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John Smoltz Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .277
OBP .333 .356
At Bats 3 65
Hits 1 18
• Singles 1 15
• Doubles 0 3
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 8
RBI’s 0 4

Mike Magnante Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 0 1
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Astrodome - August 19, 1997
Out
Mike Magnante
Brad Ausmus
Jeff Bagwell
Craig Biggio
Ricky Gutierrez
Bill Spiers
Luis Gonzalez
Chuck Carr
Derek Bell
John Smoltz
Mark Lemke
Chipper Jones
Greg Colbrunn
Count: 2-2, 2 Outs
Count: 2-2, 0 Outs

Smoltz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Spiers fields it and throws to second for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Lemke takes first base on ball four. Jones moves to second.
Top 8 Bautista hits a fly ball into right field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Colbrunn moves to third.
Top 8 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards short. Spiers misplays the ball. That's an error on Spiers. Colbrunn moves to second.
Top 8 Lopez strikes out.
Top 8 Mike Magnante now pitching. Bill Spiers now playing shortstop. Colbrunn hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Thomas Howard pinch hits for Mike Hampton. Howard hits a fly ball into left field. Bautista settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Bill Spiers pinch hits for Tim Bogar. Spiers hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Carr scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 7 Ausmus strikes out. The ball gets by Lopez. He chases the ball to the backstop.
Bottom 7 Carr hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards first. Bagwell scoops it up and throws to first, with Hampton covering, for the out.
Top 7 Blauser takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Lofton hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Carr. Lofton reaches second base with a double. Smoltz moves to third.
Top 7 Smoltz hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Lemke hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gutierrez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Bautista hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bogar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Gutierrez strikes out.
Bottom 6 Gonzalez hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Smoltz scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gonzalez for the out.
Bottom 6 Bagwell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Bell hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Jones hits a line drive into right field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gutierrez fields it and throws to second for the out. Blauser scores.
Top 6 Colbrunn hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gutierrez fields it and throws to second for the out. Blauser moves to third.
Top 6 Jones hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Lofton scores. Blauser moves to second.
Top 6 Blauser hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Lofton moves to third.
Top 6 Lofton hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Biggio strikes out.
Bottom 5 Hampton hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Bogar moves to second.
Bottom 5 Bogar takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Ausmus strikes out.
Bottom 5 Carr hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lemke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Smoltz hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hampton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Lemke takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Bautista hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Biggio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bogar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Gutierrez strikes out.
Bottom 4 Gonzalez hits a ball on the ground towards first. Colbrunn scoops it up and throws to first, with Smoltz covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Bagwell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Hampton fires to first and has Jones trapped. There's the throw to Bogar who tags Jones for the out.
Top 4 Lopez hits a fly ball into center field. Carr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Colbrunn strikes out.
Top 4 Jones hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Biggio hits a ball on the ground towards short. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Hampton strikes out.
Top 3 Blauser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bogar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Lofton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hampton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Smoltz hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Biggio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Bogar strikes out.
Bottom 2 Ausmus hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Bautista. Ausmus reaches second base with a double. Gonzalez moves to third.
Bottom 2 Carr hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Jones settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Gutierrez strikes out.
Bottom 2 Gonzalez takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Lemke hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bogar fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Bautista hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gutierrez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 2 Jones hits a fly ball into right field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bagwell strikes out.
Bottom 1 Bell strikes out.
Bottom 1 Biggio hits a line drive into center field. Lofton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bogar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Colbrunn strikes out.
Top 1 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Biggio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Blauser hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 1 Lofton hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.