1977 Montreal Expos season

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1977 Montreal Expos
Major league affiliations
Location
1977 Information
Owner(s) Charles Bronfman
Manager(s) Dick Williams
Local television CBC Television
(Dave Van Horne, Duke Snider)
Télévision de Radio-Canada
(Jean-Pierre Roy, Guy Ferron)
Local radio CFCF
(Dave Van Horne, Duke Snider)
CKAC (AM)
(Claude Raymond, Jacques Doucet)

The Montreal Expos left Jarry Park and started to play their home games in Olympic Stadium.

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[edit] Offseason

  • December 10, 1976: Andre Thornton was traded by the Montreal Expos to the Cleveland Indians for Jackie Brown.
  • December 16, 1976: Tony Perez was traded by the Cincinnati Reds with Will McEnaney to the Montreal Expos for Woodie Fryman and Dale Murray. [1]
  • March 15, 1977: Rodney Scott was traded by the Montreal Expos to the Texas Rangers for Jeff Terpko.

[edit] Regular season

  • April 15 1977 - The Expos set an attendance record for a regular season game as 57, 592 fans attend the first game at Olympic Stadium. They were defeated 7 to 2 by the eventual National League East Champion Philadelphia Phillies. Greg Luzinski of the Phils and Ellis Valentine of the Expos hit homers in the second inning, the first home runs at the Expos new home.
  • April 20, 1977 – Gary Carter hit three home runs in one game.

[edit] Opening Day Starters

[edit] Season standings

NL East W L Pct. GB
Philadelphia Phillies 101 61 .623 --
Pittsburgh Pirates 96 66 .593 5
St. Louis Cardinals 83 79 .512 18
Chicago Cubs 81 81 .500 20
Montreal Expos 75 89 .463 26
New York Mets 64 98 .395 37

[edit] Notable Transactions

  • June 7, 1977: Bill Gullickson was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1977 amateur draft. [2]
  • June 7, 1977: Scott Sanderson was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 3rd round of the 1977 amateur draft.[3]
  • June 7, 1977: Tim Raines was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 5th round of the 1977 amateur draft. [4]

[edit] Roster

1977 Montreal Expos roster
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Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player G AB H HR RBI Avg.
Gary Carter

[edit] Other batters

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Steve Rogers

[edit] Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA

[edit] Relief pitchers
Player G IP W L SV ERA SO
Woodie Fryman

[edit] Award Winners

1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/perezto01.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gullibi01.shtml
  3. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sandesc01.shtml
  4. ^ Tim Raines Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
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