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Marquis Grissom led the game off at 4:04 p.m., lining Kent Mercker's first pitch into the right-centerfield alley for a double. The Expos had taken the first two in this three-game series, and such a beginning boded fatally for whatever pennant prospects remained for the Braves...
...Mercker is made of sterner stuff these days, and he pitched out of both that jam and a bases-loaded nightmare in the third, both sides matching zeroes into the fourth...
...prepared, and that when the ball flies towards you, you'll be poised to reach out and snatch that lump of cowhide and stitches in one hand, casually, maybe then uncaringly toss it back like some undersized fish. But when it's never happened before, and Mercker's fastball to Berry is fouled off, and you have but a second to react, calculate and react again...you lunge, desperately, with both hands, and when you catch it you're quickly grateful not to have been cascaded with a chorus of boos for letting the prize slip to the blue seats...
Other than the Atlanta Braves, whose fifth starter, Kent Mercker, threw a no-hitter in the first week of the season, no team seems to have credible fourth and fifth starters...
...cashed in with Tom Glavine, Steve Avery, Kent Mercker, all key parts of Atlanta's staff, all home grown...