Alvarez tripled into the right-field corner and raced home on another wild pitch by Heasley. Houston added to its advantage in the fourth. Jose Altuve legged out a one-out bloop double, went to third on a wild pitch by Royals starter Jonathan Heasley, and scored on a sacrifice fly to center field by Mauricio Dubon. The Astros manufactured a run in the third to take a 1-0 lead Sunday. The Astros have won six of their past seven games and have opened a season-high 8 1/2-game lead on the second-place Los Angeles Angels in the American League West after 54 games, 34 of them on the road, at the one-third point of the season. Houston finished a nine-game trip with six wins on stops in Seattle, Oakland and Kansas City.
Rafael Montero got the final out, coaxing a base-loaded groundout in the ninth, to garner his fourth save of the season. To put a bow on the craziness, a half-naked fan ran out of the right-field seats and onto the field before being tackled by security.Kyle Tucker had a solo homer and a key RBI single late in the game, and Yordan Alvarez added a home run and a triple and scored three runs as the visiting Houston Astros beat the Kansas City Royals 7-4 Sunday in the rubber game of their three-game series.įramber Valdez (6-2) earned the win, allowing two runs on four hits in six innings while striking out five and walking three. The Astros, who led 8-7 entering the bottom of the sixth, didn't help matters by dropping two fly balls while reliever Enoli Paredes issued two walks and hit a batter. The team's regular-season finale was a bizarre night that included a sixth inning in which Boston had 10 hitters come to the plate and scored five times on just two hits. Odorizzi worked five innings to pick up his first win as an Astro, with Cristian Javier following for a four-inning save, allowing just one hit.
Alex Bregman's two-run homer in the eighth finished the scoring. The Red Sox jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Jake Odorizzi in the first inning, but the Astros scored five times over the next two innings to take control against Red Sox starter Nathan Eovaldi, an Alvin native. Framber Valdez pitched into the eighth inning, allowing one run and striking out eight. Correa also added an RBI double during a five-run second inning and Yordan Alvarez capped the scoring with a fourth-inning solo homer. Carlos Correa started things with a first-inning homer down the left-field line that was upheld upon review. The Astros rolled to a series-opening victory at Fenway Park. Zalatoris, Fitzpatrick share lead at U.S. The Astros didn't score until Yuli Gurriel led off the ninth inning with a home run. The Red Sox added two more runs off reliever Cristian Javier.
Odorizzi lasted just three innings and 76 pitches. The Red Sox put two runners on with two outs in the ninth against Ryan Pressly, but he got Christian Arroyo to pop up for the final out.īoston averted a four-game sweep, taking an early lead on Christian Arroyo's three-run homer off Jake Odorizzi in the second inning. Myles Straw's run-scoring groundout during the fourth inning broke a 1-all tie and that was enough for Astros starter Framber Valdez, who struck out 10 in seven innings and allowed just five hits. The Astros went just 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position but were able to pick up a couple insurance runs against Boston's bullpen thanks to a throwing error by ex-Astro Marwin Gonzalez. Luis Garcia turned in arguably the best start of his career to date, striking out six in seven innings of one-run ball. That was plenty of support for José Urquidy, who allowed three hits and one run while striking out nine in six innings. Kyle Tucker led the way with a three-hit performance and 4 RBIs while Alex Bregman drove in two and scored twice and Jose Altuve scored three runs to go with his two RBIs.
ASTROS SCORE SERIES
In the opener of a four-game series at Minute Maid Park on Memorial Day, the Astros led 6-0 after five innings before blowing things open with a six-run sixth.