MLB standings through games of June 17, 1970

MLB standings at the end of June 17, 1970

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. East
Baltimore Orioles	62	39	23	0	.629		288	226	21-12	18-11	4-6	Lost 2
New York Yankees	63	37	25	1	.597	2.0	285	246	20-8	17-17	8-2	Lost 1
Detroit Tigers	59	31	28	0	.525	6.5	279	268	18-12	13-16	7-3	Won 2
Boston Red Sox	58	29	29	0	.500	8.0	250	260	20-8	9-21	6-4	Won 2
Washington Senators	61	29	32	0	.475	9.5	260	279	17-17	12-15	5-5	Won 1
Cleveland Indians	58	26	32	0	.448	11.0	224	239	12-15	14-17	6-4	Won 4

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. West
Minnesota Twins	57	38	19	0	.667		296	218	19-10	19-9	6-4	Lost 1
California Angels	61	35	26	0	.574	5.0	250	220	18-12	17-14	3-7	Lost 4
Oakland A's	63	34	29	0	.540	7.0	292	254	18-13	16-16	6-4	Lost 2
Chicago White Sox	62	23	39	0	.371	17.5	249	320	12-21	11-18	4-6	Won 1
Kansas City Royals	60	21	39	0	.350	18.5	234	297	11-21	10-18	2-8	Lost 2
Milwaukee Brewers	62	20	41	1	.328	20.0	268	348	12-15	8-26	4-6	Won 2

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. East
Chicago Cubs	57	33	24	0	.579		283	239	20-8	13-16	6-4	Won 1
New York Mets	61	31	30	0	.508	4.0	246	223	17-15	14-15	6-4	Lost 1
Pittsburgh Pirates	64	31	33	0	.484	5.5	261	276	17-14	14-19	5-5	Lost 2
St. Louis Cardinals	59	28	31	0	.475	6.0	271	244	14-15	14-16	5-5	Won 1
Philadelphia Phillies	60	27	33	0	.450	7.5	202	268	11-16	16-17	6-4	Won 2
Montreal Expos	60	22	38	0	.367	12.5	222	323	10-19	12-19	5-5	Lost 2

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. West
Cincinnati Reds	63	45	18	0	.714		323	238	24-5	21-13	7-3	Won 1
Atlanta Braves	59	33	26	0	.559	10.0	285	263	16-11	17-15	4-6	Won 2
Los Angeles Dodgers	63	35	28	0	.556	10.0	279	220	17-18	18-10	5-5	Won 2
San Francisco Giants	62	29	33	0	.468	15.5	336	383	18-16	11-17	5-5	Lost 1
San Diego Padres	68	29	39	0	.426	18.5	309	315	14-23	15-16	4-6	Lost 1
Houston Astros	64	27	37	0	.422	18.5	285	310	17-15	10-22	2-8	Lost 3

Today's scores and summaries:

Brewers 5, Orioles 1 at Baltimore (night game):
Homers by Phil Roof and Mike Hegan paced the Brewers to a 5-1 victory over the Orioles, who suffered the fourth defeat in their last five games. The Orioles scored in the third when Don Buford singled, stole second and crossed the plate on a single by Frank Robinson. Roof tied the score with his homer in the fifth. Dave May, making his first appearance in a Brewers' uniform, hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth to plate the leading run against his former teammates. Hegan then clinched the decision by hitting a three-run homer in the seventh.

White Sox 6, Yankees 3 at Chicago (night game):
Jerry Janeski, who pitched the first seven innings, batted in three runs with a bases-loaded single and a squeeze bunt to provide the White Sox with a 6-3 victory over the Yankees, who were stopped on their six-game winning streak. Janeski hit his single in the second inning. The pitcher's bunt and a double by Walt Williams added two runs in the fourth. Bill Melton homered in the fifth. Duane Josephson, who had four hits, doubled and scored on a hit by Ken Berry in the eighth. Bobby Murcer and Gene Michael homered for the Yankees.

Tigers 9, A's 7 at Detroit (night game):
Overcoming six errors, the Tigers slugged their way to a 9-7 victory over the Athletics with the aid of a three-run homer by Ken Szotkiewicz. Willie Horton was stopped on his 16-game batting streak, but drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the second inning when the Tigers scored five times. Ike Brown batted in two runs with a double. Six of the A's seven runs were unearned. After the Tigers fell behind, 6-5, Szotkiewicz, hitless in 13 trips, broke out of a slump with his three-run homer in the fifth. Jim Northrup also hit for the circuit to account for the Bengals' final marker in the seventh.

