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Monday, July 31, 2000

Associated Press
Benny Agbayani crashes into St. Louis catcher Mike
Matheny while scoring a run in Saturday's game.
Yesterday, Agbayani hit a lead-off homer.

Peanuts, Cracker Jack
and another Benny HR

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Star-Bulletin wire services

NEW YORK -- Before the New York Mets came to bat in their eventual 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday at Shea Stadium, Niela Agbayani went to get some food.

She didn't make it back to her seat in time to see husband Benny Agbayani's lead-off home run.

Benny, who played most of this year as a substitute before being given the starting job in left field, finished the game with two hits. The former Hawaii Pacific University star has eight homers this season.

The Mets have four leadoff homers this year, including one by Agbayani on June 16 at Milwaukee. Jon Nunally (May 3 at San Francisco) and Lenny Harris (July 18 at Toronto) also accomplished the feat.

METS 4, CARDINALS 2

ST. LOUIS		NEW YORK
	AB	R	H	BI		AB	R	H	BI
Vina 2b	4	1	1	0	Agbayani lf	3	1	2	1
Renteria ss	4	0	1	0	McEwing lf	0	0	0	0
Edmonds cf	4	0	0	0	Bordick ss	4	0	0	0
EDavis rf	4	0	0	1	Alfonzo 2b	4	0	1	0
Lankford lf	4	1	1	1	Piazza c	4	0	1	0
Tatis 3b	4	0	1	0	Ventura 3b	4	0	1	0
EAPerez 1b	2	0	0	0	Zeile 1b	2	1	0	0
Matheny c	3	0	0	0	Payton cf	4	1	1	0
Stephenson p	1	0	0	0	Trammell rf	3	1	1	3
THoward ph	1	0	0	0	BJJones p	3	0	0	0
MJames p	0	0	0	0
Timlin p	0	0	0	0
Dunston ph	1	0	0	0
Veres p	0	0	0	0
Totals	32	2	4	2	Totals	31	4	7	4

St. Louis	000	001	001--2
New York	130	000	00x--4

E--BJJones (1). LOB--St. Louis 4, New York 6. 2B--Renteria (19). HR--Lankford (17), Agbayani (8), Trammell (1).

St. Louis

	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Stephenson L,11-7	4	5	4	4	1	3
MJames	2	1	0	0	0	1
Timlin	1	0	0	0	1	2
Veres	1	1	0	0	1	0

New York

	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
BJJones W,5-5	9	4	2	2	1	9

Umpires--Home, Carlson; First, DeMuth; Second, Eddings; Third, Reliford.

T--2:29. A--45,733.