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August 27, 1998

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Cubs 8 17 2
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Sammy Sosa Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .315
OBP .500 .381
At Bats 4 524
Hits 2 165
• Singles 2 94
• Doubles 0 19
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 52
Walks 0 58
RBI’s 1 131

Jerry DiPoto Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 4 16
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Coors Field - August 27, 1998
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Jerry DiPoto
Kirt Manwaring
Todd Helton
Mike Lansing
Vinny Castilla
Neifi Perez
Dante Bichette
Darryl Hamilton
Larry Walker
Sammy Sosa
Mickey Morandini
Lance Johnson
Manny Alexander
Count: 3-2, 0 Outs
Count: 3-2, 2 Outs

Jerry DiPoto now pitching. Sosa hits a fly ball towards left. Bichette catches it and throws to home to double up Alexander. Johnson moves to third.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Morandini hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Alexander moves to third. Johnson moves to second.
Top 8 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Helton fields the ball and throws to McElroy covering. Safe. Alexander moves to second.
Top 8 Chuck McElroy now pitching. Manny Alexander pinch hits for Don Wengert. Alexander hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Perez bunts towards the mound. Wengert fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Hamilton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morandini scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Terry Shumpert pinch hits for Curt Leskanic. Shumpert strikes out.
Top 7 Servais hits a ball on the ground towards third. Castilla fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Hernandez hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Curt Leskanic now pitching. Gaetti strikes out.
Top 7 Brown hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 7 Grace hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Johnson scores. Sosa moves to second.
Top 7 Sosa hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Johnson moves to second.
Top 7 Morandini strikes out.
Top 7 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Manwaring hits a line drive towards first. Grace reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Lansing hits a line drive into right field. Sosa picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Sosa. Castilla scores. Helton moves to third.
Bottom 6 Helton hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Bichette scores. Walker scores. Castilla moves to third.
Bottom 6 Castilla takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Don Wengert now pitching. There goes Walker. The throw from Servais and he is safe. Walker steals second.
Bottom 6 Walker hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Hamilton scores. Bichette moves to third.
Bottom 6 Bichette is walked intentionally.
Bottom 6 Perez hits a popup towards short. Hernandez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hamilton hits a ball on the ground into center field, out of the reach of Johnson. Hamilton reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Felix Heredia now pitching. Astacio strikes out.
Top 6 Tyler Houston pinch hits for Rodney Myers. Houston hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lansing scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Servais is hit by the pitch.
Top 6 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Castilla fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Kirt Manwaring now catching. Gaetti hits a ball on the ground towards third. Castilla fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Kirt Manwaring pinch hits for Jeff Reed. Manwaring strikes out.
Bottom 5 Lansing hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morandini scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Helton moves to third.
Bottom 5 Helton hits a ball on the ground off the glove of Grace, and into shallow right field. Helton reaches second base with a double. Walker scores.
Bottom 5 Rodney Myers now pitching. Castilla strikes out.
Bottom 5 Walker hits a ball on the ground off the glove of Gaetti, and into shallow left field. Walker reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Bichette hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 5 Brown hits a popup towards short. Perez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Grace hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Morandini scores. Sosa moves to third.
Top 5 Sosa hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Johnson scores. Morandini moves to third.
Top 5 Morandini bunts towards the mound. Astacio fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Johnson moves to second.
Top 5 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Castilla fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Morgan hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Servais hits a ball on the ground towards short. Perez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards first. Grace scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Perez for the out.
Bottom 4 Hamilton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Morgan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Astacio bunts towards first. Grace scoops it up and throws to first, with Morandini covering, for the out. Reed moves to third.
Bottom 4 Reed hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Johnson. Reed reaches second base with a double. Lansing scores.
Bottom 4 Lansing hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Sosa who is chasing the ball. Lansing reaches third base with a triple.
Top 4 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Castilla fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Gaetti hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Brown moves to second.
Top 4 Brown hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Grace hits a fly ball into left field. Bichette settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Sosa hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Astacio fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Helton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Castilla hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Morgan fields it and throws to first for the out. Walker moves to second.
Bottom 3 Walker hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Bichette hits a line drive into right field. Sosa settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Morandini hits a fly ball into left field. Bichette settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Walker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Hernandez tags and scores.
Top 3 Morgan bunts in front of the plate. Reed fields it and throws to first for the out. Servais moves to second.
Top 3 Servais hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Hernandez moves to third.
Top 3 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morandini scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Hamilton strikes out.
Bottom 2 Astacio strikes out.
Bottom 2 Reed takes first base on ball four. Helton moves to third. Lansing moves to second.
Bottom 2 Lansing takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Helton hits a line drive to left center field. The ball gets by Johnson. Brown fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Brown. Helton moves to second.
Bottom 2 Castilla hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 2 Walker takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Gaetti strikes out.
Top 2 Brown hits a line drive towards short. Perez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Grace strikes out.
Bottom 1 Bichette hits a line drive into center field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards first. Grace scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Perez for the out.
Bottom 1 Hamilton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Grace scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Hamilton for the out.
Top 1 Sosa strikes out.
Top 1 Morandini hits a ball on the ground towards short. Perez fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 1 Johnson hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.