Baseball on Wednesday August 29, 1979

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MLB Games on Wednesday August 29, 1979

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VisTeam

vScore

HomeTeam

hScore

Boxscore

Inn

Attendance

Ballpark

TOD

GameTime

Winning Pitcher

Losing Pitcher

Save Pitcher

Home Runs

Seattle Mariners

Cleveland Indians

Box | PBP

Cleveland Stadium

Day

2:40

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Cleveland Indians

Box | PBP

6,598

Cleveland Stadium

Day

2:16

Detroit Tigers

Box | PBP

19,880

Tiger Stadium

Night

2:37

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Kansas City Royals

Box | PBP

22,761

Royals Stadium

Night

2:29

Dennis Leonard

Jim Slaton

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Brett, LaCock, Lezcano, Money, Otis, Thomas (2)

Baltimore Orioles

Minnesota Twins

Box | PBP

Metropolitan Stadium

Day

2:14

Scott McGregor

Roger Erickson

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Baltimore Orioles

Minnesota Twins

Box | PBP

11,470

Metropolitan Stadium

Day

2:47

Goodwin, Murray (3)

Box | PBP

18,117

Arlington Stadium

Night

2:27

Oakland Athletics

Toronto Blue Jays

Box | PBP

13,071

Exhibition Stadium

Day

2:19

Mike Norris

Tom Underwood

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Griffin

Pittsburgh Pirates

Los Angeles Dodgers

Box | PBP

32,816

Dodger Stadium

Night

2:19

Montreal Expos

Box | PBP

25,064

Olympic Stadium

Night

2:15

Atlanta Braves

Box | PBP

6,602

Shea Stadium

Day

2:22

Rick Matula

Ray Burris

Joey McLaughlin

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Cincinnati Reds

Philadelphia Phillies

Box | PBP

30,133

Veterans Stadium

Night

2:31

Box | PBP

12,906

San Diego Stadium

Night

2:12

Gaylord Perry

Lynn McGlothen

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St. Louis Cardinals

San Francisco Giants

Box | PBP

6,099

Candlestick Park

Day

2:13

John Fulgham

Vida Blue

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Hendrick

14 record(s)

Glossary:
visTeam Visiting Team Lg League vScore Visiting team runs scored homeTeam Home Team hScore Home team runs scored Boxscore Link to Boxscore (Box) and Play by Play (PBP) Inn Innings in a game or Innings played at position Attendance Number of people paying for tickets for games Ballpark Team or School's ballpark for the season TOD Time of Day (Day or Night) GameTime Time of play for the game Winning Pitcher The Pitcher in the game when winning team went ahead for good Losing Pitcher The Pitcher in the game when losing team was losing for the rest of the game Save Pitcher The final pitcher for the winning team in a close game

Standings on Wednesday, August 29, 1979

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AL East
League	DivRank	LgRank	MLBRank	Team Name	GP	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	rosG	rosW	rosL	rosPct
AL East	1	1	1	Baltimore Orioles	130	86	44	.662	-	623	485	138	40-26	46-18	29	16	13	.552
AL East	2	2	2	Milwaukee Brewers	134	80	54	.597	8.0	676	602	74	35-30	45-24	27	15	12	.556
AL East	3	3	3	Boston Red Sox	129	76	53	.589	9.5	702	561	141	33-33	44-19	31	15	16	.484
AL East	4	4	8	New York Yankees	129	71	58	.550	14.5	583	531	52	31-33	40-25	31	18	13	.581
AL East	5	5	11	Detroit Tigers	132	71	61	.538	16.0	653	628	25	33-36	38-25	29	14	15	.483
AL East	6	9	15	Cleveland Indians	133	68	65	.511	19.5	625	653	-28	32-37	36-28	28	13	15	.464
AL East	7	14	26	Toronto Blue Jays	132	42	90	.318	45.0	493	699	-206	20-49	22-41	30	11	19	.367
AL West
League	DivRank	LgRank	MLBRank	Team Name	GP	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	rosG	rosW	rosL	rosPct
AL West	1	6	12	California Angels	133	71	62	.534	-	718	616	102	32-33	39-29	29	17	12	.586
AL West	2	7	13	Kansas City Royals	132	70	62	.530	0.5	703	692	11	31-34	39-28	30	15	15	.500
AL West	3	8	14	Minnesota Twins	131	68	63	.519	2.0	636	600	36	33-30	35-33	31	14	17	.452
AL West	4	10	17	Texas Rangers	133	63	70	.474	8.0	606	583	23	27-38	36-32	29	20	9	.690
AL West	5	11	20	Chicago White Sox	130	58	72	.446	11.5	588	621	-33	34-33	23-40	30	15	15	.500
AL West	6	12	22	Seattle Mariners	134	56	78	.418	15.5	591	684	-93	24-41	32-37	28	11	17	.393
AL West	7	13	25	Oakland Athletics	134	43	91	.321	28.5	477	719	-242	17-48	26-43	28	11	17	.393
NL East
League	DivRank	LgRank	MLBRank	Team Name	GP	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	rosG	rosW	rosL	rosPct
NL East	1	1	4	Pittsburgh Pirates	132	77	55	.583	-	619	536	83	38-27	39-28	30	21	9	.700
NL East	2	3	6	Montreal Expos	125	71	54	.568	2.5	542	463	79	28-35	43-19	35	24	11	.686
NL East	3	5	9	Chicago Cubs	129	70	59	.543	5.5	594	573	21	29-33	41-26	33	10	23	.303
NL East	4	6	10	St. Louis Cardinals	130	70	60	.538	6.0	596	554	42	31-31	38-30	32	16	16	.500
NL East	5	7	16	Philadelphia Phillies	133	65	68	.489	12.5	560	595	-35	29-37	36-31	29	19	10	.655
NL East	6	11	23	New York Mets	130	53	77	.408	23.0	493	574	-81	25-38	27-40	32	10	22	.313
NL West
League	DivRank	LgRank	MLBRank	Team Name	GP	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	rosG	rosW	rosL	rosPct
NL West	1	2	5	Cincinnati Reds	134	77	57	.575	-	624	526	98	36-30	41-27	27	13	14	.481
NL West	2	4	7	Houston Astros	133	75	58	.564	1.5	480	482	-2	32-35	43-23	29	14	15	.483
NL West	3	8	18	Los Angeles Dodgers	132	61	71	.462	15.0	613	616	-3	26-42	35-29	30	18	12	.600
NL West	4	9	19	San Francisco Giants	132	59	73	.447	17.0	585	617	-32	29-41	30-32	30	12	18	.400
NL West	5	10	21	San Diego Padres	134	57	77	.425	20.0	496	583	-87	22-45	35-32	27	11	16	.407
NL West	6	12	24	Atlanta Braves	132	53	79	.402	23.0	559	642	-83	25-44	28-35	28	13	15	.464
26 record(s)

Glossary:
League Abbreviation or name of league divRank Divisional Rank LgRank Rank within a League. For MLB, refers to AL or NL MLBRank Rank in all of Major League Baseball for the season Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. GP Games Played. Usually refers to a team W Wins (Pitcher or Team) L Losses (Pitcher or Team) WPct Winning Percentage (W/(W+L)) GBL Games behind leader. ((Team A Wins-Team B Wins) + (Team A Losses-Team B Losses))/2 RF Runs For RA Runs Against Diff Run Differential. RF-RA Home Home Team rosG Rest-of-Season Games rosW Rest-of-Season Wins rosL Rest-of-Season Losses rosPct Winning Percentage for Rest of season

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