Games of Monday, Aug. 25

                              W      L        Pct.     GB

Houston               73     51       .588     ---
Atlanta                 62     58       .516      9
Montreal              62     60       .508    10
New York            60     60       .500    11
Chicago               58     60       .491    12
St. Louis              57     64       .471    13
Philadelphia         53     62      .460    15.5

Pittsburgh            54     64       .457    16

Tuesday's games
New York (Stone) at Chicago (Reuschel)
Philadelphia (Twitchell and Ruthven) at Pittsburgh (Moose and Kison), 2
Atlanta (Dobson) at Houston (Richard)
Montreal (Stoneman) at St. Louis (Gibson)

Chicago 6, New York 0: Ron Santo hit a grand slam before Ray Sadecki could retire a man, and Bill Bonham got four double play grounders en route to a seven-hit shutout. Jose Cardenal tripled home a run in the second inning and Randy Hundley hit a solo homer in the third.

Chicago 1, New York 0: Burt Hooton and Dave LaRoche combined for a second shutout on the day for the Cubs. Hooton allowed five hits and three walks in seven innings with five strikeouts and was credited with the win. LaRoche got the s ave for two innings of two hit relief. The Cubs scored the games only run in the seventh when Ron Santo was hit by a Jerry Koosman pitch, advanced to when Jim Hickman walked and scored when Don Kessinger's fly ball to left dropped in.

Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 0: Steve Carlton struck out nine Pirates in a three-hit shutout. Del Unser scored both Philadelphia runs. Unser doubled in the third off losing pitcher Nelson Briles and scored on Denny Doyle's single, then homered off Bob Johnson in the eighth. Carlton walked two men and indced a pair of double plays.

Montreal 2, St. Louis 0: Steve Rogers shut out St. Louis on four hits. Ron Hunt doubled in the fifth inning to plate Tim Foli with the first run of the game and Bob Bailey homered to lead off the sixth, with both runs coming off Reggie Cleveland. Cleveland allowed just three hits in eight innings. Rogers walked two and struck out two.

Atlanta 7, Houston 3: Atlanta broke open a pitchers duel late,. Dave Roberts carried a 1-0 lead into the sixth, when Dusty Baker hit a solo homer. Ralph Garr put the Braves ahead in the top of the seventh with an RBI single, but the Astros scored twice in the bottom of the inning off Danny Frisella to take a 3-2 lead. The Braves responded with two runs in the eighth -- Mike Lum tripled -- and put the game away with three in the ninth, with Darrell Evans hitting a homer. Frisella vultured the win and Jim Ray took the loss.