51.   The Ham Fighters added four more runs in the fifth and threw in another five in the sixth.

52.   The Lions added three more runs, two coming off a Susumu Otomo homer.

53.   The Mets added three more runs on an error by second baseman Jay Bell, another RBI single by Bell and a sacrifice fly by Edgardo Alfonzo.

54.   The Padres added two more runs when reliever Jim Poole threw the ball away at third while Gwynn attempted to steal before the pitch.

55.   The Rockies compounded their troubles by allowing two more runs on an error.

56.   The Royals then added three more runs on solo homers.

57.   They added two more runs in the eighth on RBI hits by Osik and Aramis Ramirez.

58.   Ventura made an ill-advised throw home with the bases loaded later in the sixth, allowing two more runs to score.

59.   He had added just five more runs when he nicked Nuwan Zoysa and Jayasuriya, again having got both hands to the ball, dropped the straightforward slip catch.