1998 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 102-60
Finished 1st in the NL's Central Division
Attendance: 2,458,451, Avg. 30,631
Ballpark: Astrodome
Won Division
National League Division Series - Lost to San Diego Padres 3-1
Manager: Larry Dierker (102-60)
Location: Houston, Texas

1998 Houston Astros Roster
1998 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1998 season with a record of 102 wins and 60 losses, finishing first in the NL's Central Division.

The Astros led the league with 874 runs. Houston allowed 620 runs. Moises Alou walloped 38 home runs for the team, while Carl Everett, Jeff Bagwell, Derek Bell and Craig Biggio each added 20 or more also. Moises Alou drove in 124 runs. Craig Biggio paced all regular hitters by hitting .325. Shane Reynolds topped the team with 19 wins, and Jose Lima as well contributed 15 or more victories as well Mike Hampton recorded a 3.36 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Larry Dierker coached the team. The 1998 Houston Astros qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Shane Reynolds	19	8	.704	3.51	35	35	0	3	1	0	233.3	257	99	91	25	53	2	209	2	0	5	986
Jose Lima	16	8	.667	3.70	33	33	0	3	1	0	233.3	229	100	96	34	32	1	169	7	0	4	950
Sean Bergman	12	9	.571	3.72	31	27	1	1	0	0	172.0	183	81	71	20	42	3	100	5	1	8	733
Mike Hampton	11	7	.611	3.36	32	32	0	1	1	0	211.7	227	92	79	18	81	1	137	5	2	4	917
Randy Johnson	10	1	.909	1.28	11	11	0	4	4	0	84.3	57	12	12	4	26	1	116	3	0	0	329
Doug Henry	8	2	.800	3.04	59	0	25	0	0	2	71.0	55	25	24	9	35	5	59	0	0	7	296
Pete Schourek	7	6	.538	4.50	15	15	0	0	0	0	80.0	82	43	40	10	36	0	59	4	0	5	354
Billy Wagner	4	3	.571	2.70	58	0	50	0	0	30	60.0	46	19	18	6	25	1	97	0	0	2	247
Mike Magnante	4	7	.364	4.88	48	0	20	0	0	2	51.7	56	28	28	2	26	4	39	4	0	3	237
Jay Powell	3	3	.500	2.38	29	0	9	0	0	4	34.0	22	9	9	1	15	3	38	1	0	0	137
C. J. Nitkowski	3	3	.500	3.77	43	0	11	0	0	3	59.7	49	27	25	4	23	2	44	6	1	3	250
Trever Miller	2	0	1.000	3.04	37	1	15	0	0	1	53.3	57	21	18	4	20	1	30	1	0	1	235
Scott Elarton	2	1	.667	3.32	28	2	7	0	0	2	57.0	40	21	21	5	20	0	56	1	0	1	227
John Halama	1	1	.500	5.85	6	6	0	0	0	0	32.3	37	21	21	0	13	0	21	2	1	2	147
Reggie Harris	0	0		6.00	6	0	2	0	0	0	6.0	6	4	4	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	26
Jose Cabrera	0	0		8.31	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	7	4	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	19
Mike Grzanich	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	6
Bob Scanlan	0	1	.000	3.08	27	0	9	0	0	0	26.3	24	12	9	4	13	0	9	1	0	5	118
Totals	102	60	.630	3.50	502	162	150	12	7	44	1471.3	1435	620	572	147	465	25	1187	42	5	50	6214

