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9/5/90:
After a rare week sans tater, McGwire breaks out in Boston with a 3-for-5, four-RBI day that includes home run No. 34. It is the third of four seasons of decline for McGwire, who will bottom out with a .201 average and just 22 homers in 1991.
 
 

aug 30 - sept 5
  They Said It: McGwire on his struggles
''How bad did it get? Well, for the first time, I disliked baseball. It was frustrating answering the question, over and over, 'Are you going to be able to hit .200?' It was frustrating trying to climb out of a hole that got deeper and deeper. It was frustrating listening to all the hooting and the hollering. I started joking in the clubhouse that I was going to give up baseball to shoot pool for a living, or maybe, like some of my friends, become a policeman. I was joking, but there was an element of truth in what I was saying.''

Mac's stats on September 5, 1990
AVGGABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSO
.2281314487110212034948994

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