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[size=24:e25189732d][b:e25189732d]DON'T FLIP OUT[/b:e25189732d][/size:e25189732d] as [size=18:e25189732d]Mathews and Scott fire shoutouts[/size:e25189732d]

<img src="http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/baseball/stratomatic/1986/story_photos/ozzie_smith_3_150x223.jpg" align="left" border="1" width="150" height="223" style="margin: 0px 10px;" /> Cardinals lefty Greg Matthews and Houston scuff master Mike Scott each hurled complete game shutouts Friday as the [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=356]Cards beat the Giants [/url] and [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=354]Astros beat the Pirates[/url] Friday night.<p> The two shutouts were the only NL games not decided by 1 run!

[b:e25189732d]In the AL:[/b:e25189732d] Most games were close as well, as only one game was decided by less than 3 runs. <p>The Orioles [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=358]pulled one out[/url] while those Tigers [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=360]lost for the second time in the past 3 nights[/url] making folks wonder if normalization effects are turned on for 1986.



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