Metroplex bracket: 1973 Expos sweep 1973 Red Sox

Game One: Expos 3, Red Sox 1

WP: Renko (3-0)

LP: Tiant (1-1)

Game Two: Expos 4, Red Sox 1

WP: Rogers (1-0)
LP: Lee (1-1)

Save: Marshall (4)

Game Three: Expos 5, Red Sox 4 (12 innings)
WP: Marshall (2-0)
LP: Veale (0-1)

Game Four: Expos 3, Red Sox 2

WP: Moore (1-0)
LP: Pattin (1-1)
Save: Marshall (5)

HR: Bailey (3)

The two teams combined for just one homer in the four games, and the Red Sox totaled eight runs for the series.

Game One, in Boston's Fenway Park, set the tone. Steve Renko threw a three-hitter. Carl Yastzremski doubled home Tommy Harper in the first inning, and the Red Sox didn't get another man into scoring position. The Expos drew seven walks off loser Luis Tiant and three relievers.

Felipe Alou doubled in Ron Woods from first base and later scored on a Tommy Harper error in the second inning, and the Expos maintained the lead. Hal Breeden also doubled in a man from first, this on in the fifth inning, Mike Marshall relieved Steve Rogers with the bases loaded and two out in the eighth and retired Carlton Fisk, then navigated the ninth for the save.

The series moved to Montreal and Parc Jarry for Game Three. It ran long. The Red Sox held a 3-0 lead against Mike Torrez after five innings, but Montreal relievers Ernie McAnally and Pat Jarvis held the Sox scoreless for two inning apiece while the Expos chipped away at the lead. Breeden had a sac fly in the sixth and and Pepe Frias one in the seventh. Pinch-hitter Bob Stinson doubled in the ninth and scored on a Ron Woods double; Woods was ultimately thrown out at home by center fielder Reggie Smith to end the inning. Marshall gave up a run in 11th but the Expos tied it on another sac fly, this one from Ken Singleton -- after which Rick Miller threw out another runner at the plate. Finally, in the bottom of the 12th, Ron Fairly singled, went to third on John Boccabella's double and scored when Tim Foli's fly ball went over the drawn-in outfield for a base hit.

The one homer of the series provided all the runs for the Expos in the clincher. Bob Bailey hit a three-run homer off Marty Pattin in the third. Balor Moore allowed two runs in six innings for the win, with Tom Walker throwing two scoreless innings and ironman Marshall getting a double play in the ninth to end the game and the series.

Player availability: The Expos get to full rest before Round Three

Projected rotation: Renko-Torrez-Moore-Rogers-(Renko)-(Torrez)-(Moore)

Stat break: 1973 New York Mets

Hitters

Name              AB   R   H   RBI  2B  3B  HR  BB  SB  Avg,
Boswell            1     0     0     0        0    0    0     1      0    .000
Dyer                 1     0     0     0        0    0    0     1      0    .000
W Garrett      17     4      3     0        1    0    0     4      1    .176
Gosger             2     1     1     0        1    0    0     0      0    .500
Grote              21     0     3     2        0    0    0     0      0    .143
Hahn                9     0     0     0        0    0    0     2      0    .000
Harrelson       19     1     7     2        0    1    0     2      0    .368
C Jones          23     2     6     4        0    0    2     1      0    .261
Kranepool        6     0     1    0        0     0     0     1      0    .167
Martinez           5     0     0     0        0    0    0     0      0    .000
Mays              10     0     2     0        0    0     0     1      0    .200
Millan            20     0     4     0        0    0     0     4      0    .200
Milner           19      3     4     3        1    0     1     2      0    .211
Staub             22     1      3    3        0    0    1      1     0     .136
Theodore         1     0     0     0        0    0    0      1      0    .000

Pitchers

Name              G    GS   IP        H    R    ER   BB    K     Sv.   W    L     ERA

Capra               1      0      2          2     0     0       0      3        0      0     0       0.00
Koosman         2      2    16        12     2     2       1       6        0     1     1       1.13
Matlack           1      1      6           4     0     0       4     9        0      1     0       0.00

