MLB standings through games of July 24, 1977

MLB standings at the end of July 24, 1977

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. East
Baltimore Orioles	96	55	41	0	.573		391	370	30-20	25-21	6-4	Won 2
Boston Red Sox	94	53	41	0	.564	1.0	500	449	28-19	25-22	5-5	Lost 2
New York Yankees	97	53	44	0	.546	2.5	474	415	31-17	22-27	4-6	Won 2
Cleveland Indians	93	43	50	0	.462	10.5	383	449	21-24	22-26	3-7	Lost 1
Detroit Tigers	95	43	52	0	.453	11.5	411	419	22-22	21-30	4-6	Won 2
Milwaukee Brewers	96	43	53	0	.448	12.0	383	439	25-26	18-27	3-7	Lost 3
Toronto Blue Jays	95	34	61	0	.358	20.5	371	485	18-29	16-32	3-7	Lost 4

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. West
Chicago White Sox	93	57	36	0	.613		513	427	30-15	27-21	7-3	Won 4
Kansas City Royals	93	53	40	0	.570	4.0	461	390	27-21	26-19	8-2	Lost 2
Minnesota Twins	97	54	43	0	.557	5.0	534	458	31-17	23-26	7-3	Won 3
Texas Rangers	93	49	44	0	.527	8.0	390	365	23-25	26-19	7-3	Won 3
California Angels	93	45	48	0	.484	12.0	403	381	26-23	19-25	4-6	Won 2
Seattle Mariners	100	43	57	0	.430	17.5	395	498	19-29	24-28	6-4	Lost 2
Oakland A's	95	40	55	0	.421	18.0	367	431	23-24	17-31	3-7	Lost 3

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. East
Chicago Cubs	93	55	38	0	.591		423	403	31-16	24-22	3-7	Lost 3
Philadelphia Phillies	94	55	39	0	.585	0.5	485	416	34-12	21-27	7-3	Won 2
Pittsburgh Pirates	96	54	42	0	.562	2.5	456	425	34-14	20-28	7-3	Won 4
St. Louis Cardinals	96	50	46	0	.521	6.5	450	402	33-18	17-28	4-6	Won 2
Montreal Expos	94	45	49	0	.479	10.5	400	440	23-24	22-25	6-4	Lost 2
New York Mets	95	38	57	0	.400	18.0	337	366	22-23	16-34	5-5	Lost 2

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. West
Los Angeles Dodgers	96	60	36	0	.625		488	366	26-17	34-19	4-6	Won 1
Cincinnati Reds	93	48	45	0	.516	10.5	497	445	29-19	19-26	2-8	Lost 6
Houston Astros	98	46	52	0	.469	15.0	379	415	26-25	20-27	7-3	Won 2
San Francisco Giants	99	46	53	0	.465	15.5	420	452	24-26	22-27	5-5	Won 2
San Diego Padres	99	42	57	0	.424	19.5	444	513	19-31	23-26	4-6	Lost 1
Atlanta Braves	95	35	60	0	.368	24.5	410	546	24-24	11-36	5-5	Lost 1

Today's scores and summaries:

[DH] Orioles 3, Brewers 2 (day game) / Orioles 4, Brewers 3 at Baltimore (night game):
The Orioles moved back into first place in the A. L. East with a 3-2 and 4-3 sweep of the Brewers. Mike Flanagan hurled his sixth straight complete-game victory in the first game, thanks to an eighth-inning RBI double by Eddie Murray which produced the winning run. Two walks and Steve Brye's single put the Brewers ahead, 2-0, in the top of the third. Loser Moose Haas' throwing error, a walk, single by Billy Smith and double by Pat Kelly tied the score in the home half. Murray hit a solo homer in the second game, but it was an eighth-inning sacrifice fly by Elliott Maddox which produced the winning run after Milwaukee had rallied with three runs to tie the score in the top of the frame.

