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The pennant race in the National League continues to be a tight five team race at the top with only six games separating the first place team from the fifth place club. Three of the five teams lost the opening round of their current series, including first place New York who were ambushed by Atlanta 7-1 at the Polo Grounds.

Kevin Millwood (3-3) went 7.2 innings for the win allowing only one run on 3 hits walking three and striking out 3. Grover Lee pitched the final two innings for the Braves.

Tony Egloff (2-5) took the loss. (6.2IP 8H 4R/4ER 3BB/7SO). Egloff was the first of five pitchers used in the defeat by New York, chewing up its bullpen in game one.

Atlanta had 13 hits to score 7 runs. Mark Teixeira had four hits, two of those hits were doubles to drive in two runs and score two runs. Hank Aaron had a double and a single, Dale Murphy was on base three times with a walk and two single sand scored all three times. Norwood, the pitcher, drove in two runs with two sacrifice flies the first time that has been done in eleven years.

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Montreal 6 Brooklyn 0

George Roden (2-4) threw a complete game six hit shutout to hand slumping Brooklyn its seventh straight loss.

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Pittsburgh Panthers 4 Milwaukee Brewers 1

Pittsburgh capitalized on the New York loss and with its defeat of Milwaukee gained ground on both teams moving into a tie with Milwaukee for second place two games behind New York.

Johnny Lemon put Pittsburgh in front 1-0 with a sac-fly in the 1st inning.

Dan Berra made it 2-0 with a 5th inning run scoring double.

Francisco Latham cut the Panther lead in half with a two out run scoring single in the bottom of the 5th.

Dutch Fewster put the game out of reach for Milwaukee with a two run homewrun, his 8th, in the 8th inning.

Eddie Wisterzil (4-2) was the winning pitcher (6.2IP 6H 1R/1ER 5BB/9SO). Harry Neilson (1.1 IP three strikeouts), and Jerry Walton went one inning for his 7th save,

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Chicago 8 Los Angeles 3

Chicago has been playing good baseball over its last tweleve games going 9-3 in thoise contests. Over that span which coincided with an ownership change the team has made one error (.998FP) raising its season's fielding percentage to .970 after making 28 errors in the first 29 games of the season.

The team has batted .305 to raise the team batting average to .263 and the pitching staff is chipping away aat the once bloated 6.36 ERA putting up a 3.74 mark to lower the season's ERA to a still rather high 5.50.

Chicago's ace Bob Edelan evened his record at 4-4 with his thrid straight win going 7 innings allowing 5 hitds and 3 runs. Edelan walked 1 and struck out 6.

Both teams scored a run in the first inning.

Chicago set a first inning scoring high last week, and in this game they set a second inning high by batting around to plate six runs. Randy Glbert opened the scoring with a lead off homer, his 2nd, to put Chicago in front 2-1.

Dodgers pitcher Charlie Sutcliff hit Emmitt Brown with his first pitch to him causing the benches to come onto the field. Order was restored quickly.

Veteran Joe Enzmann doubled off Sutcliff putting runners on second and third with no outs. Edelan's fly ball to left field was deep enough to score Brown to make it 3-1 Chicago.

Ray Sierra flied out for out number two.

Brent Handrahan singled to center field driving in Enzmann...4-1. Handrahan stole second base and scored on a single to left by Ed Woodson. Mike Townsend reached on one of the three Dodger errors in the game, this one a two-base throwing error by shortstop Jim Weihmeier. Sutcliff walked McAllister to fill the bases with only two outs.

Randy Gilbert, who led off the inning with a homerun, came up for his second at bat in the inning, and singled in both Woodson and Townsend. Brown the eleventh batter in the inning reached base a second time with a walk but Enzman forced McAllister out at ome to end the inning with Chicago on top 7-1Chicago added a run in the 5th off Lou Larkin. Singles by the pitcher Edelan andHandrahan made it 8-1 Chicago.

Mike Gelbert hit one out for LA in the 5th, his second, and the 4th allowed by Edelane in 61.2 innings this season.

A RBI ground out by Matt Robinson in the 6th made the final score 8-3.
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