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Joe Carter Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .257
OBP 1.000 .311
At Bats 3 136
Hits 3 35
• Singles 1 25
• Doubles 1 6
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 1 3
Walks 0 10
RBI’s 1 14

Todd Ritchie Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 3 0
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Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome - May 12, 1997
Out
Todd Ritchie
Greg Myers
Greg Colbrunn
Denny Hocking
Todd Walker
Pat Meares
Matt Lawton
Rich Becker
Brent Brede
Joe Carter
Orlando Merced
Count: 1-1, 0 Outs
Count: 1-1, 1 Out

Carter hits a fly ball into left field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Todd Ritchie now pitching. Brent Brede now playing right field. Merced takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Hocking hits a popup into right field. Merced settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Walker hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Lawton moves to third. Colbrunn moves to second.
Bottom 7 Colbrunn hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Lawton moves to second.
Bottom 7 Lawton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Kelly hits a fly ball into left field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Myers hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Gonzalez strikes out.
Top 7 Nixon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Green moves to second.
Top 7 Garcia strikes out.
Top 7 Green hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Pat Meares now playing shortstop. Denny Hocking now playing second base. Santiago strikes out.
Bottom 6 Molitor hits a popup, foul, towards first. Carter settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Becker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Knoblauch hits a fly ball into left field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hocking hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Delgado hits a ball on the ground towards first. Colbrunn scoops it up and throws to first, with Radke covering, for the out.
Top 6 Sprague hits a fly ball into left field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Carter hits a fly ball into center field for a base hit. Gonzalez moves to second.
Top 6 Merced hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Gonzalez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Walker strikes out.
Bottom 5 Colbrunn hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Myers scores.
Bottom 5 Lawton hits a popup towards first. Carter settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Kelly strikes out.
Bottom 5 Myers hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Merced. Myers reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Nixon hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Garcia hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Green hits a fly ball into left field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Santiago hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards third. Sprague fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Bottom 4 Becker hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Colbrunn scores. Hocking moves to second.
Bottom 4 Knoblauch hits a fly ball into right field. Merced settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Colbrunn moves to third.
Bottom 4 Hocking hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Lawton scores. Colbrunn moves to second.
Bottom 4 Walker hits a fly ball into left field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Kelly tags and scores.
Bottom 4 Colbrunn hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Myers scores. Kelly moves to third. Lawton moves to second.
Bottom 4 Lawton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Myers moves to third. Kelly moves to second.
Bottom 4 Kelly hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Myers moves to second.
Bottom 4 Huck Flener now pitching. Myers hits a fly ball into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Delgado hits a popup towards short. Hocking settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Sprague hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Carter hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Merced strikes out.
Bottom 3 Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Gonzalez fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Becker takes first base on ball four. Knoblauch moves to second.
Bottom 3 Knoblauch hits a ball on the ground towards third. Sprague fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Sprague. Colbrunn scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Hocking hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Colbrunn moves to second.
Bottom 3 Walker strikes out.
Bottom 3 Colbrunn hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Gonzalez strikes out.
Top 3 Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knoblauch scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Garcia hits a ball on the ground towards first. Colbrunn scoops it up and throws to first, with Radke covering, for the out.
Bottom 2 Lawton strikes out.
Bottom 2 The ball gets by Santiago for a passed ball. Myers scores. Kelly moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 2 Kelly hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Myers moves to third.
Bottom 2 Myers hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Molitor scores.
Bottom 2 Molitor hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Green. Molitor reaches second base with a double. Knoblauch goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 2 Becker hits a line drive towards short. Gonzalez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Knoblauch hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Hocking strikes out.
Top 2 Green hits a ball on the ground towards first. Colbrunn scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Green for the out.
Top 2 Santiago hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Myers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Delgado strikes out.
Top 2 Sprague hits a popup into right field for a base hit. Carter scores.
Top 2 Carter hits a line drive into left center field. The ball bounces into the stands for a ground rule double.
Bottom 1 Walker hits a line drive into center field. Nixon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Colbrunn strikes out.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Kelly moves to third. Lawton moves to second.
Bottom 1 Lawton takes first base on ball four. Kelly moves to second.
Bottom 1 Kelly hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Becker scores. Myers scores.
Bottom 1 Myers hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Green. Myers reaches second base with a double. Knoblauch scores. Becker moves to third.
Bottom 1 Molitor strikes out.
Bottom 1 Becker takes first base on ball four. Knoblauch moves to second.
Bottom 1 Knoblauch hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Merced hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Gonzalez strikes out.
Top 1 There goes Nixon. The throw from Myers and he is out, Hocking applying the tag.
Top 1 Nixon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.