{"id":610112,"date":"2026-04-16T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:11:08","slug":"yordan-alvarez-goes-deep-and-spencer-arrighetti-fans-10-lifting-the-astros-past-the-rockies-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610112\/","title":{"rendered":"Yordan Alvarez goes deep and Spencer Arrighetti fans 10, lifting the Astros past the Rockies 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez hit his seventh home run<\/a> of the season and Spencer Arrighetti struck out 10 in six strong innings to lead the Houston Astros to a 3-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Alvarez, who took Jose Quintana deep in the third inning, is tied for second in the majors in homers.<\/p>\n

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Arrighetti (1-0) gave up two hits and one run in his first major league start this season after being recalled from Triple-A following an injury to right-hander Cody Bolton.<\/p>\n

Houston has won two straight following an eight-game skid. The Rockies have lost six in a row after winning their previous four.<\/p>\n

The Rockies had runners on first and third with two outs in the seventh, but Bryan Abreu retired TJ Rumfield on a groundout. Enyel De Los Santos struck out two in a scoreless ninth to get the save for a second night in a row.<\/p>\n

Christian Walker opened the scoring for the Astros with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the first. Cam Smith followed with another sac fly.<\/p>\n

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Colorado’s Ezequiel Tovar walked to open the second and scored on a double by Willi Castro.<\/p>\n

Troy Johnston and Castro both left the game after being hit by pitches<\/a> from Arrighetti. Johnston was hit in the right thigh, and the Rockies said he had a bruised quadriceps.<\/p>\n

Castro was hit on the right hand in the fourth and was removed from the game. Manager Warren Schaeffer said X-rays on Castro\u2019s hand were negative but that it was swollen.<\/p>\n

Quintana (0-1) allowed three hits and three runs while walking four in 3 2\/3 innings in his return after missing more than two weeks with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

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Right-hander Ryan Weiss (0-2, 7.36 ERA) will start for Houston in Thursday night\u2019s finale of the three-game series. The Rockies had not announced a starter.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez hit his seventh home run of the season and Spencer Arrighetti struck out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,296587,6409,20881,288605,5259,170389,48721,5163,12212,591,190036,29676,85,18666,296586,16070,16050],"class_list":{"0":"post-610112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bryan-abreu","11":"tag-cam-smith","12":"tag-christian-walker","13":"tag-cody-bolton","14":"tag-colorado-rockies","15":"tag-enyel-de-los-santos","16":"tag-ezequiel-tovar","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-jose-quintana","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-ryan-weiss","21":"tag-spencer-arrighetti","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-the-rockies","24":"tag-troy-johnston","25":"tag-willi-castro","26":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}