games for many years.

@pfzt Those Houston Astros rainbow uniforms back in the day are so awful not the road jerseys however theyre home jerseys are awful and iconic

It looks beautiful. I think a video showing you going through the process of improving these games would be interesting.

Thank you Dave it's beautiful...bringing such joy in my usual bummerific life.

It looks awesome. Thank you.

Sir what other games do you have by the way?

@@learningvideosbynikhil8308 I only really have about 5 or 10 more baseball recordings at the moment that are decent enough to try to enhance. I definitely want to get more if someone out there has some from DVD sources and would like to donate them to me. On the flip side, I probably have over 400 NFL games I can work on, and 70 or more NBA.

The Astros always were my favorite team always since my childhood

The Astros would have won it all if J.R. wouldn’t have gone down.

​@@carlbiesele1457they still should have won regardless. They totally blew Game 5 of the NLCS. Up 5-2 in the 8th at home, and you still lose? Smh.

With Nolan Ryan. Those were two guys NL hitters didn't care to bat against.

Nothing like DAYTIME postseason baseball

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 YES!!! They should do more. Usually in the early series of the playoffs they do some day games but once it gets to the LCS series they are all night games.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673Had to be a daytime game due to Monday Night Football.

Classic?

​@@jeffwright1722sure, classic is a subjective title. One person's classic is another person's not-a-classic. All good no matter how one describes this particular game. I feel blessed and am thankful Dave uploads these games when sports was fun to watch.

Yeah; I never understood why some people complain about the games being on too late at night for the kids to watch. When the games were on earlier, kids couldn't watch them because we were in school! Although I had a couple of teachers who did let us watch big playoff games in class on occasion.

I had just gotten home as this game came on the air at 3PM CT

After LA got the improbable sweep to force the playoff, it seemed like Houston was doomed. But they hit the brakes just in the nick of time. They deserved better in 1980. Coulda/woulda/shoulda vs Philly... But man, what a great NLCS that was.

@@dantheman5745 1980 NLCS = 4 of the best of 5 games went extra innings! Great baseball in that series. Too bad gm 4 and 5 may get blocked. I would love if Dave could work on all of those games......maybe one day, when MLB gets back in the enhancement rotation, he could resurrect Game 2 & 3. I sent the files.

@@dantheman5745 Too bad only the 10/5/80 Sunday game and this Tie breaker are seemingly preserved. The Friday 10/3 and Saturday 10/4 HOU at La games were tight thrillers...

​@@romelovesdanSo you were at this game? If so, where were you sitting?... Just curious. 😊

@@oldiesgeek454 Second level- Orange (Force!) Loge section 121 looking down first base line. SAT & SUN Field level/ Yellow Section 32...... FRI Blue Reserved Section 4

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Well, we HAD to Build Back Better in November of 2020 (supposedly) annnnnd now we don’t know WHO is in the country anymore…🤷🏼‍♂️

@@sec9788 yup exactly 💯

@@sec9788 Let's Go Brandon

@@RighteousRhythm Always!

@@sec9788We have built back better. Tons of construction projects going on right now.

Loved those Astros jerseys!

@@dantheman5745 Great to see you here liking the content. I loved that unique jersey design. I also liked the introduction of the rainbow sleeve gray road jerseys this 1980 season too.

@@romelovesdan Oh, I _loved_ baseball, especially from this era. Loved the game, loved the history of the game. Played any chance I got, in any form it came in. Baseball, softball, stick ball, wiffle ball, whatever. Was never the same for me, though, after the strike in '94. Didn't realize you were an Astros fan. How did that come about? Were they your hometown team?

@@dantheman5745 Same here, I would play whenever I could, even 1 on 1 wiffle and nerf ball games-----Still the only sport I watch anymore, but they may be 'on notice' with a few more missteps. I was born in Texas, .....my Baseball fandom can be explained, but it is a long story. My favorite team as a kid was the Pittsburgh Pirates. 1977-1979- My favorite uniforms of all time (I think they wore 18 combinations, but there were really as many as 99 possible combinations mixing hats, undershirts and stirrups).