Red Sox 3, Royals 1 at Kansas City (night game):
A football-style takeout by Rico Petrocelli at second base forced a wild throw by Cookie Rojas, allowing the Red Sox to score two runs for a 3-1 victory over the Royals. Three walks loaded the bases with one out in the sixth inning before George Scott bounced to Bobby Floyd, who threw to Rojas for what appeared to be the start of a certain double play. However, Petrocelli piled into Rojas as he pivoted and the second baseman's throw to first went wild, enabling Carl Yastrzemski and Reggie Smith to score. Under the scoring rules, only Smith's run was considered unearned.

Senators 3, Twins 1 at Minnesota (night game):
Frank Howard hurried home from second base on a pop fly that fell safely to score the tie-breaking run as the Senators defeated the Twins, 3-1. Howard walked with one out in the sixth inning and stopped at second on a single by Rick Reichardt. When a pop-up by Aurelio Rodriguez escaped the Twins' reach in short center field, Howard scored, but Reichardt, who had held up, was forced at second, depriving Rodriguez of credit for a hit.

Dodgers 4, Pirates 0 at Los Angeles (night game):
Dock Ellis made his first start since pitching a no-hitter against the Padres June 12 and added 3 1/3 hitless innings to his string before the Dodgers broke the righthander's spell to defeat the Pirates, 4-0. Manny Mota singled for the first hit off Ellis and scored on singles by Willie Davis and Wes Parker. The Dodgers added a pair in the sixth when Davis singled, Andy Kosco doubled and Billy Grabarkewitz singled. Orlando Pena, in relief of Ellis, yielded the Dodgers' final tally in the seventh.

Braves 6, Expos 5 at Montreal (night game):
A triple by Gil Garrido and single by Rico Carty in the eighth inning produced the Braves' tie-breaking run in a 6-5 victory over the Expos. Jim Gosger hit his first N. L. homer to help the Expos to a 4-0 lead before the Braves began their comeback with a two-run smash by Jim Nash in the sixth. The Expos added a tally in their half, but the Braves tied the score in the seventh when Hank Aaron, Orlando Cepeda and Tony Gonzalez singled and Mike Lum hit a pinch-double.

Reds 7, Mets 4 at New York (night game):
Although collecting only two singles, the Reds scored three runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Mets, 7-4. Tommie Agee and Cleon Jones hit homers for the Mets and Lee May and Johnny Bench rapped round-trippers for the Reds to help forge a 4-4 tie. In the Reds' ninth, Woody Woodward singled and when Bud Harrelson missed the throw on a bunt by Jimmy Stewart, Woodward reached third and Stewart took second. An intentional pass to Pete Rose loaded the bases. Hal McRae singled, driving in the tie-breaking tally, and two extra runs followed on a walk to Tony Perez and a forceout by May.

Phillies 4, Astros 2 at Philadelphia (night game):
Oscar Gamble collected three singles and Deron Johnson rapped two doubles to account for five of the Phillies' nine hits in a 4-2 victory over the Astros. A double by Tony Taylor and singles by Larry Bowa and Gamble, together with an error by Tommy Davis, gave the Phillies two runs in the first inning. Gamble singled in the fifth and scored on a double by Johnson. After hitting a double again in the eighth, Johnson gave way to pinch-runner Larry Hisle, who scored on a single by Ron Stone.

Cardinals 8, Padres 0 at San Diego (night game):
Bob Gibson yielded only one hit -- a single by Ivan Murrell with two out in the eighth inning -- while pitching the Cardinals to an 8-0 victory over the Padres. Gibson, who struck out 13, also joined in the Cards' attack with two run-scoring singles.

Cubs 6, Giants 1 at San Francisco (day game):
Paul Popovich, Ernie Banks and Jim Hickman supplied the scoring punch for the Cubs to back up the pitching of Ken Holtzman, who gained his fifth straight victory by defeating the Giants, 6-1. Willie Mays, who homered in the eighth inning to produce the Giants' run, also singled in the game to move within 20 hits of reaching the 3,000 total for his career. Popovich hit a homer in the sixth and the Cubs went on to add two more runs in that stanza on a pass to Johnny Callison, a single by Billy Williams and a double by Hickman. Banks accounted for the Cubs' last three runs with a homer in the eighth following a pass to Hickman and a single by Ron Santo.