Pirates - Phillies ... After losing game 1, Phillies come back to win the final 3 to run their record to 22 - 19.

September 22  .... Pirates 9 Phils 4 ..... Pirates blasted 3 homeruns and 6 doubles to win game 1 easily. Parker lead with 2 doubles, homer and 4 rbis while Bonds had a single and 2 run homer and Morrison contributed solo homerun. Bibby got the win surrendering a pair of solo homers to Mike Schmidt and 2 run homer to Milt Thompson.

September 23 .... Phils 7 Pirates 2 ... Mike Schmidt hit first inning 2 run homer and Denny shut the Pirates out until the 7th when Parker lead off with a homerun.  Bowa with 2 singles, triple and 2 rbis and Rose and Hayes each with a pair of singles and rbi.  McGraw faced 7 batters and retired them all for the save.

September 24 .... Phils 1 Pirates 0 ...  a totally type of game as Phils scratched for a runin the 3rd inning as starting pitcher Rawley walked and went to 2nd on sacrifice by Pete Rose.  After Bowa's out, McBride singled in Rawley.  Pirates never had a runner as far as 3rd base and in the 9th, facing Bedrosian, Ray and Madlock went out easily but Parker walked and Bonds singled him to 2nd.  With no lefty in the pen, Reed faced Sid Bream and got him on a deep fly to left for save.

September 25 .... Phils 5 Pirates 1 ... The first 15 Phils went down in order as Rhoden was on his game.  But the Phils opened the 6th with 4 straight singles to plate 2 runs and 2 sacrifices later lead 3-0.  Jason Thompson lead off their 6th with a homer but that was all there was to the Pirates scoring. Pirates left runners on 2nd and 3rd in the 7th, a runner on 2nd in the 8th.  Carman and Reed retired the last 5 Pirates in order to preserve the win for Gross.