Montreal sweeps New York

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Montreal sweeps New York

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Montreal swept the last place New York Nets by scores of 3-1, 11-7 and 12-3 outscoring New York 26=11 in the series.

Montreal used the sweep to move into a tie for third place with Milwaukee (13-11) and left them two games behind second place St Louis (15-9), who took two of three games from Milwaukee, by just two games, and first place Brooklyn (16-8) by three games.

Ramon Miller (3-0) continued the recent upturn in starting pithing for Montreal with a route going victory. Miller allowed just three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts and did not wa;lk a batter.

His catcher, All Star Jose Rusie, said ''The unquestionable key to winning this game was his control. All his pitches were working, especiually the curve ball. I think they struck out four or five times swinging at the curveball.''

Dutch Blanchard (LP 2-2) went just four innings in the game allowing seven runs (five earned) on five hits walked three and struck out seven.

Shawon Halman followed Blanchard with four innings of relief. Halman allowed three runs on five hits and John Welday took care of the remaining inning (2 hits 2 runs).

Just as they did in game two, the Expos staged a big inning to blow the game open in the fourth inning. The Expos erupted for seven runs on five hits.

Two of the runs were unearned when Dick Reyes led off with a double and scored on a two base throwing error on thirdbaseman Mike Ray. Joe Craig, who reached on the error, scored on a single by Greg Akers.

First baseman Pete Bransfield drove in Akers and Larry Torporcer with a single.

Jose Rusie singled in Jeff Rotblatt, one of the three walks issued by Blanchard.

Montreal padded their lead with three more runs in the 5th inning on a solo homerun by Larry Torporcher, his 2nd of the season, and Jose Rusie fist with one on made it 10-1.

Dan Tragesser his his second for New York in the 6th.

Single by Torporcher, and a two run homerunby third baseman Cliff Strauss, made it 12 runs for Montreal and Mike Ray's single in the bottom of the ninth accounted for the game's final run.
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