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Houston knuckleballer Joe Niekro, with help from fireman Dave Smith in the eleventh, silenced the big bats of Schmidt, Luzunski & Co. in allowing only seven hits...
...Phillies had two golden opportunities to win the game. In the bottom of the seventh, after singles by Larry Bowa and Bob Boone, and an intentional walk to Pete Rose to load the bases, relievers Joe Sambito and Dave Smith struck out Bake McBride and Mike Schmidt. In the ninth, with the bases filled, Frank Lacorte struck out Mannie Trillo and got Garry Maddox...
...Friday night was quiet. Fifty thousand fans filed out of Olympic Stadium, victims of a one-man 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...
...know how the story ends, but what makes it worth retelling is the pure emotion of the moment. Schmidt, who deserves to be named the league's Most Valuable Player, homered in the tenth inning--eight hours after the original starting time--and McGraw came on again to record the save...
Otherwise, the campaign has turned almost entirely on the candidates' personalities. Schmidt has capitalized on his basic popularity-60% of the electorate currently approve of his performance as Chancellor-and on his image as a nearly ideal embodiment of the leadership qualities West Germans seek: confidence, firmness and statesmanship-not to mention telegenic good looks. In campaign speeches to large, lustily cheering crowds, he proudly points to the country's healthy economy, its fervent commitment to detente, and its enhanced international stature. Strauss, he warns, would "squander" these hard-won achievements...