The win was the Braves' ninth in nine exhibition meetings with the Yellow Jackets dating back to 1977, and it was the highest scoring game ever between the two teams with each establishing series highs for runs.
The Braves broke on top with seven runs in the third inning, boosted by a pair of two-run doubles from Ozzie Guillen and Tony Graffanino. Homers by Bautista and Simon in the fourth gave the Braves an 11-0 lead.
Tech, the nation's 12th-ranked collegiate team, avoided its fourth shutout in the series by scoring five times in the seventh inning against Braves reliever Adrian Manzano. Mark Teixeira drove in two runs with a triple, following a run-scoring double by Jason Atha, a sacrifice fly by Jahmal Overton and an RBI-single from Richard Lewis.
Bautista hit his second homer, a three-run shot, in the seventh, and the Braves added an unearned run in the eighth. Graffanino finished the game with three hits and two RBI for Atlanta.
Luis Rivera, the second of six Braves pitchers, was credited with the win, while Tech starter Brad Busbin took the loss.
March 4, 1999 at Lake Buena Vista, FL
(Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex)
GEORGIA TECH (5) AT ATLANTA (15)
GEORGIA TECH AB R H BI ATLANTA AB R H BI
BOGGS 2B 3 0 1 0 WILLIAMS LF 3 0 0 0
LEWIS 2B 2 1 2 1 RUMFIELD PH 1 0 1 0
STOCKTON RF 3 0 0 0 MANZANO P 0 0 0 0
ECONOMOS RF 2 0 0 0 NELSON P 1 1 0 0
TEIXEIRA 3B 4 0 2 2 SCHALL 1B 3 0 0 0
PRINCE 1B 4 0 0 0 BOONE 2B 1 1 1 0
MCQUEEN C 2 0 0 0 GRAFFANINO 2B 4 0 2 2
BLUE C 2 1 1 0 C JONES 3B 3 1 1 0
DONAGHEY 1B 0 0 0 0 MALLOY 3B 3 1 1 0
MITCHELL 1B 3 1 0 0 JORDAN RF 2 1 2 1
BASIL LF 2 0 0 0 LOMBARD RF 2 1 1 0
ATHA LF 2 1 1 1 KLESKO 1B 1 0 0 1
RYNDERS CF 1 0 0 0 BR HUNTER LF 2 1 0 0
OVERTON CF 1 0 1 1 A JONES CF 1 1 1 0
MENOCAL SS 2 0 0 0 BAUTISTA CF 3 2 2 5
ROLLINS SS 1 1 0 0 GUILLEN SS 2 1 1 2
DEROSA SS 2 1 0 0
MAHONEY C 1 1 0 0
LUNAR C 1 0 0 0
NORRIS C 0 0 0 0
MARQUIS P 0 0 0 0
NIXON PH 1 0 0 0
RIVERA P 0 1 0 0
SIMON PH 1 1 1 2
VILLEGAS P 0 0 0 0
BROOKS P 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 34 5 8 5 TOTALS 38 15 14 13
GEORGIA TECH 000 000 500-- 5
ATLANTA 007 400 31x--15
E--BOGGS, LEWIS, TEIXEIRA, BUSBIN, C JONES, BAUTISTA,
BROOKS. DP--GEORGIA TECH 2, ATLANTA 2. LOB--GEORGIA TECH
6, ATLANTA 9. 2B--ATHA, OVERTON, GRAFFANINO, GUILLEN.
3B--TEIXEIRA. HR--BAUTISTA 2 (OFF BUSBIN, MITCHELL), SIMON
(OFF BUSBIN). SB--TEIXEIRA. S--RIVERA. SF--OVERTON,
KLESKO.
IP H R ER BB SO HR
GEORGIA TECH
BUSBIN (L) 4 10 11 8 5 0 2
SHEETER 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
MITCHELL 3 3 4 3 1 2 1
ATLANTA
MARQUIS 2 1 0 0 0 4 0
RIVERA (W) 2 1 0 0 0 5 0
VILLEGAS 1-3 0 0 0 1 0 0
BROOKS 1 2-3 0 0 0 0 2 0
MANZANO 1 4 5 5 0 1 0
NELSON 2 2 0 0 0 4 0
WP--BUSBIN. HBP--LOMBARD BY SHEETER, MITCHELL BY MANZANO,
ROLLINS BY MANZANO, NORRIS BY MITCHELL.
SO--GT: BOGGS, STOCKTON 2, ECONOMOS, TEIXEIRA 2, PRINCE
2, MCQUEEN, BLUE, MITCHELL 3, ATHA, MENOCAL, ROLLINS. ATL:
MALLOY, DEROSA, LUNAR.
BB--GT: RYNDERS. ATL: BOONE, BR HUNTER, A JONES, DEROSA,
MAHONEY 2.
T--2:41. A--2,912.