MLB standings through games of July 29, 1974

MLB standings at the end of July 29, 1974

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. East
Boston Red Sox	100	54	46	0	.540		465	434	32-21	22-25	6-4	Won 3
Cleveland Indians	99	51	47	1	.520	2.0	412	415	28-24	23-23	5-5	Lost 2
Baltimore Orioles	100	51	49	0	.510	3.0	402	411	27-25	24-24	4-6	Won 1
New York Yankees	100	50	50	0	.500	4.0	406	399	27-22	23-28	5-5	Lost 3
Milwaukee Brewers	100	49	51	0	.490	5.0	441	411	26-21	23-30	3-7	Lost 1
Detroit Tigers	100	48	52	0	.480	6.0	372	448	24-22	24-30	4-6	Won 2

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. West
Oakland A's	102	60	42	0	.588		468	373	34-18	26-24	7-3	Won 3
Kansas City Royals	99	50	49	0	.505	8.5	421	411	25-22	25-27	4-6	Lost 2
Chicago White Sox	102	50	50	2	.500	9.0	450	463	29-20	21-30	4-6	Lost 3
Texas Rangers	103	51	51	1	.500	9.0	456	476	28-24	23-27	8-2	Won 2
Minnesota Twins	103	49	53	1	.480	11.0	441	454	26-24	23-29	6-4	Lost 1
California Angels	104	40	63	1	.388	20.5	423	462	19-35	21-28	4-6	Won 1

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. East
Philadelphia Phillies	101	53	48	0	.525		433	423	32-19	21-29	7-3	Won 1
St. Louis Cardinals	101	51	50	0	.505	2.0	414	402	27-27	24-23	7-3	Won 3
Pittsburgh Pirates	101	48	53	0	.475	5.0	421	425	29-20	19-33	6-4	Lost 1
Montreal Expos	99	46	53	0	.465	6.0	408	411	22-21	24-32	2-8	Lost 5
New York Mets	98	44	54	0	.449	7.5	350	397	21-27	23-27	6-4	Won 4
Chicago Cubs	98	42	56	0	.429	9.5	401	510	24-26	18-30	3-7	Lost 3

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. West
Los Angeles Dodgers	103	66	37	0	.641		515	361	33-16	33-21	5-5	Won 1
Cincinnati Reds	104	62	42	0	.596	4.5	482	379	32-22	30-20	6-4	Lost 1
Houston Astros	103	54	49	0	.524	12.0	440	407	34-22	20-27	5-5	Lost 1
Atlanta Braves	103	53	50	0	.515	13.0	402	360	28-25	25-25	4-6	Lost 1
San Francisco Giants	104	47	57	0	.452	19.5	415	450	25-25	22-32	5-5	Won 1
San Diego Padres	105	44	61	0	.419	23.0	378	534	27-26	17-35	4-6	Won 1

Today's scores and summaries:

Orioles 6, Brewers 2 at Baltimore (night game):
A four-run third inning carried the Orioles past the Brewers, 6-2, and provided Ross Grimsley with his 12th victory, although he needed relief help from Bob Reynolds in the ninth. Enos Cabell's single, Paul Blair's triple, a wild throw by losing pitcher Clyde Wright, walk, double by Don Baylor and wild pitch by Wright accounted for a quartet of Baltimore runs in the third. Doubles by George Scott and Charlie Moore got the Brewers on the board in the fifth, but Mark Belanger drove in two more for the Orioles in the eighth with a bases-loaded single. Grimsley was relieved in the ninth after giving up a leadoff homer to Johnny Briggs, his 17th of the season.

Red Sox 2, Yankees 1 at Boston (night game):
The Red Sox, managing just three hits off loser Sam McDowell and reliever Sparky Lyle, edged the Yankees in 11 innings, 2-1, on Terry Hughes' sacrifice fly with the bases loaded. Lyle loaded the bases on a walk, his own throwing error on a sacrifice attempt and a third base on balls before Hughes, inserted in the starting lineup just before game time when Rico Petrocelli came down with the flu, hit a sacrifice fly to center with one out. The Yankees' only run off Roger Moret, who went the route, was a homer by Bill Sudakis in the fourth. McDowell had a one-hitter until Dwight Evans, who had singled in the sixth, homered just inside the 315-foot left field foul pole to tie the score in the eighth.

Tigers 8, Indians 2 at Cleveland (night game):
The Tigers wrote an early finish to their 8-2 victory over the Indians, scoring six times in the opening frame off loser Fritz Peterson and reliever Steve Kline. Peterson gave up consecutive homers to Al Kaline, Bill Freehan and Mickey Stanley, and Detroit became the first A.L. club to hit four homers in the first inning when Ed Brinkman connected off Kline with one on to cap the outburst. Staked to a big early lead, Mickey Lolich, winless since June 25, stopped the Indians on six hits, striking out 10. Cleveland scored an unearned run in the second and got their final tally on Charlie Spikes' RBI single in the fifth. The Tigers matched those on two walks, Jim Northrup's single in the fifth, and Jerry Moses' solo homer off Bruce Ellingsen in the eighth.

