MLB standings through games of April 20, 1979

MLB standings at the end of April 20, 1979

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. East
Boston Red Sox	11	7	4	0	.636		64	45	5-2	2-2	6-4	Won 2
New York Yankees	13	8	5	0	.615		55	55	4-3	4-2	7-3	Won 1
Milwaukee Brewers	12	7	5	0	.583	0.5	62	51	4-1	3-4	5-5	Lost 2
Detroit Tigers	9	5	4	0	.556	1.0	55	48	3-1	2-3	5-4	Won 4
Baltimore Orioles	13	5	8	0	.385	3.0	53	66	4-3	1-5	3-7	Won 2
Toronto Blue Jays	12	4	8	0	.333	3.5	62	87	2-4	2-4	4-6	Lost 5
Cleveland Indians	11	3	8	0	.273	4.0	31	59	2-3	1-5	3-7	Lost 1

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
A.L. West
California Angels	14	11	3	0	.786		98	58	3-1	8-2	9-1	Won 9
Texas Rangers	10	7	3	0	.700	2.0	53	38	5-1	2-2	7-3	Lost 2
Minnesota Twins	12	7	5	0	.583	3.0	64	60	0-3	7-2	5-5	Lost 3
Chicago White Sox	12	6	6	0	.500	4.0	72	59	1-4	5-2	6-4	Won 4
Kansas City Royals	11	5	6	0	.455	4.5	67	66	4-1	1-5	4-6	Lost 3
Seattle Mariners	14	5	9	0	.357	6.0	70	89	5-6	0-3	3-7	Lost 6
Oakland A's	14	4	10	0	.286	7.0	49	74	3-6	1-4	4-6	Lost 1

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. East
Montreal Expos	11	8	3	0	.727		41	39	4-1	4-2	7-3	Lost 1
Philadelphia Phillies	11	7	3	1	.700	0.5	52	32	3-0	4-3	7-2-1	Won 5
St. Louis Cardinals	12	5	6	1	.455	3.0	51	46	3-1	2-5	3-6-1	Lost 2
Chicago Cubs	10	4	6	0	.400	3.5	33	44	3-3	1-3	4-6	Won 2
Pittsburgh Pirates	12	4	8	0	.333	4.5	49	67	4-5	0-3	3-7	Lost 4
New York Mets	10	3	7	0	.300	4.5	40	46	1-4	2-3	3-7	Lost 5

	GP	W	L	T	PCT	GB	RF	RA	HOME	ROAD	LAST 10	STRK
N.L. West
Houston Astros	14	10	4	0	.714		63	35	6-1	4-3	7-3	Won 2
San Francisco Giants	15	9	6	0	.600	1.5	77	69	5-3	4-3	5-5	Won 2
Cincinnati Reds	14	8	6	0	.571	2.0	73	66	3-3	5-3	7-3	Won 4
San Diego Padres	15	7	8	0	.467	3.5	65	76	4-3	3-5	6-4	Won 1
Los Angeles Dodgers	15	6	9	0	.400	4.5	55	70	5-6	1-3	2-8	Lost 2
Atlanta Braves	13	4	9	0	.308	5.5	52	61	1-3	3-6	4-6	Lost 3

Today's scores and summaries:

Orioles 6, Brewers 3 at Baltimore (night game):
The Orioles tagged previously unbeaten Mike Caldwell for 14 hits, including a homer by Ken Singleton and five doubles, to defeat the Brewers, 6-3. Steve Stone gained his first victory in an Orioles' uniform. The righthander gave up six hits, including homers by Cecil Cooper and Sixto Lezcano, before yielding to Don Stanhouse in the eighth inning.

Red Sox 9, Royals 2 at Boston (day game):
Carl Yastrzemski hit the 386th homer of his career, plus a single and double, and drove in three runs to pace the Red Sox to a 9-2 victory over the Royals. Jim Rice joined Yaz in the hit parade with four singles. Dennis Eckersley, who started for the Red Sox, was hit on the right elbow by a line drive off the bat of Hal McRae in the third inning, suffering a bad bruise. Eckersley struck out the next batter, Amos Otis, to retire the side before leaving the game in favor of Andy Hassler.

Angels 7, A's 4 at California (night game):
Willie Aikens hit his fifth homer in eight games and Rod Carew rapped three singles, driving in two runs, as the Angels defeated the A's, 7-4, for their ninth straight victory. Don Baylor also had three hits as the Angels collected 11, giving them a total of 112, good for 75 runs, during their streak.

