31.   On Monday night, Jones scattered five hits over eight innings, giving up two runs.

32.   Rodriguez led off the ninth with a single to left field for his seventh straight hit over two games.

33.   That Mark Guthrie came in and allowed two runs on two hits over the next three innings really did not matter.

34.   The Astros got only three hits over the next six innings.

35.   The Braves could not do much against Leiter, getting two hits over the next five innings.

36.   The Mets, meanwhile, were struggling against Park, who in May allowed them two hits over seven shutout innings.

37.   The Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled numerous presidents, including Lyndon Baines Johnson and George Bush, has taken his share of hits over the years.

38.   The veteran right-hander scattered three hits over the first six innings and should have escaped unharmed when he found himself in a jam in the seventh.

39.   Then Ed Sprague broke his bat blooping a hit over second, and Canseco scored the tying run.

40.   Wells baffled the Cardinals on no runs and three hits over the first four innings before pitching out of supreme difficulty in the fifth.