Night Game is a 1989 American slasher film[3][4] directed by Peter Masterson and starring Roy Scheider, Lane Smith, Karen Young, and Richard Bradford.

It follows a police detective attempting to stop a hook-handed serial killer whose murders coincide with nighttime baseball games at the Houston Astrodome.

Along a beachfront boardwalk in Galveston, Texas, a prostitute named Loretta Akers is attacked by an unseen assailant and has her throat slit, making her the latest victim in a string of serial killings.

Mike Seaver, a former Minor League Baseball player-turned-police officer, goes to investigate the crime scene, where he finds a shred of a paper reading "best of luck" in Loretta's garter belt.

Mike and fellow detective Oscar Mendoza determine that each of the murders have corresponded with a victory of the Houston Astros pitcher Sil Baretto.

The women's autopsies determine they were slashed to death by a right-handed killer, which is at odds with the notes left behind, which appear to have been written by a left-handed person.

Sportswriter Bill Essicks visits the police station to report he received a phone call from a sobbing man who claimed to have killed the girls.

Dressed in their formal wedding attire, the two attend a game at the Astrodome, where Baretto leaves the mound to shake Mike's hand, as the crowd gives them a standing ovation.

Parts of the movie were filmed in the Astrodome last year and director Peter Masterson says Davis proved to be the man he needed for a tricky plot twist.

Night Game was the first movie in years to be filmed in the Astrodome, joining Brewster McCloud, a peculiar 1971 Robert Altman film largely shot in the stadium, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, and Murder at the World Series, an ABC-TV movie of the week that featured the Astros in a World Series before they had even won a division championship.

'We tried our best, but he didn't cooperate,' Masterson smiled, admitting that he had to resort to footage of a Marshall single and 'we cut real quick after the crack of the bat to crowd shots.'

His career has taken a long, slow dive from his days as the harassed police chief in Jaws and the tortured Broadway director in All That Jazz.

"[4] Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times also criticized the film, noting: "Night Game answers the burning question: Would bad, improbably plotted slasher movies be any better if they had humor, strong characters and pungent dialogue instead of incessant car-crashes and blood-letting?