1.   Gooden had walked the previous batter on four pitches, and now there were runners on first and second.

2.   The inning was extended when Los Angeles third baseman Adrian Beltre booted a grounder by the previous batter, pinch-hitter Raul Ibanez.

3.   Wells had just fanned Vizquel, giving him five punchouts of the previous eight batters.

4.   Yankees starter David Cone was in command, having struck out six of the previous nine batters before Griffey stepped in.

5.   Before starting his home-run trot, Cabrera flipped his bat toward Cone, who had hit the previous batter, Mike Mordecai.

6.   Burnett escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third by retiring Eric Karros on a called third strike after walking the previous two batters.

7.   Nitkowski, who had hit the two previous batters to load the bases, was taken out of the game after he hit Counsell.

8.   The previous batter, McGwire, hit a shot to the warning track in center that was caught.

9.   The previous batter, Jim Edmonds, was hit in the knee by a pitch.

10.   The three previous batters all grounded the ball to Knoblauch, but he made those plays without incident.