White Sox 9, Red Sox 6 at Boston (day game):
In a battle between division leaders, the White Sox outslugged the Red Sox, 9-6, with Eric Soderholm driving in three runs with a pair of homers. Soderholm's first homer, with Jim Spencer aboard via a double, erased a 4-3 Boston lead in the fourth and put Chicago ahead to stay. Soderholm added a solo shot in the eighth to wrap up the White Sox scoring. Ralph Garr homered for Chicago in the second, while Boston got two-run homers from Carl Yastrzemski and Fred Lynn.

Rangers 4, Indians 1 at Cleveland (day game):
Doyle Alexander scattered seven hits, including a homer by Rico Carty which accounted for the Indians' only run of the game in the fifth inning, as the Rangers won for the 12th time in their last 15 outings, 4-1. Willie Horton wiped out a 1-0 Cleveland lead with an RBI single in the sixth, another run scoring later on an infield out. The Rangers wrapped it up with two more in the ninth on Bump Wills' RBI double and another run-scoring fielder's choice.

Tigers 6, Blue Jays 2 at Detroit (day game):
Rookie lefthander Bob Sykes had a one-hit shutout in the works before giving up a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth to Bob Bailor and settling for a 6-2 victory over the Blue Jays. For the Tigers, Milt May doubled in two runs in the second and Jason Thompson got his 70th RBI with a single in the third. Tito Fuentes tripled in the fourth run in the fourth, then scored on Rusty Staub's single. Doubles by Staub and Steve Kemp concluded the Detroit scoring in the seventh. Sykes gave up only an infield hit to Alan Ashby in sixth before walking Al Woods and throwing the home-run pitch to Bailor in the ninth.

[DH] Twins 5, A's 3 (day game) / Twins 10, A's 9 at Minnesota (day game):
Twins' homers proved the decisive blows in 5-3 and 10-9 victories over the Athletics. Dan Ford whacked a four-bagger with Lyman Bostock aboard in the seventh inning to wipe out a 3-2 Oakland lead in the first game. Glenn Adams singled home Rod Carew with an insurance run later in the inning. The second game went extra innings before Bostock ended it abruptly with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the 12th. The Twins counted three runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the score, two runs coming on Terry Bulling's first major league hit. The A's went ahead, 9-8, in the top of the 10th when Willie Crawford singled in Larry Murray, but Larry Hisle whacked his 23rd homer of the season in the home half for still another deadlock.

Yankees 3, Royals 1 at New York (day game):
The Yankees scored two unearned runs in the first, both driven across by Lou Piniella's single, while Don Gullett and Dick Tidrow limited the Royals to eight singles for a 3-1 New York victory. An error by Fred Patek and double by Chris Chambliss preceded Piniella's opening-inning hit, and the winners' insurance run came in the fifth on singles by Bucky Dent and Willie Randolph and a double by Roy White. The lone K.C. run came on a pair of two-out walks and a single by George Brett in the fifth.

[DH] Angels 3, Mariners 1 (day game) / Angels 4, Mariners 3 at Seattle (day game):
The Angels used a sacrifice fly and two-run homer by Bobby Bonds to take the first game of a doubleheader from the Mariners, 3-1, then overcame a one-man show by Seattle's Larry Milbourne and engineered a double victory with a 4-3 victory in the nightcap. A sacrifice fly by Bill Stein on the heels of a triple by Ruppert Jones helped the Mariners avert a shutout in the opener. Bonds stroked a sacrifice fly in the first and homer in the third after a double by Jerry Remy. The Angels did not have a hit after the third off reliever John Montague. California got their deciding runs in the second game in the sixth on Don Baylor's double, a bunt single by Dave Chalk, a base hit by Danny Goodwin and a fielder's choice. Milbourne went 4-for-4, accounting for all of the Mariners' runs with an RBI single in the second, solo homer in the fourth and run-scoring double in the sixth. Losing pitcher Bob Galasso was making his first major league appearance.

