Ultimate Mets Database: Game of July 2, 1998 - Box Score

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Blue Jays 15, Mets 10 1998 Regular Season Game 80
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Mets 9, Blue Jays 1 Next Game:
July 3, 1998
Braves 3, Mets 2

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National League Standings, July 2, 1998

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Mets Starting Lineup

cf
Brian
McRae 3b
Edgardo
Alfonzo 1b
John
Olerud dh
Mike
Piazza 2b
Carlos
Baerga lf
Bernard
Gilkey rf
Butch
Huskey c
Todd
Pratt ss
Rey
Ordonez p
Bobby
Jones

July 2, 1998, Skydome, Toronto, ON

New York Mets 9, Toronto Blue Jays 1

Mets ab r h bi bb so Avg.

Brian McRae cf 5 0 0 0 0 0 .233

Edgardo Alfonzo 3b 4 3 3 0 1 0 .270

John Olerud 1b 4 1 2 1 1 0 .328

Mike Piazza dh 3 1 1 2 1 0 .339

- Alberto Castillo ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 .205

Carlos Baerga 2b 3 1 1 2 0 0 .287

- Luis Lopez 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .273

Bernard Gilkey lf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .240

- Wayne Kirby lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .222

Butch Huskey rf 3 1 2 1 0 1 .245

- Benny Agbayani rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .143

Todd Pratt c 4 1 1 3 0 0 .250

Rey Ordonez ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .228

Bobby Jones p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250

- John Franco p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000

Blue Jays ab r h bi bb so

Shannon Stewart lf 4 0 0 0 0 0

Shawn Green cf 3 0 1 0 0 0

- Mark Dalesandro ph 1 0 0 0 0 1

Tony Fernandez 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0

- Juan Samuel 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0

Carlos Delgado 1b 3 1 1 1 0 1

Mike Stanley dh 3 0 1 0 0 1

Darrin Fletcher c 2 0 0 0 0 0

- Kevin Brown c 1 0 0 0 0 0

Felipe Crespo rf 3 0 1 0 0 0

Ed Sprague 3b 2 0 0 0 1 0

Alex Gonzalez ss 2 0 0 0 0 1

- Craig Grebeck ss 1 0 0 0 0 0

Pat Hentgen p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Robert Person p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Dave Stieb p 0 0 0 0 0 0

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

New York Mets 0 0 3 0 5 1 0 0 0 9 11 0

Toronto Blue Jays 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 0

New York Mets ip h r er bb so

Bobby Jones (W,7-5) 8.0 5 1 1 1 3 3.72

John Franco 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 2.37

Toronto Blue Jays ip h r er bb so

Pat Hentgen (L) 5.0 9 8 8 3 2

Robert Person 1.0 2 1 1 1 1

Dave Stieb 3.0 0 0 0 0 2

WP: Pat Hentgen.
2B: Edgardo Alfonzo (13), Bernard Gilkey (14), John Olerud (15), Shawn Green.
HR: Todd Pratt (2), Mike Piazza (5), Carlos Delgado.
SF: Carlos Baerga.
SB: Edgardo Alfonzo (4).

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