Saturday, 17 July 1976

Lopes, Astros Speed Past Brewers



Interleague Play:
Philadelphia 4 at Boston 5
-Carl Yastrzemski (5) and recently acquired Dave Rader (2) smack home runs to propel Fergie Jenkins (11-3, 3.77) and the BoSox to victory
Chicago Cubs 1 at NY Yankees 0
-Andre Dawson’s sacrifice fly broke a scoreless deadlock in the 9th as Larry Gura (4.02) and Bruce Sutter (8-5, 3.58) combine to five-hit the Yanks
Atlanta 4 at Baltimore 7
-Jim Northrup (3) and Bobby Grich (11) each homer and Jim Palmer (11-8, 2.99) earned the victory for the Orioles. Rudy May (9Sv, 3.63) has settled into a closers role and pitched a perfect 9th
San Francisco 7 at Cleveland 8
-Bruce Bochte had four hits and Toby Harrah (14) and Oscar Gamble (20) each went deep as the Indians edge the Giants in another slugfest
NY Mets 1 at Detroit 2
-A repeat of last night’s score as Vern Ruhle (5-8, 3.60) and Bill Campbell (3Sv, 3.03) shut down the Mets
Houston 3 at Milwaukee 1
-Davey Lopes went 4-for-4, scored two runs and swiped three bases (30SB) to ignite the Astros offence. Joe Niekro (6-3, 3.75) continued to thrive in his return to the rotation and Ken Forsch notched his 23rd save
San Diego 2 at Chicago WSox 3
-Bobby Bonds led off the bottom of the 1st with his 21st home run and Bill Stein went 4-for-4 as Don Kirkwood (2-3, 4.85) and the Sox upend San Diego again
Cincinnati 9 at Minnesota 3
-Joe Morgan had three steals (46SB) and Larry Biittner, Cesar Geronimo and Dave Concepcion each had multi-RBI days for Cincinnati
Los Angeles 7 at Kansas City 4
-Three hit days by Lee Lacy (.327) and Rick Monday (.256) lead the way as the Dodgers jump out to a 6-0 lead versus spot starter Bruce Dal Canton (6-3, 4.07)
St. Louis 8 at Texas 3
-Bake McBride (.334 7HR) doubled, homered and swiped his 20th base of the season helping St. Louis and Eric Rasmussen (8-7, 3.09) to the easy win
Montreal 6 at California 3
-Larry Parrish’s 12th home run of the season capped a late inning flourish by the Expos as they rebound from being down 3-0 to double up the Angels
 Pittsburgh 3 at Oakland 4
- Joe Rudi drove in two runs including the game winning RBI and Dick Bosman (8-9, 3.29) pitched eight innings for the victory. Bert Blyleven falls to 10-4, 3.00 for the Pirates.

AL East: The Red Sox remain 2 games up on the Orioles and 7 on the Indians with the Yankees now falling to 4th place 7.5 games back
AL West: The Royals remain a half game up on the Angels with the A’s closing back to 2.5 games out
NL East:
The Pirates now lead the Cardinals by 4 games with the Phillies slipping to 3rd place, 5 games behind
NL West:
 The Astros still lead the Reds by 2.5, while the Padres fall to 4.5 games off the pace
ALvsNL: AL leads 14-10. League with best record in the 144 interleague games earns home-field advantage in the World Series


7/17/1976, HOU76-MIL76, County Stadium
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1976 Houston           1  0  2  0  0  0  0  0  0     3  8  0     4  1
1976 Milwaukee         0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     1  4  0     5  2
 
Houston              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Milwaukee            AB  R  H BI   AVG
Lopes             2b  4  2  4  0  .262    Yount             ss  4  0  0  0  .286
Cedeno            cf  4  1  1  1  .304    Gantner           3b  3  0  0  0  .250
Gross             rf  4  0  2  2  .359    Briggs            1b  3  0  1  0  .286
Ivie              1b  4  0  0  0  .314    Thomas,D          lf  3  1  1  0  .312
Cruz              lf  3  0  0  0  .266    Oglivie           rf  4  0  0  0  .275
DaVanon           3b  3  0  0  0  .251    Johnson           2b  4  0  1  0  .290
 Forsch           p   0  0  0  0  .000    Sundberg          c   2  0  0  1  .195
Ashby             c   4  0  0  0  .226     Money            ph  1  0  0  0  .238
Reynolds          ss  3  0  1  0  .265     Moore            c   0  0  0  0  .212
Niekro            p   3  0  0  0  .000    Manning           cf  3  0  1  0  .193
 Howe             3b  0  0  0  0  .239    Caldwell          p   2  0  0  0  .087
                     32  3  8  3           Cooper           ph  1  0  0  0  .208
                                           Holdsworth       p   0  0  0  0  .000
                                                               30  1  4  1
 
Houston                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Niekro           W 6-3           8.0  4  1  1  2  7 107  66  3.75
Forsch           S 23            1.0  0  0  0  1  0  19  10  2.56
                                 9.0  4  1  1  3  7 126  76 
 
Milwaukee                        INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Caldwell         L 8-9           8.0  8  3  3  0  5 107  71  2.89
Holdsworth                       1.0  0  0  0  2  1  13   5  0.74
                                 9.0  8  3  3  2  6 120  76 
 
HOU: Howe inserted at 3b in the 9th
MIL: Money batted for Sundberg in the 7th
     Moore inserted at c in the 8th
     Cooper batted for Caldwell in the 8th
 
2B-Thomas,D. 3B-Cedeno. SB-Lopes 3(30). CS-Lopes. K-Cedeno, Ivie, Cruz 2, 
Ashby, Reynolds, Yount, Gantner, Thomas,D 2, Oglivie, Manning, Caldwell. 
BB-Cruz, DaVanon, Gantner, Briggs, Thomas,D. 
GWRBI: Cedeno
 
 
 


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