{"id":761223,"date":"2026-06-26T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761223\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:01:08","slug":"imai-strikes-out-10-as-astros-beat-tigers-2-1-and-extend-winning-streak-to-3-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761223\/","title":{"rendered":"Imai strikes out 10 as Astros beat Tigers 2-1 and extend winning streak to 3 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — Tatsuya Imai struck out 10 in six scoreless innings and Taylor Trammell homered to lead the Houston Astros to a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Imai (5-3) allowed two hits and a walk and threw 63 of his 96 pitches for strikes in the opener of the four-game series. AJ Blubaugh struck out three in two innings, and Enyel De Los Santos gave up<\/a> Dillon Dingler’s 19th home run in the ninth on the way to his fifth save.<\/p>\n

Detroit starter Troy Melton took a perfect game into the sixth inning before Trammell hit<\/a> a one-out, 0-1 pitch 422 feet to right field for his second home run and a 1-0 lead. <\/p>\n

Jeremy Pe\u00f1a singled leading off the ninth against Kenley Jansen and then stole second. Pe\u00f1a took third on a groundout by Yordan Alvarez and scored on a sacrifice fly by Isaac Paredes for an insurance run for Houston.<\/p>\n

Melton (4-1) allowed one run on two hits with six strikeouts in six innings for the Tigers, who have lost three straight.<\/p>\n

Riley Greene’s two-out single off Imai in the fourth was the first hit by either team against the rookie starters.<\/p>\n

Houston (40-43) has won three in a row and seven of its last nine to close within two games of the first-place Mariners in the AL West.<\/p>\n

The Astros won two of three games in Houston against the Tigers earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Astros RHP Spencer Arrighetti (7-3, 3.13 ERA) starts Friday opposite Tigers RHP Keider Montero (3-5, 3.68).<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — Tatsuya Imai struck out 10 in six scoreless innings and Taylor Trammell homered to lead the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,6784,85],"class_list":["post-761223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761223","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=761223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}