MLB standings through games of May 20, 1973

MLB standings at the end of May 20, 1973

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. East
Detroit Tigers	38	20	18	0	.526		141	134	9-10	11-8	7-3	Won 1
Baltimore Orioles	34	17	17	0	.500	1.0	115	103	8-6	9-11	6-4	Won 3
New York Yankees	37	18	19	0	.486	1.5	165	144	11-9	7-10	6-4	Won 2
Milwaukee Brewers	36	17	19	0	.472	2.0	133	145	9-10	8-9	5-5	Lost 1
Boston Red Sox	33	14	19	0	.424	3.5	145	151	9-9	5-10	4-6	Lost 4
Cleveland Indians	39	16	23	0	.410	4.5	129	173	8-12	8-11	3-7	Lost 2

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. West
Chicago White Sox	34	21	13	0	.618		158	136	10-8	11-5	3-7	Lost 1
California Angels	35	21	14	0	.600	0.5	127	113	12-7	9-7	8-2	Won 3
Kansas City Royals	39	23	16	0	.590	0.5	198	163	10-10	13-6	5-5	Won 2
Minnesota Twins	35	18	17	0	.514	3.5	160	162	8-7	10-10	7-3	Won 1
Oakland A's	39	20	19	0	.513	3.5	176	161	8-10	12-9	5-5	Lost 2
Texas Rangers	35	12	23	0	.343	9.5	112	174	8-9	4-14	3-7	Lost 4

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. East
Chicago Cubs	39	23	16	0	.590		170	140	11-7	12-9	7-3	Won 1
New York Mets	35	19	16	0	.543	2.0	129	126	8-11	11-5	7-3	Lost 1
Pittsburgh Pirates	32	15	17	0	.469	4.5	161	153	6-9	9-8	3-7	Won 1
Montreal Expos	33	15	18	0	.455	5.0	126	163	7-6	8-12	4-6	Lost 1
Philadelphia Phillies	37	14	23	0	.378	8.0	125	168	9-10	5-13	3-7	Lost 1
St. Louis Cardinals	36	12	24	0	.333	9.5	134	159	6-11	6-13	6-4	Won 1

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. West
Houston Astros	41	26	15	0	.634		175	134	16-6	10-9	6-4	Won 4
San Francisco Giants	43	26	17	0	.605	1.0	191	181	15-9	11-8	3-7	Lost 4
Cincinnati Reds	39	23	16	0	.590	2.0	174	133	9-9	14-7	5-5	Won 1
Los Angeles Dodgers	41	23	17	1	.575	2.5	175	148	12-9	11-8	6-3-1	Won 1
Atlanta Braves	39	16	22	1	.421	8.5	158	159	7-10	9-12	5-4-1	Lost 1
San Diego Padres	41	15	26	0	.366	11.0	139	193	12-12	3-14	4-6	Lost 1

Today's scores and summaries:

Angels 4, Rangers 2 at California (day game):
Frank Robinson moved into 11th place on the major leagues' career RBI list by driving in three runs with a homer and double to lead the Angels to a 4-2 victory over the Rangers. Robinson knocked in one run with his double in the first inning and homered with a man on base in the third to bring his RBI total to 1,637 and go one ahead of the retired Ernie Banks of the Cubs.

[DH] White Sox 9, Twins 3 (day game) / Twins 3, White Sox 0 at Chicago (day game):
Playing before a record crowd of 55,555 for a Bat Day doubleheader, the White Sox split with the Twins, winning the first game, 9-3, and losing the second game, 3-0. Wilbur Wood gained his 10th victory of the season for the White Sox in the opener, with slugging support by Carlos May and Bill Melton, who drove in seven runs between them. Melton homered with a man on base in the first inning and May with two aboard in the fourth. Ray Corbin and Ken Sanders combined to pitch a shutout for the Twins in the nightcap. Bobby Darwin, who had three hits and drove in two runs in the first game, provided the victory cushion by smashing a homer with a man on base in the seventh inning.

[DH] Yankees 4, Indians 2 (day game) / Yankees 7, Indians 3 at Cleveland (day game):
Fred Beene and Mike Kekich each gained his first victory of the season as the Yankees swept over the Indians in a doubleheader, 4-2 and 7-3. In the opener, Beene and Dick Bosman were locked in a scoreless duel until the seventh inning when the Yankees scored three runs. Singles by Ron Blomberg, Jim Ray Hart and Thurman Munson produced the first tally. After Gene Michael forced Munson, Roy White and Bernie Allen hit run-scoring singles. Graig Nettles added a homer in the eighth. The Yankees broke the nightcap apart by exploding for all their runs in the fourth inning. Hart ignited the outburst with a two-run homer. Hal Lanier drove in a run with a double and White climaxed the inning with a grand-slam homer.

