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Trachsel--the Chicago right-hander who bravely buzzed a belt-high fastball at McGwire for the record--was enjoying a breakthrough season in his young career. At 14-8, he had rebounded nicely from a disappointing 8-12 record in the 1997 campaign, and his 4.31 ERA in a hitter-friendly, expanded league is better than it looks...
...Trachsel, like Zachary, has a chance, albeit a slim one, at October glory, something McGwire, for all his individual success, does not. The record's sexiness notwithstanding, every at-bat for every Cubbie still involved in the pennant chase is at least as significant as every...
Sluggers like McGwire--batters who swing for the fences four times a day and damn the torpedoes--are, pardon the iconoclasm, a dime a dozen. Second-rate ballplayers like Dave Kingman, George Foster and Cecil Fielder have put up roughly comparable numbers with exponentially less hoopla...
...McGwire's 129 RBI, 80 percent have come on home runs, and the Cardinals have only won 29 times when McGwire has gone yard. St. Louis' sub-.500 record demonstrates that Mac and the rest of the St. Louis baseball family packed in the pennant race some time...
Sosa, by contrast, must consider taking a strategic walk, hitting to the opposite field to move runners over, avoiding the strikeout in run-scoring opportunities. For every situation in which good fundamental baseball dictates that trying to homer is unpalatable, Sosa must buy out of the race. McGwire observes no such constraints...