When all the bodies were back on their feet, when all the yelling at officials for failing to call fouls ended, the Liberty had escaped with a 56-48 victoverover the Charlotte Sting last night at Madison Square Garden.
Then he got the next batter, Kevin Orie, to pop out foul to end the 29-pitch inning.
Even after Phillies first baseman Travis Lee caught Todd Zeile's pop foul to end the inning, things still seemed to be on the Mets' side.
Müller, meanwhile, got no foul and ended the game with three goals: a hero.
Stanton threw another breaking ball to the backstop, enabling Erstad to reach second, then Garret Anderson pulled a double inside the right-field foul line, ending the game.
The short right-field foul line ends at Pesky's Pole, given its name by Red Sox pitcher Mel Parnell, Pesky's teammate, as a wry allusion to the rare occasions when his left-handed swing, which produced all of 17 career home runs, managed to pull the ball into the stands in the vicinity of the pole.
A controversial defeat by the Netherlands in Rotterdam, with Ronald Koeman scoring the opener minutes after he should have been dismissed for a professional foul, effectively ended England's chances of qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the United States.
Rice grabbed the rebound, got fouled, and ended the scoring with 2 free throws.
Hansbrough hit only two of his first eight shots — he was one of seven from beyond the 3-point line — but he drew plenty of fouls and ended up making 11 of 13 free throws.
Humphries picked up two early fourth-quarter fouls, which ended up hurting the Nets, but his second-quarter surge was strong enough that he tied for a team-high plus-minus of 0, while Odom finished with a game-low minus 13.
