Around 2:30 that day, my fourth-grade teacher let me go into Mr. Walsh’s room and listen to the end of Game 5 of the National League Championship Series. The San Francisco Giants were down a run to the Chicago Cubs heading into the bottom of the seventh inning.
Will Clark came into the game hitting .625/.667/1.188 for an OPS of 1.854 through the first four games of the series.
He led off the seventh with a triple and scored on Kevin Mitchell‘s sacrifice fly to tie the game.
In the following inning, after two quick outs, Candy Maldonado came in as a pinch hitter for starter Rick Reuschel and drew a walk.