MLB standings through games of July 4, 1973

MLB standings at the end of July 4, 1973

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. East
New York Yankees	82	46	36	0	.561		353	299	29-15	17-21	5-5	Lost 2
Baltimore Orioles	74	40	34	0	.541	2.0	294	242	21-13	19-21	6-4	Won 3
Boston Red Sox	76	39	37	0	.513	4.0	332	308	22-18	17-19	6-4	Won 2
Detroit Tigers	80	41	39	0	.512	4.0	301	306	21-17	20-22	8-2	Lost 1
Milwaukee Brewers	79	39	40	0	.494	5.5	333	331	17-21	22-19	2-8	Lost 3
Cleveland Indians	80	28	52	0	.350	17.0	294	419	14-26	14-26	2-8	Won 1

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. West
Oakland A's	82	45	37	0	.549		365	292	24-18	21-19	7-3	Lost 1
Minnesota Twins	76	41	35	0	.539	1.0	339	314	16-20	25-15	6-4	Lost 2
Chicago White Sox	78	42	36	0	.538	1.0	331	320	20-19	22-17	6-4	Won 2
California Angels	78	41	37	0	.526	2.0	266	261	21-18	20-19	5-5	Won 1
Kansas City Royals	84	44	40	0	.524	2.0	396	378	22-19	22-21	4-6	Won 2
Texas Rangers	77	27	50	0	.351	15.5	266	400	18-24	9-26	3-7	Lost 2

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. East
Chicago Cubs	82	48	34	0	.585		353	304	23-16	25-18	6-4	Won 1
St. Louis Cardinals	79	41	38	0	.519	5.5	322	301	27-17	14-21	8-2	Won 4
Montreal Expos	76	37	39	0	.487	8.0	319	343	21-15	16-24	4-6	Won 3
Philadelphia Phillies	79	37	42	0	.468	9.5	351	339	21-15	16-27	4-6	Lost 1
Pittsburgh Pirates	77	36	41	0	.468	9.5	330	364	22-20	14-21	5-5	Lost 3
New York Mets	76	33	43	0	.434	12.0	277	311	15-19	18-24	3-7	Lost 4

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. West
Los Angeles Dodgers	84	51	32	1	.614		381	298	27-16	24-16	4-6	Lost 5
San Francisco Giants	84	48	36	0	.571	3.5	405	381	25-17	23-19	6-4	Won 1
Houston Astros	84	46	38	0	.548	5.5	372	319	26-17	20-21	4-6	Won 2
Cincinnati Reds	81	43	38	0	.531	7.0	326	325	22-19	21-19	6-4	Lost 1
Atlanta Braves	85	35	49	1	.417	16.5	363	391	20-20	15-29	4-6	Lost 2
San Diego Padres	81	28	53	0	.346	22.0	256	379	18-25	10-28	5-5	Won 3

Today's scores and summaries:

Orioles 10, Brewers 7 at Baltimore (day game):
Picking up play in the previous night's suspended game, the Orioles rallied to gain a 6-4 victory in 10 innings on a homer by Elrod Hendricks before going on to defeat the Brewers again, 10-7, in the regularly scheduled contest. The Brewers were leading 4-1, when the Baltimore city curfew forced a midnight suspension of the July 3 nightcap after seven innings. When play resumed, the Orioles tied the score in the eighth. Merv Rettenmund walked, Don Baylor was hit by a pitch and Boog Powell singled to drive in the first run. After Bobby Grich forced Powell, Baylor scoring, singles by Hendricks and Tommy Davis added the tying tally. Terry Crowley singled in the 10th and Hendricks followed with his game-winning homer. Bill Champion, who was the loser, also was defeated as a reliever in the regularly scheduled contest. The Orioles, after trailing, 5-0, rallied for three runs in the sixth and went ahead with four more in the seventh with the aid of a two-run homer by Earl Williams. The Brewers tied the score in the eighth, but the Orioles came back with the winning margin in their half. Mark Belanger and Rettenmund walked and Rich Coggins singled to drive in the tie-breaking run. Paul Blair followed with another single to add two insurance runs.

