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May 28, 1999

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Sammy Sosa Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .289
OBP .667 .363
At Bats 3 180
Hits 2 52
• Singles 2 26
• Doubles 0 10
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 16
Walks 0 21
RBI’s 0 36

Heathcliff Slocumb Season Stats

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1 0 0
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Wrigley Field - May 28, 1999
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Home Run
Heathcliff Slocumb
Eli Marrero
Mark McGwire
Placido Polanco
Fernando Tatis
Edgar Renteria
Ray Lankford
Darren Bragg
Eric Davis
Sammy Sosa
Count: 1-1, 0 Outs
Count: 1-1, 0 Outs

Heathcliff Slocumb now pitching. Sosa hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Renteria hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Rodriguez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Bragg hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Polanco moves to third.
Top 8 Polanco hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rodriguez. Polanco reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Willie McGee pinch hits for Manny Aybar. McGee hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Marrero hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 7 Grace hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Polanco scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Davis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Tapani strikes out.
Top 7 Davis strikes out.
Top 7 Tatis hits a fly ball into center field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Lankford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Tyler Houston now playing third base. McGwire strikes out.
Bottom 6 Blauser hits a fly ball into center field. Bragg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Santiago hits a fly ball into right field. Davis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Sosa moves to third.
Bottom 6 Rodriguez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Grace scores. Sosa moves to second.
Bottom 6 Tyler Houston pinch hits for Gary Gaetti. Houston hits a fly ball into left field. Lankford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Sosa hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Grace moves to second.
Bottom 6 Grace hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Renteria hits a popup in front of the plate. Santiago settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Bragg strikes out.
Top 6 Polanco hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Johnson hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Bragg who is chasing the ball. Johnson reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 5 Tapani hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Manny Aybar now pitching. Placido Polanco now playing second base. Blauser hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tatis fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 McEwing hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Tapani fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Marrero hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 5 Davis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gaetti fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 4 Santiago hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Rodriguez hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Rodriguez for the out. Gaetti moves to second.
Bottom 4 Gaetti hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Sosa hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Tatis hits a line drive towards the mound. Tapani reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Lankford strikes out.
Top 4 McGwire strikes out.
Bottom 3 Grace hits a ball on the ground towards short. Renteria scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Hernandez strikes out.
Bottom 3 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. McEwing scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Renteria hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 3 Bragg takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Painter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blauser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Tapani strikes out.
Bottom 2 Blauser hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. McEwing scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Santiago moves to third.
Bottom 2 There's a wild pitch. Santiago moves to second.
Bottom 2 Santiago hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Rodriguez hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 2 Gaetti hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tatis fields it and throws to first for the out. Sosa moves to second.
Bottom 2 Sosa hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 McEwing hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gaetti fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Marrero hits a popup, foul, towards first. Grace settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Davis hits a fly ball into center field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Lankford tags and scores.
Top 2 Tatis hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Lankford moves to third.
Top 2 Lankford takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Grace hits a fly ball into center field. Bragg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Hernandez strikes out.
Bottom 1 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Johnson for the out.
Top 1 McGwire hits a ball on the ground towards first. Grace scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats McGwire for the out.
Top 1 Renteria hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Bragg hits a line drive towards first. Grace reaches out and makes the catch for the out.