"Don" of a new era

Giants 1, Expos 0

Montefusco vs Stoneham

A strange pitchers duel where both starters left after five shutout innings.  The contest came down to two fantastic bullpen efforts.  Neither pen would not allow a run until the top of the ninth inning. With runners on first and second and one out pinch hitter Ken Henderson sent one all the way back to the wall, which Andre Dawson made a leaping grab on.  It looked like Montréal was going to get out of the inning unscathed. Up steeped light hitting catcher Dave Rader, who proceeded to single through the whole in between 3rd and short to score Bill Matlock, which turned out to be the winning run.

Expos 12, Giants 10

Marichal vs Morton

Game two was the antithesis of game one.  Both teams battered and bruised each other for nine full innings. Juan Marichal was dreadful giving up seven runs and eight hits over four innings of work including two long balls.   San Francisco scored six runs over the final three innings yet still came up to run short of victory. Six homeruns were hit in all with three of them coming from future Hall of Famer's Willie Mays, Gary Carter and Andre the Hawk Dawson. Kid Carter had three RBIs for the winners and Bobby Bonds had four RBIs for the losers. Call Morton posted the undeserved win giving up six runs in six innings.  His claim to fame was being "less bad" than Juan Marichal.

Giants 5, Expos 4 (10 inn)

Renko vs Halacki

An RBI single by Bobby Bonds and a sac fly, which was almost a homer, by Willie McCovey helped the Giants rallied back from a two run deficit to tie the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the seventh. Neither team could push across another run in regulation. Dan Shatzeder started the bottom of the tenth by giving up singles to pinch-hitter Larry Herndon and catcher Dave Rader. Chuck Taylor came out of the pen to get Johnnie Lemaster to pop up to short, but pinch-hitter Terry Whitfield hit a medium-length fly ball to left field which Warren Cromartie was able to catch but not able to throw home to get the speedy Herndon.  San Francisco wins by one in the 10th. Veteran reliever Don McMahon (2-0), gets the much deserved win by tossing three scoreless innings in relief of Halicki.