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Sunday, April 8,1979

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year gametype box date visiting Team score home team score box ballpark winning pitcher losing pitcher save pitcher attend. time
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Chicago White Sox  5 Baltimore Orioles  1 box | pbp Memorial Stadium Rich Wortham Dennis Martinez Lerrin LaGrow 6,517 2:19
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Boston Red Sox  7 Cleveland Indians  6 box | pbp Cleveland Stadium Dick Drago Victor Cruz -- 6,887 3:44
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Toronto Blue Jays  3 Kansas City Royals  8 box | pbp Kauffman Stadium Paul Splittorff Mark Lemongello -- 23,477 2:20
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Milwaukee Brewers  1 New York Yankees  2 box | pbp Yankee Stadium I Tommy John Lary Sorensen Rich Gossage 26,954 1:50
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Minnesota Twins  3 Oakland Athletics  1 box | pbp Oakland-Alameda Cty Colis Geoff Zahn Mike Norris -- 3,326 2:10
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 California Angels  7 Seattle Mariners  5 box | pbp Kingdome Dave LaRoche Shane Rawley -- 9,183 2:42
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 San Francisco Giants  6 Cincinnati Reds  7 box | pbp Cinergy Field Doug Bair John Curtis -- 30,196 3:05
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Atlanta Braves  0 Houston Astros  2 box | pbp Astrodome Joe Niekro Rick Matula -- 16,501 2:00
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 San Diego Padres  5 Los Angeles Dodgers  6 box | pbp Dodger Stadium Rick Sutcliffe Bob Shirley -- 39,562 3:27
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Montreal Expos  5 Pittsburgh Pirates  4 box | pbp Three Rivers Stadium Rudy May Enrique Romo David Palmer 8,680 3:03
1979 reg season 1979-04-08 Philadelphia Phillies  2 St. Louis Cardinals  2 box | pbp Busch Stadium II -- 20,055 1:18
11 record(s)
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year league division teamname links gp   w   l wpct gbl rf ra diff streak home away div rk lgrk mlb rk in playoff spot end-of-season playoffs
1979 AL East Baltimore Orioles franchise | log 3 2 1 .667 0.0 12 11 1 L1 0-0 2-1 1 4 10 Yes Lost World Series (Pirates)
1979 AL East Boston Red Sox franchise | log 3 2 1 .667 0.0 14 10 4 W1 1-1 1-0 2 6 9 Yes dnq
1979 AL East Milwaukee Brewers franchise | log 3 2 1 .667 0.0 10 6 4 L1 2-1 0-0 3 5 11 Yes dnq
1979 AL East Cleveland Indians franchise | log 3 1 2 .333 1.0 10 14 -4 L1 0-1 1-1 4 9 15 -- dnq
1979 AL East New York Yankees franchise | log 3 1 2 .333 1.0 6 10 -4 W1 0-0 1-2 5 11 16 -- dnq
1979 AL East Detroit Tigers franchise | log 1 0 1 .000 1.0 2 8 -6 L1 0-0 0-1 6 12 23 -- dnq
1979 AL East Toronto Blue Jays franchise | log 3 0 3 .000 2.0 9 26 -17 L3 0-3 0-0 7 14 21 -- dnq
year league division teamname links gp   w   l wpct gbl rf ra diff streak home away div rk lgrk mlb rk in playoff spot end-of-season playoffs
1979 AL West Kansas City Royals franchise | log 3 3 0 1.000 0.0 26 9 17 W3 0-0 3-0 1 3 2 Yes dnq
1979 AL West Minnesota Twins franchise | log 3 3 0 1.000 0.0 11 5 6 W3 3-0 0-0 2 1 1 Yes dnq
1979 AL West Texas Rangers franchise | log 1 1 0 1.000 1.0 8 2 6 W1 1-0 0-0 3 2 3 Yes dnq
1979 AL West Seattle Mariners franchise | log 4 2 2 .500 1.5 28 22 6 L2 0-0 2-2 4 7 13 -- dnq
1979 AL West California Angels franchise | log 4 2 2 .500 1.5 22 28 -6 W2 2-2 0-0 5 8 14 -- Lost ALCS (Orioles)
1979 AL West Chicago White Sox franchise | log 3 1 2 .333 2.0 11 12 -1 W1 1-2 0-0 6 10 18 -- dnq
1979 AL West Oakland Athletics franchise | log 3 0 3 .000 3.0 5 11 -6 L3 0-0 0-3 7 13 25 -- dnq
year league division teamname links gp   w   l wpct gbl rf ra diff streak home away div rk lgrk mlb rk in playoff spot end-of-season playoffs
1979 NL East New York Mets franchise | log 2 2 0 1.000 0.0 19 10 9 W2 2-0 0-0 1 2 6 Yes dnq
1979 NL East St. Louis Cardinals franchise | log 3 3 0 1.000 0.5 13 5 8 L1 0-0 2-1 2 1 4 Yes dnq
1979 NL East Montreal Expos franchise | log 3 2 1 .667 0.5 14 13 1 W1 2-1 0-0 3 6 12 -- dnq
1979 NL East Pittsburgh Pirates franchise | log 3 1 2 .333 1.5 13 14 -1 L1 0-0 1-2 4 7 17 -- Won World Series (Orioles)
1979 NL East Chicago Cubs franchise | log 2 0 2 .000 2.0 10 19 -9 L2 0-0 0-2 5 10 22 -- dnq
1979 NL East Philadelphia Phillies franchise | log 3 0 3 .000 2.5 5 13 -8 L3 0-3 0-0 6 11 24 -- dnq
year league division teamname links gp   w   l wpct gbl rf ra diff streak home away div rk lgrk mlb rk in playoff spot end-of-season playoffs
1979 NL West Houston Astros franchise | log 3 3 0 1.000 0.0 10 1 9 W3 0-0 3-0 1 3 5 Yes dnq
1979 NL West Los Angeles Dodgers franchise | log 4 3 1 .750 0.5 24 12 12 W3 0-0 3-1 2 4 7 Yes dnq
1979 NL West San Francisco Giants franchise | log 4 3 1 .750 0.5 28 16 12 L1 3-1 0-0 3 5 8 Yes dnq
1979 NL West Cincinnati Reds franchise | log 4 1 3 .250 2.5 16 28 -12 W1 0-0 1-3 4 8 20 -- Lost NLCS (Pirates)
1979 NL West San Diego Padres franchise | log 4 1 3 .250 2.5 12 24 -12 L3 1-3 0-0 5 9 19 -- dnq
1979 NL West Atlanta Braves franchise | log 3 0 3 .000 3.0 1 10 -9 L3 0-3 0-0 6 12 26 -- dnq
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player name teamname statusshort Transaction Description
Jon Matlack Texas Rangers Injury DL - Bone chips in left elbow
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