Baseball

If the Expos hold on and win the National League East—they led the Braves by 1� games at week's end—they can point to their season series against the Padres as one reason why. Montreal went 12-0 against San Diego, outscoring the Padres 72-22. The Expos never trailed after the fourth inning of any of the 12 games and held the lead in 86 of the 110 innings played by the two teams....

Corked Bat Note of the Week: The Astros beat the Cardinals 15-12 on July 18, the Pirates beat the Braves 13-10 on July 19, and the Rangers beat the Indians 13-11 on July 20. That flurry raised to 12 the number of games already this year in which a team had scored 10 or more runs and lost. In all of 1992, before any talk of juiced balls began, it happened 12 times.