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1997 NL Division Series (3-0): Atlanta Braves (101-61) over Houston Astros (84-78)

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WS: FLA-CLE / ALCS: CLE-BAL / NLCS: FLA-ATL / Div. Series: CLE-NYY / BAL-SEA / FLA-SFG / ATL-HOU
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Series Games

Game 1 / Box Score and Play-By-Play

  September 30, 1997 at Turner Fld (Atlanta Braves)

                                 1  2  3    4  5  6    7  8  9     R  H  E
                                 -  -  -    -  -  -    -  -  -     -  -  -
    Houston Astros               0  0  0    0  1  0    0  0  0     1  7  1
    Atlanta Braves               1  1  0    0  0  0    0  0  x     2  2  0

    PITCHERS: HOU - Kile, Springer (8), Martin (8)
              ATL - Maddux

               WP - Greg Maddux
	       LP - Darryl Kile
             SAVE - none

   HOME RUNS: HOU - none
              ATL - Klesko

  ATTENDANCE: 46,467

Game 2 / Box Score and Play-By-Play

  October 1, 1997 at Turner Fld (Atlanta Braves)

                                 1  2  3    4  5  6    7  8  9     R  H  E
                                 -  -  -    -  -  -    -  -  -     -  -  -
    Houston Astros               0  0  0    3  0  0    0  0  0     3  6  2
    Atlanta Braves               0  0  3    0  3  5    0  2  x    13 10  1

    PITCHERS: HOU - Hampton, Magnante (5), Garcia (6), Lima (7), Wagner (8)
              ATL - Glavine, Cather (7), Wohlers (9)

               WP - Tom Glavine
	       LP - Mike Hampton
             SAVE - none

   HOME RUNS: HOU - none
              ATL - Blauser

  ATTENDANCE: 49,200

Game 3 / Box Score and Play-By-Play

  October 3, 1997 at Astrodome (Houston Astros)

                                 1  2  3    4  5  6    7  8  9     R  H  E
                                 -  -  -    -  -  -    -  -  -     -  -  -
    Atlanta Braves               1  1  0    0  0  0    1  1  0     4  8  2
    Houston Astros               0  0  0    0  0  0    1  0  0     1  3  1

    PITCHERS: ATL - Smoltz
              HOU - Reynolds, Springer (7), Martin (8), Garcia (8), Magnante (9)

               WP - John Smoltz
	       LP - Shane Reynolds
             SAVE - none

   HOME RUNS: ATL - Jones
              HOU - Carr

  ATTENDANCE: 53,688

Series Batting Stats

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Atlanta Braves

                                          SERIES STATS                   |      REGULAR SEASON       
 Player              G  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO  BA    OBP   SLG  SB |  AB  H  HR  BA     OPS  SB
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
 Danny Bautista      3   3  0  1  0  0  0   2  0  1  .333  .333  .333  0 | 103  25  3  .243  .680   2
 Jeff Blauser        3  10  2  3  0  0  1   4  2  2  .300  .417  .600  0 | 519 160 17  .308  .887   5
 Mike Cather         1   1  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 |   1   0  0  .000  .000   0
 Greg Colbrunn       1   1  0  1  0  0  0   2  0  0 1.000 1.000 1.000  0 |+271  76  7  .280  .730   1
*Tom Glavine         1   3  2  2  0  0  0   0  0  0  .667  .667  .667  0 |  63  14  0  .222  .532   0
 Tony Graffanino     3   3  0  0  0  0  0   0  2  1  .000  .400  .000  0 | 186  48  8  .258  .790   6
 Andruw Jones        3   5  1  0  0  0  0   1  1  1  .000  .167  .000  0 | 399  92 18  .231  .745  20
#Chipper Jones       3   8  3  4  0  0  1   2  3  2  .500  .583  .875  1 | 597 176 21  .295  .850  20
*Ryan Klesko         3   8  2  2  1  0  1   1  0  2  .250  .250  .750  0 | 467 122 24  .261  .824   4
*Keith Lockhart      2   6  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 | 147  41  6  .279  .813   0
*Kenny Lofton        3  13  2  2  1  0  0   0  1  2  .154  .214  .231  0 | 493 164  5  .333  .837  27
 Javy Lopez          2   7  3  2  2  0  0   1  2  1  .286  .444  .571  0 | 414 122 23  .295  .895   1
 Greg Maddux         1   2  0  0  0  0  0   0  1  1  .000  .333  .000  0 |  67   7  0  .104  .301   1
*Fred McGriff        3   9  4  2  0  0  0   1  3  2  .222  .417  .222  0 | 564 156 22  .277  .797   5
 Eddie Perez         1   3  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 | 191  41  6  .215  .594   0
 John Smoltz         1   4  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 |  79  18  0  .228  .573   1
*Michael Tucker      2   6  0  1  0  0  0   1  0  1  .167  .167  .167  0 | 499 141 14  .283  .792  12
 Mark Wohlers        1   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |   2   0  0  .000  .000   0
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
 Total               3  92 19 20  4  0  3  15 15 20  .217  .324  .359  1 |        174  .270  .767 108

    * - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, ? - unknown, else - bats right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

