
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, September 20, 1993                   TAG: 9309200133
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Medium

20 AGAIN FOR GLAVINE

ATLANTA BRAVES pitcher Tom Glavine has 20 victories for the third consecutive season, a milestone not reached since the early '70s.

\ Tom Glavine became the first National League pitcher in more than 20 years to win 20 games in three consecutive seasons and the Atlanta Braves battered the New York Mets 11-2 on Sunday night to maintain their NL West lead at three games over the San Francisco Giants.

The Braves, winners of five of six games during the home stand, are 31-7 since Aug. 8, when they were 8 1/2 games behind the Giants.

The Braves, with 12 games left, are idle today before a six-game trip to Montreal and Philadelphia.

The Giants, 7-3 winners at Cincinnati on Sunday, open a four-game series in Houston tonight and have 14 games remaining.

Glavine (20-5), the NL's first 20-game winner this season, went six innings, giving up nine hits and two runs, walking one and striking out four. It was his sixth consecutive victory and 10th in 11 decisions.

Ferguson Jenkins was the last NL pitcher to win 20 games at least three years in a row, doing it six in a row (1967-72). In the American League, Dave Stewart was the last. He did it four consecutive years (1987-90).

Otis Nixon had three of the Braves' 14 hits. Jeff Blauser, Ron Gant and Fred McGriff each had two.

Dave Justice added a sacrifice fly and two-run single. The three RBI gave Justice a share of the NL lead at 110 with Gant, who also drove in a run, his 18th in eight games. Blauser and Terry Pendleton each drove in two runs.

The Braves led 2-1 before sending 10 batters to the plate in the fifth against Pete Schourek (3-12), scoring five runs on four hits, a walk and two errors.

Atlanta added four runs in the sixth, sending nine to bat against Jeff Innis, after the right-hander retired the first two hitters.

Glavine had gone 26 innings without issuing a walk until the fourth inning, when Kevin Baez drew a base on balls.

Chico Walker and Charlie O'Brien each had three hits, and O'Brien drove in both Mets runs.

The Mets' 99th loss was the most since they finished 63-99 in 1979.

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