{"id":415205,"date":"2026-07-28T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:08:33","slug":"baseball-imai-knocked-out-early-as-astros-rally-to-beat-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415205\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Imai knocked out early as Astros rally to beat Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTatsuya Imai of the Houston Astros pitches during an MLB game in Anaheim, California, on July 27, 2026. (Getty\/Kyodo) <\/p>\n


\n CHICAGO (Kyodo) — Tatsuya Imai was knocked out early and did not factor in the decision as the Houston Astros came from behind to beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-4 on Monday. \n<\/p>\n


\n The Japanese right-hander lasted only two-thirds of an inning at Angel Stadium, in which he allowed one hit and four walks, while striking out one. \n<\/p>\n


\n Houston trailed 4-2 before turning the game around and getting Imai off the hook for the loss with a four-run rally in the top of the ninth. \n<\/p>\n


\n In other Major League Baseball action, Kazuma Okamoto scored his team’s crucial third run after reaching with a single as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Washington Nationals 3-2. \n<\/p>\n


\n The Japanese third baseman also recorded the first steal of his MLB career following the fourth-inning single to left field at Nationals Park. \n<\/p>\n


\n “I ran after seeing the sign,” said Okamoto, who went 1-for-4. “I was happy to be safe and it’s good my team won.” \n<\/p>\n


\n Elsewhere, Munetaka Murakami went 1-for-3 with a single in the Chicago White Sox’s 9-5 defeat to the New York Yankees at Rate Field. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tatsuya Imai of the Houston Astros pitches during an MLB…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2135,6763,23015,127,23016],"class_list":["post-415205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-baseball","tag-japan","tag-latest-articles","tag-sports","tag-the-mainichi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}