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April 21, 1998

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Bottom 12 R H E
Twins 4 10 0
Athletics 4 14 2
Bottom 12 R H E
Twins 4 10 0
Athletics 5 15 2

Kurt Abbott Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .208
OBP .200 .269
At Bats 4 24
Hits 0 5
• Singles 0 3
• Doubles 0 2
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 1 2
RBI’s 0 0

Hector Carrasco Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 0 0
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Oakland-Alameda County Stadium - April 21, 1998
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Double
Hector Carrasco
Javier Valentin
David Ortiz
Brent Gates
Denny Hocking
Pat Meares
Marty Cordova
Otis Nixon
Matt Lawton
Kurt Abbott
Ben Grieve
Mike Blowers

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Minnesota Twins 4 10 0 8
Oakland Athletics 5 15 2 13
Winning Pitcher T.J. Mathews
Losing Pitcher Hector Carrasco
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Kurt Abbott
Attendance 5,829
Time of Game 3 hours 36 minutes
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Count: 0-1, 0 Outs
Count: 0-1, 0 Outs

End of Game

Abbott hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Cordova. Abbott reaches second base with a double. Blowers scores. Grieve moves to third.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 12 Grieve hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Blowers moves to second.
Bottom 12 Hector Carrasco now pitching. Blowers takes first base on ball four.
Top 12 Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Abbott scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 12 Gates hits a fly ball into right field. Grieve settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 12 Nixon hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 12 Meares hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 11 Giambi strikes out.
Bottom 11 Magadan hits a line drive into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 11 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hocking fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Valentin hits a fly ball into left field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 T.J. Mathews now pitching. Cordova hits a ball on the ground towards short. Abbott scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Lawton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Blowers fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Christenson hits a fly ball into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Spiezio hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Abbott moves to third.
Bottom 10 Hinch hits a line drive into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Abbott takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 10 David Ortiz now playing first base. Grieve hits a popup towards short. Meares settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Hocking strikes out.
Top 10 Alex Ochoa pinch hits for Orlando Merced. Ochoa hits a ball on the ground towards first. Magadan scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Ochoa for the out.
Top 10 Mike Mohler now pitching. Molitor hits a line drive into center field. Christenson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Blowers hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Giambi hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Magadan moves to third.
Bottom 9 Magadan hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Spiezio scores.
Bottom 9 Henderson hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Spiezio moves to third.
Bottom 9 Christenson bunts towards the mound. Aguilera fields it and throws to first for the out. Spiezio moves to second.
Bottom 9 Rick Aguilera now pitching. Spiezio hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 9 Gates strikes out.
Top 9 There goes Meares. The throw from Hinch and he is safe. Meares steals second.
Top 9 Nixon hits a popup, foul, towards the mound. Candiotti settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Meares hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Valentin hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Hinch strikes out.
Bottom 8 Abbott hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Trombley fields it and throws to first for the out. Grieve moves to second.
Bottom 8 Grieve hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Mike Trombley now pitching. Denny Hocking now playing third base. Blowers strikes out.
Top 8 Cordova hits a ball on the ground towards short. Abbott scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Lawton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Candiotti, and towards Spiezio, who fields it and throws to first for the out. Merced scores. Coomer moves to second.
Top 8 Coomer hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Merced moves to third.
Top 8 Merced hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Grieve. Merced reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Dave Magadan now playing first base. Mike Blowers now playing third base. Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Abbott scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Giambi strikes out.
Bottom 7 Magadan hits a fly ball into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Eddie Guardado now pitching. Henderson hits a line drive into center field. Nixon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Gates hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stairs scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gates for the out.
Top 7 Nixon hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Meares hits a popup, foul, towards first. Stairs settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Valentin hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stairs scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Valentin for the out.
Bottom 6 Christenson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Spiezio hits a popup, foul, towards third. Coomer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hinch hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Abbott hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gates scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Cordova hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Lawton hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Grieve. Lawton reaches second base with a double. Molitor scores. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Coomer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Magadan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Merced hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Molitor moves to third.
Top 6 Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards third. Magadan fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Magadan. Molitor moves to second.
Bottom 5 Grieve strikes out.
Bottom 5 Stairs hits a ball on the ground towards first. Merced scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Stairs for the out.
Bottom 5 Giambi hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gates scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Gates hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stairs fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Nixon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Meares scores. That run is unearned.
Top 5 Meares hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Christenson. Meares reaches second base with a double. Cordova goes all the way around to score. That run is unearned.
Top 5 Valentin hits a popup towards short. Abbott settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Cordova hits a ball on the ground towards short. Abbott misplays the ball. That's an error on Abbott.
Top 5 Lawton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stairs scoops it up and throws to first, with Candiotti covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Magadan hits a line drive towards first. Merced reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gates scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Spiezio scores.
Bottom 4 Christenson hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Spiezio moves to third.
Bottom 4 Spiezio hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Nixon. Spiezio reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Coomer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Merced hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Hinch settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Abbott scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Hinch hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gates scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Abbott strikes out.
Bottom 3 Grieve hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lawton. Grieve reaches second base with a double. Giambi scores. Stairs moves to third.
Bottom 3 Stairs hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Giambi moves to second.
Bottom 3 Giambi hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Magadan strikes out.
Top 3 Gates hits a fly ball into right field. Grieve settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Candiotti fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 3 Meares hits a popup towards first. Stairs settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Valentin hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Candiotti fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Christenson strikes out.
Bottom 2 Spiezio takes first base on ball four. Grieve moves to third. Hinch moves to second.
Bottom 2 Hinch hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Grieve moves to second.
Bottom 2 Abbott strikes out.
Bottom 2 Grieve hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Cordova strikes out.
Top 2 Lawton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stairs scoops it up and throws to first, with Candiotti covering, for the out.
Top 2 Coomer hits a popup towards third. Magadan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Stairs hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 1 Giambi hits a line drive into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Magadan hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Henderson hits a line drive into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Merced hits a line drive towards short. Abbott reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Molitor hits a fly ball into center field. Christenson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Gates hits a popup, foul, towards third. Magadan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.