Two player who had or would wear the opponent’s uniforms played prominent roles in this game. Working with a 1-0 lead, Orel Hershiser worked himself into trouble in the third with an error and two hit batters. A double play tied the game and might have gotten him out of the jam, but former Indian Jeromy Burnitz hit a two-run homer to make it 3-1. Cleveland took a 4-3 lead in the fifth with two runs coming home on a Burnitz error. Brian Banks (who I do not remember) singled to tie it in the top of the sixth, but Chad Curtis gave the Tribe the lead for good with a leadoff homer off future Indians closer Bob Wickman to lead off the sixth. The Indians needed three pitchers to strand the bases loaded in the seventh, added a run on Brian Giles’ sacrifice fly in the bottom of the frame, and Milwaukee did not mount much of a threat against Eric Plunk and Jose Mesa.
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