Pirates regain divisional lead International United Press a pair of homers and drove in three his ninth home then ignited runs and Ed Ott also knocked in three ton hit two-ru-n sixth with his 19th runs Tuesday night, powering Pitts- a to lead St. Louis to a victory over burgh to a 10-- 4 rout of the Montreal Ex- Philadelphia. pos and enabling the Pirates to regain Fulgham, 10-- 6, picked up the first place in the National League John victory, which clinched third place in East League for Car- The Pirates, who lead the Expos by the National East the dinals. All his victories have been com- one-ha- lf game, have five games re- maining while Montreal has six to plete games. play. Philadelphia scored once in the first Stargell homered off loser Scott when extended his major-leagu-e season-hig- h m to 23 Sanderson, 9-- 8, following a by-Ti- games, stole second, and scored on a Fob' to give the Pirates a 2-- 0 lead in the first inning and, after the Expos single by John Poff . SL Louis tied it in when Templeton homered tied the score on Tony Perez' third in- the third ning sacrifice fly and 's with two off , 1-- 1, then 30th homer in the fourth, Stargell put the Cardinals broke the game open in

3-- the sixth. Templeton tripled to center the Pirates on top 2 with a leadoff homer, his 31st, in the fourth. and scored on a -- sacrifice fly by Lou After the Expos tied the score again Brock. With two out.

3-- walked and moved around on singles at 3 on 's RBI single in by Dane Iorg and Tony Scott. the fifth, Ott delivered a two-ru-n single Jifth-ynnin- g .The Cardinals. their final run to highlight a three-ru- n , added .eighth' when Keith -- that gave --'"starter Jim 'Rooicer-- Sis jfinithe Hernandez doubled, took fourth victory in 11 decisions. Ott then third when hobbled the ball on a capped a four-ru- n sixth inning with an Poff and scored RBI single. sacrifice fly by . Padres 8, Reds 2 11-- 3, 3-- , a Cubs Mets 4 candidate' for the National League's CHICAGO Down to the last pitch, most valuable player award, delivered trailing by a run and an out away from a two-ru- n single and Kurt Bevacqua their 100th loss of the season, the out- added a two-ru- n to highlight a look was indeed bleak for hapless New five-ru-n seventh inning which enabled York. to defeat Cincinnati and re- But the game is, as they say, not duce the Reds' lead in the West Divi- over until the last out and the Mets sion to 1 games over Houston. rose to the occasion against one of Bob Shirley, pitching as though the baseball's premier relief to Padres were in the pennant race, salvage a split of a double-heade- r. stopped the Reds on seven hits in notching his eighth victory against 16 After dropping the opener, the Mets losses. The only runs off the Padres' rallied for a 4-- 3 10-inni- ng victory in the left-hand- er back-to-ba- nightcap over came on ck Chicago. home runs by Dave Concepcion and The Cubs led 3-- 2 in the ninth inning of in the eighth. the second game with , who has 37 saves, on the mound in re- Astros 8, Braves 0 lief of Bill Caudill. J.R. Richard, his fast- Frank Taveras opened the ninth with ball smoldering on a chilly autumn a single and stole second. Sutter then night, kept Houston's pennant hopes al- struck out Elliott Maddox and Lee

13-strike- ive with a blistering, four-hi- t, -out Mazzilli. was the last performance that sparked the As- hope to prevent the Mets from drop- tros to a victory over Atlanta. ping their fifth double-head- er in eight Richard, the only National League days. With an 0-- 2 count, Hebner right-hand- er to ever 300 in a slashed a single to right, scoring Tave- season, surpassed that mark for the ras with the tying run. second year in a row as he raised his In the 10th inning, Hodges got total to 302 only one shy of the record Rn an hit behind he set last year. He's expected to make second off losing , 11-- 5. Nor- one more start this season against the Dan man forced pinch-runn- er Dodgers in Los Angeles. Sergio Fer- rer at second but second 17-1- ng baseman Richard, 3, was over-poweri- as Mick Kelleher dropped he limited to only four sin- the ball as he the Braves was trying to gles. The got relay it to first. Norman Braves their first hit in sped to the fourth, a single by Miller, second as the ball rolled from Ed and the bag. the other hits came in fifth, the sixth and seventh . flied to center for the second out. But pinch-hitt- er Steve Hen- Cardinals 4, Phillies 1 derson, out since July with a sprained ankled, whipped a single to center and PHILADELPHIA Garry Temple- - scored Norman with the winning run.