Instead of the inning being over with the score 3-0, the Red Sox were still batting, and Leiter surrendered successive singles to Manny Ramirez and Trot Nixon that produced three more runs in a five-run inning.

He surrendered run-scoring singles to Tommy Herr and Chris James before retiring Mike Schmidt on a fly to right with two men on for his sixth save in six opportunities.

But Keisler walked David McCarty leading off the bottom of the inning - not the best way to curry favor with your manager - and then surrendered back-to-back singles.

He surrendered consecutive singles in the eighth to John Olerud and Candy Maldonado that made it 6-4.

With no score in the top of the second, Gooden surrendered consecutive singles to Kevin Bass and José Cruz, putting runners on the corners with nobody out.

But John surrendered consecutive singles in the fifth to Butch Davis, Ken Gerhart and Rick Schu, making it a 2-2 game, before he retired eight of the last nine batters he faced.

He surrendered back-to-back singles to open the inning.

Hideo Nomo started for the Mets and surrendered singles to the first three batters, with two of them coming around to score.

Bob Wickman surrendered singles to two of the first three batters in the ninth, but Howe struckout Harold Baines and retired Jack Voigt on a groundout for his fifth save.

Glavine, who had given up a solo home run to Dmitri Young in the fourth, nearly undid his own support the next inning by surrendering no-out singles to Ivan Rodriguez and Young.