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April 9, 1998

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Bottom 8 R H E
Mets 5 8 0
Cubs 8 14 1
Bottom 8 R H E
Mets 5 8 0
Cubs 8 14 1

Jeff Blauser Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .333
OBP .500 .512
At Bats 3 27
Hits 1 9
• Singles 1 8
• Doubles 0 1
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 11
RBI’s 0 4

Mel Rojas Season Stats

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0 0 0
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Wrigley Field - April 9, 1998
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Out
Mel Rojas
Alberto Castillo
John Olerud
Carlos Baerga
Edgardo Alfonzo
Rey Ordonez
Bernard Gilkey
Brian McRae
Matt Franco
Jeff Blauser
Henry Rodriguez
Mark Grace
Sammy Sosa
Count: 2-2, 0 Outs
Count: 2-2, 2 Outs

Blauser hits a fly ball towards left. Gilkey catches it and throws to home to double up Sosa.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Rodriguez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Grace hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Sosa moves to third. Grace moves to second.
Bottom 8 Mel Rojas now pitching. John Olerud now playing first base. Matt Franco now playing right field. Sosa hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Top 8 Becker bunts towards the mound. Adams fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Terry Adams now pitching. Alfonzo hits a ball on the ground towards third. Orie fields it and throws to first for the out. Ordonez moves to third. Olerud moves to second.
Top 8 John Olerud pinch hits for John Hudek. Bob Patterson now pitching. Olerud hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Ordonez moves to second.
Top 8 Ordonez hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. McRae scores.
Top 8 Castillo hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Pisciotta fields it and throws to first for the out. McRae moves to second.
Top 8 Scott Servais now catching. McRae takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Morandini hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baerga scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Brown hits a fly ball into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pisciotta hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ordonez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Baerga hits a fly ball into left field. Rodriguez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Franco takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Gilkey hits a fly ball into center field. Brown settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Becker strikes out.
Bottom 6 Houston hits a fly ball into right field. Becker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Orie takes first base on ball four. Morandini scores. Grace moves to third. Rodriguez moves to second.
Bottom 6 Blauser strikes out.
Bottom 6 Rodriguez takes first base on ball four. Morandini moves to third. Grace moves to second.
Bottom 6 Grace takes first base on ball four. Morandini moves to second.
Bottom 6 Sosa hits a popup into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 John Hudek now pitching. Alberto Castillo now catching. Morandini hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Marc Pisciotta now pitching. Alfonzo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Luis Lopez pinch hits for Brian Bohanon. Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Ordonez moves to third.
Top 6 Alberto Castillo pinch runs for Jim Tatum. Ordonez hits a fly ball towards left. Rodriguez settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Rodriguez. Castillo scores. Ordonez moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Tatum hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Sosa. Tatum reaches second base with a double. Franco scores.
Top 6 McRae hits a ball on the ground towards first. Grace scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats McRae for the out. Franco moves to second.
Top 6 Baerga hits a fly ball into center field. Brown settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Gilkey tags and scores.
Top 6 Franco hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Gilkey moves to third.
Top 6 Gilkey takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Brown hits a line drive into left field. Gilkey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Trachsel hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baerga scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Houston hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baerga scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Becker hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Trachsel fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Alfonzo hits a fly ball into right field. Sosa settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Ordonez tags and scores.
Top 5 Bohanon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Ordonez moves to third.
Top 5 Ordonez takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Tatum hits a line drive into right field. Sosa settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Orie hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Baerga settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Blauser is hit by the pitch. Grace moves to third. Rodriguez moves to second.
Bottom 4 Rodriguez takes first base on ball four. Grace moves to second.
Bottom 4 Brian Bohanon now pitching. Grace hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Sosa scores.
Bottom 4 Sosa hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of McRae. Sosa reaches second base with a double. Trachsel scores. Brown goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 4 Morandini hits a fly ball into right field. Becker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Trachsel moves to third.
Bottom 4 Brown hits a line drive beyond short. Ordonez can't hold onto the ball. That's a base hit. Trachsel moves to second.
Bottom 4 Trachsel takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Houston hits a line drive into right field. Becker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 McRae hits a fly ball into center field. Brown settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Baerga hits a popup towards third. Orie settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Franco hits a fly ball into center field. Brown settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Orie hits a ball on the ground towards third. Alfonzo fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Blauser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ordonez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 3 There goes Grace. The throw from Tatum and he is out, Baerga applying the tag.
Bottom 3 Rodriguez hits a line drive into center field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Grace hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Gilkey strikes out.
Top 3 Becker strikes out.
Top 3 Alfonzo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 3 Reed strikes out.
Bottom 2 Sosa strikes out.
Bottom 2 Morandini hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Becker who is chasing the ball. Morandini reaches third base with a triple. Trachsel scores. Brown goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 2 Brown hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Orie scores. Trachsel moves to second.
Bottom 2 Trachsel hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Orie moves to third.
Bottom 2 Houston strikes out.
Bottom 2 Orie hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Blauser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ordonez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Rodriguez hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Ordonez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Orie fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Tatum hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 McRae hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Morandini settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Grace strikes out.
Bottom 1 Sosa hits a fly ball into right field. Becker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Morandini hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Brown strikes out.
Top 1 Baerga strikes out.
Top 1 Franco strikes out.
Top 1 Gilkey bunts towards the mound. Trachsel fields it and throws to first for the out. Alfonzo moves to third. Becker moves to second.
Top 1 Becker takes first base on ball four. Alfonzo moves to second.
Top 1 Alfonzo hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.