A's 11, White Sox 9 at Oakland (night game):
The Athletics hiked their Western Division lead to a season-high 8½ games, overcoming a 4-0 deficit to defeat the White Sox, 11-9. Chicago took a 2-0 lead in the second, added two more in the third on only one single and errors by Sal Bando, Angel Mangual, Reggie Jackson and Ted Kubiak. Jesus Alou, who combined with Bill North to drive in seven runs during the A's comeback, singled home the first Oakland run in the third, and the A's tied the score in the fifth on singles by Mangual, Dick Green, Kubiak and North, plus Alou's sacrifice fly. After the Sox had regained lead in the sixth, Oakland knocked out starter Wilbur Wood and jumped on reliever Terry Forster for four runs in the next frame and three more in the eighth. Alou's RBI single tied the score at 5-5. North followed with a run-scoring double and Bando singled home two more. A walk and singles by Tim Hosley, Claudell Washington and North produced the final three A's runs in the eighth. A White Sox' four-run flurry in the top of the ninth fell short. Ed Herrmann plated three of the runs with a bases-loaded double.

Rangers 10, Royals 1 at Texas (night game):
Fergie Jenkins, despite a one hour, 36 minute rain delay, picked up his 14th victory in easy fashion as the Rangers pasted the Royals, 10-1. Texas tagged loser Marty Pattin for three runs in the first, Mike Hargrove singling home a pair and another scoring on a sacrifice fly by Lenny Randle. The Rangers made it 7-1 in the third on Alex Johnson's double, a Royal error and singles by Hargrove, Randle and Toby Harrah. Jeff Burroughs hit a bases-empty homer for an 8-1 advantage as rain began to fall in the fourth. After the resumption of play, Jim Sundberg closed out the Texas scoring with a two-run homer in the eighth.

Dodgers 10, Braves 2 at Atlanta (night game):
The Dodgers, with Jim Wynn driving in four runs, snapped a three-game losing streak by pounding the Braves, 10-2, behind the nine-hit hurling of Don Sutton. Wynn pounded a two-out homer for the first L. A. tallies in the third, singled home another run during a five-run fifth-inning flurry and delivered a sacrifice fly in the sixth. Davey Lopes opened the big Dodger fifth with a solo homer, and Willie Crawford later drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single. Sutton, picking up his second consecutive victory after 14 starts without one, handled the Braves, with the exception of Ralph Garr, with ease. Garr had four hits to raise his league-leading average to .368.

Cardinals 11, Cubs 4 at Chicago (day game):
Mounting an 18-hit attack, including homers by Ken Reitz and Joe Torre, the Cardinals scored in all but two innings to deal the Cubs' Burt Hooton his fifth straight defeat, 11-4. Four St. Louis players -- Ted Sizemore, Reitz, Torre and Ted Simmons -- each drove in two runs, and Lou Brock added his 700th career stolen base and 65th of the season. Simmons singled home Brock in the first and Sizemore in the eighth. Sizemore scored Brock and winning pitcher John Curtis with a fourth-inning double. Reitz collected his fourth homer and a sacrifice fly, and Torre drove in a run with a third-inning single and homer in the seventh as the Cardinals defeated the Cubs for the ninth time in 12 meetings this season.

Padres 3, Reds 2 at Cincinnati (night game):
The tenth homer of the season by Nate Colbert in the fourth inning stood up as the deciding blow as the Padres edged the Reds, 3-2. The round-tripper gave San Diego and winner Bill Greif a 3-0 lead, which shrank to one run in the sixth when the Reds scored a pair on singles by Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Dan Driessen and Dave Concepcion. Johnny Grubb provided the Padres' initial run with a homer in the first off loser Clay Kirby, and San Diego scored once in the second on Cito Gaston's infield single, throwing error by Bench, sacrifice by Colbert and single by Enzo Hernandez.

Giants 7, Astros 2 at Houston (night game):
The Giants provided 14-hit support for rookie Ed Halicki, who chipped in with two himself in winning for the first time in four decisions, 7-2, over the Astros. San Francisco wiped out a 1-0 Astro lead in the second, scoring three times on singles by Gary Matthews, Chris Speier, Bruce Miller and Bobby Bonds and a groundout. The Giants made it 6-1 and kayoed loser Claude Osteen in the sixth with Bonds, Chris Arnold and Speier getting RBI hits. Halicki, who surrendered the final Astro run in the fifth, got it back in the eighth when he singled home Speier with the Giants' final tally.

Mets 4, Expos 3 at New York (day game):
The Mets, getting scoreless relief hurling from Bob Miller and Jack Aker as well as a two-run homer from John Milner, came from behind to trip the Expos, 4-3. Milner's 15th homer of the season, with Jerry Grote aboard on a single in the eighth, wiped out a 3-2 Montreal lead and made a winner of Aker. The Expos scored three times after two were out against New York starter George Stone in the third, Hal Breeden cracking a two-run homer and Barry Foote doubling home a third tally. Rusty Staub threw out Ron Hunt at the plate in the sixth and Ken Singleton at third in the seventh to prevent further damage. The Mets picked up a pair of unearned runs in the fourth on two walks, a Hunt error on Don Hahn's grounder which allowed one runner to score, and RBI double by Ted Martinez. The Expos outhit the Mets, 13-6, but left 11 runners stranded in going down to their fifth straight defeat.

Phillies 13, Pirates 1 at Philadelphia (night game):
Two-hit hurling by Steve Carlton and the home run bat of MIke Schmidt led the Phillies to a 13-1 rout of the Pirates. Schmidt hit two homers, the first one in the opening inning after a walk to Dave Cash to give Philadelphia a 2-1 lead, the second in the sixth after a double by Cash during a frame where the winners scored five times. The Phillies had two three-run innings in addition. Ollie Brown contributed a triple in the second and tacked on three more against reliever Daryl Patterson in the eighth.