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Photo by Troy Taormina-Imagn Images\/Reuters; Logos via sportslogos.net<\/p>\nPhoto by Troy Taormina-Imagn Images\/Reuters; Logos via sportslogos.net<\/p>\n
Yordan Alvarez was Houston\u2019s hero in Saturday night\u2019s 10-8 game two win over the Tampa Bay Rays when he hit a two-run walk-off home run at the bottom of the ninth. That evened up the series after the Astros lost 3-1 on Friday.<\/p>\n
In game three on Sunday, the Stros held the Rays in check, not giving up a run and winning 2-0 to take the series. The win also improved Houston\u2019s record to 45-47.<\/p>\n
HOW IT HAPPENED:<\/p>\n
Jose Altuve had a chance in the first inning to score with multiple errors being committed by Tampa\u2019s infield. Altuve reached first base after Rays shortstop Ben Williamson failed to field the ball. Houston\u2019s leadoff hitter then reached second base when Yordan Alvarez struck out, and then advanced to third on a throwing error by catcher Hunter Feduccia. The Astros failed to bring in Altuve as Isaac Paredes flew out in right field and Christian Walker went down swinging.<\/p>\n
Houston\u2019s starting pitcher was Peter Lambert, who shut down Tampa\u2019s offense. In the first four innings, the Rays\u2019 batting lineup went three-up-three-down three times. The only time in that span Lambert faced more than three batters was in the second inning, when he gave up a center-field single to Chandler Simpson and walked Victor Mesa Jr.<\/p>\n
The home run ball was what gave the Astros their lead midway through the game; base hits weren\u2019t doing enough. The game\u2019s first run came at the bottom of the fourth when Walker hit a solo shot 351 feet into right field. That was just Mason Elgert\u2019s third hit allowed at that point after the Astros recorded a pair of hits back in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Lambert only went 5.2 innings before getting pulled for Steven Okert. Jonathan Aranda recorded a single vs Lambert and advanced on a wild pitch earlier in the inning. Okert also had a pitch go rogue and allowed Aranda to be 90 feet from scoring, only for pinch hitter Ryan Vilade to pop out into right field to end the inning and keep Houston ahead.<\/p>\n
The Astros went up 2-0 at the bottom of the sixth when Paredes\u2019 ball traveled 401 feet over the left-center wall. That scoring play opened that half of the frame and set up Tampa to make a pitching change before the third out, going from Englert to Cam Booser. Zach Dezenzo, who pinch-hit for Taylor Trammel, was the first batter Booser faced and struck out to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Okert was on the mound until the eighth inning, when they decided to bring in Bryan King. Both pitchers combined to allow one hit and set up Josh Hader in the final inning to completely close the door on Tampa. Hader led off the final frame by walking Junior Caminero, but retired the next three batters he faced, including two strikeouts, to secure the 2-0 win for the Astros. The win improved the team to 45-47 on the season.<\/p>\n
BIG NUMBER: 0<\/p>\n
In the 45 wins thus far, the Houston Astros have held their opponent scoreless seven times. The previous time was on May 25th when they beat the Texas Rangers 9-0. This was also the third time they\u2019ve won a game this season 2-0.<\/p>\n
PLAYER OF THE GAME: Peter Lambert<\/p>\n
The win improved Lambert\u2019s record to 7-5 after striking out six Rays batters, giving up three hits, and walking one batter in the team\u2019s shutout win on Sunday.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT: The Houston Astros will begin a road series with the Washington Nationals. Game one will be on Monday, July 6th, with the first pitch scheduled at 5:45 PM. Astro Launch will be at 5:15 PM, and the action can be heard on ESPN 103.7 Lafayette and 104.1 Lake Charles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Troy Taormina-Imagn Images\/Reuters; Logos via sportslogos.net Yordan Alvarez was Houston\u2019s hero in Saturday night\u2019s 10-8 game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-330553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}