21.   Atlanta scored again in the third inning with the same kind of efficiency.

22.   Baldwin suffered the injury in the third inning of his start Friday against the Phillies.

23.   Batting in the same situation in the third inning, Gonzalez made Hernandez get the ball up and he lined one into the right-center gap.

24.   Batting against Parque in the third inning, he drove the second pitch into the left-field stands.

25.   Batting against Texas starter Rick Helling in the third inning, Brosius pulled a single through the left side, then took second on a wild pitch.

26.   Because the Mets were losing the second game in Arizona from the third inning on, Henderson played it straight.

27.   Barry Bonds was the first runner who tried to steal, but Rodriguez threw him out by several feet in the third inning.

28.   Before settling down, Jones wavered a bit after the third inning.

29.   Blair provided a re-run of the third inning when Sean Casey doubled with two out, then stayed at second when Larkin flied out to right.

30.   Bobby Witt, the Oakland starting pitcher who had come into Orioles Park at Camden Yards riding three straight shutouts, did not get out of the third inning.