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Tuesday, August 8, 2000

Astros-Mets
series ‘get plenty’
local flavor

Truby clears the bases with
a three-run double to keep his
hot streak going, and Agbayani
doubles and scores two runs

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Staff and wire services

HOUSTON -- Truby or not to be?

Right now, it's Truby.

Hawaii's Chris Truby was at it again last night, whacking the baseball around a major-league diamond.

Truby, a former Damien Memorial High School star, went 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs in Houston's 6-5, 11-inning loss to the New York Mets at Enron Field.

Truby's three-run double in the fifth inning gave the Astros a 5-4 lead, and that stood until Derek Bell's homer with two out in the ninth tied it.

Last Friday, Truby bashed two home runs, and Sunday night, he drilled a grand slam and finished with six RBIs. In both games, he helped push the Astros past the Montreal Expos.

"The last couple of nights I've come up with a lot of guys on base and I've had some good pitches to hit," Truby said. "The one tonight was a good pitch. It was just a fly ball that was able to find a gap. I looked up and saw where the center fielder was and I couldn't believe it."

Truby, brought up to the majors from Triple-A New Orleans in mid-June to fill in for injured third baseman Ken Caminiti, is trying to win a permanent spot in the Houston lineup next year.

Another Hawaii major-leaguer, former Hawaii Pacific University standout Benny Agbayani, also socked a double in the game -- his 13th two-bagger of the season for the Mets -- and he scored two runs.

Kurt Abbott's 11th-inning homer gave the Mets the victory.

Bell, who played for the Astros last year when he clashed with Houston manager Larry Dierker, caught Moises Alou's fly ball to end the game. He was about to throw the ball into the stands, but shook his head and kept it instead.

The game was the first of the season between the two teams, and it was the first major-league game Truby and Agbayani played against each other.

Agbayani, who has appeared in 80 games this season, is batting .306 while Truby raised his average to .278.

The three-game series continues today and tomorrow at 2:05 p.m. HST.

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METS 6, ASTROS 5

11 innings

NEW YORK					HOUSTON
	ab	r	h	bi		ab	r	h	bi
Bordick ss	6	0	0	0	Lugo 2b	5	1	0	0
DeBell rf	5	1	1	1	Franklin p	0	0	0	0
Alfonzo 2b	3	0	0	0	Berkman lf	4	1	2	0
JFranco p	0	0	0	0	GBarker cf	2	0	1	0
MFranco 1b	1	0	0	0	Bagwell 1b	5	1	3	1
Ventura 3b	4	1	1	1	Hidalgo cf	5	0	0	0
Zeile 1b	4	0	0	0	Alou rf	4	2	1	0
Benitez p	0	0	0	0	Truby 3b	3	0	2	3
Agbayani lf	2	2	1	0	Slusarski p	0	0	0	0
McEwing lf	0	0	0	0	Mieske ph	1	0	0	0
Payton cf	4	1	1	0	MValdes p	0	0	0	0
Pratt c	5	0	1	0	Dotel p	0	0	0	0
Hampton p	3	0	2	2	DWard ph	1	0	0	0
Wendell p	0	0	0	0	Green p	0	0	0	0
LHarris ph	1	0	0	0	Cromer 2b	0	0	0	0
KAbbott 2b	1	1	1	1	Eusebio c	5	0	1	1
					Bogar ss	4	0	1	0
					WMiller p	2	0	0	0
					Spiers 3b	3	0	1	0
Totals	39	6	8	5	Totals	44	5	12	5

New York	011	200	001	01--6
Houston	010	040	000	00--5

E-JFranco (1), Ventura (12), Truby (6). DP-New York 2, Houston 2. LOB-New York 9, Houston 12. 2B-Agbayani (13), Truby (7). HR-DeBell (15), Ventura (19), KAbbott (4). SB-DeBell (7), Alou (3).

New York

	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Hampton	7	9	5	5	3	3
Wendell	1	0	0	0	1	0
JFranco	1-1/3	3	0	0	1	1
Benitez W,3-4	1-2/3	0	0	0	1	2

Houston

	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
WMiller	5-1/3	6	4	3	5	5
Slusarski	1-2/3	0	0	0	0	1
MValdes	1	0	0	0	0	2
Dotel	1	1	1	1	0	1
Green L,1-1	1-2/3	1	1	1	2	1
Franklin	1/3	0	0	0	0	1

HBP-by Green (Agbayani), by Slusarski (Alfonzo). WP-Hampton. Umpires-Home, Wendelstedt, Hu; First, Clark; Second, Bucknor; Third, Reed. T-3:55. A-36,536.