{"id":839765,"date":"2026-08-01T05:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839765\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:45:08","slug":"yanier-diaz-powers-houston-astros-past-texas-rangers-pushing-houston-into-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839765\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanier Diaz powers Houston Astros past Texas Rangers, pushing Houston into first"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yainer Diaz<\/a> homered and tied a career high with four hits and Isaac Paredes<\/a> and Christian Walker<\/a> also went deep to lead the Houston Astros<\/a> to an 11-2 rout of the Texas Rangers<\/a> Friday night that put them in first place in the AL West.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Pe\u00f1a had three RBIs and Yordan Alvarez<\/a> added two as the Astros tied a season high with 18 hits for their ninth win in 10 games to move a half-game ahead of Texas atop the division.<\/p>\n

There were runners on first and third with one out in the second when LaMonte Wade Jr.<\/a> doubled to make it 1-0. Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> (10-9) plunked Pe\u00f1a on the arm to load the bases with two outs.<\/p>\n

Alvarez followed with a single on a grounder to left field to score two and push the lead to 3-0. <\/p>\n

Cam Smith<\/a> tripled with two outs in the fourth before Pe\u00f1a extended his hit streak to 12 games with a single that made it 4-0.<\/p>\n

Paredes and Walker hit back-to-back home runs off Eovaldi to open the fifth inning and leave Houston up 6-0.<\/p>\n

Joc Pederson<\/a> homered and Corey Seager<\/a> doubled and had two hits for the Rangers in his return after missing 23 games with inflammation in his lower back as they dropped a third straight.<\/p>\n

Pederson\u2019s home run to right-center field cut the lead to 6-1 in the sixth. Evan Carter<\/a> hit an RBI single with two outs in the sixth to make it 6-2.<\/p>\n

Diaz\u2019s solo homer was the first of four runs Houston scored with two outs in the seventh that pushed the lead to 10-2. <\/p>\n

Houston starter Hunter Brown<\/a> (3-1) yielded six hits and two runs in 5 2\/3 innings. <\/p>\n

Eovaldi allowed 10 hits and tied a season high with six runs in five innings.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Texas RHP Jacob deGrom<\/a> (7-6, 3.67 ERA) opposes RHP Ronel Blanco<\/a> (0-1, 8.10) when the series continues Saturday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Kristie Rieken, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yainer Diaz homered and tied a career high with four hits and Isaac Paredes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-839765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}