21.   Normally, a player retrieving a broken bat handsit to a batboy.

22.   Piazza, a fragment of the splintered timber still in his hands, took a few steps down the line as Clemens fielded the broken bat cleanly.

23.   So on his way back to right field, he gave his broken bat to the little boy.

24.   The second drive, which was even closer to leaving the park, was used with a broken bat, Giles said.

25.   Then Stan Javier, who had four hits in the game, managed a broken bat single that barely reached the outfield grass.

26.   There are no official statistics for broken bats, but he probably averages between one and two per appearance.

27.   Thousands of base hits instead of broken bats.

28.   Throwing a broken bat in anger, which seemed to be the case on Sunday, can fall into the same category.

29.   Benejam was sitting close to the field on the third baseline at Tiger Stadium when a shard from a broken bat impaled her hand.

30.   Henry Rodriguez then lofted a broken bat single to right to drive in Sosa and tie the game.