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Joe Carter Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .242
OBP .750 .294
At Bats 1 418
Hits 0 101
• Singles 0 67
• Doubles 0 18
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 15
Walks 3 31
RBI’s 0 71

Todd Ritchie Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 3 0
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Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome - August 5, 1997
Out
Todd Ritchie
Greg Myers
Scott Stahoviak
Chuck Knoblauch
Ron Coomer
Pat Meares
Marty Cordova
Rich Becker
Matt Lawton
Joe Carter
Count: 0-0, 0 Outs
Count: 0-0, 1 Out

Carter hits a fly ball into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Meares hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Becker hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 8 Cordova hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Crabtree, and towards Gonzalez, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Tim Crabtree now pitching. Stahoviak hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Samuel hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Myers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Gonzalez hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Myers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Brumfield hits a popup towards short. Meares settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Garcia hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Coomer hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Garcia settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Myers hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Molitor moves to third.
Bottom 7 Molitor hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Cruz. Molitor reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 7 Lawton hits a fly ball into right field. Perez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 O'Brien hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Knoblauch settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Cruz hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 7 Sprague hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Carter hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Knoblauch hits a fly ball into right field. Perez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Meares hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Garcia settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Becker hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Cordova hits a ball on the ground towards short. Gonzalez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Ritchie fires to first and has Samuel trapped. There's the throw to Knoblauch who tags Samuel for the out.
Top 6 Samuel hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Gonzalez hits a line drive into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Brumfield hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Stahoviak hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Coomer hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Myers strikes out.
Top 5 Garcia hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 O'Brien strikes out.
Top 5 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knoblauch scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Molitor strikes out.
Bottom 4 Lawton takes first base on ball four. Becker moves to second.
Bottom 4 Knoblauch hits a fly ball into right field. Perez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Meares hits a fly ball into right field. Perez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Becker takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Cruz strikes out.
Top 4 Sprague hits a ball on the ground towards third. Coomer fields it and throws to first for the out. Samuel scores. Carter moves to second.
Top 4 Carter takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Samuel hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Becker. Samuel reaches second base with a double. Brumfield scores. There goes Gonzalez trying to get to home. Becker throws the ball in to Meares who relays the ball to Myers, who tags Gonzalez, who came all the way from first, for the out. Samuel moves to third.
Top 4 Gonzalez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Coomer fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 There goes Brumfield. The throw from Myers and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 4 Brumfield hits a fly ball into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Cordova strikes out.
Bottom 3 Stahoviak hits a popup towards third. Sprague settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Coomer hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Garcia hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 3 Todd Ritchie now pitching. O'Brien takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Perez hits a ball on the ground into center field. Becker picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Becker. Carter scores. Sprague goes all the way around to score. Perez moves to third. Two runs are unearned.
Top 3 Cruz hits a popup towards short. Meares settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Sprague hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Brumfield scores. Samuel scores. Carter moves to second.
Top 3 Carter takes first base on ball four. Brumfield moves to third. Samuel moves to second.
Top 3 Samuel takes first base on ball four. Brumfield moves to second.
Top 3 Gonzalez hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Brumfield hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stahoviak juggles the ball. That's an error on Stahoviak.
Bottom 2 Myers strikes out.
Bottom 2 Molitor takes first base on ball four. Lawton moves to second.
Bottom 2 Lawton takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Knoblauch hits a fly ball into center field. Brumfield settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Meares hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Garcia hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knoblauch fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 O'Brien takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Perez hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cruz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Becker strikes out.
Bottom 1 Cordova is hit by the pitch. Coomer moves to second.
Bottom 1 Stahoviak strikes out.
Bottom 1 Coomer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Gonzalez fields it and throws to second for the out. Lawton scores. Molitor moves to third.
Bottom 1 Myers hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Knoblauch scores. Lawton moves to third. Molitor moves to second.
Bottom 1 Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards third. Sprague fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Knoblauch moves to third. Lawton moves to second.
Bottom 1 Lawton takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Knoblauch hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Cruz. Knoblauch reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Sprague hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Carter takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Samuel strikes out. Myers drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Samuel out.
Top 1 There's a wild pitch. Gonzalez moves to second.
Top 1 Gonzalez hits a fly ball into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 There goes Brumfield. The throw from Myers and he is out, Meares applying the tag.
Top 1 Brumfield hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.