@@romelovesdan I remember those very well. The '79 WS was possibly the most colorful one ever played. I think those yellow (PIT) & orange (BAL) unis are probably burned into my retinas. LOL! The "We Are Family" champs. I hardly watch anymore. I _maaaaaaay_ catch the occasional WS game, especially if it's a decider. The ridiculous time between pitches should've been treated as a cancer by MLB a loooong time ago. And I just don't have the stomach for all of the self-aggrandizing, especially the standing at home plate and admiring hits instead of running. If you're an Astros fan, you know better than anyone how costly that is. (not that any human on earth had to witness it actually happen to know how potentially harmful that behavior is to a team's success) Seeing George Springer preen & admire what should have been a triple, and instead, end up on 2nd base in the 8th inning of Game 1 vs the Nationals, thus not being able to score on Altuve's deep fly in the next AB, thus failing to tie the game that subsequently went into extra innings, where the Nats won, in a series Houston lost 4 games to 3, was the last straw. The egomania finally actually cost a team the World Series....and yet these Neanderthals KEEP DOING IT. And managers keep allowing it. Hit ball. Run hard. This, apparently, is too difficult a concept for today's players to grasp. I guess they're just not paid enough to hustle on every play.

"The Big Dodger in the sky" just ran out of miracles. Attending all four games, I can attest there were some unforeseen, exciting twists in each game.

Exactly. Same exact thing at my school. Kind of glad I missed it after I knew the score.

Fernando was a rookie in 1981.

Terrible call going with Goltz....

@@JosePerez-vz1qq He was a September call up in 1980

@@romelovesdan i did not know that. Thank you

I was there too. I was sitting behind right field foul pole

Two time Dodger as well as an Astros' catcher 1977-78.

Not in those days.

I don't

He only returned to Houston for that one year in 1980

Great memories of attending games there in that era. I sat in Lodge Sec 121 this NL West tiebreaking game. Attended 40 games in the ravine that year. Mostly in Field Sec 32. Buying peanuts from Roger Owens was always fun and something we looked forward to, even though we'd rather have the Frozen Carnation "Chocolate Malt".... Do you remember another vender ,who we kids thought was an ancient 90 year old.? (Probably in his early 70's) He worked around the same time late 1970s' 1980s.....

@@romelovesdan Wow! A kindred Dodger spirit! I’ve hated the heat since birth (not good as an LA native). My first game was St. Lou @ LA on 1B side. The sun BAKES there. I freaked seeing Garvey & my pops pointing out all the players. Sutton was pitching. Prolly 1976. LOVED the carnation containers w the wooden spoon that had splinters in it! 😂 George is the only one I remember because I sat in his section the most. The way he could throw QUARTERS back & they’d stay together, perfect tosses. 2-bagger skyhooks. I saw him do it on Leno once! 😄👍 My last game was Game 1 of the DS where Kersh hung a 5-spot before I had my first sip of water! 😖 Saw George and his wig THAT GAME! He’s STILL THERE!! 😳 For decades I always say, “Yo, OWENS! Over here!” w a smile. He squints at me & grins, makes a joke, and I know I’m just one of millions, but there’s only ONE George. Not sure of any other longtime vendor though. Great to read your post! 🤙✌️

@@ajconstantine3593 We grew up in great times. Fantastic teams in both dugouts 1974-1985. and many beyond that.

He was not that good of a pitcher though that year.

Astros road uniforms were a light gray. See the difference when they are shown in contrast to a Dodger home whites.

Because head-to-head didn’t matter back then (I don’t know if it matters now). It didn’t matter in ‘48 or ‘78 either.

@@georgelafontaine6045 And wasn't it a coin flip (not the head-to-head record) that gave the Dodgers the home game for the playoff?

The Reds had the best record in the NL the year after and lost out one the Playoffs because of strike rules where the two halves determined playoffs, not total record.

@@georgelafontaine6045 or in 1946, 1951, 1959 and 1962. It happened more than we realize in that 1946-1962 era- 5 times out of 17 seasons.