W L Pct. GB
Houston 81 64 .558 ---
Atlanta 79 66 .545 2
Chicago 73 68 .518 5
Montreal 73 71 .507 7.5
New York 72 71 .503 8
Pittsburgh 70 72 .492 9.5
St. Louis 67 77 .465 13.5
Philadelphia 58 84 .408 22
Friday's games
Pittsburgh (Kison) at Montreal (Rogers)
Chicago (Hooton) at New York (Koosman)
Houston (D Wilson) at Philadelphia (Ruthven)
St. Louis (Cleveland) at Atlanta (Reed)
Montreal 5, St. Louis 4: Bob Bailey hit a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the ninth to walk off Mike Nagy and make a winner of Mike Marshall. The Expos led 4-0 after two innings, but St. Louis starter Alan Foster followed with four scoreless innings while the Cards rallied to even the score against Mike Torrez.
St. Louis 10, Montreal 2: The Cardinals bounced back behind Rick Wise, who held the Expos to two runs in eight innings, and Lou Brock and Ted Sizemore, who each scored three runs and drove in a pair. Wise and Brock each tripled, and Ken Reitz and Joe Torre had two RBIs apiece.
New York 2, Houston 1 (10 innings): Tom Seaver worked all 10 innings for the Mets, allowing one run on four hits. Wayne Garrett scored the winning run on a wild pitch by JR Richard, who entered after Ken Boswell, pinch hitting for Seaver, tripled to open the bottom of the 10th. With the infield and outfield both in, Richard got Garrett to hit a grounder to first, and Lee May threw out Boswell trying to score. But then Richard walked both Felix Millan and Rusty Staub to load the bases, then uncorked his wild pitch. Jim York was saddled with the loss.
Houston 9, New York 7: Cesar Cedeno homered twice and tripled, scored three times and drove in four. J.R. Richard threw three innings of relief, allowing only an unearned run, and was credited with the win in via scorer's descretion rather than Cecil Upshaw, who was ineffective in his one-third of an inning. Ray Sadecki took the loss for the Mets.
Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 5: Richie Hebner hit a pair of solo homers and Al Oliver and Willie Stargell hit back-to-back homers to power the Pirates. Bob Boone hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth off reliever Steve Blass to make the score close. Bob Moose, who allowed two runs in 7.1 innings, was the winner, and Wayne Twitchell took the loss.
Pittsburgh 8, Philadelphia 2: Luke Walker went eight innings for the Buccos and Al Oliver homered twice. Gene Alley hit a three-run homer in the seventh to ice the win. Jim Lonborg took the loss. Greg Luzinski hit a two-run home run in the sixth for the Phillies runs.
Atlanta 9, Chicago 8: Darrell Evans hit a two-out three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth off Jack Aker to win it. It was Evans's second of the game and the fifth for Atlanta. Dave Johnson also homered twice and Phil Niekro, who gave up six runs in six innings, hit the other. Gary Gentry got the win in relief. Billy Williams and Ron Santo homered for the Cubs.
Chicago 7, Atlanta 5: Pat Bourque drove in the first run of the game with a double, but his biggest swing came the next inning when he clubbed a grand slam off Atlanta starter and loser Ron Schueler. The Braves made the game close with a four-run outburst in the seventh against starter and winner Bill Bonham and Jack Aker, but they could not dent home plate in the eighth against Dave LaRoche or in the ninth against Ray Burris, who got the save.
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