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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (POHLA SMITH, UPI Sports Writer)
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Subject: Expos 6, Pirates 5
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Date: 22 Sep 89 02:35:10 GMT
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	PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- Mike Fitzgerald smacked a grand slam, Hubie
Brooks added a two-run homer, and Andres Galarraga went 3 for 5 and
scored twice Thursday night to lead the Montreal Expos to a 6-5 victory
over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
	Montreal snapped a three-game losing streak and stayed seven games
behind the National League East-leading Chicago Cubs, who defeated the
Philadelphia Phillies Thursday afternoon. Montreal, which snapped
Pittsburgh's five-game winning streak, has nine games left to play.
	Relievers Zane Smith and Tim Burke shut out Pittsburgh over 2 2-3
innings to preserve the victory for Dennis Martinez, 16-6. Burke came on
in the ninth with runners at first and third and none out and held the
Pirates scoreless to notch his 27th save.
	John Smiley, 12-8, gave up eight hits and six runs, walked two and
struck out two in 4 2-3 innings, breaking his personal three-game
winning streak.
	Martinez gave up seven hits, walked one and struck out two over 6
1-3 innings in reaching the 16-game victory mark for the third time in
his 12-year career. The right-hander was 16-11 in 1978 and 16-12 in 1982
at Baltimore.
	Fitzgerald slammed his third career grand slam in the first to give
Montreal a 4-0 lead. Tim Raines, who stole a team record-tying four
bases during the game, led off with a single and took second on a single
by Galarraga. Brooks walked, and Fitzgerald slammed Smiley's first pitch
off the wall supporting the left-field bleachers for his seventh homer
of the year.
	Pittsburgh pulled to within 4-1 in the fourth when Andy Van Slyke
singled, stole second and scored on Bobby Bonilla's single.
	Brooks followed Galarraga's fifth-inning leadoff single with his
12th homer of the year to increase Montreal's lead to 6-1.
	After Jay Bell's RBI single in the sixth, Mike LaValliere countered
with a three-run home run -- his first homer since Aug. 1, 1988 -- in the
seventh to pull Pittsburgh within 6-5. The blast to right off Martinez
scored R.J. Reynolds, who tripled with one out, and Gary Redus, who
walked and stole second.