Houston Astros

                                          SERIES STATS                   |      REGULAR SEASON       
 Player              G  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO  BA    OBP   SLG  SB |  AB  H  HR  BA     OPS  SB
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
*Bobby Abreu         3   3  0  1  0  0  0   0  0  2  .333  .333  .333  1 | 188  47  3  .250  .701   7
 Brad Ausmus         2   5  1  2  1  0  0   2  0  1  .400  .400  .600  0 | 425 113  4  .266  .684  14
 Jeff Bagwell        3  12  0  1  0  0  0   0  1  5  .083  .154  .083  0 | 566 162 43  .286 1.017  31
 Derek Bell          3  13  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  3  .000  .000  .000  0 | 493 136 15  .276  .782  15
 Sean Berry          1   1  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  .000  .000  .000  0 | 301  77  8  .256  .740   1
 Craig Biggio        3  12  0  1  0  0  0   0  1  0  .083  .154  .083  0 | 619 191 22  .309  .916  47
#Chuck Carr          2   4  1  1  0  0  1   1  1  3  .250  .400 1.000  0 |+238  59  4  .248  .679  12
 Tony Eusebio        1   3  1  2  0  0  0   0  0  1  .667  .667  .667  1 | 164  45  1  .274  .669   0
 Ramon Garcia        2   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |  36   4  0  .111  .299   0
*Luis Gonzalez       3  12  0  4  0  0  0   0  0  1  .333  .333  .333  0 | 550 142 10  .258  .721  10
 Ricky Gutierrez     3   8  0  1  0  0  0   0  2  1  .125  .300  .125  0 | 303  79  3  .261  .678   5
 Mike Hampton        1   2  0  1  0  0  0   1  0  0  .500  .500  .500  0 |  73  10  0  .137  .368   0
 Richard Hidalgo     2   5  1  0  0  0  0   0  1  2  .000  .167  .000  0 |  62  19  2  .306  .842   1
#Thomas Howard       2   1  0  0  0  0  0   0  1  1  .000  .500  .000  0 | 255  63  3  .247  .676   1
 Russ Johnson        1   1  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 |  60  18  2  .300  .781   1
 Darryl Kile         1   2  0  2  0  0  0   1  0  0 1.000 1.000 1.000  0 |  89  11  0  .124  .336   0
 Jose Lima           1   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |   3   0  0  .000  .000   0
*Mike Magnante       2   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |   3   0  0  .000  .000   0
*Tom Martin          2   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |   3   0  0  .000  .000   0
 Tony Pena           2   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |+ 86  15  0  .174  .476   0
 Shane Reynolds      1   1  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 |  53   6  0  .113  .315   0
*Bill Spiers         3  11  1  0  0  0  0   0  1  2  .000  .083  .000  0 | 291  93  4  .320  .919  10
 Russ Springer       2   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |   1   0  0  .000  .000   0
*Billy Wagner        1   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |   1   0  0  .000  .000   0
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
 Total               3  96  5 16  1  0  1   5  8 24  .167  .231  .208  2 |        133  .259  .739 171

    * - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, ? - unknown, else - bats right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

Series Pitching Stats

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Atlanta Braves

                        SERIES STATS                     |     REGULAR SEASON           
 Player              G  ERA   W-L SV CG  IP   H ER BB SO |  W-L   IP  ERA   WHIP  SO SV 
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
 Greg Maddux         1   1.00 1-0  0  1  9.0  7  1  1  6 | 19-4  233  2.20  0.95 177   
 John Smoltz         1   1.00 1-0  0  1  9.0  3  1  1 11 | 15-12 256  3.02  1.16 241   
*Tom Glavine         1   4.50 1-0  0  0  6.0  5  3  5  4 | 14-7  240  2.96  1.15 152   
 Mike Cather         1   0.00 0-0  0  0  2.0  0  0  1  2 |  2-4   38  2.39  1.12  29   
 Mark Wohlers        1   0.00 0-0  0  0  1.0  1  0  0  1 |  5-7   69  3.50  1.37  92 33
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
 Total                   1.67 3-0  0  2 27.0 16  5  8 24 |            3.18 1.210   

    * - throws left-handed, ? - unknown, else - throws right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

Houston Astros

                        SERIES STATS                     |     REGULAR SEASON           
 Player              G  ERA   W-L SV CG  IP   H ER BB SO |  W-L   IP  ERA   WHIP  SO SV 
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
 Darryl Kile         1   2.57 0-1  0  0  7.0  2  2  2  4 | 19-7  256  2.57  1.18 205   
 Shane Reynolds      1   3.00 0-1  0  0  6.0  5  2  1  5 |  9-10 181  4.23  1.30 152   
*Mike Hampton        1  11.57 0-1  0  0  4.7  2  6  8  2 | 15-10 223  3.83  1.32 139   
*Mike Magnante       2   4.50 0-0  0  0  2.0  4  1  0  2 |  3-1   48  2.27  1.05  43  1
 Russ Springer       2   5.40 0-0  0  0  1.7  2  1  1  3 |  3-3   55  4.23  1.36  74  3
 Jose Lima           1   0.00 0-0  0  0  1.0  0  0  1  1 |  1-6   75  5.28  1.27  63  2
*Billy Wagner        1   9.00 0-0  0  0  1.0  3  1  0  2 |  7-8   66  2.85  1.19 106 23
 Ramon Garcia        2   0.00 0-0  0  0  1.0  1  0  1  1 |  9-8  159  3.69  1.30 120  1
*Tom Martin          2   0.00 0-0  0  0  0.7  1  0  1  0 |  5-3   56  2.09  1.34  36  2
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
 Total                   4.68 0-3  0  0 25.0 20 13 15 20 |            3.67 1.300   

    * - throws left-handed, ? - unknown, else - throws right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

WS: FLA-CLE / ALCS: CLE-BAL / NLCS: FLA-ATL / Div. Series: CLE-NYY / BAL-SEA / FLA-SFG / ATL-HOU

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