Games of Friday, Sept. 5

                              W      L        Pct.     GB

Houston               77     57       .574     ---
Atlanta                 72     62       .537      5
Montreal              69     65       .515      8
Chicago               66     64       .508      9
New York            66     65       .504      9.5
Pittsburgh            61     67       .477    13
St. Louis              60     71       .458   15.5
Philadelphia         56    76       .424    20

Saturday's games
Montreal (Rogers and Renko) at Atlanta (Reed and Niekro), 2
New York (Stone and McAndrew) at Philadelphia (Carlton and Twitchell), 2
St. Louis (Gibson and Wise) at Pittsburgh (Rooker and Moose), 2
Chicago (Jenkins) at Houston (Reuss)

Philadelphia 5, New York 4: Tom Hutton tied the score at four with a two-run pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the eighth, and Mike Ryan plated Mike Anderson with the game winning run with a singled in the bottom of the ninth. Buzz Capra gave up the eight-inning homer, but Phil Hennigan took the loss. Mac Scarce was the winner. Bill Champion came off the taxi squad to pitch six innings, allowing three earned runs. Jerry Koosman, on short rest after a disasterous start two days earlier, went seven innings and left with a 4-2 lead.

New York 8, Philadelphia 2: Ken Boswell clubbed a pair of homers and added two singles, driving in five runs, to support Harry Parker in his spot start. Parker went seven innings for the win, allowing on run on six hits. He walked two and struck out seven. Jeff James came up from the taxi squad to start for the Phillies and gave up five runs in seven innings for the loss.

Atlanta 7, Montreal 3: Mike Lum homered, doubled and singled to drive in three runs and score a pair, and Pat Dobson took a shutout into the sixth inning. Ralph Garr also had three hits for the Braves, and Henry Aaron hit a pair of doubles. Balor Moore took the loss for the Expos. The game ended on a triple play on a liner hit by Pepe Mangual to Darrell Evans at third, who caught Felipe Alou off third and Tim Foli off second.

Chicago 4, Houston 2: The Cubs peppered three Houston hurlers for 15 hits and drew four walks, but bounced into four double plays and stranded six in in scoring position, which kept the game close. Cesar Cedeno had a chance to win it in the bottom of the ninth, but the Astrodome contained his deep fly to left with two on. Ron Santo homered for the Cubs. Milt Pappas allowed one run in seven innings for the win, Ken Forsch took the loss and Jack Aker got the two men he faced in the ninth, including Cedeno's fly ball, for the save.