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Craig Biggio	160	738	646	123	210	51	2	20	88	50	8	64	113	.325	.403	.503	.906	325	10	23	1	4	6
Derek Bell	156	695	630	111	198	41	2	22	108	13	3	51	126	.314	.364	.490	.855	309	14	4	0	10	0
Moises Alou	159	679	584	104	182	34	5	38	124	11	3	84	87	.312	.399	.582	.981	340	14	5	0	6	11
Jeff Bagwell	147	661	540	124	164	33	1	34	111	19	7	109	90	.304	.424	.557	.981	301	14	7	0	5	8
Carl Everett	133	519	467	72	138	34	4	15	76	14	12	44	102	.296	.359	.482	.840	225	11	3	3	2	2
Ricky Gutierrez	141	561	491	55	128	24	3	2	46	13	7	54	84	.261	.337	.334	.671	164	20	6	3	7	5
Brad Ausmus	128	472	412	62	111	10	4	6	45	10	3	53	60	.269	.356	.357	.713	147	18	3	3	1	11
Bill Spiers	123	437	384	66	105	27	4	4	43	11	2	45	62	.273	.356	.396	.751	152	9	5	1	2	0
Sean Berry	102	342	299	48	94	17	1	13	52	3	1	31	50	.314	.387	.508	.895	152	8	7	1	4	3
Richard Hidalgo	74	234	211	31	64	15	0	7	35	3	3	17	37	.303	.355	.474	.829	100	5	2	0	4	0
Tony Eusebio	66	203	182	13	46	6	1	1	36	1	0	18	31	.253	.320	.313	.633	57	8	1	0	2	2
Dave Clark	93	146	131	12	27	7	0	0	4	1	1	14	45	.206	.288	.260	.547	34	2	1	0	0	1
Tim Bogar	79	169	156	12	24	4	1	1	8	2	1	9	36	.154	.208	.212	.420	33	5	2	1	1	2
Mike Hampton	32	76	61	3	16	4	0	0	2	2	0	7	12	.262	.348	.328	.676	20	2	1	7	0	0
Shane Reynolds	35	92	82	10	13	4	0	0	9	0	0	2	39	.159	.188	.207	.396	17	0	1	7	0	0
Jack Howell	24	42	38	4	11	5	0	1	7	0	0	4	12	.289	.357	.500	.857	19	1	0	0	0	0
J. R. Phillips	36	65	58	4	11	0	0	2	9	0	0	7	22	.190	.277	.293	.570	17	1	0	0	0	1
Jose Lima	33	91	79	6	11	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	27	.139	.159	.165	.323	13	0	0	9	1	0
Sean Bergman	31	68	60	3	5	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	30	.083	.083	.117	.200	7	0	0	8	0	0
Pete Schourek	15	24	19	2	4	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	6	.211	.211	.263	.474	5	0	0	5	0	0
Russ Johnson	8	15	13	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	.231	.333	.308	.641	4	1	1	0	0	0
Mike Magnante	48	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Montgomery	6	5	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mitch Meluskey	8	9	8	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.250	.333	.375	.708	3	1	0	0	0	0
Pete Incaviglia	13	17	16	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.125	.176	.188	.364	3	1	0	0	0	0
Randy Johnson	11	35	32	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	17	.063	.063	.094	.156	3	1	0	3	0	0
Billy Wagner	58	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Trever Miller	37	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Daryle Ward	4	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0	0	0
John Halama	6	13	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	1	0	0
Scott Elarton	28	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Jay Powell	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Henry	59	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
C. J. Nitkowski	43	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Reggie Harris	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Cabrera	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Grzanich	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Scanlan	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2162	6441	5641	874	1578	326	28	166	818	155	51	621	1122	.280	.356	.436	.792	2458	146	72	58	49	52

