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George Brett last night provided all the fireworks needed to end the New York Yankees season. His three-run homer in the seventh inning catapulted Kansas City to a 4-2 win, culminating a three-game sweep of the Yankees and capturing the first pennant ever for the Royals...
...another squad with a shot at its first-ever pennant moved one step closer...
...rare treat when a pennant race is decided by head-to-head competition. Friday morning, the Philadelphia Phillies arrived in Montreal with precisely the same record as Les Expos for a three-game showdown to close the regular season...
...Friday evening, the city was filled. Seedy motels, some of which hadn't hosted a traveler since the Olympics, dusted off "No Vacancy" signs. Expos emblems jammed the streets, the bars, the restaurants; frenzied people acted out the fevered, pulsating madness only a pennant race can generate...
...wrecking crew named Mike Schmidt. The Philadelphia slugger had knocked home both runs of a 2-1 victory, one with a sacrifice fly and one with a homer. Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, an erratic, lefthanded screwballer who had singlehandedly willed the New York Mets to the National League pennant in 1973, came on to strike out five men in relief, and suddenly the Expos were one game en arriere and one game away from elimination...