[DH] Astros 10, Cubs 6 (day game) / Astros 6, Cubs 4 at Chicago (day game):
The Astros, with Art Howe driving in five runs in the opener and Joe Niekro going the distance in the second game in his first start of the season, took a pair from the Cubs, 10-6 and 6-4. Howe broke a 1-1 tie in the third inning of the opener with a three-run homer, then singled home two more runs in the fifth. Cesar Cedeno followed with a homer. Enos Cabell also hit one out for the Astros in the first. Larry Biittner hit a two-run round-tripper for the Cubs in the fifth. Cabell homered again in the second game, his two-run shot in the seventh putting the Astros ahead, 5-3. Bobby Murcer tagged Niekro for a two-run homer in the third to break a 1-1 deadlock, but a homer by Howe and doubles by Ed Herrmann and Roger Metzger tied it in the fourth.

Dodgers 5, Mets 3 at Los Angeles (day game):
Given a second chance when Bruce Boisclair dropped his foul fly to right, Davey Lopes crashed a three-run homer with two down in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Dodgers to a 5-3 decision over the Mets. Boisclair's sacrifice fly had put the Mets ahead in the top of the ninth after Los Angeles tied the score in the eighth on Reggie Smith's 18th homer. Steve Garvey singled home a first-inning Dodger run, but the Mets took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on two-out doubles by Steve Henderson and John Milner and a single by Joel Youngblood.

Pirates 7, Braves 6 at Pittsburgh (day game):
A bases-loaded walk to pinch-hitter Jim Fregosi with two out in the 13th enabled the Pirates to ease past the Braves, 7-6. Two Pittsburgh errors around a single by Gary Matthews had given Atlanta a 6-5 lead in the top of the inning. Rennie Stennett began the Pirate rally with a two-out single, and Ed Ott's single moved pinch-runner Mario Mendoza to third. Omar Moreno's single plated Mendoza with the tying run, and pinch-hitter Jerry Hairston drew a walk, filling the bases to set the stage for the decisive base on balls to Fregosi. Joe Nolan hit his first homer earlier for the Braves.

Phillies 7, Padres 4 at San Diego (day game):
The Phillies scored four times in the seventh inning, two runs coming on Greg Luzinski's bases-loaded single, to overhaul the Padres, 7-4. Other Philadelphia runs in the decisive inning came on Larry Bowa's game-tying sacrifice fly and Richie Hebner's pinch-hit single. Luzinski also drove in a run in the first. Dave Kingman whacked his 14th homer for the losers.

[DH] Giants 3, Expos 0 (day game) / Giants 5, Expos 4 at San Francisco (day game):
Jack Clark's leadoff homer in the 12th gave the Giants the second game, a 5-4 nod over the Expos, and a sweep of a doubleheader. Jim Barr's four-hit hurling and a two-run, inside-the-park homer by Derrel Thomas made 3-0 winners of Frisco in the opener. Tim Foli's squeeze bunt with Bill Madlock at third in the seventh inning produced the Giants' first run in the first game. Thomas' eighth-inning inside job followed a walk to Rob Andrews. In the second game, Clark homered in the 12th off Will McEnaney after the Giants had tied the score in the eighth on a two-run homer by Darrell Evans. The Expos scored all their runs off Lynn McGlothen in third, and all were unearned. The start of the twin-bill was delayed almost an hour because the umpiring crew was late in arriving from San Diego because of a flight cancellation.

Cardinals 3, Reds 0 at St. Louis (day game):
Eric Rasmussen limited the Reds to four hits and Keith Hernandez and Ted Simmons delivered key hits as the Cardinals blanked Cincinnati, 3-0. Hernandez singled home Hector Cruz, who had doubled and taken third on an outfield fly, to break a scoreless deadlock in the sixth. In the eighth, Garry Templeton beat out a high hopper, Tony Scott bunted safely and both runners moved up on a passed ball by Johnny Bench. Simmons then looped a single to center over the drawn-in infield to give Rasmussen a cushion.