MLB standings through games of July 16, 1970

MLB standings at the end of July 16, 1970

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. East
Baltimore Orioles	88	55	33	0	.625		437	342	32-15	23-18	6-4	Won 2
Detroit Tigers	86	48	38	0	.558	6.0	395	374	29-17	19-21	7-3	Won 1
New York Yankees	88	47	40	1	.540	7.5	386	366	25-15	22-25	3-7	Won 1
Boston Red Sox	86	45	41	0	.523	9.0	389	383	30-14	15-27	5-5	Won 3
Washington Senators	89	40	49	0	.449	15.5	372	401	23-22	17-27	4-6	Lost 1
Cleveland Indians	87	39	48	0	.448	15.5	336	369	20-21	19-27	6-4	Won 1

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. West
Minnesota Twins	83	54	29	0	.651		422	308	25-11	29-18	6-4	Lost 2
California Angels	87	52	35	0	.598	4.0	353	310	29-18	23-17	6-4	Won 2
Oakland A's	89	48	41	0	.539	9.0	396	337	25-20	23-21	3-7	Lost 1
Kansas City Royals	86	33	53	0	.384	22.5	332	400	18-26	15-27	5-5	Lost 2
Milwaukee Brewers	91	32	58	1	.356	25.5	358	463	21-27	11-31	5-5	Lost 1
Chicago White Sox	90	31	59	0	.344	26.5	347	470	14-27	17-32	3-7	Lost 1

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. East
Pittsburgh Pirates	90	50	40	0	.556		385	371	26-17	24-23	7-3	Lost 1
New York Mets	87	47	40	0	.540	1.5	392	329	24-20	23-20	6-4	Lost 4
Chicago Cubs	86	43	43	0	.500	5.0	427	383	28-21	15-22	6-4	Lost 1
St. Louis Cardinals	87	39	48	0	.448	9.5	389	394	19-22	20-26	1-9	Lost 8
Philadelphia Phillies	86	37	49	0	.430	11.0	292	396	17-23	20-26	3-7	Won 1
Montreal Expos	88	37	51	0	.420	12.0	359	455	18-22	19-29	4-6	Won 3

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. West
Cincinnati Reds	89	63	26	0	.708		440	346	35-12	28-14	7-3	Won 4
Los Angeles Dodgers	87	52	35	0	.598	10.0	408	313	22-20	30-15	7-3	Won 1
Atlanta Braves	87	43	44	0	.494	19.0	413	414	24-22	19-22	3-7	Won 1
San Francisco Giants	85	41	44	0	.482	20.0	463	492	23-21	18-23	4-6	Lost 2
Houston Astros	89	38	51	0	.427	25.0	397	424	24-22	14-29	4-6	Won 3
San Diego Padres	91	36	55	0	.396	28.0	387	435	17-27	19-28	5-5	Lost 1

Today's scores and summaries:

Orioles 5, Twins 1 at Baltimore (night game):
Andy Etchebarren batted in two runs with a double and Boog Powell accounted for two more with a sacrifice fly and a homer to provide the Orioles with a 5-1 victory over the Twins. Harmon Killebrew supplied the Twins' run with a homer in the sixth inning.

Red Sox 6, Brewers 5 at Boston (day game):
A sacrifice fly by George Scott with the bases loaded in the 10th inning gave the Red Sox a 6-5 victory over the Brewers in a game marked by six homers. The first five Red Sox runs counted on round-trippers. Billy Conigliaro hit two, driving in three runs, and Reggie Smith had one with a man on base. Danny Walton, Jerry McNertney and Tommy Harper homered for the Brewers, Harper's two-run blow tying the score in the ninth. Carl Yastrzemski singled for the Red Sox in the 10th and stopped at third on a double by Tony Conigliaro. After an intentional pass to Rico Petrocelli, Scott smacked his sacrifice fly.

Tigers 11, White Sox 6 at Chicago (night game):
Reaching their season high in hits with 18, the Tigers beat the White Sox, 11-6. The Tigers' attack included homers by Mickey Stanley, Dick McAuliffe, Norm Cash and Bill Freehan. The White Sox had circuit clouts by Bill Melton and Carlos May.

Indians 6, Royals 0 at Kansas City (night game):
The Indians erupted for five runs in the fifth inning and rolled to a 6-0 victory over the Royals behind the four-hit pitching of Rich Hand. Buddy Bradford tripled to start the uprising and scored on a single by Eddie Leon. After another single by Jack Heidemann and a sacrifice by Hand, Vada Pinson drove in two runs with a single. Graig Nettles and Roy Foster also singled, producing another tally, and Nettles then counted the fifth run of the frame on a wild pickoff throw by Royals' catcher Ed Kirkpatrick.

