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Jeff Blauser Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .333
OBP .333 .389
At Bats 3 15
Hits 1 5
• Singles 1 3
• Doubles 0 2
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 2
RBI’s 1 3

Turk Wendell Season Stats

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Turner Field - April 5, 1997
Out
Turk Wendell
Tyler Houston
Brant Brown
Ryne Sandberg
Dave Hansen
Shawon Dunston
Dave Clark
Brian McRae
Sammy Sosa
Jeff Blauser
Count: 2-0, 0 Outs
Count: 2-0, 1 Out

Blauser hits a fly ball into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 7 Hansen hits a fly ball into left field. Klesko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Clark hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Graffanino reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Sosa hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Graffanino scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Brown moves to third.
Top 7 Brown hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lofton. Brown reaches second base with a double. Sandberg scores.
Top 7 Brad Clontz now pitching. Sandberg hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Klesko. Sandberg reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Rafael Belliard pinch hits for Alan Embree. Belliard strikes out.
Bottom 6 Lopez hits a popup towards short. Dunston settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Turk Wendell now pitching. Klesko strikes out.
Top 6 McRae hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Graffanino scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Jose Hernandez pinch hits for Kent Bottenfield. Hernandez takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Houston hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out. Clark scores. Dunston moves to second.
Top 6 Dunston hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser fields it and throws to second for the out. Clark moves to third.
Top 6 Hansen is hit by the pitch. Clark moves to second.
Top 6 Alan Embree now pitching. Tony Graffanino now playing second base. Clark hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 McGriff strikes out.
Bottom 5 Jones hits a fly ball into right field. Sosa settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Tucker hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Graffanino scores. Lofton moves to third.
Bottom 5 Lofton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Blauser scores. Graffanino moves to second.
Bottom 5 Graffanino takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Tony Graffanino pinch hits for John Smoltz. The ball gets by Houston for a passed ball. Blauser moves to second.
Bottom 5 Kent Bottenfield now pitching. Blauser hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lopez scores.
Bottom 5 Mark Lemke pinch hits for Keith Lockhart. Lemke hits a fly ball into left field. Clark settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Klesko tags and scores.
Bottom 5 Lopez hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Clark. Lopez reaches second base with a double. McGriff scores. Klesko moves to third.
Bottom 5 Klesko hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McGriff moves to second.
Bottom 5 Larry Casian now pitching. McGriff hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Sosa hits a fly ball into right field. Tucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Brown takes first base on ball four. Sandberg moves to second.
Top 5 Sandberg hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 McRae hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Lockhart reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Swartzbaugh hits a fly ball into center field. Lofton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Jones hits a fly ball into right field. Sosa settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Tucker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. There goes Smoltz trying to get to home. Clark throws the ball in to Houston who tags Smoltz, who's trying to score from second, for the out. Tucker moves to second.
Bottom 4 Lofton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Brown scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Lofton for the out. Smoltz moves to second.
Bottom 4 Smoltz takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Houston hits a fly ball into center field. Lofton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Dunston strikes out.
Top 4 Hansen hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lockhart scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Blauser hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hansen fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Lockhart hits a fly ball into left field. Clark settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Lopez hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Klesko scores.
Bottom 3 Klesko hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of McRae who is chasing the ball. Klesko reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 3 McGriff hits a fly ball into left field. Clark settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Sosa hits a popup towards first. McGriff settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Brown hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lockhart scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Sandberg hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lockhart scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards first. Brown scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Jones for the out.
Bottom 2 Tucker hits a fly ball into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Lofton strikes out.
Bottom 2 There goes Smoltz. The throw from Houston and he is safe. Smoltz steals second.
Bottom 2 Smoltz hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 McRae hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lockhart settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Swartzbaugh strikes out.
Top 2 Houston hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Hansen scores. Dunston scores.
Top 2 Dunston hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Klesko. Dunston reaches second base with a double. Clark scores. Hansen moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 2 Hansen takes first base on ball four. Clark moves to second.
Top 2 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lockhart misplays the ball. That's an error on Lockhart.
Top 2 Sosa strikes out.
Bottom 1 Blauser hits a fly ball into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Lockhart takes first base on ball four. McGriff moves to third. Lopez moves to second.
Bottom 1 Lopez takes first base on ball four. McGriff moves to second.
Bottom 1 Klesko hits a fly ball into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Jones tags and scores.
Bottom 1 McGriff hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Lofton scores. Jones moves to third.
Bottom 1 Jones takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Tucker hits a fly ball into left field. Clark settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Lofton hits a fly ball into left center field. The ball bounces into the stands for a ground rule double.
Top 1 Brown hits a fly ball into right field. Tucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Sandberg strikes out. Lopez drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Sandberg out.
Top 1 McRae hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.