Tuesday, 17 August 1976

Cobra, Pirates in Command of East



National League
Montreal 1 at New York 2
-The Mets extend their winning streak to a season high four games as John Stearns drives in both runs and Bob Apodaca (3-5, 2.56) wins in relief
Philadelphia 3 at Pittsburgh 5 (11)
-Dave Parker’s 18th home run of the season was the two-run walk-off shot in the 11th off Doug Bird (2-5, 5.83).
Chicago 4 at St. Louis 2
-Bruce Kimm drives in two and Bruce Sutter (15Sv, 3.16) fanned two Cardinals in the 9th while earning the save. Geoff Zahn (10-7, 4.17) earned the win for the Cubs.
Atlanta 4 at Cincinnati 9
-The Reds were down 4-0 early but score the final nine runs including seven off Braves starter Buzz Capra (8-14, 4.22). Dave Concepcion had three hits including his 7th home run of the season
San Diego 2 at Houston 9
- Davey Lopes sets a record here with five stolen bases to give him 38 on the season. Lopes stole 3rd with a 9-2 lead in the 8th much to the ire of the Padres dugout. San Diego has lost six in a row.
San Francisco 1 at Los Angeles 7
-Bill Buckner (6) and Jay Johnston (9) homered and recently signed Hank Webb pitched four innings of relief for his first save as the Dodgers win easily

NL East: The Pirates now hold a commanding 8.5 game lead on the Cardinals
NL West: The Astros maintain a 5.5 game lead on the Reds

American League:

Boston 6 at Baltimore 1
- Jim Rice (33) and Bob Watson (19) hit back to back home runs in the 3rd inning and the Red Sox would not look back in the opener of this AL East showdown. The Orioles seven game winning streak was ended.
New York 1 at Detroit 13
-Chuck Scrivener (2nd) and Pitcher Jim Crawford (2nd) hit back to back home runs off Catfish Hunter (8-10, 3.91) in the 2nd – this is how it’s bad it’s become for New York. Sparky Lyle (3.96) gave up five runs in relief. He’s been awful since being acquired from the Rangers
Cleveland 5 at Milwaukee 4 (10)
-Ray Fosse’s 8th home run of the year was the game winner off Bill Castro (4-3, 1.43). Gorman Thomas also hit his 31st for the Tribe to stay two back of Jim Rice for the MLB HR lead.
California 2 at Chicago 3
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The White Sox only muster three hits but it was enough thanks ot the wildness of the Angels staff. Two of the hits were by Jorge Orta who also scored the winning run in the 9th when he beat the throw home on a Rusty Torres grounder
Kansas City 14 at Minnesota 0
-Is this the Chiefs versus the Vikings? The Royals follow up a 10-0 win with a 14-0 thumping of the Twins at the Met. Paul Splittorff (22-3, 2.26) didn’t allow a walk I the shutout. Hal McRae had four hits and Al Cowens four RBI’s
Oakland 8 at Texas 0
-Don Sutton (15-6, 2.82) bounces back from his worst outing of the season with a shutout and Jackie Brown (8-11, 4.18) reverses his recent hot trend by getting bounced from the game in the 5th.  Gary Thomasson (13), Joe Rudi (21) and Cliff Johnson (20) all went deep for the A’s

AL East:
The Orioles lead is trimmed to 1 by the Red Sox with two games to go in their set in Baltimore
AL West:  The Royals now hold a commanding 8 game lead over the Angels
8/17/1976, PHI76-PIT76, Three Rivers Stadium
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11     R  H  E   LOB DP
1976 Philadelphia      0  0  0  0  0  2  1  0  0  0  0     3  5  2     5  0
1976 Pittsburgh        1  0  0  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  2     5  8  1    11  0
 
Philadelphia         AB  R  H BI   AVG    Pittsburgh           AB  R  H BI   AVG
Hutton            1b  4  0  0  0  .236    Moreno            cf  3  2  0  0  .286
Oates             c   3  1  1  0  .278    Stennett          2b  6  0  0  0  .269
 Perez            ph  1  0  0  0  .295    Parker            rf  4  1  1  2  .326
 Campbell         p   0  0  0  0  .000    May               lf  4  1  2  1  .288
 Bowa             ss  1  0  0  0  .322    Tenace            c   4  1  2  2  .262
Schmidt           3b  5  1  1  2  .237    Stargell          1b  4  0  0  0  .264
Luzinski          lf  5  0  0  0  .262    Helms             3b  4  0  1  0  .343
Anderson          cf  5  1  3  1  .273    Mendoza           ss  5  0  0  0  .179
Cash              2b  2  0  0  0  .273    Blyleven          p   2  0  0  0  .123
Harmon            ss  4  0  0  0  .210     Fregosi          ph  1  0  1  0  .267
 Bird             p   0  0  0  0  .000     Roberts          p   0  0  0  0  .209
Unser             rf  4  0  0  0  .170     Giusti           p   0  0  0  0  .500
Christnson        p   1  0  0  0  .179     Carbo            ph  1  0  1  0  .262
 Lezcano          ph  1  0  0  0  .305     Tekulve          p   0  0  0  0  .000
 Garber           p   0  0  0  0  .000     Foli             ph  1  0  0  0  .258
 Maddox           ph  1  0  0  0  .244                         39  5  8  5
 McCarver         c   1  0  0  0  .270
                     38  3  5  3
 
Philadelphia                     INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Christnson                       5.0  3  3  2  3  6  83  53  3.79
Garber                           2.0  2  0  0  0  0  27  18  2.51
Campbell                         1.2  1  0  0  1  2  37  20  3.26
Bird             L 2-5           2.0  2  2  2  3  0  34  17  5.83
                                10.2  8  5  4  7  8 181 108 
 
Pittsburgh                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Blyleven                         7.0  4  3  3  1  3  89  54  3.08
Roberts                          0.1  0  0  0  1  0  12   7  3.77
Giusti                           1.2  1  0  0  0  1  20  13  3.07
Tekulve          W 8-5           2.0  0  0  0  0  2  23  15  2.42
                                11.0  5  3  3  2  6 144  89 
 
PHI: Lezcano batted for Christnson in the 6th
     Maddox batted for Garber in the 8th
     Perez batted for Oates in the 8th
     McCarver inserted at c in the 8th
     Bowa inserted at ss in the 9th
PIT: Fregosi batted for Blyleven in the 7th
     Carbo batted for Giusti in the 9th
     Foli batted for Tekulve in the 11th
 
E-Oates, Schmidt, Mendoza. 2B-Tenace, Fregosi. HR-Schmidt(29), Anderson(1), 
Parker(18), Tenace(16). SB-Moreno 2(17), Parker(10). CS-Moreno. K-Hutton, 
Schmidt, Luzinski 2, Anderson, Christnson, Stennett, Parker, Tenace 2, 
Stargell 2, Mendoza, Blyleven. BB-Hutton, Cash, Moreno 3, Parker 2, Stargell, 
Helms. SH-Cash. SF-May. HBP-Tenace. HB-Bird. 
GWRBI: Parker
 
 
 


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