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Sports late night dials up funny faces and pennant races if we can find any.
The Padre is still between rocks and hard places in the west, trying to spoil the brew at Coors.
The former Marquis of Montreal goes home and goes wild again, and the Reds and Fills keep going where they were headed.
The wetland was a bad land in Motown. Could the Yanks hang on?
There's even some pig, the Browns, going downtown on the Giants.
And how about wide out a la carte? An update on Harper's Bazaar.
There's plenty of golf. One man draws a grand blank come crunch time.
Hey, we're all dressed up with no place to go.
And here it is. Welcome to the show. I'm Larry Smith.
And I'm Tom Kirkland. Precious, few pennant races, but there is one in the National League West where,
I mean, you know, Denver has one football team. They play in Mile High Stadium,
but the team across town is really putting up huge numbers again.
Yeah, I tell you, Rockies versus Elway, touchdowns, could be a pretty close battle right now.
Pictures just get out of town. Oh yeah, absolutely.
Ah, it's good old Coors Field where the fans are plenty and so are the runs.
Twenty-six times the Rockies have scored seven or more at home.
The trouble is the visitors have done likewise on twenty occasions.
Padre's in town five times. They've played at the new park five times.
They've been spanked, but they got off to a quick start in a hurry on Sunday.
Archie Cienfranco, and that's gone. Opposite field off Mark Thompson.
Padre's up 4-0. Cienfranco doing it in the field as well.
Some nice glove work in foul territory. Top of the fourth, Ken Caminiti, Phil Planteer, Scott Livingstone,
and then Cienfranco again, all with RBI singles. 9-1 San Diego.
Caminiti goes park his 15th of the year off Mike Munoz, 10-4 San Diego.
It'll get worse. Glenn Dishman pitching to Dante Bichette.
He rips the shot, but some great defense by Ken Caminiti to rob him of the base hit.
Bottom of the eighth, the lone bright spot for the Rocks.
Catcher Jayhawk Owens just called up, just recalled from AAA.
His second home run on the afternoon. Eight home runs in all, but San Diego avoids the sweep
as they score 31 runs in a three-game set, but came away with just the one win.
Bichette failed to add to his rocky record fifth consecutive home run games,
but did extend his hitting streak to 18.
Dodgers and Giants at the stick, and Hideo Noma watching this one one day after his one-hitter against San Francisco.
Mark Kerry on the flare to right in the first inning.
Raul Montese comes up throwing, gunning, trying to catch Robbie Thompson, but Thompson's in there.
Mark Latterby, while cruising right along, holds a offerman.
His solo shot, a rare home run for him, and it cuts the Giants lead to 2-1.
Base is loaded. Sixth inning, Lider at the plate.
The ground ball to Eric Carroll steps on first, but Shum says that Glenn Allen-Hill is safe at the plate.
Lider, a great outing, gets to line on the shields, looking for his 10th K on the day.
It's Dusty Baker's 200th win as a Giants skipper, and keeps the Dodgers from gaining any ground on first place Colorado.
Lider has four of San Francisco's seven complete games this season, and in his last six starts, has an ERA of 1.70.
When the season began, this early August four-game series between the Braves and Expos in Montreal figured to be huge,
but Montreal's meager payroll and cost-cutting moves have finally caught up with them.
While the Braves keep spending and keep winning, their lead in the East grows right along.
However, today trouble in the first for Steve Avery, and more trouble thanks to Mike Kelly.
Oh, he misplays that Ole to the wall. Will Cordero ends up on third.
Two-base error for Kelly. 3-1 Expos on the way to a five-run first.
Meantime, Carlos Perez, not much more. What'd he need?
David Justice, get out! Cannot catch up with that thing.
Then Perez at the plate. He goes down over McGriff at first. It rolls out there. Tim Laker scores.
Now, for some reason, Perez tries to get the third, and he's not gonna slide. He's a pitcher. He's tagged out.
Carlos Perez took matters into his own hands, going the distance to help the Expos snap a five-game slide.
It's the rookies' tenth win. The Braves' four-game winning streak's over, but they've still got one more at the big O,
and the Marquis of Montreal's elated about that.
Grissom has pigged out on his ex-mates, particularly at Olympic Stadium, 8 for 12 this series, hitting 739 there,
and overall, he's been unmerciful against his former mates, going 21 for 34 this season.
Due to Saturday's rainout, the Fills and Reds played two in Cincy early on.
John Smiley in some trouble. Tim Marsh singles. Charlie Hayes is in. 1-0, Phil.
Tommy Green with a 1-0 lead, bottom of the second. Jeff Branson up. Two guys aboard.
And uh-oh. High heat. Turned around in a hurry. Jeff Branson's eighth rocket, a three-run job.
Three to one Reds. Then Hal Morris, a little bit later, just sweet-swings it down the right field line.
Barry Larkin is in. Six to one Reds. Meantime, Shurek in complete control. Two words for Lenny Webster.
Guess what the two words are. Get out.
That's right. Shurek continues to resurrect his career in Cincy, a nifty three-hit job.
And Cincy completes the sweep thanks to Reggie Sanders' bases loaded single in the tenth,
moving them 27 games above 500 for the first time since the Big Red Machine won it all back in 1976.
Astros and Bucks. Let's check them out. Jeff Bagwell working out the jaws as he watches this one.
Scary moment for the Astros. Charger Mike Hanson squares to bunch. He takes it in the chest.
He saves in the game. A lot of which he didn't, maybe, because J. Bell.