Indians 5, Tigers 2 at Detroit (day game):
The Indians ended their seven-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Tigers, who were stopped on a five-game winning streak. The Indians began the scoring with a run in the first on a single by Buddy Bell, a sacrifice, wild pitch and single by Oscar Gamble. Two more runs followed in the second on a double by George Hendrick, single by Alan Ashby, throwing error by Jim Northrup and single by Leo Cardenas. The Indians added singletons in the fourth and fifth to pull away before Aurelio Rodriguez homered in the Tigers' half of the fifth. Dick McAuliffe doubled in the sixth to chase Milt Wilcox and Willie Horton greeted Tom Hilgendorf with a run-scoring single, but the Indians' reliever applied the brakes the rest of the way.

Royals 5, Twins 4 at Minnesota (night game):
Playing before 45,890, the largest regular-season crowd in their history, the Twins blew up in the ninth inning and lost to the Royals, 5-4. Eddie Bane, the Twins' No. 1 draft choice from Arizona State, made his debut, pitching seven innings and allowing three hits and one run. The Twins took a 3-1 lead in the eighth when Steve Braun doubled, Larry Hisle singled and Joe Lis homered. In the ninth, the Royals loaded the bases on a single by Kurt Bevacqua and two walks. Gail Hopkins was out on a foul fly, a run scoring after the catch. Ed Kirkpatrick walked to load the bases and Freddie Patek drew a pass to force in the tying tally. Cookie Rojas then singled, driving in two runs to put the Royals ahead, 5-3. The Twins knocked out Dick Drago in their half with singles by Rod Carew and Jerry Terrell, but Gene Garber saved the game at the expense of only one run on a sacrifice fly by Tony Oliva.

[DH] Red Sox 2, Yankees 1 (day game) / Red Sox 1, Yankees 0 at New York (day game):
After winning the first game, 2-1, on three errors in the ninth inning, the Red Sox completed the sweep of a doubleheader with the Yankees by winning the second game, 1-0, behind the pitching of Roger Moret. Bobby Murcer homered in the fourth inning for the Yankees' run in the opener and Mel Stottlemyre protected the slim lead until being relieved by Sparky Lyle after Reggie Smith singled for the Red Sox in the ninth. Carl Yastrzemski marked the change of pitchers with a single and when Orlando Cepeda bunted in an attempted sacrifice, all runners were safe on a fumble by Thurman Munson. Rico Petrocelli struck out, Carlton Fisk forced Cepeda at second, but Bernie Allen threw wildly to first trying for a double play, and Smith scored. Yastrzemski also raced home with the winning run on a wild return throw by Ron Blomberg. Moret was the winner of the nightcap when the Red Sox scored in the fifth inning on a walk to Rick Miller, his theft of second and a single by Yastrzemski. The complete game was Moret's first since September 24, 1971.

Angels 3, A's 1 at Oakland (night game):
A throwing error by Sal Bando led to three unearned runs in the seventh inning and enabled the Angels to defeat the Athletics, 3-1, before a holiday fireworks crowd of 36,741, the largest Oakland turnout since opening day. Bob Oliver doubled with one out in the seventh and scored when Bando fielded a grounder by Leroy Stanton and threw wildly past first. Stanton reached third on the error and crossed the plate on a single by Vada Pinson, who then counted the Angels' final tally with two out on a double by Rudy Meoli.

[DH] White Sox 2, Rangers 0 (night game) / White Sox 6, Rangers 2 at Texas (night game):
The White Sox got combined four-hit pitching from Jim Geddes and Cy Acosta in the first game and from Bart Johnson and Terry Forster in the second game to defeat the Rangers in a twi-night doubleheader, 2-0 and 6-2. Buddy Bradford homered in the fifth inning of the lidlifter and the White Sox added their other run in the eighth on singles by Pat Kelly and Carlos May around Kelly's theft of second. In the nightcap, the White Sox scored initially with the aid of two errors by Vic Harris in the second inning. Bill Melton and Bradford each drove a run across in the third to beat Jim Kremmel, who made his major league debut with the Rangers. Pete Broberg, appearing in relief, was knocked out in the eighth without retiring a batter, when the White Sox clinched the victory with their final three runs.

