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Montreal vs San Francisco

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Montreal 3 San Francisco 0

Montreal has now won eleven of its last fourteen ames and now trail first place Brooklyn (24-14) and one game in front of third place St. Louis (20-15).

Montreal is 10-8 at home after the completion of the firt two games of the series with San Francisco. The Expos manager Buck Whitten called out his starting pitchers at the beginning of August and since then the starters have gone 3-0 in six starts allowed 12 earned runs over 125.1 innings pitched for a 0.86 ERA.

Harrell went eight innings in his second start of the stretch and picked up his fourth win of the season (4-2) and lowered his ERA to 3.56.

The four hits allowed by Harrell were all singles. He walked one and struck out eight. He pitched around one error.

Montreal scored single runs in the 2nd, 6th, 8th inning.

Larry Toporcer walked with one out, went to third on a single by catcher Jose Rusie and scored on a ground out to second base by Pete Bransfield. 1-0

Dick Reyes led off the six with a single, stole second(8th) advanced to third base on a one out ground out to first by Jim Beck and scored on a Greg Akers single. 2-0.

Pinch hitter Ed Perranoski tipled off Corey to finish Corey's efforts. Right hander Bob Stantontook over but gave up a run scorong double to to Beck to make the final score 3-0 with Tommy Fisher getting his ninth save of the season.


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Montreal 3 San Francisco 2

In game two of the series Montreal hadthree runs on only five hits and left three men on base.

San Francisco had two runs on seven hits but left five runners on base.

Montreal starting pitcher Floyd Diaz kept the current power pitching streak of the Montreal Expos going by notching strong eight innings allowed seven hits and two walks with nine strikeouts. Diaz is now 5-2.

Montreal took a 1-0 in the first inning when Greg Akers hit his 6th homerun off San Francisco starting pitcher Norm Stoops, the 5th homerun allowed by Stoops in 51.2 innings.

San Francisco had enough of trailing the Expos in this seres and roared back to tie the game 1-1 on Fred Miller's 2nd homerun of the season in the second inning.

Then in the 3rd inning, the Giants took a 2-1 lead. on a two out single by Bob Curd.

Montreal responded with two runs in the six to take a 4-1 lead. Larry Torporcer singled with two outs and Pete Bransfield powered a homerun out to deep left field.

It was Bransfield's 4th of the season and his first game winning homerun of his career.
To lefthanders will oppose each other in game three; Ramon Miller (3-0 2.85) will go for Montreal and Dave Hamilton (1-4 4.26) will get the ball for the Giants.
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