For the first time since August 12th, the Houston Astros have won a series. Astros 5 Yankees 1.<\/p>\n
As has been the recent trend, Houston would jump out to an early lead. In the Top of the 3rd, Jeremy Pena reached on a hit by pitch. Moments later, he\u2019d come all the way around to score on an opposite field single from Isaac Paredes.<\/p>\n
In the 6th, the lead increased. Daulton Varsho drew a walk, and Christian Walker barely cleared the right-center field wall for a 2-run HR, making things 3-0. It was Walker\u2019s 24th HR of the season.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the 6th, Hayden Wesenski would depart after issuing a leadoff double to Ben Rice. Okert would emerge from the pen, and Cody Bellinger would bring in Rice on a sac fly for the Yankees only run of the night.<\/p>\n
Wesneski went 5 innings, striking out 6 while allowing 1 earned run and a pair of walks.<\/p>\n
The 7th & 8th innings were masterfully handled by AJ Blubaugh. He\u2019d, pitch a pair of scoreless innings. Josh Hader would come in and slam the door in the 9th. Hader has not allowed a run in his last 16 outings.<\/p>\n
The Yankees lone run was neutralized quickly. Jeremy Pena turned on an inside 95 mph pitch, blasting it several rows into the stands for a solo HR, his 16th of the year. That made things 5-1. Houston would add an insurance run in the 8th. It was Hayden Wesneski\u2019s fourth win of the year.<\/p>\n
In multiple ways, the win was extra meaningful. Climbing back to ,500. Creating separation in the standings on idle Seattle & Texas. Winning a contest when Yordan Alvarez strikes out three times, not having to carry the mail wire to wire. Paredes and Walker combining for 5 hits. Clutch hitting was also paramount. A total of 14 runs in recent nights at Yankee stadium came with two outs.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Pena said it best this week, \u201cThis is the final stretch; treat every game like it\u2019s a playoff game\u201d. The New York trip is off to a positive start. Let\u2019s see if the momentum can carry 10 miles over to Queens against the Mets.<\/p>\n
Brent Strom has returned to the Astros dugout as a pitching consultant for the remainder of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
George Lombard Jr. has now recorded an error in 6 consecutive games.<\/p>\n
Hunter Brown will take the mound at 6:10pm CDT Friday Night at Citi Field. He\u2019ll be opposed by Christian Scott, who\u2019s struck out 111 with the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since August 12th, the Houston Astros have won a series. Astros 5 Yankees 1.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,124763,124764,124765,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-331565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-houston-astros-analysis","tag-houston-astros-game-information","tag-houston-astros-scores-standings","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}