{"id":332476,"date":"2026-08-29T03:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332476\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:56:23","slug":"varsho-backs-brown-in-astros-3-1-victory-over-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332476\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsho backs Brown in Astros&#8217; 3-1 victory over Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Brown struck out 10 and allowed a run over 6 2\/3 innings, Daulton Varsho had a two-run single in a three-run sixth inning and the Houston Astros beat the New York Mets 3-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Brown (4-3) threw 102 pitches and allowed five hits and a walk, becoming the first Astros starter since Aug. 10 to complete six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Abreu struck out two and retired all four batters he faced. Josh Hader struck out two in the ninth for his 20th save in 20 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Brown struck out six and didn&#8217;t allow a hit through the first three innings, but Francisco Lindor led off the fourth with a single then scored from first on Carson Benge&#8217;s one-out double.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Scott (4-4) allowed only a Jose Altuve single in 5 1\/3 innings, but he left after loading the bases on three walks. Varsho greeted Nate Lavender with a two-run single and Yainer Diaz singled in another run.<\/p>\n<p>Scott walked five and was charged with all three runs. It was the first time Lavender allowed an inherited runner to score in his first 10 appearances with the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Houston (68-67) won Sunday to take two of three at Yankee Stadium and began the day with a one-game lead over the Texas Rangers in the AL West.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets (60-75) have lost three straight.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The Astros have not announced a starting pitcher for Saturday opposite Mets RHP Nolan McLean (9-8, 3.21 ERA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunter Brown struck out 10 and allowed a run over 6 2\/3 innings, Daulton Varsho had a two-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35073,996,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-332476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-houston-astros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332476","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=332476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}