Cubs @ Cardinals
September 7, 1998

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Top 9 R H E
Cubs 2 9 0
Cardinals 3 5 1
Top 9 R H E
Cubs 2 9 0
Cardinals 3 5 1

Sammy Sosa Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .314
OBP .250 .379
At Bats 4 567
Hits 1 178
• Singles 1 101
• Doubles 0 19
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 58
Walks 0 61
RBI’s 0 140

Juan Acevedo Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
8 3 5
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Busch Stadium - September 7, 1998
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Strikeout
Juan Acevedo
Eli Marrero
Mark McGwire
Delino DeShields
Fernando Tatis
Luis Ordaz
Ron Gant
Ray Lankford
John Mabry
Sammy Sosa
Lance Johnson

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Chicago Cubs 2 9 0 11
St. Louis Cardinals 3 5 1 9
Winning Pitcher Darren Oliver
Losing Pitcher Mike Morgan
Save Juan Acevedo
Game Winning RBI Mark McGwire
Attendance 42,877
Time of Game 3 hours 2 minutes
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Count: 1-2, 2 Outs
Count: 1-2, 0 Outs

End of Game

Sosa strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Grace hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Acevedo fields it and throws to first for the out. Johnson moves to third.
Top 9 Hernandez bunts towards first. McGwire scoops it up and throws to first, with DeShields covering, for the out. Johnson moves to second.
Top 9 Luis Ordaz now playing shortstop. Juan Acevedo now pitching. Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Marrero strikes out.
Bottom 8 Luis Ordaz pinch hits for Bryan Eversgerd. Ordaz hits a popup into left field. Brown settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Brant Brown now playing left field. Rodney Myers now pitching. Polanco hits a ball on the ground for an out.
Top 8 Manny Alexander pinch hits for Matt Karchner. Alexander strikes out.
Top 8 Servais is hit by the pitch. Morandini moves to second.
Top 8 Brant Brown pinch runs for Glenallen Hill. Bryan Eversgerd now pitching. Morandini hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. DeShields fields it and throws to second for the out. Sosa scores. Brown moves to third.
Top 8 Gaetti is hit by the pitch.
Top 8 Hill hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire fields the ball and throws to Busby covering. Safe. Sosa moves to third. Hill moves to second.
Top 8 Sosa hits a ball on the ground towards short. Polanco fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 8 John Mabry now playing right field. Grace strikes out.
Bottom 7 Tatis strikes out.
Bottom 7 Gant takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 There goes Lankford. The throw from Servais and he is safe. Lankford steals second.
Bottom 7 Lankford hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morandini fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 McGwire hits a line drive into center field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Jordan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gaetti fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Matt Karchner now pitching. DeShields hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Mike Busby now pitching. Hernandez hits a fly ball into right field. Jordan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. Lankford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Matt Mieske pinch hits for Mike Morgan. Lance Painter now pitching. Mieske takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Servais bunts towards first. McGwire scoops it up and throws to first, with DeShields covering, for the out. Morandini moves to second.
Top 7 Morandini hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. DeShields fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 7 Gaetti hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Marrero hits a fly ball into center field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Oliver strikes out.
Bottom 6 Polanco hits a fly ball into right field. Sosa settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Hill hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. DeShields scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Sosa strikes out.
Top 6 Grace hits a fly ball into left field. Gant settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Tatis hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Morgan fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Gant takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 There goes Lankford. The throw from Servais and he is safe. Lankford steals second.
Bottom 5 Lankford takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 McGwire hits a popup into center field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Oliver fires to first and has Johnson trapped. There's the throw to Polanco who tags Johnson for the out.
Top 5 Hernandez hits a line drive towards short. Polanco reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Morgan strikes out.
Bottom 4 Jordan 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 4 DeShields hits a fly ball into right field. Sosa settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Marrero takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Oliver strikes out.
Top 4 Servais hits a line drive into right field. Jordan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Morandini hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Morandini for the out.
Top 4 Gaetti hits a ball on the ground off the glove of Tatis, and into shallow left field. Gaetti reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Hill hits a ball on the ground towards short. Polanco scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Polanco hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gaetti fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Tatis takes first base on ball four. McGwire moves to third. Gant moves to second.
Bottom 3 Gant is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 3 Lankford hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morandini scoops it up and throws to first for the out. McGwire moves to second.
Bottom 3 McGwire hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gaetti fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 3 Jordan strikes out.
Top 3 Sosa strikes out.
Top 3 Grace hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Grace for the out. Morgan moves to third. Hernandez moves to second.
Top 3 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Polanco misplays the ball. That's an error on Polanco.
Top 3 Johnson hits a popup into center field. Lankford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Morgan hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Lankford. Morgan reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 DeShields hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Marrero hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 2 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards first. Grace scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Oliver for the out.
Bottom 2 Polanco hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Servais hits a line drive into left field. Gant settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Morandini hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. DeShields scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Hill moves to second.
Top 2 Gaetti hits a fly ball into left field. Gant settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Hill hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire fields the ball and throws to Oliver covering. Safe.
Bottom 1 Tatis hits a ball on the ground towards first. Grace scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Tatis for the out.
Bottom 1 Gant takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 There goes Lankford. The throw from Servais and he is safe. Lankford steals second.
Bottom 1 Lankford takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 McGwire hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 1 Jordan hits a line drive into left field. Hill settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 DeShields hits a line drive into center field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Sosa hits a popup, foul, towards first. McGwire settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Grace hits a line drive into left field. Gant settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Johnson hits a line drive into left field. Gant settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.