July 4, 1980

The Phillies were still feeling the effects of Mike Schmidt's injury.  The offense managed to scatch eight hits on St. Louis starter Bob Sykes, but could not manage to get even one of those across the plate.  The offensive anemia wasted a superb effort by Nino Espinosa, who threw eight innings of two-hit ball.  Espinosa gave way to Kevin Saucier, who gave up a game-winning home run to George Hendrick.

NL East Standings after games of July 4, 1980

Team

Wins

Losses

Pct.

GB

Expos

41

34

.547

-

Phillies

40

34

.541

½

Pirates

40

37

.519

2

Mets

37

39

.487

4½

Cubs

34

41

.453

7

Cardinals

33

45

.423

9½

Scoreboard

National League

 

PHI N   0 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 0   0 -   0 8 0

STL N   0 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 0   1 -   1 3 1

WP: Sykes (3-6)

LP: Saucier (3-3)

HR: Hendrick (17)

 

SD N    0 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 0 -   0  3 0

ATL N   2 3 1   0 1 1   1 0 x -   9 11 1

WP: McWilliams (5-5)

LP: Rasmussen (1-8)

HR: Murphy 2 (16), Matthews 2 (8), Horner (9)

 

HOU N   0 0 0   0 0 0   1 0 0 -   1 4 2

CIN N   0 2 1   0 3 2   0 0 x -   8 8 0

WP: Leibrandt (8-4)

LP: Ryan (5-6)

HR: Cedeno (6), Driessen (9)

 

SF N   0 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 0 -   0 4 2

LA N   2 0 0   0 2 0   0 0 x -   4 7 1

WP: Sutton (6-2)

LP: Ripley (2-4)

HR: Law (1), Smith (14)

 

MON N   3 0 0   2 0 0   0 0 0 -   5 14 5 (1)

NY N    2 2 1   0 0 1   2 1 x -   9 16 3

WP: Glynn (3-1)

LP: Palmer (5-2)

SV: Reardon (3)

HR: Mazzilli (6)

 

MON N   2 0 0   1 3 0   0 0 0 -   6 11 3 (2)

NY N    4 0 0   0 0 0   1 0 0 -   5 14 0

WP: Fryman (2-3)

LP: Bomback (5-2)

SV: Sosa (6)

HR: Cromartie (8), Youngblood (5)

 

CHI N   2 0 0   0 2 0   0 0 0 -   4  7 0 (1)

PIT N   0 0 0   0 1 0   0 0 1 -   2 12 3

WP: McGlothen (6-5)

LP: Solomon (4-3)

SV: Sutter (19)

HR: Johnson (2), Ott (3)

 

CHI N   0 0 0   1 1 0   0 0 0 -   2 6 0 (2)

PIT N   0 1 0   0 0 0   0 0 0 -   1 4 2

WP: Capilla (2-0)

LP: D. Robinson (2-4)

SV: Tidrow (4)

 

American League

 

BOS A   0 0 0   0 2 1   0 0 0 -   3  9 3

BAL A   3 1 2   0 0 1   0 3 x -  10 12 1

WP: Stone (12-3)

LP: Torrez (4-8)

SV: Stoddard (11)

HR: Perez (11)

 

OAK A   0 0 0   0 2 0   0 0 0 -   2 7 0

CHI A   0 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 0 -   0 5 0

WP: Kingman (4-8)

LP: Burns (9-6)

 

NY A    0 0 0   7 0 0   0 4 0 -  11 13 2

CLE A   0 0 0   0 1 0   0 0 4 -   5  7 1

WP: Guidry (9-4)

LP: Barker (7-7)

HR: Murcer (9)

 

TOR A   0 1 0   0 0 0   0 0 2 -   3 4 2

DET A   0 1 0   0 3 0   0 0 x -   4 9 0

WP: Petry (5-4)

LP: Stieb (7-6)

SV: Lopez (11)

 

SEA A   0 0 0   1 0 0   2 0 0 -   3  9 1

KC A    0 0 0   0 0 2   1 2 x -   5 10 1

WP: Quisenberry (6-4)

LP: D. Roberts (1-3)

HR: Quirk (2)

 

CAL A   0 0 0   0 0 1   0 1 0 -   2 5 1

MIL A   0 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 0 -   0 5 1

WP: Aase (5-8)

LP: Cleveland (6-3)

SV: Clear (5)

 

TEX A   0 0 0   1 0 1   0 1 0   0 0 1 -   4 11 0

MIN A   1 2 0   0 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 0 -   3  8 1

WP: Darwin (5-1)

LP: Verhoeven (0-2)

HR: Bell 2 (11), Castino (6)

Transactions

Phillies

None

 

National League

None

 

American League

None