1.   Hansell pitched a perfect eighth and ninth to keep things close, and the Dodgers made a final rally in the bottom of the ninth.

2.   He limited the Cardinals to a run over six innings, but it was Russ Springer who got the win after working a perfect eighth.

3.   He pitched a perfect eighth, then turned the game over to left-hander Scott Radinsky.

4.   Instead of shaking hands after seven innings, Dreifort pitched a perfect eighth before turning it over to Jeff Shaw in the ninth.

5.   Jeff Nelson worked a perfect seventh inning, Arthur Rhodes pitched a perfect eighth and Kazuhiro Sasaki threw a perfect ninth for his third save.

6.   Left-hander Takashi Kashiwada, the first Japanese player to play for the Mets, made his major-league debut Thursday, pitching a perfect eighth.

7.   Mike Fetters pitched a perfect eighth and Jeff Shaw earned his fifth save.

8.   Shigetoshi Hasegawa followed Levine with a perfect eighth, then Troy Percival pitched the ninth, allowing an unearned run but no hits and emerging with a save.

9.   Then he sent out Greg McMichael, junkballing his way through a perfect eighth.

10.   There was set-up man Greg Swindell, getting out of impending doom in the seventh with runners on base and working a perfect eighth.