1.   Ashby threw a bullpen session before the game and finished it by facing batters for the first time.

2.   At one stretch, he faced twenty batters.

3.   Ayala faced two batters.

4.   Ben Weber faced three batters, failing to retire any of them.

5.   Both Glavine and Andy Pettitte pitch in the same manner, attacking the outside corner when facing right-handed batters, throwing low and outside time after time.

6.   Bottenfield left after facing two batters in the sixth, and the Astros got a run when Rick Croushore walked Jeff Bagwell with the bases loaded.

7.   Against the Rockies, he faced four batters.

8.   By the time he had faced two batters, the White Sox led by five runs.

9.   Clark had faced one batter over the minimum, Martinez two.

10.   Cook faced eight batters and retired only one.