Rice Rips Pair as Red Sox Take Over First

American League:
New York 13 at Baltimore 3
-Lucky sevens for George Scott (21HR) and the Yankees as Boomer drives in seven runs with a pair of home runs as the Yanks score seven on Wayne Garland (15-7, 2.94) handing him his seventh defeat. Tom Underwood (12-11, 3.48) went seven innings for the win
Milwaukee 9  at Cleveland 2
-Rookie Jim Gantner (4HR) hit two home runs and fellow rookie Gary Beare (8-11, 3.73) went the distance for the win
Boston 6 at Detroit 4
-The Red Sox are in 1^st all alone thanks to two home runs from Jim Rice (38) and a surprising home run by closer Skip Lockwood who racked up save #35
Chicago 0 at California 1
-Frank Tanana (18-9, 3.24) , Terry Forster (3.92) and Chris Knapp (7Sv, 4.81) combine to five-hit the Sox
Kansas City 7 at Oakland 1
-Steve Busby (14-6, 3.12) doesn’t allow an earned run and he, Amos Otis and George Brett each drove in pair
Texas at Minnesota ppd

AL East: The Red Sox move into 1^st place a game up on the Orioles
AL West:  The Royals lead by 13.5 games

National League
Philadelphia 5 at Chicago 2
-Greg Luzinski hit a pair of solo home runs (25) and Johnny Oates (6) lashed a three run shot as Nino Espinosa strikes out ten to improve to 6-7, 2.93
Pittsburgh 8 at Montreal 3
-Dave Parker had three hits and two RBI’s to pace the Pirates attack and Bert Blyleven (15-5, 3.05) drove in a pair to help himself to victory
New York 2 at St. Louis 1
-Tom Seaver (13-8, 3.00) went the distance and Jerry Martin hit his 8^th home run of the year for the Mets
Cincinnati 7 at Los Angeles 4 (14)
-Fred Norman (10-10, 4.34) strikes out seven Dodgers in four innings to cap nine innings of shutout relief by the Reds bullpen as they gut out a big win at Dodger Stadium.
Atlanta 6 at San Diego 3
-A first inning grand slam by Charlie Spikes (17HR) propels the Braves to victory
Houston 5 at San Francisco 4
-Former Astro’ Enos Cabell hit a two run home run, his first of the year, and his sacrifice fly in the 9^th pulled the Giants within one but Ken Forsch (32Sv, 2.55) got Jack Clark to fly out with the potential tying run on 3rd
 
NL East: The Pirates lead by 11  games
NL West: The Astros maintain a 4.5 game lead over the Reds

Boston 6, Detroit 4

9/11/1976, BOS76-DET76, Tiger Stadium
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1976 Boston            0  1  0  1  1  0  2  0  1     6 13  1     8  0
1976 Detroit           1  0  0  0  0  0  1  2  0     4  9  0     9  0
 
Boston               AB  R  H BI   AVG    Detroit              AB  R  H BI   AVG
Remy              2b  5  1  2  0  .299    Collins           lf  4  0  1  0  .347
Burleson          ss  4  0  0  0  .276    Knox              2b  5  1  1  0  .298
Fisk              c   5  0  2  1  .283    Wockenfuss        rf  5  0  0  0  .297
Rice              rf  5  3  4  3  .319    Madlock           1b  5  1  2  1  .323
Watson            1b  5  0  0  0  .285    Freehan           c   2  1  1  0  .265
Yastrzemski       lf  4  0  2  0  .280    Hebner            3b  4  0  1  0  .259
Dillard           3b  3  0  0  1  .279    Scrivener         ss  4  0  1  1  .233
Miller,R          cf  3  1  2  0  .263    Herndon           cf  4  0  1  1  .262
Kreuger           p   2  0  0  0  .125    Slaton            p   2  0  0  0  .118
 Drago            p   0  0  0  0  .000     Humphrey         ph  1  1  1  1  .261
 Cleveland        p   0  0  0  0  .095     Monge            p   0  0  0  0  .000
 Lockwood         p   1  1  1  1  .667     Meyer            ph  1  0  0  0  .270
                     37  6 13  6           Bare             p   0  0  0  0  .067
                                                               37  4  9  4
 
Boston                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Kreuger          W 11-7          7.0  5  2  1  2  2 111  74  3.64
Drago                            0.0  3  2  2  0  0   8   7  2.55
Cleveland        H 7             0.1  1  0  0  0  0  13   9  2.34
Lockwood         S 35            1.2  0  0  0  0  2  19  13  2.23
                                 9.0  9  4  3  2  4 151 103 
 
Detroit                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Slaton           L 2-7           7.0 10  5  5  2  5 110  65  6.82
Monge                            1.0  0  0  0  0  1   7   6  4.61
Bare                             1.0  3  1  1  0  0  21  12  4.10
                                 9.0 13  6  6  2  6 138  83 
 
DET: Humphrey batted for Slaton in the 7th
     Meyer batted for Monge in the 8th
 
E-Yastrzemski. 2B-Yastrzemski. HR-Rice 2(38), Lockwood(1), Humphrey(4). 
SB-Collins 2(45). CS-Remy. K-Burleson, Rice, Watson 2, Miller,R, Kreuger, 
Knox 2, Madlock, Hebner. BB-Burleson, Miller,R, Freehan 2. SH-Kreuger. 
SF-Dillard. HBP-Collins. PB-Fisk. HB-Kreuger. WP-Slaton. BALK-Lockwood. 
GWRBI: Rice