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Florida Marlins 4, Cleveland Indians 3 · 1997-10-18 to 1997-10-26 · 7 games · attendance 403,617 · season overview

◀ 1996 1998 ▶

Champion · 1st title

Florida Marlins
Manager Jim Leyland

Runner-up

Cleveland Indians
Manager Mike Hargrove

Series MVP

Livan Hernandez

Ballparks

Progressive Field
Sun Life Stadium

Note

Decided in game 7

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	1997-10-18	Cleveland Indians 4 at Florida Marlins 7	1–0	Sun Life Stadium	67,245	Livan Hernandez	Orel Hershiser	Robb Nen
2	1997-10-19	Cleveland Indians 6 at Florida Marlins 1	1–1	Sun Life Stadium	67,025	Chad Ogea	Kevin Brown
3	1997-10-21	Florida Marlins 14 at Cleveland Indians 11	2–1	Progressive Field	44,880	Dennis Cook	Eric Plunk
4	1997-10-22	Florida Marlins 3 at Cleveland Indians 10	2–2	Progressive Field	44,877	Jaret Wright	Tony Saunders	Brian Anderson
5	1997-10-23	Florida Marlins 8 at Cleveland Indians 7	3–2	Progressive Field	44,888	Livan Hernandez	Orel Hershiser	Robb Nen
6	1997-10-25	Cleveland Indians 4 at Florida Marlins 1	3–3	Sun Life Stadium	67,498	Chad Ogea	Kevin Brown	Jose Mesa
7	1997-10-26	Cleveland Indians 2 at Florida Marlins 3	4–3	Sun Life Stadium	67,204	Jay Powell	Charles Nagy

The players

Florida Marlins

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Devon White	7	33	0	8	3	1	0	2	3	10	1	.242
Edgar Renteria	7	31	3	9	2	0	0	3	3	5	0	.290
Bobby Bonilla	7	29	5	6	1	0	1	3	3	5	0	.207
Charles Johnson	7	28	4	10	0	0	1	3	1	6	0	.357
Moises Alou	7	28	6	9	2	0	3	9	3	6	1	.321
Gary Sheffield	7	24	4	7	1	0	1	5	8	5	0	.292
Craig Counsell	7	22	4	4	1	0	0	2	6	5	1	.182
Darren Daulton	7	18	7	7	2	0	1	2	3	0	1	.389
Jeff Conine	5	13	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.231
Jim Eisenreich	5	8	1	4	0	0	1	3	3	1	0	.500
John Cangelosi	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.333
Kurt Abbott	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Kevin Brown	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Cliff Floyd	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000
Livan Hernandez	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Gregg Zaun	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Alex Arias	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Al Leiter	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Livan Hernandez	2	2	2–0	0	13.2	15	9	8	10	7	3	5.27
Kevin Brown	2	2	0–2	0	11.0	15	10	10	5	6	1	8.18
Al Leiter	2	2	0–0	0	10.2	10	9	6	10	10	1	5.06
Antonio Alfonseca	3	0	0–0	0	6.1	6	0	0	1	5	0	0.00
Felix Heredia	3	0	0–0	0	5.1	1	0	0	1	5	0	0.00
Robb Nen	4	0	0–0	2	4.2	8	5	4	2	7	0	7.71
Jay Powell	4	0	1–0	0	3.2	5	3	3	4	2	1	7.36
Dennis Cook	3	0	1–0	0	3.2	1	0	0	1	5	0	0.00
Ed Vosberg	2	0	0–0	0	3.0	3	2	2	3	2	0	6.00
Tony Saunders	1	1	0–1	0	2.0	7	6	6	3	2	1	27.00

Cleveland Indians

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Sandy Alomar	7	30	5	11	1	0	2	10	2	3	0	.367
Omar Vizquel	7	30	5	7	2	0	0	1	3	5	5	.233
Jim Thome	7	28	8	8	0	1	2	4	5	7	0	.286
David Justice	7	27	4	5	0	0	0	4	6	8	0	.185
Matt Williams	7	26	8	10	1	0	1	3	7	6	0	.385
Manny Ramirez	7	26	3	4	0	0	2	6	6	5	0	.154
Marquis Grissom	7	25	5	9	1	0	0	2	4	4	0	.360
Bip Roberts	6	22	3	6	4	0	0	4	3	5	0	.273
Tony Fernandez	5	17	1	8	1	0	0	4	0	1	0	.471
Brian Giles	5	4	1	2	1	0	0	2	4	1	0	.500
Chad Ogea	2	4	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	.500
Orel Hershiser	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Michael Jackson	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Jaret Wright	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Jeff Branson	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Kevin Seitzer	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Jaret Wright	2	2	1–0	0	12.1	7	4	4	10	12	2	2.92
Chad Ogea	2	2	2–0	0	11.2	11	2	2	3	5	0	1.54
Orel Hershiser	2	2	0–2	0	10.0	15	13	13	6	5	3	11.70
Charles Nagy	2	1	0–1	0	7.0	8	6	5	5	5	3	6.43
Jose Mesa	5	0	0–0	1	5.0	10	3	3	1	5	0	5.40
Michael Jackson	4	0	0–0	0	4.2	5	1	1	3	4	0	1.93
Paul Assenmacher	5	0	0–0	0	4.0	5	0	0	0	6	0	0.00
Brian Anderson	3	0	0–0	1	3.2	2	1	1	0	2	0	2.45
Eric Plunk	3	0	0–1	0	3.0	3	4	3	4	3	0	9.00
Jeff Juden	2	0	0–0	0	2.0	2	1	1	2	0	0	4.50
Alvin Morman	1	0	0–0	0	0.1	0	2	0	1	1	0	0.00