When Lenny Harris grounded out for the final out of the game, the head of his shattered bat rolled untouched across the infield.
Clemens threw Mike Piazza's shattered bat in Piazza's direction that night, after beaning Piazza three months earlier.
Rather than try to run it out, Guerrero scrambled to pick up the pieces of his shattered bat, making the umpires suspicious.
There would be an error soon enough, when Zeile could not handle Willie Bloomquist's grounder as a shattered bat bounced toward him.
The umpires reason that the batter has no control over a flying piece of shattered bat.
When Piazza hit a broken-bat foul ball and Clemens threw the shattered bat near him, Ventura was on deck again.
It was the third time this month that Wright had been struck on the mound - twice by balls, once by a shattered bat.
After seeing Franco's shattered bat, Williams instinctively charged in thinking that it was a bloop.
Wells said Piazza let Clemens off easy after Clemens threw a shattered bat near him in Game 2.
He also threw a shattered bat toward Piazza during that season's World Series.