[DH] Astros 11, Braves 4 (day game) / Astros 12, Braves 8 at Atlanta (night game):
A grand-slam homer by Lee May in the eighth inning powered the Astros to a 12-8 victory to complete the sweep of a twi-night doubleheader with the Braves. The Astros won the first game, 11-4. The twin bill produced a total of 56 hits, including 10 homers, five for each club. The Astros started the opener with four runs in the first inning. Bob Watson knocked in two with a bases-loaded double and Skip Jutze singled in another pair. The Astros added four more runs in the fourth with the aid of three errors. Their other scoring included homers by Tommie Agee and Doug Rader. Frank Tepedino and Darrell Evans hit round-trippers for the Braves. Agee and Rader homered again in the nightcap for the Astros, while the Braves had two circuit clouts by Davey Johnson and one by Ralph Garr. With the score tied, 7-7, the Astros loaded the bases in the eighth and counted one run on a single by Rader before May smashed his grand slam.

Cubs 3, Phillies 2 at Chicago (day game):
A homer by Ron Santo with a man on base in the 10th inning brought the Cubs a 3-2 victory over the Phillies. A single by Denny Doyle and double by Del Unser for his third hit of the game gave the Phillies a 2-1 lead in the top half of the 10th before the Cubs came back with a single by Glenn Beckert and Santo's homer.

Giants 6, Reds 2 at Cincinnati (day game):
The Giants erupted for four runs in the seventh inning and defeated the Reds, 6-2. The Reds held a 2-1 lead going into the seventh when Ed Goodson doubled to chase Tom Hall. Pedro Borbon, relieving, retired Chris Speier, but Gary Thomasson tripled to tie the score. Dave Rader welcomed the arrival of Dave Tomlin with a double to send the Giants ahead. After a sacrifice by Tom Bradley and pass to Gary Matthews, Chris Arnold singled off Clay Carroll to score Rader and when Bobby Tolan failed to pick up the ball cleanly in the outfield, Matthews also raced home with the Giants' final run.

Padres 4, Dodgers 2 at Los Angeles (night game):
Rich Troedson gained his second victory as a starter since coming out of the bullpen when the Padres defeated the Dodgers, 4-2. Troedson had a shutout in the works until the ninth inning when both Vicente Romo and Mike Caldwell relieved. Dave Roberts started the Padres' scoring with a homer in the fourth inning. Nate Colbert followed with a double, took third after a long fly by Cito Gaston and scored on a squeeze bunt by Fred Kendall. Singles by Kendall and Troedson, sandwiching Kendall's theft of second, added a run in the eighth. Derrel Thomas doubled, took third on a balk and counted on a single by Colbert in the ninth.

Expos 7, Mets 5 at Montreal (night game):
Overcoming a 5-0 deficit, the Expos rallied for seven runs off Tom Seaver and Buzz Capra in the eighth inning to defeat the Mets, 7-5. Mets' runs scored on homers by George Theodore, Willie Mays and Duffy Dyer. Theodore's blow with two men on base was the first of his major league career. In the eighth, a pass to Ron Hunt, single by Mike Jorgensen and error by Ted Martinez on a grounder by Ken Singleton produced the Expos' first run. A double by Boots Day added another tally. Bob Bailey singled to drive in two runs and kayo Seaver. After Capra relieved, Tim Foli singled. Ron Woods then came up as a pinch-hitter and won the game with a three-run homer.

Cardinals 11, Pirates 3 at St. Louis (day game):
The Cardinals, after failing to score for Tom Murphy in any of his previous four starts, came to the support of their righthander and provided him with his first N. L. victory by walloping the Pirates, 11-3. Murphy had pitched 26 innings without a run being scored for him until the Cards broke the drouth with a pair in the first on a triple by Lou Brock, single by Ted Sizemore and double by Ted Simmons. After that, it was a feast for Murphy when the Cardinals sent 12 men to bat in the fourth and rolled up eight runs.