Until March 27, we’ll be counting down the 50 greatest Phillies games of the last 50 years. This is 50 of 50.
And this is No. 20.
THE DATE: June 23, 1971
THE GAME: Phillies vs. Cincinnati Reds, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio
THE STAKES: Nothing for a bad-and-getting-worse Phillies team.
THE GREAT: The 1971 Phillies marked the end of the late-1960s Phillies, one of the truly bad eras of Philadelphia baseball (even if 1972 was worse on paper, you could see the tide turning).