Saturday, July 15 was Superball Saturday at Moline Park. With paid admission and an accompanying adult, all children under 10 received a free Superball (available in four different colors) . On the field, the Greens continued their own fun and games, beating Harrisburg 5-3. Carlos Delgado lined a go-ahead rbi single in the bottom of the seventh, and red-hot Charles Johnson gave Moline an insurance run it wouldn't need, singling in Enrique Wilson in the eighth.
Harrisburg lodged a formal protest after the game. The Heroes led 3-2 through six innings. Starter Jason Bere had allowed the powerful Greens offense just six hits and two runs. Then, just as Rich Becker settled into the box to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning, one of the 5,000 or so Superballs in the crowd flew from the stands and towards the mound, narrowly missing the reclamation project pitcher. An obviously rattled Bere subsequently walked Becker, who scored the tying run on a Chipper Jones single later in the frame. The offending child was not discovered. The league office has not yet ruled on the protest, though co-commissioner Ron Cox did say that the game would probably stand as played. "That's just the way the ball, no, I can't say that, can I?"