{"id":297275,"date":"2026-05-17T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297275\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:11:11","slug":"teng-earns-first-win-as-houston-astros-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297275\/","title":{"rendered":"Teng earns first win as Houston Astros starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese pitcher Teng Kai-wei on Saturday earned his second win of the season and first as a starter for the Houston Astros after throwing five scoreless innings in a 4-1 home victory over the Texas Rangers at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Making his third start of the season, Teng allowed two singles and four walks while striking out seven. He lowered his ERA to 2.61 and improved his record to 2-3. <\/p>\n<p>Teng earned his first win of the season in his debut on March 28 against the Los Angeles Angels. Pitching in relief, he tossed 2 1\/3 scoreless innings with two strikeouts to help spark an 11-9 comeback victory for Houston. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/p06-260518-318.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p>Offensively, the Astros on Saturday tied a season high with four home runs, including Jose Altuve\u2019s 42nd career leadoff homer and Yordan Alvarez\u2019s team-leading 15th homer of the season, both in the opening inning. <\/p>\n<p>Christian Walker and Zach Cole also hit solo home runs in the fourth inning to extend Houston\u2019s lead to 4-0. <\/p>\n<p>All four home runs were allowed by Rangers starter Jacob deGrom, tying his career high. <\/p>\n<p>Houston acquired Teng in a January trade with the San Francisco Giants after he went 2-4 with a 6.37 ERA last year. <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old right-hander began the season in the bullpen for the Astros before making his first start on April 28 in Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwanese pitcher Teng Kai-wei on Saturday earned his second win of the season and first as a starter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,32713,32712],"class_list":["post-297275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-32712"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}