American League - September 5

Player of the Day: Bill North went 5 for 5 and scored three runs in Oakland's 10-1 victory over the California Angels.

Pitcher of the Day: Bert Blyleven pitched a complete game and earned the win as the Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals.

Things are really goofy in my American League replay. It seems that any game involving the New York Yankees will be spit out with an Fatal Error 37. I decided to play the other games that don't involve the Yankees and try to get as much of the replay in as possible.

I made the mistake of playing the September 6 games before finishing the stats files  for September 5. The boxscores are here, but that's about it. Things will (sort of) get back to normal on September 6 (which happened to be my tenth birthday).

National League - September 5

Player of the Day: Mike Schmidt went 3 for 4 and hit his league-leading 36^th home run as the Phillies beat the Mets 9-7.

Pitcher of the Day: Jerry Reuss allowed one run in seven innings to earn the win against the Montreal Expos.

The Cincinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves 4-2 and clinched the NL West title. Dick Ruthven lost his 20th game.

Chicago 2, St. Louis 1

 Cincinnati 4, Atlanta 2

 Houston 3, Los Angeles 2 (10 innings)

 Philadelphia 9, New York 7

 Pittsburgh 6, Montreal 1

 San Francisco 9, San Diego 5 (game 1)

 San Diego 5, San Francisco 1 (game 2)

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