Games of Sunday, June 29

                             W      L        Pct.     GB

Houston               42     26       .617     ---
New York            40     25       .615     0.5
Atlanta                 31     31       .500     8
Montreal              31     32       .492     8.5
Chicago               30     32       .483     9
Pittsburgh            29     33       .468   10
St. Louis              27     38       .415   13.5
Philadelphia         24    37        .393   14.5

Monday's games
Philadelphia (Carlton and Ruthven) at Atlanta (Morton and Dobson),2
Montreal (Torrez) at New York (Matlack)
Pittsburgh (L Walker) at St. Louis (Cleveland)
Chicago (Ruschel) at Houston (Reuss)

Philadelphia 3, Montreal 2 (14 innings): Del Unser homered in the 14th inning to make a winner of Bcuky Brandon, who threw three hitless innings of relief. Hal Breeden pinch-hit a game-tying homer in the bottoms of the ninth off Mac Scarce. Jim Lonborg allowed one run in eight innings for the Phillies, and Steve Renko allowed two runs, one earned, in nine innings.

New York 6, Atlanta 5 (12 mnings): John Milner's homer in the bottom of the 12th gave the Mets their 12th straight win. Sloppy infielding by the Braves gave the Mets a 5-1 lead after five innings, but Henry Aaron hit his second homer of the game in the sixth as the Braves scored four times off Jerry Koosman. Neither team scored again until Milner's homer. Four of the five runs scored off Ron Schuler were unearned but Rusty Staub and Cleon Jones both homered. Ray Sadecki got the win in relief, and Tom House took the loss.

Atlanta 11, New York 4: Marty Perez drove in five runs and scored three times as the Braves ended the Mets' winning streak and split the doubleheader. Roric Harrison went the distance for the visiting Braves, allowing two earned runs on eight hits and six walks. Perez hit a three-run homer in the second off losing pitcher George Stone, singled in a run in the fourth and doubled home another in the ninth.

Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1: Jim Rooker struck out 15 in his complete-game three-hitter. Richie Zisk hit a two-run homer in the sixth off Rick Wise. Ken Reitz hit a solo homer in the second for St.Louis's run. 

Chicago 6, Houston 4: Jim Hickman and Randy Hundley homered as the Cubs held off the first-place Astros. Wade Blasingame came off the taxi squad to start for Houston and held a 3-2 lead after six innings, with the only hit allowed being Hickman's homer. But he walked the first two men in the seventh and after Hickman's single loaded the bases with no outs Jim Ray relieved. Hundley singled in to runs and pinch-hitter Pat Bourque hit a sac fly. Burt Hooton got credit for the win, and Ray Burris worked three innings (one hit, one walk, two strikeouts, one unearned run) for the save.