Expos rally to take 2 of 3 from Jints

9/1 - Olympic Stadium - Montreal, QC
GAME 1 - Giants 2, Expos 1
Freshly off the DL, Charlie Lea hooked up in a scoreless pitcher's duel with John "the count" Montefusco for 5 innings before the Jints struck for 2 in the 6th.  Former Yankee, Bobby Murcer, led off with a single and moved over to second on a pass bal charged to Gary Carter.  Gary Matthews walked and Willie Montanez singled to load the bases.  After Chris Speier struck out looking, the tiring Lea walked Steve Ontiveros to force in Murcer.  Dave Rader singled home Matthews, but Montanez was cut down at the plate by Andre Dawson's cannon.  Montefusco struck out to end the inning.  Montreal didn't threaten until the bottom of the 9th when after getting the leadoff hitter out "The Count" began to struggle.  Tim Wallach slammed a double off the left field wall and that was it for Montefusco.  Randy Moffitt came on and fanned Gary Carter for out #2, but yielded a double to Warren Cromartie to cut the lead to 1.  Chris Speier was called in to pinch hit for Doug Flynn and he flew out to Von Joshua in center to end the game.

9/2 - Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA
GAME 2 - Expos 7. Giants 1
Steve Rogers (3-1, 2.45) was never in trouble and took a shutout into the 9th when Willie Montanez doubled home Murcer to score San Fran's lone run.  The Expos were leading 3-0, when they exploded for 4 runs in the 8th and knocked Giant starter Jim Barr out of the box.  Andre Dawson hit a solo shot in the 6th en route to a 3 for 4 day.  Rogers was also the hitting star, going 3 for 4 himself with 2 RBI.

GAME 3 - Expos 3, Giants 2
Dave Rader led off the 3rd with a clean single off of Expo starter Bryn Smith.  Giant starter, Pete Falcone, bunted him over to second and Von Joshua singled him home to make it 1-0.  San Fran scored again in the 5th with the same exact scenario.  The only difference was Joshua's RBI hit was a double instead of a single.  Falcone had things tightly under his control until the 8th.  After fanning pinch hitter Bobby Ramos, Falcone lost his control and walked both Tim Raines and Chris Speier.  Giant manager Ron Leone realized his starter was tired and went to the pen.  Gary Lavelle came on and got pinch hitter Mike Vail to line out to third for the second out, but Andre Dawson singled to  center to score Raines and make it 2-1.  Dave Heaverlo came along and issued a 4 pitch walk to Tim Wallach to load the bases.  "The Kid", Gary Carter single to left and scored Speier and Dawson to give the Expos a 3-2 lead.  Ray Burris immediately sat down in the pen and Bob James began warming up.  James would come on to pitch a scoreless 8th, where he got Murcer to ground back to the box and Matthews and Montanez struck out.  Jeff Reardon came on to close it out in the  9th and fanned Speier.  Pinch hitter Greg Adams singled, but was erased by Carter's peg to second on a steal attempt.  Reardon made it even more interesting when he walked pinch hitter Gary Thomasson and compounded it by not paying attention to him on first.  Thomasson easily stole second and was one hit away from tying the score.  Ed Goodson was sent up to bat for the pitcher, but did just about as much damage as a pitcher might do when he got caught looking on a called strike to end the game.  Jeff Reardon recorded his 4th save of the season.