Phils Take Cards For Big Sweep

Philadelphia 2-8, St. Louis 1-1

ST LOUIS (AP) — Lonnie Smith tripled, singled three times, stole two bases and scored three runs Thursday night leading Philadelphia to an 8-1 triumph over the St Louis Cardinals and a sweep of their twi-night doubleheader. 

It put the Phillies ½ game out of first place after the New York Mets defeated the Montreal Expos, 7-2. 

Philadelphia right-hander Dick Ruthven, 7-5, stopped St Louis on four hits in the opener and the Phillies got a pair of unearned runs in the seventh inning to rally for a 2-1 victory. 

Rookie right-hander Bob Walk, 4-0, spun a five-hitter in the nightcap. 

The first of Smith’s hits ignited Philadelphia’s three-run first-inning rally against Jim Otten, 0-3. 

Smith stole second and scored on Pete Rose’s single. McBride singled Rose to third, and Rose scored when second baseman Ken Oberkfell bobbled the throw from the outfield. 

Greg Luzinski singled, and McBride came in when Keith Moreland hit into a double play. 

Smith singled and stole second again in the second. He scored on McBride’s double. Trillo's double delivered another run in the seventh, and the Phillies added three in the eighth off Don Hood. 

McBride had three of 16 Philadelphia hits, and Rose had two RBI as the Phils moved within one-half game of the Montreal Expos in the National League East. 

Walk lost his shutout bid when George Hendrick doubled, advanced on an infield out and scored on Dane lorg’s grounder in the seventh.

Phils’ Rose Heads List of NL All-Star Reserves

NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Rose of The Philadelphia Phillies, making his 14th All-Star appearance, heads a dozen reserves named to the National League squad Thursday to complete the team which will face the American League at Los Angeles next Tuesday night. 

Rose, who holds a record for playing at five different positions in All-Star games, is the veteran of the NL bench which will include three first-time choices — outfielders Jose Cruz of Houston and Dale Murphy of Atlanta and third baseman Ken Reitz of St. Louis. 

Also named to the club were catchers Gary Carter of Montreal, and John Stearns of the New York Mets; infielders Dave Concepcion of Cincinnati, Phil Garner of Pittsburgh and Keith Hernandez of St. Louis and outfielders Ken Griffey of Cincinnati, George Hendrick of St. Louis and Dave Winfield of San Diego. 

Carter was the only player chosen from the Expos, leaders in the NL East Division. Cruz joins pitcher J.R. Richard as the lone representatives of the Astros, leading the NL West. 

Hendrick will be making his first All Star appearance for the NL. He played for the American League in the 1974 - and 1975 games.

Fan balloting elected the eight starters with Steve Garvey of Los Angeles at first base, Davey Lopes of Los Angeles at second, Bill Russell of Los Angeles at shortstop, Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia at third base, Pittsburgh’s Dave Parker, Reggie Smith of Los Angeles and Dave Kingman of Chicago in the outfield and catcher Johnny Bench of Cincinnati. Parker was the MVP of last year’s game at Seattle, won by the NL 7-6. 

Besides Richard, Manager Chuck Tanner of Pittsburgh selected seven other pitchers headed by Steve Carlton, the winningest pitcher in the majors so far this season. The other NL pitchers are Jim Bibby and Kent Tekulve of Pittsburgh, Bob Welch and Jerry Reuss of Los Angeles, and Bruce Sutter of Chicago, the winning pitcher in each of the last two games. Reuss pitched this season’s only major league no-hitter last week. 

Still to be named is a replacement for San Francisco pitcher Vida Blue, who was chosen for the team but is injured and was placed on the disabled list. Blue had been his team’s lone representative so his spot must go to a Giant since every team must have at least one player on the All Star squad.

The selection of reserves departed greatly from the fan balloting. Passed up were catchers Steve Yeager of Los Angeles and Ted Simmons of St. Louis, who ran 2-3 in the voting for catcher. Carter finished fourth in the fan vote and Stearns was eighth. 

Also left off the team were Pittsburgh’s Willie Stargell, runnerup in the voting at first base, Ron Cey of Los Angeles, who finished second in the balloting at third base, and outfielders Dusty Baker of Los Angeles, Greg Luzinski of Philadelphia and Ron LeFlore of Montreal, runnersup in the outfield voting. Winfield was eighth, Hendrick 11th and Griffey 14th in the fan vote.