Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!mcdchg!rutgers!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com (POHLA SMITH, UPI Sports Writer) Newsgroups: clari.sports.baseball,biz.clarinet.sample Subject: Expos 6, Pirates 5 Keywords: baseball, men's professional Message-ID: Date: 22 Sep 89 02:35:10 GMT Followup-To: biz.clarinet.sample Lines: 35 Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com ACategory: sports Slugword: bbn-pirates Priority: regular Format: game story ANPA: Wc: 398; Id: s3481; Sel: ns--s; Adate: 9-21-1022ped Codes: ysbpgxx. 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.