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Astros 4 8 1

Bill Spiers Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .247
OBP .000 .311
At Bats 3 166
Hits 0 41
• Singles 0 28
• Doubles 0 7
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 0 15
RBI’s 0 19

Kent Bottenfield Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 2 1
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Astrodome - August 28, 1996
Out
Kent Bottenfield
Scott Servais
Mark Grace
Ryne Sandberg
Leo Gomez
Jose Hernandez
Luis Gonzalez
Brian McRae
Scott Bullett
Bill Spiers
Count: 0-0, 1 Out
Count: 0-0, 2 Outs

Spiers hits a line drive into right field. Bullett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Kent Bottenfield now pitching. Bell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Bullett hits a fly ball into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 McRae takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Brooks Kieschnick pinch hits for Steve Trachsel. Kieschnick strikes out.
Top 8 Hernandez hits a fly ball into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Bagwell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Biggio hits a line drive into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Hunter hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gomez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Leo Gomez now playing third base. Gutierrez hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Kevin Foster pinch runs for Dave Magadan. Ricky Gutierrez now playing shortstop. John Hudek now pitching. Servais hits a popup in front of the plate. Eusebio settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Sandberg is hit by the pitch. Magadan moves to second.
Top 7 Magadan hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Gonzalez hits a fly ball into left field. Mouton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Grace hits a fly ball into left field. Mouton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Miller hits a ball on the ground towards third. Magadan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Mouton hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Eusebio hits a ball on the ground towards third. Magadan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Spiers hits a fly ball into left field. Gonzalez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Bullett hits a line drive into right field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 McRae hits a popup, foul, towards third. Spiers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Trachsel strikes out.
Bottom 5 Bell strikes out.
Bottom 5 Bagwell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Magadan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Biggio hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Hernandez hits a fly ball into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Servais hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Biggio settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Sandberg hits a line drive into left field. Mouton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Hunter strikes out. Servais drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Hunter out.
Bottom 4 Kile strikes out.
Bottom 4 Miller hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of McRae. Miller reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Mouton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Magadan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Magadan hits a line drive into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Gonzalez hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. McRae moves to second.
Top 4 Grace hits a fly ball into left field. Mouton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Bullett strikes out.
Top 4 McRae takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Eusebio hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Spiers hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sandberg fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Bell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Trachsel strikes out.
Top 3 Hernandez takes first base on ball four. Sandberg moves to third. Servais moves to second.
Top 3 Servais hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Sandberg moves to second.
Top 3 Sandberg hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Magadan hits a line drive into left field. Mouton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Grace tags and scores.
Top 3 Gonzalez hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Biggio scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Grace moves to third.
Top 3 The umpire calls a balk on Kile Bullett scores. Grace moves to second.
Top 3 Grace hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Bullett moves to third.
Top 3 Bullett takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Bagwell hits a fly ball into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Biggio hits a line drive into right field. Bullett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Hunter hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Kile strikes out.
Top 2 McRae strikes out.
Top 2 Trachsel strikes out.
Top 2 Hernandez strikes out.
Top 2 Servais hits a popup off the glove of Miller, and into shallow left field. Servais reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Miller hits a line drive into right field. Bullett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Mouton takes first base on ball four. Biggio scores. Bell moves to third. Eusebio moves to second.
Bottom 1 Eusebio takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 There goes Bell. The throw from Servais and he is safe. Bell steals second.
Bottom 1 Spiers hits a line drive towards short. Hernandez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Hunter scores. Biggio moves to third.
Bottom 1 Bagwell hits a line drive towards third. Magadan reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Biggio moves to second.
Bottom 1 Biggio hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Hunter moves to third.
Bottom 1 Hunter hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Sandberg hits a fly ball into right field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Magadan hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Mouton. Magadan reaches second base with a double. Grace scores. Gonzalez goes all the way around to score.
Top 1 Gonzalez takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Kile fires over to first and throws the ball away. That's an error on Kile. Grace moves to second.
Top 1 Grace hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Bullett hits a line drive into right field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 McRae bunts towards the mound. Kile fields it and throws to first for the out.