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’94 Expos: Opening day as harbinger

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Twenty years ago today, the Montreal Expos began the season under the Astrodome in Houston with perhaps the best team in franchise history, and this opener was the very definition of foreshadowing.

Jeff Fassero went six strong frames and left the game knotted at three, striking out five against just one walk along the way. The lefty was replaced by Mel Rojas. Then John Wetteland. And Tim Scott, Jeff Shaw and Denis Boucher.

Why? Because it this was a game that saw the ‘Spos plate those three runs in the second on the strength of a Sean Berry, two-run blast, then come up empty until the top of the 12th. That’s when Mitch Williams entered the fray and picked up ...


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