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ATLANTA (AP) -- Two pitches cost Tom Glavine his chance to become
the major leagues' first 20-game winner.
Glavine gave up two-run homers to Fernando Seguignol and Andy
Tracy as the Montreal Expos beat the Atlanta Braves 4-0 Sunday.
|  | | Tom Glavine will get another chance later this week to post his fifth 20-win season and first since finishing 20-6 in 1998. |
"I felt good about the way I was throwing the ball other than
those two mistakes, that turned out to be the difference in the
ballgame," Glavine said. "It was just one of those days. It was
probably a game that in many respects I probably pitched better
than in some of the games I've won lately."
Javier Vazquez (9-7), winless in eight starts since beating
Florida on July 23, struck out a career-high 11 and pitched a
six-hitter for his second complete game of the season. He had three
complete games and a shutout last season as a rookie.
"What can I say? It was a great feeling to finally get another
win," said Vazquez, who had gone 0-2 with six no-decisions during
his dry spell. "To beat a team like that is a great
accomplishment. My changeup was my out pitch. I was throwing it
pretty good and I was throwing it for strikes."
He also had command of his fastball, which was clocked in the
low 90s, and breaking balls in beating the Braves for the second
time this season.
"I like to face the best ," Vazquez said. "When you face
them, you get pumped up a little more."
Montreal won its second straight over the NL East-leading
Braves, whose NL East lead was cut to 2½ games over second-place
New York, a 3-0 winner over Philadelphia.
Glavine (19-7), bidding for his fifth 20-win season, had won
five consecutive starts and was 12-1 in his previous 13 starts.
Before a 6-4 loss to the Expos on June 27, he had won 13
consecutive decisions against the Expos since May 19, 1993.
"I don't think realistically that I was going to win the rest
of my games," Glavine said. "Sooner or later things just don't
work out and today was one of those days."
His next scheduled start is Friday, against Arizona's Randy
Johnson.
Montreal went ahead in the second when Vladimir Guerrero reached
on an error by second baseman Keith Lockhart and Seguignol followed
with his ninth homer.
Orlando Cabrera doubled in the sixth and Tracy, who hit a
three-run homer Saturday night in Montreal's 7-5, 12 inning win,
hit his ninth homer.
Glavine gave up four runs -- three earned -- and six hits in seven
innings.
Game notes
Seguignol went 3-for-4 for his second straight three-hit
game, the third of his career. He was 3-for-3 against Glavine and
is 5-for-7 against him in his career. ... The Braves have been shut
out seven times this season. ... Atlanta 1B Andres Galarraga went
0-for-4 in his first game back from a three-game suspension that
resulted from an Aug. 22 brawl against Colorado. ... The Expos lead
the season series 6-3, with three games remaining in Montreal later
this month.
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