This is Lindsay Nelson with Ralph Tanner and Bob Murphy here at Jerry Park in Montreal.

It is a beautiful baseball afternoon here.

This is a complete sellout crowd. It's a national

holiday in Canada. It is Victoria Day. It is Queen Victoria's birthday, and the day is also observed

as the birthday of the present reigning queen, although it actually isn't. But it is a legal national

holiday and the stander packed in jammed here

this afternoon. The capacity of this stadium is 28,456. We might very well have more than that here

because already fans are standing out beyond the low wire outfield fence. The biggest crowd ever

in the history of this ballpark was slightly more than 29,100 on opening day of the season when the St. Louis Cardinals here would open up against the Montreal Expos.

The New York Mets are the first reigning world championship baseball team ever to play here, of course.

A big attraction for the day, and the Mets at the moment are two percentage points back of the division leading Chicago Cubs in the Eastern Division of the National League.

And thus, if the Mets should win here this afternoon, the Cubs are not scheduled until tonight,

so the Mets would move in the first place in the Eastern Division if they should defeat Montreal this afternoon.

Starting pitchers for the Montreal Expos,

it'll be right-hander Bill Stonebund.

And for the New York Mets,

it'll be right-handed Gary Gentry.

The National Anthems.

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Oh, All right now. I'm sorry to do you see. Today, now,

the Dissue,

all together,

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