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jeff Bagwell	1B	147	146	1311.3	1239	128	7	115	.995	9.382	9.299	0	0	0
J. R. Phillips	1B	12	8	76.3	70	6	3	7	.962	8.961	6.333	0	0	0
Jack Howell	1B	10	5	53.0	63	6	0	3	1.000	11.717	6.900	0	0	0
Bill Spiers	1B	7	3	30.7	34	1	0	1	1.000	1.272	5.000	0	0	0
Craig Biggio	2B	159	154	1368.3	318	431	15	92	.980	4.926	4.711	0	0	0
Bill Spiers	2B	9	5	49.0	10	13	1	2	.958	4.224	2.556	0	0	0
Tim Bogar	2B	11	2	46.0	10	14	0	4	1.000	4.696	2.182	0	0	0
Russ Johnson	2B	1	1	8.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	4.000	0	0	0
Bill Spiers	3B	99	81	742.3	57	170	8	9	.966	2.752	2.293	0	0	0
Sean Berry	3B	87	75	654.3	55	150	10	13	.953	2.820	2.356	0	0	0
Tim Bogar	3B	11	3	41.7	4	6	1	1	.909	2.160	.909	0	0	0
Russ Johnson	3B	5	1	17.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	4.235	1.600	0	0	0
Jack Howell	3B	2	2	16.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	3.375	3.000	0	0	0
Brad Ausmus	C	124	117	1054.3	850	58	7	10	.992	7.751	7.323	4	56	31	35.6
Tony Eusebio	C	54	45	409.0	352	19	3	2	.992	8.164	6.870	4	19	11	36.7
Mitch Meluskey	C	3	0	8.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	3.000	1	0	0
Moises Alou	OF	154	152	1363.3	232	11	5	2	.980	1.604	1.578	0	0	0
Derek Bell	OF	154	149	1337.7	281	8	8	3	.973	1.944	1.877	0	0	0
Carl Everett	OF	123	113	1047.0	296	12	4	3	.987	2.648	2.504	0	0	0
Richard Hidalgo	OF	72	52	491.0	131	3	3	1	.978	2.456	1.861	0	0	0
Dave Clark	OF	22	16	130.0	22	1	3	0	.885	1.592	1.045	0	0	0
J. R. Phillips	OF	6	2	26.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.692	.333	0	0	0
Pete Incaviglia	OF	3	2	16.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	1.000	0	0	0
Ray Montgomery	OF	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Shane Reynolds	P	35	35	233.3	24	40	2	9	.970	2.469	1.829	0	0	0
Jose Lima	P	33	33	233.3	24	32	3	3	.949	2.160	1.697	0	0	0
Mike Hampton	P	32	32	211.7	11	49	4	7	.938	2.551	1.875	0	0	0
Sean Bergman	P	31	27	172.0	16	14	1	0	.968	1.570	.968	0	0	0
Randy Johnson	P	11	11	84.3	1	7	1	1	.889	.854	.727	0	0	0
Pete Schourek	P	15	15	80.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	.900	.533	0	0	0
Doug Henry	P	59	0	71.0	4	4	0	1	1.000	1.014	.136	0	0	0
Billy Wagner	P	58	0	60.0	2	2	1	0	.800	.600	.069	0	0	0
C. J. Nitkowski	P	43	0	59.7	1	10	0	2	1.000	1.659	.256	0	0	0
Scott Elarton	P	28	2	57.0	4	4	0	1	1.000	1.263	.286	0	0	0
Trever Miller	P	37	1	53.3	4	6	0	0	1.000	1.688	.270	0	0	0
Mike Magnante	P	48	0	51.7	6	17	0	0	1.000	4.006	.479	0	0	0
Jay Powell	P	29	0	34.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	.794	.103	0	0	0
John Halama	P	6	6	32.3	2	5	0	0	1.000	1.948	1.167	0	0	0
Bob Scanlan	P	27	0	26.3	4	1	1	0	.833	1.709	.185	0	0	0
Reggie Harris	P	6	0	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	.167	0	0	0
Jose Cabrera	P	3	0	4.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.077	.333	0	0	0
Mike Grzanich	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ricky Gutierrez	SS	141	129	1147.7	215	404	15	82	.976	4.854	4.390	0	0	0
Tim Bogar	SS	55	33	320.7	49	127	2	16	.989	4.940	3.200	0	0	0
Bill Spiers	SS	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1977	1458	13242.0	4414	1782	108	390	.983	4.211	3.134	9	75	42	35.9

