1.   But he lasted only three after experiencing numbness in the tip of a finger when Hideki Irabu clipped him as he squared up to bunt on a squeeze play.

2.   Ishii, who often looks anything but comfortable at the plate, had two sacrifice bunts on Tuesday, in the fifth and sixth innings.

3.   Irabu also dropped a perfect bunt on an impossible pitch in the fourth.

4.   It stayed that way because Ordonez was tagged out when Frascatore pitched out on his first pitch to Reynoso with the suicide squeeze bunt on.

5.   Laid down a sacrifice bunt on command?

6.   Schilling followed the hit batsman with a sacrifice bunt on two strikes and earned a cheer.

7.   That speed has earned Goodwin a bundle of hits as he burns past high hoppers or bunts on the infield, frustrating the most catlike defenders.

8.   Vizcaino had squared to bunt on the first two pitches.

9.   The Mets missed a chance to score in the third after Yoshii missed a bunt on a suicide-squeeze play.