Overkill

Well, the Cubs must feel pretty stupid this morning, scoring all those runs when they only needed one. All that baserunning for nothing. The Astros will resume their efforts to try to score a run tonight against Kerry Woood. Wood has only shut out the Astros once in his career, on May 6, 1998 when he also struck out 20 and plunked Craig Biggio. Wood also plunked Biggio on September 29, 2001 and May 25, 2002, but the Astros got 3 runs off him in those two days.

Craig Biggio has been hit on June 6th by Joey Hamilton in 1997, and by Brian Bohanon in 2001. He was not plunked on 5/5/05 or 4/4/04, but he was plunked on 9/9/99 by Paul Byrd.