Games of Monday, Sept. 1

                              W      L        Pct.     GB

Houston               76     55       .580     ---
Atlanta                 69     59       .539      5.5
Montreal              65     62       .512     9
Chicago               64     63       .504    10
New York            62     63       .496    11
Pittsburgh            60     67       .473    14
St. Louis              60     70       .461   15.5
Philadelphia         54    71       .432    19

Tuesday's games
New York (Seaver and Sadecki) at Atlanta (Niekro and Schueler), 2
Montreal (Stoneman and Renko) at Philadelphia (Carlton and Ruthven), 2

Montreal 7, Philadelphia 3:  Bob Bailey homered twice and drove in five runs and the Montreal bullpen picked up six innings after starter Ernie McAnally left with a minor injury after three no-hit innings. Joe Gilbert was credited with the win for his two scoreless frames. Wayne Twitchell took the loss. Mike Schmidt hit a two-run homer off Pat Jarvis in the Phillies' three-run fourth.

Montreal 1, Philadelphia 0: Steve Rogers threw a four-hit shutout and bunted home pinch-runner Jorge Roque with the only run of the game.  Clyde Mashore led off the seventh inning with a walk against Ken Brett and was forced out on John Boccabella's grounder. Tim Foli hit another grounder, but Craig Robinson committed a two-base error. Roque then pinch-ran for Boccabella, and Rogers executed the squeeze bunt. Rogers walked three, hit one and struck out three. Both Brett and Rogers went the distance.

Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 0: Fergie Jenkins spun a four-hit shutout, and Ron Santo drove in four runs with three hits, including a two-run double in the first inning and a solo homer in the third. Billy Williams singled and tripled and scored twice. Jim Rooker gave up three earned runs in six innings for the loss.

Chicago 2, Pittsburgh 0: Larry Gura held the Pirates to five hits in as the Cubs whitewashed Pittsburgh for the second time on the day. The visitors scored a pair of runs in the first inning off Bruce Kison on three singles, an error and a walk, leaving the bases loaded. Kison and reliever John Lamb held the Cubs at bay the rest of the day, but Gura had enough runs to work with. He walked none, fanned five and induced a pair of double-play grounders

Atlanta 7, New York 4: Darrell Evans drove in three runs with a homer and a triple and Sonny Jackson stole a pair of bases en route to two runs scored. Pat Dobson went seven innings for the win, allowing four runs, three earned. The Braves pieced together the final two inning with Jimmy Freeman, Adrian Devine and Tom House, with House getting the final out with two men on for the save. Jim McAndrew was the losing pitcher.

Atlanta 4, New York 2: Darrell Evans hammered a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth off Tug McGraw to give the Braves the doubleheader sweep. Evans also singled and scored in the seventh. Jimmy Freeman got credit for the win with a scoreless inning of relief. Felix Millan hit an unlikely homer in the first inning off Ron Reed, who allowed just the one run in six innings. Henry Aaron homered for Atlanta.

Houston 7, St. Louis 3: Bob Watson and Tommy Helms each homered and J.R. Richard fanned seven men in six innings. Losing pitcher Rick Wise allowed six runs, five earned, in six innings. Lou Brock stole a pair of bases off Richard's slow delivery and scored twice. 

St. Louis 4, Houston 0: Scipio Spinks had a game: A three-hit shutout on the mound, a solo homer at the plate. Spinks walked six and struck out four. His homer came in the eighth inning off  reliever Cecil Upshaw. Jerry Reuss took the loss for the first-place Astros.