McAndrew      1      1      2          2     1     1       0      0        0      0     0       4.50

McGraw         3       0      3          2     4    3        1      1        1       0     1      9.00

Park er            1       0      1.3        1     0    0       1      1        0     0     0        0.00

Sadecki           2       0     3           1     0    0       2       2       0      0     0       0.00
Seaver             2      2    15        11     8     5       5     12        0      0     2       3.00
Stone               2      0      4          2     0     0       0      1         0     0     0       0.00

Metroplex region: 1973 Expos defeat 1973 Mets in six games

Game One: Expos 3, Mets 2
WP: Renko (1-0)
LP: Seaver (0-1)
Save: Marshall (1)
HR: Bailey (1), Staub (1), Jones (1)

Game Two: Mets 3, Expos 0
WP: Koosman (1-0)
LP: Torrez (0-1)
HR: Jones (2)

Game Three: Mets 2, Expos 0
WP: Matlack (1-0)
LP: Rogers (0-1)
Save: McGraw (1)
HR: Milner (1)

Game Four: Expos 3, Mets 2
WP: Marshall (1-0)
LP: McGraw (0-1)
HR: Bailey (2)

Game Five: Expos 5, Mets 2
WP: Renko (2-0)
LP: Seaver (0-2)
Save: Marshall (2)
HR: Stinson (1)

Game Six: Expos 4, Mets 3
WP: Torrez (1-1)
LP: Koosman (1-1)
Save: Marshall (3)
HR: Breeden 2 (2)

Steve Renko -- a good pitcher but no Hall of Fame candidate -- twice outdueled Tom Seaver, and the Expos bullpen was charged with one run allowed in 11 innings.

Game One, in Shea Stadium, went to the visitors despite consecutive homers in the sixth from Rusty Staub and Cleon Jones. Montreal plated two runs in the fourth, one on a ground out and the other on a squeeze bunt by Boots Day. Bob Bailey homered off Seaver in the top of the sixth, a vital insurance run.

Jerry Koosman evened the series with a five-hit shutout in Game Two. Jones hit a two-run homer in the first off Mike Torrez and singled home the other run in the seventh.

The series moved to Montreal's tiny Parc Jarry for Game Three, and Jon Matlack and three relievers followed Koosman's shutout with one of their own. Matlack went six innings before leaving for a pinch-hitter; Ray Sadecki, Harry Parker and Tug McGraw divved up the other nine outs. John Milner provided the runs with a two-run shot off Steve Rogers in the second inning.

The Mets carried a 2-1 lead into the ninth with McGraw on the mound in Game Four, but the lefty relief ace erred on Ron Hunt's leadoff grounder. After Ron Fairly bounced into a force out, Bailey homered to jolt the Expos into a tie for the series. Mike Marshall pitched the top of the ninth and was credited with the win.

The Mets were already trailing Game Five 2-0 when they imploded behind Tom Seaver in the fifth. Staub committed a two-base error on a leadoff flyball. After a sac bunt moved Jim Lyttle to third, Seaver walked Renko, and Felix Millan followed that by booting Hunt's grounder. Seaver then threw a wild pitch that Jerry Grote could not find, and the runners took two bases. Ron Fairly's base hit made it a three-run inning. The Mets did get four baserunners in the ninth, but Marshall got a double-play grounder off the bat of pinch-hitter Willie Mays to end the game.

The series returned to Shea for Game Six, but the Expos were not deterred. Hal Breeden homered twice and doubled. He scored three runs and drove in three. Torrez worked into the eighth inning; Joe Gilbert finished that inning with a one-run lead, and Marshall pitched a perfect ninth to end the series.

Player availability: With two days off, Marshall and the rest of the Montreal bullpen will be fully available when Round 2 opens.

Projected rotation: Renko-Rogers-Torrez-Moore-(Renko)-(Rogers)-(Torrez)