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1997 World Series: Game 3
FLORIDA MARLINS @ CLEVELAND INDIANS
OCTOBER 21, 1997
TIMELINE 24
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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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1
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0
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0
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5
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Cleveland Indians
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0
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X
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4
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8
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Nagy Dominant Again as Cleveland Takes Game 3, 4-1
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Some nights the game arrives already knowing its shape, and this was one of them — a 4-1 Cleveland victory that unfolded with the quiet certainty of a sentence well begun. Charles Nagy set the tone from his first pitch, working the corners with the unhurried confidence of a man who has stood on this mound before, perhaps more times than memory should reasonably hold. The Marlins managed five hits across nine innings, and only once, in the seventh, did they string enough of them together to score. Al Leiter, working from the other side, was nearly as sharp through four, but nearly is the distance between a pitchers' duel and a loss.
The Indians scored in small, methodical increments. Omar Vizquel beat out an infield single in the first, stole second during Alomar's at-bat, then came home on Alomar's full-count double into left field — a line drive that cut through the October cold at 97 miles per hour and seemed to arrive in the corner before the sound of it left the bat. In the fourth, Jim Thome singled, Manny Ramirez laced a liner to right-center, and Thome scored on a Fernandez grounder that skipped under Bobby Bonilla's glove at third. Then in the fifth, Bip Roberts fought off an 0-2 pitch for a single, and David Justice crushed the very next offering 386 feet into the right-field seats — a first-pitch swing so decisive it barely qualified as violence, the ball climbing into the light-tower haze and vanishing.
Florida's seventh-inning run — Darren Daulton's double ripped at 115 off the bat, Charles Johnson's single through the left side, Devon White's sacrifice fly deep enough to score Daulton tagging from third — felt less like a rally than a formal objection, entered into the record and overruled. Nagy struck out Counsell and Renteria to end it, and Michael Jackson needed only fifteen pitches in the ninth to close the door, striking out the side while Daulton stood on first after a four-pitch walk, watching his teammates go down on strikes. In this particular shuffling of the deck, the evening belonged entirely to the pitchers, and to the quiet geometry of a team that needed only four runs to feel invincible.
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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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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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J. Eisenreich
LF
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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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1
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1
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.000
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0
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0
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M. Alou
DH
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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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1
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1
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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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4
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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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1
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.500
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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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2
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3
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.000
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0
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0
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D. Daulton
1B
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3
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1
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1
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0
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1
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0
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1
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.333
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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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1
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0
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1
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1
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2
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.333
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0
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0
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D. White
CF
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2
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0
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0
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1
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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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1
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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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Totals
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32
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1
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5
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1
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3
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10
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18
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BATTING
Doubles:
D. Daulton
(1, 7th Inning off C. Nagy, 0 on, 0 outs)
Total Bases:
G. Sheffield
2
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E. Renteria
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C. Johnson
,
D. Daulton
2
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs:
E. Renteria
Sac Fly:
D. White
Team LOB:
6
FIELDING
Errors:
D. White
,
B. Bonilla
Double Plays:
2 (Counsell-Renteria-Daulton, Renteria-Counsell-Daulton)
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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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4
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1
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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.500
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0
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0
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B. Roberts
LF
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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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2
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.250
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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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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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.333
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1
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2
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S. Alomar Jr
C
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4
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0
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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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.250
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0
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1
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J. Thome
1B
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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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1
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1
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.250
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0
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0
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M. Ramirez
RF
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2
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0
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1
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0
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1
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0
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0
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.500
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0
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0
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T. Fernandez
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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1
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3
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.000
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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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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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.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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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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2
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.000
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0
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0
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Totals
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32
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4
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8
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3
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2
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4
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16
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BATTING
Doubles:
S. Alomar Jr
(1, 1st Inning off A. Leiter, 1 on, 2 outs)
O. Vizquel
(1, 7th Inning off F. Heredia, 0 on, 0 outs)
Home Runs:
D. Justice
(1, 5th Inning off A. Leiter, 1 on, 2 outs)
Total Bases:
S. Alomar Jr
2
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M. Williams
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O. Vizquel
3
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J. Thome
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B. Roberts
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M. Ramirez
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D. Justice
4
2-out RBI:
S. Alomar Jr
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D. Justice
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs:
S. Alomar Jr
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M. Williams
2
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J. Thome
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M. Grissom
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T. Fernandez
GIDP:
S. Alomar Jr
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M. Williams
Hit by Pitch:
M. Ramirez
Team LOB:
7
BASERUNNING
SB:
O. Vizquel
2 (2)
FIELDING
Errors:
J. Thome
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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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4
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3
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2
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2
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1
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96
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58
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4.50
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F. Heredia
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2.0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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2
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0
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26
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18
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0.00
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PITCHING
Game Score:
A. Leiter
44
Batters Faced:
A. Leiter
27,
F. Heredia
8
Ground Outs - Fly Outs:
A. Leiter
5-9,
F. Heredia
3-1
Pitches - Strikes:
A. Leiter
96-58,
F. Heredia
26-18
Hit Batsmen:
A. Leiter
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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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C. Nagy
W (1-0)
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7.0
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5
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1
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1
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2
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6
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0
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105
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64
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1.29
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J. Mesa
H (1)
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1.0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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18
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13
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0.00
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M. Jackson
SV (1)
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1.0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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3
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0
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15
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10
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0.00
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PITCHING
Game Score:
C. Nagy
67
Batters Faced:
C. Nagy
28,
J. Mesa
4,
M. Jackson
4
Ground Outs - Fly Outs:
C. Nagy
6-9,
J. Mesa
0-2,
M. Jackson
0-0
Pitches - Strikes:
C. Nagy
105-64,
J. Mesa
18-13,
M. Jackson
15-10
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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:
2:59
Attendance:
44,880
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