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July 19, 1997

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Paul Molitor Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .314
OBP .500 .364
At Bats 3 296
Hits 1 93
• Singles 0 67
• Doubles 1 20
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 4
Walks 1 27
RBI’s 2 56

Billy Taylor Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 4 17
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Oakland-Alameda County Stadium - July 19, 1997
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Strikeout
Billy Taylor
George Williams
Mark McGwire
Scott Spiezio
Mark Bellhorn
Tony Batista
Jason Giambi
Scott Brosius
Pat Lennon
Paul Molitor
Count: 2-2, 2 Outs
Count: 2-2, 0 Outs

Molitor strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Kelly hits a ball on the ground for a double play.
Top 9 George Williams now catching. Billy Taylor now pitching. Knoblauch hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lennon. Knoblauch reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 8 Lennon strikes out.
Bottom 8 Spiezio strikes out.
Bottom 8 Bellhorn hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Eddie Guardado now pitching. George Williams pinch hits for Brent Mayne. Williams hits a popup towards third. Coomer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Meares hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bellhorn fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Myers hits a fly ball into center field. Brosius settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Coomer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bellhorn fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Batista hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Knoblauch settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Brosius hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Frankie Rodriguez now pitching. Canseco hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 7 Giambi hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stahoviak fields it and throws to second for the out. Lennon moves to third.
Bottom 7 McGwire takes first base on ball four. Lennon moves to second.
Bottom 7 Mike Trombley now pitching. Lennon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Roberto Kelly now playing right field. Matt Lawton now playing left field. Darrin Jackson now playing center field. Spiezio hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Lawton strikes out.
Top 7 Cordova hits a ball on the ground for an out. Kelly scores. Molitor moves to third.
Top 7 Stahoviak hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Aaron Small now pitching. Molitor hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Giambi. Molitor reaches second base with a double. Meares scores. Knoblauch scores. Kelly moves to third.
Top 7 Buddy Groom now pitching. Roberto Kelly pinch hits for Rich Becker. Kelly hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Myers scores. Meares moves to third. Knoblauch moves to second.
Top 7 Knoblauch hits a popup into center field for a base hit. Myers moves to third. Meares moves to second.
Top 7 Meares hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Myers moves to second.
Top 7 Pat Lennon now playing right field. Myers hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Bellhorn strikes out. There goes Batista. The throw from Myers to Meares, and Batista is out.
Bottom 6 Mayne bunts in front of the plate. Myers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Batista hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Coomer hits a line drive into right field. Stairs settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lawton hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Stahoviak scores. Lawton moves to second.
Top 6 Cordova strikes out.
Top 6 Stahoviak hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Stairs. Stahoviak reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Don Wengert now pitching. Molitor hits a line drive into left field. Giambi settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Greg Swindell now pitching. Brosius hits a ball on the ground towards short. Meares scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Canseco hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Becker. Canseco reaches second base with a double. McGwire moves to third.
Bottom 5 Giambi strikes out.
Bottom 5 McGwire takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Stairs hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Myers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Becker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Knoblauch hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bellhorn fields it and throws to first for the out. Meares moves to third.
Top 5 Meares hits a line drive into left field. That will be extra bases. Giambi fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on Giambi. Coomer scores. Myers goes all the way around to score.
Top 5 Myers takes first base on ball four. Coomer moves to second.
Top 5 Coomer takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Lawton strikes out.
Bottom 4 Spiezio hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Myers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Bellhorn strikes out.
Bottom 4 Mayne takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Batista hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Cordova. Batista reaches second base with a double. Canseco scores.
Bottom 4 Brosius hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Knoblauch settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 There goes Canseco. The throw from Myers and he is safe. Canseco steals second.
Bottom 4 Brosius hits a popup, foul, towards third. Coomer settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Coomer.
Bottom 4 Canseco hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Giambi scores.
Bottom 4 Giambi hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lawton. Giambi reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Cordova hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Rigby fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Stahoviak hits a fly ball into left field. Giambi settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Molitor hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Molitor for the out.
Bottom 3 McGwire hits a popup into center field. Becker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Stairs takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Spiezio hits a popup towards short. Meares settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Bellhorn hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lawton. Bellhorn reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Mayne hits a ball on the ground towards first. Stahoviak scoops it up and throws to first, with Stevens covering, for the out.
Top 3 Becker hits a line drive into left field. Giambi settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Knoblauch hits a popup towards short. Batista settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Meares hits a ball on the ground towards short. Batista scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Batista hits a line drive into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Brosius hits a fly ball into right field. Lawton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Canseco strikes out.
Bottom 2 Giambi hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Myers hits a ball on the ground towards first. McGwire scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Myers for the out.
Top 2 There's a wild pitch. Coomer moves to second.
Top 2 Coomer hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Lawton strikes out.
Top 2 Cordova hits a fly ball into right field. Stairs settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 McGwire strikes out.
Bottom 1 Stairs takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Spiezio hits a fly ball into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bellhorn hits a popup into left field. Cordova settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Stahoviak hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 1 Molitor takes first base on ball four. Knoblauch moves to second.
Top 1 Becker hits a fly ball into left field. Giambi settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Knoblauch hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spiezio fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.