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Billy Wagner	NLDS2	1	0	1.000	18.00	1	0	1	1.0	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	7
Trever Miller	NLDS2	0	0			1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Mike Hampton	NLDS2	0	0		1.50	1	1	0	6.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	21
Shane Reynolds	NLDS2	0	0		2.57	1	1	0	7.0	4	2	2	0	1	0	5	0	0	26
Doug Henry	NLDS2	0	0		5.40	2	0	1	1.7	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	7
Jay Powell	NLDS2	0	0		11.57	3	0	1	2.3	2	3	3	1	3	1	3	1	1	13
Scott Elarton	NLDS2	0	1	.000	4.50	1	0	1	2.0	1	1	1	1	1	0	3	1	0	8
Randy Johnson	NLDS2	0	2	.000	1.93	2	2	0	14.0	12	4	3	2	2	0	17	0	0	56
Totals		1	3	.250	3.44	12	4	4	34.0	27	14	13	5	9	1	32	2	2	139

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	IBB
Bill Spiers	NLDS2	4	15	14	2	4	3	0	1	0	1	3	.286	.333	.500	.833	7	1	0	0	0
Ricky Gutierrez	NLDS2	4	14	10	1	3	0	0	0	1	3	7	.300	.500	.300	.800	3	0	1	0	1
Moises Alou	NLDS2	4	16	16	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	.188	.188	.188	.375	3	1	0	0	0
Brad Ausmus	NLDS2	4	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	1	0
Craig Biggio	NLDS2	4	17	11	3	2	1	0	1	0	4	4	.182	.471	.273	.743	3	0	2	0	1
Carl Everett	NLDS2	4	13	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	1	0	0	0
Jeff Bagwell	NLDS2	4	16	14	0	2	0	0	4	0	1	6	.143	.250	.143	.393	2	0	1	0	0
Derek Bell	NLDS2	4	16	16	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	7	.125	.125	.313	.438	5	1	0	0	0
Tony Eusebio	NLDS2	1	4	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.500	.667	1.167	2	0	1	0	0
Richard Hidalgo	NLDS2	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0
Sean Berry	NLDS2	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Hampton	NLDS2	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Incaviglia	NLDS2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Randy Johnson	NLDS2	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Shane Reynolds	NLDS2	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0
Dave Clark	NLDS2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0
Scott Elarton	NLDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Doug Henry	NLDS2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Trever Miller	NLDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Jay Powell	NLDS2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Billy Wagner	NLDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		50	139	121	8	22	5	1	7	1	11	49	.182	.277	.248	.525	30	5	5	2	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Jeff Bagwell	NLDS2	1B	4	4	34.0	31	4	0	1	1.000	9.265	8.750
Craig Biggio	NLDS2	2B	4	4	34.0	9	10	1	0	.950	5.029	4.750
Bill Spiers	NLDS2	3B	4	3	28.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.500
Sean Berry	NLDS2	3B	1	1	6.0	0	2	1	0	.667	3.000	2.000
Brad Ausmus	NLDS2	C	4	3	26.0	28	1	0	0	1.000	1.038	7.250
Tony Eusebio	NLDS2	C	1	1	8.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	6.000
Carl Everett	NLDS2	CF	3	3	26.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.769	2.667
Richard Hidalgo	NLDS2	CF	1	1	8.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.000
Moises Alou	NLDS2	LF	4	4	34.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.059	1.000
Randy Johnson	NLDS2	P	2	2	14.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000
Shane Reynolds	NLDS2	P	1	1	7.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	2.571	2.000
Mike Hampton	NLDS2	P	1	1	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000
Jay Powell	NLDS2	P	3	0	2.3	2	0	0	0	1.000	7.714	.667
Scott Elarton	NLDS2	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Doug Henry	NLDS2	P	2	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.500
Billy Wagner	NLDS2	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Trever Miller	NLDS2	P	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000
Derek Bell	NLDS2	RF	4	4	34.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.324	1.250
Ricky Gutierrez	NLDS2	SS	4	4	34.0	7	13	0	1	1.000	5.294	5.000
Totals			46	36	306.0	102	41	2	3	.986	4.206	3.109

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