[DH] Brewers 1, Tigers 0 (day game) / Tigers 5, Brewers 3 at Milwaukee (day game):
Don Money, who walked with two out in the fourth inning, scored from first base on a bloop single by Ollie Brown to enable the Brewers to win the first game of a doubleheader, 1-0, but the Tigers came back to take the second game, 5-3. With a Ball Day crowd of 41,655 on hand, Bill Parsons, Chris Short and Frank Linzy combined to hold the Tigers to two hits in the lidlifter with the victory being awarded to Linzy. Mickey Lolich suffered his fifth defeat. The Tigers decided the nightcap in the first two innings. A single by Duke Sims, triple by Bill Freehan and single by Frank Howard produced a pair in the first. Singles by Jim Northrup and Ed Brinkman around a walk to Ike Brown loaded the bases in the second and three runs followed on a single by Aurelio Rodriguez and sacrifice fly by Sims.

Royals 8, A's 2 at Oakland (day game):
The Royals, who hit three homers in one inning to win the previous day's game, came back with two more circuit clouts to beat the Athletics again, 8-2. Amos Otis homered with two men on base in the third inning and John Mayberry connected with one aboard in the seventh.

[DH] Braves 3, Dodgers 2 (day game) / Dodgers 8, Braves 3 at Atlanta (day game):
The Braves won the first game of a doubleheader, 3-2, on a run-scoring single by Hank Aaron in the 10th inning, but then succumbed to the three-hit pitching of Al Downing and lost the second game to the Dodgers, 8-3. The Braves forced the lidlifter into overtime when Davey Johnson hit a homer in the ninth inning. Ralph Garr led off the 10th with a single and Marty Perez sacrificed. After an intentional pass to Darrell Evans, Aaron rapped his winning single. In the nightcap, Ron Cey batted in three runs for the Dodgers with a homer and Joe Ferguson drove in three with a double and homer. Evans accounted for all of the Braves' runs with a pair of round-trippers.

[DH] Padres 2, Reds 1 (day game) / Reds 3, Padres 2 at Cincinnati (day game):
The Padres took advantage of an error by Johnny Bench to win the first game of a doubleheader, 2-1, but the hitting of Tony Perez, who drove in two runs with a double and homer, helped the Reds come back to take the second game, 3-2. Fred Norman, who gained his first victory of the season in the lidlifter, gave up the Reds' run in the first inning on a single by Bobby Tolan and triple by Bench. Dave Hilton singled as the Padres' leadoff batter in the seventh. Norman bunted and when Bench missed connections with the ball, both runners were safe. Enzo Hernandez also bunted for a hit to load the bases. Hilton scored as Ivan Murrell grounded into a double play, wiping out Hernandez. Norman reached third on the play and scored the deciding run on a single by Leron Lee. The Padres took a 2-0 lead in the nightcap, but the Reds tied the score with a bunt single by Tolan and doubles by Bench and Perez in the fourth. Perez followed with his homer in the seventh for the winning run.

Astros 8, Giants 7 at Houston (day game):
After the Astros blew a 7-0 lead, Jim Wynn rectified matters with a homer in the ninth inning to beat the Giants, 8-7. Sam McDowell, who took over as the Giants' sixth pitcher with two men on base and one out in the eighth, struck out Tommie Agee and Tommy Helms to end that inning. McDowell also fanned Jesus Alou to open the ninth before falling victim to Wynn's wallop.

[DH] Expos 4, Cardinals 1 (day game) / Cardinals 7, Expos 3 at Montreal (day game):
After two days of rain and cold weather, the Expos drew their largest home crowd of the season so far, 25,104, and won the opening game of a doubleheader with the Cardinals, 4-1, only to lose the nightcap, 7-3. Balor Moore, with ninth-inning help from Mike Marshall, gained the Expos' decision in the first game. Bob Bailey drove in two runs with a homer off Bob Gibson and Ken Singleton accounted for two RBIs with a double and sacrifice fly. The Cardinals were led to their victory in the second game by Ken Reitz, who hit a three-run homer in the second inning, and by Tim McCarver, who batted in two runs with a double in the eighth.