Adam Ulrey's Montreal Expos Diary

September 5, 2002 - Game 140

The Expos attendance hit an all-time low as only 2,134, which represented tickets sold. It was more like 1,000 people were there to watch a major league game. I don't care if the Expos are leaving or whatever the excuse is, this is a disgrace to these kids who are playing their hearts out. If you love baseball, which obviously to city of Montreal doesn't, you'ld think at worst around 10,000 would come out to watch baseball... wrong.

The Phillies came away with the 4-1 win behind the strong pitching of Randy Wolf. He pitched a complete game five hitter, allowing just one run and striking out five. He went to 11-7 and lowered his ERA to a season low 3.15. Bobby Abreu, who homered twice and went 3-for-4 on the day, supplied the hitting. The Expos Vladimir Guerrero did launch his 36th homer for the only Expos run of the game, but that was it, as his teammates just couldn't help him out on offense. Javier Vazquez again had another bad outing going eight innings, but giving up 10 hits and all four runs to drop to 8-13 on the year.