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1997 World Series: Game 3
FLORIDA MARLINS @ CLEVELAND INDIANS
OCTOBER 21, 1997
TIMELINE 3
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7
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9
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R
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H
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E
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Florida Marlins
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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6
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1
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Cleveland Indians
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0
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2
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2
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X
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6
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11
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Nagy Shuts Out Marlins as Indians Win Game 3
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There are nights when the game reveals itself as what it has always been — not a contest of strength but of patience, of accumulated small pressures that finally crack a wall. In the third telling of this October Tuesday, Charles Nagy pitched as though he had done this before, as though the geometries of the strike zone were something he had memorized in a previous life, and the Florida Marlins could manage only six scattered hits against him while forty-four thousand sat in the rain watching a shutout take shape, inning by inning, in the cold light of Jacobs Field.
Cleveland scored first on a sequence so modest it barely announced itself: Bip Roberts doubling into right-center in the first, advancing on a passed ball by Charles Johnson, and trotting home on David Justice's ground single through the right side. The game then settled into five innings of near-silence, both teams stranding runners like forgotten luggage — Darren Daulton lashed a triple to deep right in the fifth and stood on third base watching his teammates fail to bring him home, the ball having traveled further than any Marlin would that evening. Nagy struck out Devon White to end the threat and seemed, from that moment forward, untouchable.
The sixth broke things open. Tony Fernandez singled, Grissom singled, Vizquel beat out an infield chopper to load the bases with one down, and Justice lined one into right-center that scored two. The seventh added another pair when Marquis Grissom drove a double to deep left-center off Dennis Cook, plating both Thome and Matt Williams, who had reached on his own double moments before. In the eighth, Thome's double off Felix Heredia scored Justice once more, and the geometry of the final score read 6-0 — clean, emphatic, the kind of result that leaves no room for argument.
Nagy needed 116 pitches to get twenty-six outs before handing the last one to Brian Anderson, who struck out Craig Counsell looking with Sheffield and White standing on second and third, the tying run so far from the plate it might as well have been in another timeline entirely. Which, in a sense, it was.
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FLORIDA 1997 BATTING LINESCORE
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CLEVELAND 1997 BATTING LINESCORE
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Player
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AB
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R
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H
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RBI
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BB
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K
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LOB
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AVG
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HR
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RBI
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E. Renteria
SS
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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.000
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0
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0
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J. Eisenreich
DH
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4
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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0
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.250
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0
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0
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B. Bonilla
3B
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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.000
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0
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0
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G. Sheffield
RF
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3
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0
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1
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0
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1
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1
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0
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.333
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0
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0
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D. Daulton
1B
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4
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0
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1
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0
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0
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2
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2
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.250
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0
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0
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C. Johnson
C
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3
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0
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0
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0
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1
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2
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2
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.000
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0
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0
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D. White
CF
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4
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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3
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.250
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0
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0
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C. Counsell
2B
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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4
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.000
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0
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0
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C. Floyd
LF
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3
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0
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2
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0
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0
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0
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2
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.667
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0
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0
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Totals
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33
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0
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6
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0
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2
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9
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17
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BATTING
Doubles:
D. White
(1, 9th Inning off C. Nagy, 1 on, 2 outs)
C. Floyd
(1, 3rd Inning off C. Nagy, 0 on, 2 outs)
Triples:
D. Daulton
(1, 5th Inning off C. Nagy, 0 on, 0 outs)
Total Bases:
D. White
2
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G. Sheffield
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C. Floyd
3
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J. Eisenreich
,
D. Daulton
3
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs:
E. Renteria
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C. Floyd
,
C. Counsell
,
B. Bonilla
Team LOB:
7
FIELDING
Errors:
E. Renteria
Double Plays:
1 (Leiter-Renteria-Daulton)
PB:
C. Johnson
2
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Player
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AB
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R
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H
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RBI
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BB
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K
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LOB
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AVG
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HR
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RBI
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O. Vizquel
SS
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3
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0
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1
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0
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2
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0
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2
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.333
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0
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0
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B. Roberts
LF
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5
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1
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1
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0
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0
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2
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7
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.200
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0
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0
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D. Justice
DH
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3
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1
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2
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3
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2
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1
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0
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.667
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0
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3
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S. Alomar Jr
C
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5
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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4
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.200
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0
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0
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J. Thome
1B
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4
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1
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2
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1
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1
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2
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2
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.500
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0
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1
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M. Ramirez
RF
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5
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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6
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.000
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0
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0
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T. Fernandez
2B
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3
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1
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1
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0
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0
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0
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2
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.333
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0
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0
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M. Williams
3B
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4
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1
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1
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0
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0
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0
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3
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.250
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0
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0
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M. Grissom
CF
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3
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1
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2
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2
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0
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0
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1
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.667
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0
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2
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Totals
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35
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6
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11
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6
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5
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7
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27
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BATTING
Doubles:
M. Williams
(1, 7th Inning off D. Cook, 1 on, 2 outs)
J. Thome
(1, 8th Inning off F. Heredia, 1 on, 1 out)
B. Roberts
(1, 1st Inning off A. Leiter, 0 on, 1 out)
M. Grissom
(1, 7th Inning off D. Cook, 2 on, 2 outs)
Total Bases:
S. Alomar Jr
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M. Williams
2
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O. Vizquel
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J. Thome
3
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B. Roberts
2
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D. Justice
2
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M. Grissom
3
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T. Fernandez
2-out RBI:
D. Justice
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M. Grissom
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs:
S. Alomar Jr
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O. Vizquel
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B. Roberts
2
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M. Ramirez
2
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T. Fernandez
GIDP:
M. Williams
Hit by Pitch:
M. Grissom
,
T. Fernandez
2
Team LOB:
13
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FLORIDA 1997 PITCHING LINESCORE
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CLEVELAND 1997 PITCHING LINESCORE
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Player
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IP
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H
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R
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ER
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BB
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K
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HR
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PI
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PS
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ERA
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A. Leiter
L (0-1)
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6.0
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7
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3
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3
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3
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5
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0
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106
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59
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4.50
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D. Cook
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1.0
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3
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3
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3
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2
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1
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0
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33
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18
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27.00
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F. Heredia
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1.0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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18
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9
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0.00
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PITCHING
Game Score:
A. Leiter
48
Batters Faced:
A. Leiter
31,
D. Cook
8,
F. Heredia
4
Ground Outs - Fly Outs:
A. Leiter
4-8,
D. Cook
0-2,
F. Heredia
0-2
Pitches - Strikes:
A. Leiter
106-59,
D. Cook
33-18,
F. Heredia
18-9
Inherited Runners - Scored:
F. Heredia
1-1
Hit Batsmen:
A. Leiter
3
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Player
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IP
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R
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ER
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BB
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K
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HR
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PI
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PS
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ERA
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C. Nagy
W (1-0)
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8.2
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6
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0
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0
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2
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8
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0
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116
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74
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0.00
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B. Anderson
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0.1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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4
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3
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0.00
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PITCHING
Game Score:
C. Nagy
78
Batters Faced:
C. Nagy
34,
B. Anderson
1
Ground Outs - Fly Outs:
C. Nagy
10-8,
B. Anderson
0-0
Pitches - Strikes:
C. Nagy
116-74,
B. Anderson
4-3
Inherited Runners - Scored:
B. Anderson
2-0
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GAME NOTES
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Player of the Game:
Charles Nagy
Ballpark:
Jacobs Field
Weather:
Rainy (47 degrees F), 25 MPH wind (left to right)
Start Time:
8:24 PM EST
Time:
3:21
Attendance:
44,880
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