#184---CLE @ HOU, 7/18/1999

Mike Hampton shutout the Indians on four hits and two walks with eight strikeouts. The Astros scored off Jaret Wright with a two-out rally that included a walk drawn by Hampton, then tacked on a tally off Paul Assenmacher in the eighth. They didn’t call them the Killer Bs for nothing: see Biggio, Bagwell, Berkman, Bell, plus Bako, Bogar, and Barker. I have to look up the latter as I didn’t remember Glen Barker, who had an interesting rookie stat line over 90 PA in 1999 - .288/.384/.356, which was only good for a 90 OPS+ because a) late 90s baseball and b) OPS+ hates walks.