1.   An inning later Chipper Jones, who left the game in the sixth with a rib cage strain, hit a solo homer and Perez began to unravel.

2.   And an inning and a half after that, matters were all even again as Luis Alicea brought the Red Sox back with a solo homer in the eighth.

3.   At the plate, Anderson hit solo homers in the second and fourth, both times pulling fastballs from left-hander Jaime Moyer into the right-field seats.

4.   Belcher survived solo homers by Posada and Tino Martinez.

5.   Bonds was the first batter McElroy faced in relief of Brett Jodie, who gave up a solo homer to Jeff Kent in the fourth.

6.   Both runs came across on solo homers, by Rodriguez in the first inning and Rafael Palmeiro in the second.

7.   Both, however, were solo homers.

8.   A grand slam by Ken Griffey Jr. capped the fifth, and he added a solo homer in a six-run sixth.

9.   Actually, all the help Cordova needed came in the third and fifth innings, when Giles blasted solo homers off Holt.

10.   After Nixon countered with a solo homer in the fourth, the Expos capitalized on the first contested call.