EDITOR’S NOTE: With today’s Cubs/Dodgers game postponed, I thought you might like to read about Kerry Wood’s 20-strikeout game against the Astros, which happened 24 years ago today.
So, here’s the article I wrote four years ago on the game’s 20th anniversary in 2018.
It really was just an ordinary Wednesday afternoon at Wrigley Field, or at least it started that way.
The Cubs had gotten off to a decent start to 1998 after a 94-loss season in 1997. Entering the May 6, 1998 game against the first-place Astros, the Cubs were 16-15 and four games out of first place, and had lost the first of a two-game series to Houston the previous day, 10-5.