Tigers @ Yankees
September 18, 1997

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Top 11 R H E
Tigers 9 15 2
Yankees 7 12 1
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Tigers 9 15 2
Yankees 7 12 1

Melvin Nieves Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .230
OBP .000 .314
At Bats 1 352
Hits 0 81
• Singles 0 43
• Doubles 0 18
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 19
Walks 0 39
RBI’s 0 62

Joe Borowski Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 2 0
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Yankee Stadium - September 18, 1997
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Joe Borowski
Jorge Posada
Mike Stanley
Andy Fox
Charlie Hayes
Derek Jeter
Tim Raines
Bernie Williams
Scott Pose
Melvin Nieves
Damion Easley
Tony Clark
Count: 1-0, 2 Outs
Count: 1-0, 0 Outs

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

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 11 Easley hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Hunter scores. Higginson scores. Clark moves to second.
Top 11 Clark takes first base on ball four. Hunter moves to third. Higginson moves to second.
Top 11 Fryman strikes out.
Top 11 Higginson takes first base on ball four. Hunter moves to second.
Top 11 Hunter takes first base on ball four.
Top 11 Tim Raines now playing left field. Cruz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Jeter scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Tim Raines pinch hits for Chad Curtis. Raines hits a line drive into right field. Nieves settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Jeter hits a ball on the ground towards third. Fryman fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 10 Fox hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Easley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Raul Casanova now catching. Melvin Nieves now playing right field. Bobby Higginson now playing left field. Posada hits a line drive towards third. Fryman reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Raul Casanova pinch hits for Marcus Jensen. Casanova strikes out.
Top 10 Hamelin is walked intentionally.
Top 10 Melvin Nieves pinch hits for Phil Nevin. Nieves hits a fly ball into left field. Curtis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Easley hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Curtis. Easley reaches second base with a double.
Top 10 Joe Borowski now pitching. Clark hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Posada fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Hayes hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cruz fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 9 Todd Jones now pitching. Fielder strikes out.
Bottom 9 Stanley is walked intentionally.
Bottom 9 Williams hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Nevin. Williams reaches second base with a double. There goes Pose trying to get to home. Nevin throws the ball in to Fryman who relays the ball to Jensen, who tags Pose, who came all the way from first, for the out. Williams moves to third.
Bottom 9 Marcus Jensen now catching. Pose hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Top 9 Fryman hits a fly ball into center field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Higginson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Jeter fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Bartee scores. Cruz moves to third.
Top 9 Hunter bunts in front of the plate. Posada fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Posada. Bartee moves to third. Cruz moves to second.
Top 9 Kimera Bartee pinch runs for Matt Walbeck. Cruz bunts in front of the plate. Posada fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Bartee moves to second.
Top 9 Mariano Rivera now pitching. Walbeck hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 There goes Curtis. The throw from Walbeck and he is out, Cruz applying the tag.
Bottom 8 Curtis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Fryman picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Fryman. Fox scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 8 Jeter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Easley scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Fox moves to second.
Bottom 8 Fox hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Easley misplays the ball. That's an error on Easley.
Bottom 8 Doug Brocail now pitching. Posada hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Easley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Bob Hamelin pinch hits for Bubba Trammell. Hamelin hits a popup towards short. Jeter settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Nevin strikes out.
Top 8 Scott Pose now playing right field. Easley hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stanley scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Easley for the out.
Bottom 7 Hayes hits a fly ball into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Fielder takes first base on ball four. Stanley moves to second.
Bottom 7 Stanley hits a ball on the ground towards third. Fryman fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Scott Pose pinch runs for Paul O'Neill. Williams hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Easley fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 O'Neill hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Clark strikes out.
Top 7 Fryman strikes out.
Top 7 Higginson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Hideki Irabu now pitching. Hunter strikes out.
Bottom 6 Curtis hits a fly ball into right field. Higginson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Jeter hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cruz scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Fox hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Sager fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Cruz hits a line drive towards the mound. Rogers reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Walbeck hits a popup, foul, towards first. Stanley settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Trammell strikes out.
Top 6 Nevin hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 6 Mike Stanley now playing first base. Easley takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Posada hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Sager fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Hayes hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cruz scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Fielder hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cruz scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards short. Jeter scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Fryman hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Curtis. Fryman reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Higginson hits a fly ball into left field. Curtis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hunter hits a line drive into center field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Martinez hits a line drive into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Williams strikes out.
Bottom 4 O'Neill hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Jeter scores. Curtis moves to third.
Bottom 4 Curtis hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Nevin. Curtis reaches second base with a double. Posada scores. Fox scores. Jeter moves to third.
Bottom 4 A.J. Sager now pitching. Jeter takes first base on ball four. Hayes scores. Posada moves to third. Fox moves to second.
Bottom 4 Fox takes first base on ball four. Hayes moves to third. Posada moves to second.
Bottom 4 Posada hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Martinez scores. Hayes moves to second.
Bottom 4 Hayes hits a ball on the ground towards first. Clark fields it and throws to second for the out. Martinez moves to third.
Bottom 4 Fielder takes first base on ball four. Martinez moves to second.
Bottom 4 Martinez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Williams hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Cruz strikes out. Posada drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Cruz out.
Top 4 Walbeck hits a line drive towards short. Jeter reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Trammell hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Williams. Trammell reaches second base with a double. Nevin scores.
Top 4 Nevin hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of O'Neill. Nevin reaches second base with a double. Clark scores. Easley goes all the way around to score.
Top 4 Easley hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Clark moves to second.
Top 4 Clark hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Fryman hits a fly ball into right field. O'Neill settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 O'Neill hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cruz scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Curtis takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Jeter strikes out.
Bottom 3 Fox hits a fly ball into left field. Nevin settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 There goes Higginson. The throw from Posada to Jeter and they have Higginson trapped. The throw over to Martinez, who applies the tag for the out.
Top 3 Higginson takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Hunter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Fox fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Walbeck moves to third.
Top 3 Cruz hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Trammell scores. Walbeck moves to second.
Top 3 Walbeck hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Trammell moves to second.
Top 3 Trammell hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Posada hits a fly ball into right field. Higginson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Hayes hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Fielder strikes out.
Bottom 2 Martinez hits a fly ball into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Nevin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hayes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Easley hits a popup towards first. Martinez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards first. Martinez scoops it up and throws to first, with Rogers covering, for the out.
Bottom 1 Williams strikes out.
Bottom 1 There goes Jeter. The throw from Walbeck and he is safe. Jeter steals second.
Bottom 1 O'Neill hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Walbeck settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Curtis hits a fly ball into right field. Higginson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Jeter bunts towards the mound. Keagle fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Fryman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Jeter fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 1 Higginson hits a popup, foul, towards third. Hayes settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Hunter hits a ball on the ground towards short. Jeter fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.