Thursday, October 21, 2021

Games of Saturday, Aug. 16

                             W      L        Pct.     GB

Houston               67     47       .588     ---
Atlanta                 56     53       .514     8.5
New York            57     55       .508     9
Montreal              56     55       .505     9.5
St. Louis              53     57       .482   12
Chicago               52     57       .477   12.5
Pittsburgh            51     59       .463   14
Philadelphia         49     58      .457   14.5

Sunday's games
Montreal (Moore and McAnally) at Houston (Roberts and Forsch)
Philadelphia (Brett) at Chicago (Reuschel)
Atlanta (Schueler) at St. Louis (Gibson)

Chicago 5, Philadelphia 1: Burt Hooton threw a complete-game seven hitter, and was backed by homers from Rick Monday and Pat Bourque. Jose Cardenal doubled in a pair of runs as well. Hooton walked one and struck out nine. Greg Luzinski homered for the Philadelphia run. Wayne Twitchell took the loss.

New York 3, Pittsburgh 2: Ron Hodges singled in a pair of runs in the sixth inning and Bud Harrelson followed with a successful squeeze bunt. Jerry Koosman and HarryParker made those three runs stand up, barely. Koosman took a shutout into the eighth inning, but left with two runs in, a man on first and one out. Parker got out of the inning and added a scoreless ninth for the save. Bruce Kison took the loss.

Atlanta 8, St Louis 3: Mike Lum's solo homer in the sixth broke a 1-1 tie, and he followed with a grand slam in a six-run seventh that broke the game open. Ralph Garr led off the game with a homer for the visiting Braves. Carl Morton went the distance, allowing three runs on eight hits. Reggie Cleveland was the losing pitcher

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