GAME 1: 73 Pit 6-4
The Cards come in needing at least a split to stay mathematically alive. The Pirates hold a 1-game lead on Montreal, but a playoff berth is in hand. After scoring a run in the 1st on Bill White's single, St. Louis added 3 more in the 2nd. Tim McCarver was hit by a pitch to start the inning. Mike Shannon doubled, then both runners advanced on Julian Javier's ground out, 2-0. Ray Washburn followed with a double to score Shannon, 3-0. An out later, Dick Groat's double plated Washburn, 4-0. It stayed that way until the 6th when the Pirate bats woke up. PH Milt May got a 1-out single. Gene Clines doubled. Richie Hebner singled, 4-1. Richie Zisk doubled in another run, 4-2. Willie Stargell's ground out plated Hebner, 4-3. Top of the 7th, another Pirate PH made a contribution. Manny Sanguillen singled to open the inning, then moved to 2nd on a ground out. With 2 down, PH Fernando Gonzalez' single brought home Sanguillen with the tie run, 4-4. Top of the 8th, relief ace Hal Woodeshick on for the Cards. He walked Hebner to open the inning. Then the lefty challenged Zisk, but lost the battle. Zisk's 2-run HR put the Bucs up 6-4. Ramon Hernandez worked the 8th, and Dave Giusti the 9th as the Pirates held on for the win.GAME 2: 73 Pit 4-3
Game 2 was a reverse of game 1, except for the final score. The Pirates opened with 2 in the 2nd
on Milt May's RBI double and Jackie Hernandez' 2-out RBI single. In the 4th it was Hernandez again with a single to score Manny Sanguillen, 3-0 Pittsburgh. Top of the 6th, Bob Gibson gave up another run. A lead off walk to Willie Stargell, followed by Milt May's single made it 4-0 Pirates, as Bruce Kison took the shutout into the bottom of the 6th. But Kison ran into some trouble. A walk to Ken Boyer, a single by Bill White plus Stargell's bobble, put runners on 2nd and 3rd. Tim McCarver's sac fly made it 3-1, and another out later, Julian Javier's single cut the lead to 4-2. Bottom of the 7th, Bob Johnson now on for the Pirates. Consecutive singles by Brock, Groat, and Curt Flood made it a 4-3 score. Ramon Hernandez replaced Johnson and shut down the rally by retiring Boyer, White, and McCarver. On to the bottom of the 9th, Dave Giusti pitching. Dick Groat got a 1-out single to put the tie run on base. Giusti struck out Flood, and did the same to Boyer to end the game, a 4-3 Pirates' win.GAME 3: 65 StL 9-1
With their backs at the wall, the Cards explode for 9 runs and 14 hits as they pound Bob Moose for a 9-1 win. The game's beginning gave an indication of what was to come. Singles by Lou Brock, Curt Flood, and Tim McCarver opened the game with a 1-0 Cards' lead. Two outs later Bobby Tolan's single made it 2-0. Moose and the Buccos hung on until the 6th when St. Louis put 5 runs on the board and sealed away the win. For St. Louis, Curt Simmons threw a complete game, allowing just 5 hits and 1 walk.GAME 4: 73 Pit 3-1
Bob Robertson's sac fly and Al Oliver's 2-run single in the first was all that Jim Rooker would
need as he and two Pirate relievers took the finale 3-1. The lone St. Louis run can in the 3rd on Ken Boyer's solo HR. Rooker worked 6 innings, Bob Johnson worked 1.1, and Dave Giusti the final 1.2.TURNING POINT: Richie Zisk's HR in game 1.
SERIES MVP: Dave Giusti - 5 innings, no runs, 3 saves
--submitted by Jesse Elicker--
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