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...Angeles. The Dodgers had won the pennant two of the previous three years. This time, though they were devastated by injuries, they swept the climactic three-game series with Houston to end the season with both teams in a dead tie for first, forcing a one-game playoff...
...dramatic win vaulted the Astros to a 2-1 advantage in the best-out-of-give National League playoff. They need only one more victory to earn a ticket to their first World Series in the team's 19-year history...
Luzinski's sixth-inning shot off Ken Forsch erased a 1-0 Astro lead and set of fireworks over Veterans' Stadium as a playoff-record crowd of 65,277 howled...
After dropping three straight one-run affairs to the Los Angeles Dodgers and doubling business in their own city's cardiac units, the Houston Astros finally clinched the National League West crown, downing the Dodgers 7-1 in a one-game playoff yesterday in Los Angeles...
...Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros, 4-3, yesterday, so the two teams finish the regular season tied in the National League West. Joe Niekro (9-12) will pitch for the Astros against Dave Goltz (7-10) in today's one-game playoff in Los Angeles...