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MONTREAL (AP) -- Tom Glavine knows he's in the right place to win
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|  | | After waiting 20 days, Tom Glavine finally collected his 20th victory on Monday. |
Glavine reached 20 wins for the fifth time in his career,
pitching his 20th career shutout Monday to lead the Atlanta Braves
over the Montreal Expos 6-0.
Glavine (20-9) allowed eight hits in his second shutout of the
season, striking out three and walking none. He joined Toronto's
David Wells as the only 20-game winners in the major leagues.
"It's awfully hard to win 20 games on a team that's not good,
that's not winning many games," Glavine said. "As a pitcher,
trying to pitch a good ballgame and give your offense a chance to
win games ... if you can do that, you're going to win a lot of
games."
Glavine got his 19th victory Sept. 5 against Arizona, then lost
to the Expos, Diamondbacks and Mets. He also won 20 games in 1991,
1992, 1993 and 1998.
"I want to be consistent," Glavine said. "I want my manager
to be able to know what he's going to get out of me before the year
starts, and the only way you can do that is to have year after year
where you go out and do these things.
"I'm not saying that I'm going to be a 20-game winner every
year but to be able to do it five times shows some consistency and
it's something that I'm proud of."
Atlanta, which has already clinched a playoff berth, increased
its NL East lead to four games over second-place New York and
lowered its magic number to three for clinching its ninth
consecutive division title.
The Braves and Mets are scheduled to start a three-game series
Tuesday in New York.
Javier Vazquez (11-8), who has won his previous three decisions,
allowed four runs -- three earned -- and nine hits in eight innings.
He struck out five of his first seven batters and finished with 10,
walking two.
"With a pitching staff like that, those guys can shut out any
team, any day," Vazquez said. "And they have great hitting, too.
They have a very good chance of winning the World Series."
Just 6,931 attended the final game of the season at Olympic
Stadium, where Montreal went 37-44. The Expos drew 926,263, their
third straight season under 1 million, and sixth overall.
Andruw Jones put Atlanta ahead in the first inning with his 34th
homer.
"I just went out there trying to get a hit and (Vazquez) threw
me a pitch where I could hit it out, and I had a good swing on
it," Jones said. "He was pitching good and Glavine was pitching
outstanding."
Montreal's Vladimir Guerrero was caught stealing home in the
fourth when Orlando Cabrera failed to make contact on a one-out
squeeze attempt. Cabrera then singled.
Atlanta made it 2-0 in the sixth when Chipper Jones and Andres
Galarraga singled and third baseman Mike Mordecai misplayed Reggie
Sanders' two-out grounder for an error, one of two he made in the
game.
Keith Lockhart added a two-run single in the eighth, and Javy
Lopez and Brian Jordan singled in runs in the ninth off Guillermo
Mota.
Game
notes
Glavine has pitched 49 career complete games, four this
season. ... Atlanta rookie Rafael Furcal was hit on the left elbow
in the third and was attended to by the Braves' training staff
before going on to first.
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Manager Bobby Cox holds Tom Glavine in high regard for winning 20 games for the fifth time in his career.
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