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Bill Spiers Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .304
OBP .000 .383
At Bats 4 336
Hits 0 102
• Singles 0 80
• Doubles 0 16
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 43
RBI’s 0 40

Alan Benes Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 1 0
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Busch Stadium - September 19, 2000
Alan Benes
Mike Matheny
Craig Paquette
Placido Polanco
Fernando Tatis
Edgar Renteria
Ray Lankford
Jim Edmonds
J.D. Drew
Bill Spiers
Moises Alou
Count: 3-0, 1 Out
Count: 3-0, 1 Out

Spiers is walked intentionally.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 10 Meluskey bunts towards the mound. Benes fields it and throws to first for the out. Alou moves to second.
Top 10 Alan Benes now pitching. Alou takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Polanco hits a fly ball into center field. Hidalgo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Thomas Howard pinch hits for Dave Veres. Howard strikes out.
Bottom 9 Octavio Dotel now pitching. Matheny hits a popup towards short. Lugo settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Hidalgo hits a fly ball into center field. Edmonds settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Bagwell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Lankford. Bagwell reaches second base with a double. Berkman scores.
Top 9 Lugo hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tatis fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Cedeno bunts towards third. Tatis fields it and throws to first for the out. Berkman moves to second.
Top 9 Lance Berkman pinch hits for Marc Valdes. Berkman takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Marc Valdes now pitching. Renteria hits a ball on the ground towards third. Truby fields it, steps on third, and throws to first for the double play. Lankford moves to second.
Bottom 8 Lankford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Paquette scores. Tatis moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 8 Tatis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Truby fields it and throws to home to get Edmonds. Paquette moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 8 Joe Slusarski now pitching. Paquette hits a ball on the ground towards third. Truby fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Truby. Edmonds moves to third. Paquette moves to second.
Bottom 8 Edmonds hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiers fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Spiers.
Top 8 Dave Veres now pitching. Truby strikes out. Matheny drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Truby out.
Top 8 Spiers hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria fields it and throws to home to get Alou. Meluskey moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 8 Meluskey hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Drew. Meluskey reaches second base with a double. Bagwell scores. Alou moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 8 Jason Christiansen now pitching. Alou hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Renteria. Bagwell moves to second.
Top 8 Hidalgo hits a fly ball into center field. Edmonds settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Mike James now pitching. Bagwell is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 7 Drew hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiers scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Polanco hits a line drive towards short. Lugo reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Wayne Franklin now pitching. Mark McGwire pinch hits for Pat Hentgen. McGwire hits a fly ball into center field. Hidalgo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Lugo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 7 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Glen Barker pinch runs for Daryle Ward. There goes Barker. The throw from Matheny and he is out, Renteria applying the tag.
Top 7 Daryle Ward pinch hits for Wade Miller. Ward hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Matheny hits a ball on the ground towards third. Truby fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Renteria hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiers scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Lankford strikes out.
Top 6 Truby hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Polanco fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Spiers hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hentgen fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Placido Polanco now playing second base. Meluskey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Tatis hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Meluskey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Paquette hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Spiers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Edmonds hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Polanco moves to second.
Bottom 5 Placido Polanco pinch runs for Fernando Vina. Drew hits a fly ball into left field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Vina is hit by the pitch.
Top 5 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hentgen fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Hidalgo hits a line drive into right field. Here's the throw into the infield and Renteria commits an error. Bagwell is thrown out. Cedeno scores. Hidalgo moves to second.
Top 5 Bagwell takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 There's a wild pitch. Cedeno moves to second.
Top 5 Lugo hits a fly ball into right field. Drew settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Hentgen strikes out.
Bottom 4 Matheny is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Renteria hits a ball on the ground towards third. Truby fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Lankford hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Miller hits a fly ball into right field. Drew settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Truby hits a fly ball into right field. Drew settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Craig Paquette now playing first base. Spiers strikes out.
Bottom 3 Tatis hits a fly ball into center field. Hidalgo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiers scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Edmonds hits a fly ball into center field. Hidalgo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Meluskey strikes out.
Top 3 Alou strikes out.
Top 3 Hidalgo hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 3 Bagwell hits a fly ball into center field. Edmonds settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Drew hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiers scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Vina hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Hentgen bunts towards the mound. Miller catches it and throws to second to double up Matheny.
Bottom 2 Matheny hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Cedeno. Matheny reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Lugo hits a fly ball into center field. Edmonds settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cedeno hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Miller is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Truby hits a popup towards the mound. Hentgen settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Renteria hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lugo scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play. Clark moves to third.
Bottom 1 Lankford strikes out.
Bottom 1 Tatis hits a fly ball towards left. Cedeno settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Cedeno. Edmonds scores. Clark moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 1 Clark hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Vina scores. Drew scores. Edmonds moves to third.
Bottom 1 Edmonds takes first base on ball four. Vina moves to third. Drew moves to second.
Bottom 1 Drew takes first base on ball four. Vina moves to second.
Bottom 1 Vina bunts towards the right side of the infield. Spiers fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Spiers hits a popup towards first. Clark settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Meluskey takes first base on ball four. Hidalgo moves to third. Alou moves to second.
Top 1 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tatis fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Tatis. Hidalgo moves to second.
Top 1 Hidalgo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Bagwell scores.
Top 1 Bagwell hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Edmonds. Bagwell reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Lugo strikes out. There goes Cedeno. The throw from Matheny to second, and Cedeno is out.
Top 1 Cedeno hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.