Smith Powers Cards to Romp of Mets

National League
Philadelphia 1 at Chicago 4
-The Cubs have won two straight after returning home from an 0-6 trip as Ray Burris (3-2, 3.48) wins and Bruce Sutter (3Sv, 2.97) earned the save
Pittsburgh 12 at Montreal 6
-The Pirates roll over the Expos for the third time in two days and now lead by four games In the East. Bernie Carbo (.252 4HR) and Willie Stargell (.247 9HR) each had four hits, four RBI’s and a home run
New York 9 at St. Louis 14
-Reggie Smith (.254 13HR) had two home runs and four hits, runs and RBI’s as the Cards outslug  Craig Swan (2-7, 3.36) and the Mets
Cincinnati 1 at Los Angeles 4
-Doug Rau (4-8, 3.16) and Elias Sosa (10Sv, 1.80) shut down the Machine as L.A’s wins their third straight
Atlanta 4 at San Diego 10
-Al Bumbry (.309 5HR) and Dave Winfield (.254 8HR) each went deep off Buzz Capra (7-6, 3.67) as the 1^st place Padres crush the Braves
Houston 5 at San Francisco 2
-Mike Ivie (.302) 16HR is an RBI machine and his three run home run in the 8^th off Gary Lavelle (1-4, 3.10) lifted the Astros to the win. Cesar Cedeno (.306 5HR) followed Ivie to make it back to back home runs to provide insurance

 
American League
New York 5 at Cleveland 3
-All the runs were scored in the 8^th inning as winner Ed Figueroa (3-7, 4.41) and the Indians Dan Spillner (0-7, 3.41) were finally figured out. Consecutive triples by Thurman Munson (.200) and Ed Brinkman (.257) got things going in the Yankees half.
Boston 6 at Detroit 4
-Fergie Jenkins (5-3, 4.32) wins in his return to the rotation and Skip Lockwood (3.38) saved his tenth as Boston keeps pace with Baltimore in the East
Baltimore 3 at Milwaukee 1
-The Orioles continue to thrive against the division also-rans as Jim Palmer improves to 6-6, 2.99 and Tommy Harper (.298 16SB) had three hits and two steals
Texas 3 at Chicago 2
-Leon Roberts (.326) hit his fourth home run of the season and Jim Kern (10SV, 1.09) continued to dominate in the Rangers pen
Minnesota 1 at California 7
-Dave Goltz is a perfect 10-0, 2.01 with this complete game victory. Merv Rettenmund (.232) went 3 for 3 for the Angels as the Twins are 0-5 on their west coast trip
Kansas City 12 at Oakland 1
-The Royals are back in first place as Paul Splittorff is now a staggering 12-0, 1.59 and Hal McRae (.250) continued to rebound from a bad start with four RBI’s. It’s lining up for 12-0 Splittorff to face 10-0 Goltz in Anaheim on the weekend.



St. Louis 14, New York M 9

6/8/1976, NYM76-STL76, Busch Stadium
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1976 New York M        2  0  0  0  3  0  3  1  0     9 14  2     5  2
1976 St. Louis         0  0  5  5  1  1  2  0  x    14 19  0    10  2
 
New York M           AB  R  H BI   AVG    St. Louis            AB  R  H BI   AVG
Boisclair         cf  5  2  2  4  .321    Brock             lf  6  1  3  0  .332
Grote             c   5  0  2  2  .295    Smith             3b  6  4  4  4  .254
Jorgensen         lf  5  1  1  0  .274    McBride           cf  6  0  1  0  .305
Mankowski         3b  5  2  3  0  .310    Simmons           c   4  3  2  0  .360
Kranepool         1b  5  0  2  2  .236    Fairly            1b  3  2  1  0  .338
Cardenal          rf  3  0  0  0  .234    Dwyer             rf  3  2  2  0  .283
Ferrer            2b  3  2  3  1  .306    Sutherland        2b  5  1  3  5  .296
Harrelson         ss  3  1  0  0  .118     Kelleher         ss  0  0  0  0  .182
Swan              p   1  0  0  0  .130    Guerrero          ss  4  0  2  3  .240
 Lolich           p   0  0  0  0  .500     Richard          2b  0  0  0  0  .000
 Martin           ph  1  0  0  0  .315    Forsch            p   4  1  1  0  .143
 Baldwin          p   0  0  0  0  .000     Reynolds         p   0  0  0  0  .000
 Kingman          ph  1  1  1  0  .180     Knowles          p   1  0  0  0  .000
 Sanders          p   0  0  0  0  .000                         42 14 19 12
 Stearns          ph  1  0  0  0  .217
 Siebert          p   0  0  0  0  .000
                     38  9 14  9
 
New York M                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Swan             L 2-7           3.0  8  6  3  2  4  77  42  3.36
Lolich                           1.0  4  4  4  1  1  31  22  8.56
Baldwin                          2.0  3  2  2  2  0  39  23  5.61
Sanders                          1.0  3  2  2  1  0  24  15  3.30
Siebert                          1.0  1  0  0  0  1  18  13  3.74
                                 8.0 19 14 11  6  6 189 115 
 
St. Louis                        INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Forsch           W 7-2           6.1  7  7  7  2  3  91  58  3.92
Reynolds                         0.2  4  2  2  0  0  13  10 27.00
Knowles                          2.0  3  0  0  1  1  32  20  4.91
                                 9.0 14  9  9  3  4 136  88 
 
NYM: Martin batted for Lolich in the 5th
     Kingman batted for Baldwin in the 7th
     Stearns batted for Sanders in the 8th
STL: Kelleher inserted at ss in the 8th
     Richard inserted at 2b in the 8th
 
E-Cardenal, Ferrer. 2B-Boisclair, Kranepool, Ferrer, Brock, Smith, Simmons, 
Sutherland. HR-Boisclair(3), Smith 2(13). SB-Brock 3(18), McBride(11). 
CS-Ferrer. K-Boisclair, Grote, Cardenal, Swan, Brock, Smith 2, McBride, 
Simmons, Forsch. BB-Cardenal, Ferrer, Harrelson, Simmons, Fairly 2, Dwyer 2, 
Guerrero. WP-Lolich, Forsch.