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Big Mac nails 70th to end season
McGwire ends his record
setting season by hitting
his 69th and 70th homers
By R.B. Fallstrom
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — An incredible 70
homers! Even Mark McGwire
couldn’t believe it.
“I’ve never even thought about
it, dreamed about it,” he said. “It’s
absolutely amazing! It blows me
away!”
The St. Louis Cardinals’ slugger
ended his record-smashing season
as mightily as he started it. He hit
his 69th and 70th homers on the
season’s last day, a fitting finale for
a year he began with a grand slam
on opening day.
“This is a season I will never,
ever forget, and 1 hope everybody
in baseball never forgets,” Mc
Gwire told the cheering crowd af
ter the game.
Big Mac, who hit five homers on
the final weekend, connected
against Montreal rookie Mike
Thurman in the third inning Sun
day, then homered off Carl Pavano
for No. 70 in the seventh. Mc
Gwire moved four ahead of Sam
my Sosa and ended nine — nine!
— in front of Roger Maris’ old
record.
Sosa went 2-5 with no homers
as the Cubs lost to Houston, 4-3, in
11 innings, but his season is not
done. The Cubs will face San
Francisco at Wrigley Field on
Monday night in a one-game play
off for the wild-card spot.
“I wish him the best of luck,
along with the Giants,” McGwire
said.
McGwire, who has 10 multi
homer games this year and 53 in
his career, left many in awe.
“It’s stranger than fiction, what
this man has done,” manager
Tony La Russa said.
Expos manager Felipe Alou told
his young pitchers to challenge
McGwire.
“I left it up to God and the kid
on the mound,” Alou said. “I did
n’t want to tamper with history.
“Thank God the season’s over,
or he would hit 80.”
McGwire hit a 1-1 fastball 377
feet into the left-field seats at 2:10
p.m. CDT tor
No. 69. After
stomping on
home plate, he
took a few slow
steps, then
made several
salutes to the
sellout crowd. The fans who had
stood well before his at-bat de
manded and got two curtain calls.
Kerry Woodson, a 22-year-old
body-shop worker from Maryland
Heights, Mo., wound up with the
ball and said he didn’t know what
he would do with it.
“I reached up, closed my eyes,
and it landed in my glove,” Wood
son said. “It’s a dream come true. I
hope he doesn’t hit any more to
day.”
He didn’t get his wish.
With two on and two outs in the
seventh and the score 3-all, he
connected off Pavano (6-9), lining
a first-pitch fastball 370 feet over
the left-field wall at 3:19 p.m.,
sending the Cardinals on to a 6-3
win over the Expos.
“Every time the replay is
shown, I’m not going to turn the
TV off,” Pavano said. “I hope he
hits 75 next year so people will
forget I gave up No. 70.
"C’mon Mark, I’m rooting for
you.”
This time, even a curtain call
from McGwire didn't quiet the
46,110 fans, who remained on
their feet, cheering even as Brian
Jordan took a called third strike for
the third out of the inning.
McGwire said No. 70 felt almost
like No. 62, the homer that broke
Maris’ record, with the crowd at
fever pitch and Expos infielders
shaking his hand as he rounded
the bases.
“What can I say?” McGwire
said. “I’m speechless.”
The second home run ball land
ed in a party box and was snared
by Phil Ozersky, 26, of Olivette,
Mo., attending the game with a
group of Washington University
research lab scientists. He said he
didn’t know what he’d do with the
ball, which is worth a lot of money
on the collectibles market.
McGwire opened the year with
a slam on March 31 against the
Dodgers’ Ramon Martinez, then
led the home run race all season
except when Sosa twice passed
him briefly — and then for only
103 minutes in all.
Sosa led for 58 minutes on Aug.
19 before McGwire went back
ahead with his 48th and 49th
homers in the same game at Chica
go. Sosa led for 45 minutes on Fri
day when he hit his 66th before
McGwire answered.
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