[DH] A's 8, Yankees 2 (day game) / Yankees 4, A's 1 at New York (day game):
Pete Ward, appearing in the Yankees' starting lineup for only the fourth time this season, drove in three runs to account for a 4-1 victory in a split of a doubleheader with the Athletics, who won the first game, 8-2. Two errors by Jerry Kenney enabled the A's to score six unearned runs in the lidlifter. After the third baseman threw wildly on a grounder by Sal Bando in the second inning, Tommy Davis singled for one run and Frank Fernandez homered for two more. The A's added their other tallies in the fourth, three runs being tainted on Kenney's second error. Curt Blefary homered for the Yankees. In the second game, Ward batted in a run with a single in the second inning and broke a 1-1 tie with a two-out, two-run double in the fourth.

Angels 3, Senators 2 at Washington (night game):
Pinch-runner Chico Ruiz beat the throw home on a squeeze bunt by Sandy Alomar in the ninth inning to enable the Angels to edge the Senators, 3-2. Aurelio Rodriguez and Lee Maye homered for the Nats. With the score tied, Tom Egan doubled for the Angels in the ninth and Ruiz, taking over on the paths, reached third on an infield hit by Billy Cowan. Alomar followed with a bunt down first the base line and Ruiz slid across the plate ahead of Frank Howard's throw.

Astros 2, Cubs 1 at Houston (night game):
Although held to only two hits, the Astros took advantage of an error by Glenn Beckert and scored two unearned runs in the third inning to defeat the Cubs, 2-1. Marty Martinez drew a walk from Ken Holtzman and when Johnny Edwards grounded to Beckert, both runners were safe on a wild throw by the second baseman in a forceout attempt. Don Wilson sacrificed, Jesus Alou then drove in one run with a sacrifice fly and Jim Wynn followed with a single to plate the decisive marker.

Dodgers 3, Mets 1 at Los Angeles (night game):
Billy Grabarkewitz, who scored after drawing a walk in the first inning, hit a tie-breaking homer in the eighth to lead the Dodgers to a 3-1 victory over the Mets. Cleon Jones homered in the seventh for the Mets' run. After Grabarkewltz snapped the deadlock, the Dodgers added an insurance run in the eighth on singles by Manny Mota and Jim Lefebvre around a sacrifice.

Reds 3, Pirates 2 at Pittsburgh (night game):
The largest crowd in Pittsburgh's baseball history, 48,846, turned out for the opening of the new Three Rivers Stadium, but the Reds spoiled the occasion by defeating the Pirates, 3-2. Richie Hebner had the honor of scoring the first run, hitting a single in the first inning and coming around on a wild pitch and a double by Al Oliver. However, Gary Nolan walked in the fifth and Tony Perez homered to put the Reds ahead. Willie Stargell tied the score with a circuit clout in the sixth and won a $1,000 reward offered by a fan for the first Pirates' homer in the new park. Perez singled in the ninth, Johnny Bench walked and Lee May followed with a single to drive in the Reds' winning run.

Phillies 10, Padres 7 at San Diego (night game):
Climaxing the Phillies' 18-hit attack, Byron Browne came to the plate in the ninth inning and smashed the first grand-slam homer of his major league career to beat the Padres, 10-7. Ollie Brown rapped a round-tripper with two men on base for the Padres in the first inning and later, with the score tied, 5-5, Dave Campbell hit for the circuit in the seventh, Cito Gaston tripled and Brown singled. After the Phillies picked up an unearned run in the eighth, Deron Johnson was safe on an error to open the ninth, Tony Taylor singled, Larry Bowa sarificed and Mike Ryan was passed intentionally to set the stage for Browne's belt.

Braves 7, Cardinals 3 at St. Louis (night game):
The Cardinals went down to their eighth straight defeat when the Braves erupted for five runs in the seventh inning to gain a 7-3 victory. The Cardinals took a 3-1 lead before Clete Boyer homered for the Braves in the fourth. Boyer walked in the seventh, stopped at third on a double by Hal King and scored the tying run on a single by Gil Garrido. Pat Jarvis bunted Garrido to second, King holding at third. Felix Millan then singled, driving in two runs to send the Braves in front. Millan was trapped off first and was thrown out, but a double by Tony Gonzalez, two walks and a single by Orlando Cepeda added two more tallies before the Braves subsided.