MONTREAL - Javier Vazquez and the Expos got Olympic Stadium rocking once more before heading out on the road for a couple of weeks.
Vazquez extended his scoreless streak to 26 innings and Vladimir Guerrero homered for the third time in four games as Montreal finished a four-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies with a 4-0 win Thursday.
A crowd of 20,030 saw the Expos cap their third four-game sweep this season and second in a row at home.
"It's good because 20,000 here feels like 50,000," Vazquez said. "We love it."
Montreal has won nine straight home games and five in a row overall.
"Now that we're playing great baseball and we're in the race, they can't see us next homestand because we play in Puerto Rico," Vazquez said. "We can't do anything about it."
The Expos, who are 36-17 in Montreal, will play six of their 27 remaining games at Olympic Stadium. To boost revenue, 22 of the team's home games were moved to Puerto Rico, including six against Florida and Chicago from Sept. 5-11.
"We were scheduled for 22 and this is the last of the 22, but it certainly deprives us from playing in front of some of the best fans in baseball, where we get our energy," said manager Frank Robinson, whose team is 25-41 on the road.
"Hopefully we can have a good series down there, but we've got some business to take care of before we get to Puerto Rico."
Philadelphia lost its sixth straight, falling to 1-9 on its season-high 13-game road trip.
"We're just not playing well," first baseman Jim Thome said. "They played well; you've got to give them credit for a good series. It's frustrating because of the position we're in. We have a good club and we're in this thing and we need to get out of this as soon as possible."
The series drew a total of 83,145, including a fan who jumped onto the field in the leftfield corner with two outs in the eighth and ran along the warning track waving a broom.
Security guards chased him across the outfield, finally catching him at the wall in right-center before rushing him off the field.
He wasn't the only fan excited about the sweep. After the game, about a dozen brooms were thrown onto the field.
"It felt great to have the fans backing us in this series," Guerrero said as third-base coach Manny Acta translated. "Hopefully, we can continue to win and they'll continue to support us and keep showing up at the stadium."
Vazquez scattered four hits over eight innings, striking out 10 to increase his season total to 205, second in the NL to Chicago's Kerry Wood.
Vazquez pitched a three-hitter against San Francisco on Aug. 18 for his first shutout in nearly two years and allowed three hits over nine innings in his next start, a 1-0, 10-inning loss in San Diego.