White Sox 4, Indians 2 at Cleveland (night game):
Harry Chappas scored the tie-breaking run in the 10th inning as the White Sox defeated the Indians, 4-2, but the diminutive shortstop was shipped out after the game to Iowa (American Association). Chappas entered the contest as a pinch-runner for Greg Pryor, who opened the 10th inning with a single. After a sacrifice by Rusty Torres, Chappas disregarded the stop sign by third base coach Bobby Winkles and scored on a disputed call. Claudell Washington took second on the play and registered an insurance run on a single by Thad Bosley.

Tigers 7, Blue Jays 2 at Detroit (night game):
Milt Wilcox celebrated his 29th birthday by pitching the Tigers to a 7-2 victory over the Blue Jays. Jason Thompson and Alan Trammell were out of the Tigers' lineup with injuries and Ron LeFlore, bothered by tendinitis in his right shoulder, served as designated hitter. Subs Tim Corcoran, Dan Gonzales and Mark Wagner all contributed to the Tigers' attack. Corcoran batted in two runs with a single in the first inning. Gonzales doubled in the sixth for his first major league hit and was on base when Wagner whacked a three-run homer. Lou Whitaker also homered for the Tigers and John Mayberry hit one for the Blue Jays.

Yankees 5, Rangers 3 at New York (night game):
Thurman Munson hit a run-scoring single in each of the first two innings as the Yankees built up a 4-0 lead en route to a 5-3 victory over the Rangers. The Yankees' pair in the first counted on a pass to Mickey Rivers and consecutive singles by Willie Randolph, Munson and Reggie Jackson. Bucky Dent singled, Rivers doubled and Munson singled for two more runs in the second. Ed Figueroa held the Rangers to four hits before Dick Tidrow took over with two men on base in the ninth and retired the side. Al Oliver, who doubled for the Rangers in the sixth, hit safely in his 10th straight game.

Padres 7, Braves 4 at Atlanta (night game):
Randy Jones, who appeared to be on the road to regaining his Cy Young Award-winning form of 1976, brought his record to 3-1 by pitching the Padres to a 7-4 victory over the Braves. Jerry Turner was Jones' principal supporter. The Padres' outfielder homered with a man on base in the fourth, doubled and scored in the sixth and singled home two more in the eighth. Gene Tenace accounted for the other tallies with a homer. Dale Murphy, who is leading the league in round-trippers, hit his sixth of season for the Braves.

Cubs 8, Expos 5 at Chicago (day game):
Although Dave Kingman hit the eighth grand-slam homer of his career, the Cubs needed three unearned runs in the fourth inning to defeat the Expos, 8-5. With the Expos leading, 3-1, Bill Buckner was passed intentionally in the third to allow Steve Rogers to pitch to Kingman, but the strategy backfired when the Cubs' slugger smashed his round-tripper. The Expos came right back to tie the score with a two-run smash by Chris Speier in the fourth. In the home half, Woodie Fryman, who had replaced Rogers, was victimized when the Cubs produced their winning margin on a double by Ted Sizemore, single by Lynn McGlothen, errors by Andre Dawson and Larry Parrish and singles by Kingman and Steve Ontiveros.

Astros 5, Pirates 4 at Houston (night game):
With an error by Phil Garner paving the way, the Astros scored in the ninth inning to defeat the Pirates, 5-4. Craig Reynolds opened the inning by grounding to Garner and reached third base on his throwing error. The Pirates then walked Cesar Cedeno and Enos Cabell intentionally, but Jeff Leonard batted for Rafael Landestoy and hit a sacrifice fly to plate the winning run.

Phillies 8, Mets 0 at Philadelphia (night game):
Dick Ruthven pitched a five-hitter for the 11th shutout of his career and Garry Maddox and Greg Luzinski each drove in two runs as the Phillies defeated the Mets, 8-0. Maddox accounted for his RBIs with a single in the first inning. Luzinski singled with the bases loaded in the fifth when the Phillies took advantage of errors by Richie Hebner and Doug Flynn to score five unearned runs.

Giants 3, Dodgers 2 at San Francisco (night game):
Willie McCovey made his initial start of the season at first base for the Giants and drove in a run with a single in the ninth inning to beat the Dodgers, 3-2. Jack Clark grounded to Bill Russell to open the Giants' ninth and reached second on the shortstop's wild throw. McCovey, who had singled earlier in the game, came up with orders to bunt. But after Jerry Reuss' first two pitches were wide of the plate, Manager Joe Altobelli switched signals. McCovey then swung away at Reuss' next delivery and lined his game-winning single.

Reds 10, Cardinals 3 at St. Louis (night game):
After 38 starts, Fred Norman pitched his first complete game since September 4, 1977, and breezed to victory as the Reds piled up 18 hits and trounced the Cardinals, 10-3. Ken Griffey, Johnny Bench and Dan Driessen smashed homers.