ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jeremy Pe\u00f1a and Isaac Paredes homered in the first inning, and Spencer Arrighetti pitched the Houston Astros past the Texas Rangers 5-1 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The Astros took three of four games in the series from their in-state rivals, finishing a 7-3 trip with six wins in the last seven games.<\/p>\n
The Rangers, no-hit Monday by three Houston pitchers, have lost six of seven overall.<\/p>\n
Texas manager Skip Schumaker missed the game to attend his son\u2019s high school graduation in California. Bench coach Luis \u201cPipe\u201d Urueta ran the team.<\/p>\n
Arrighetti (7-1) tossed six effective innings, allowing only Josh Jung’s homer in the second. He gave up three hits, walked one and plunked two batters with pitches. The right-hander’s ERA rose just a hair, from 1.32 to 1.34.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a pulled Nathan Eovaldi\u2019s fourth pitch to left field for his second homer this season, both in the last three games.<\/p>\n
After a walk to Yordan Alvarez, who homered five times in the first three games of the series, Paredes ended an 0-for-10 skid with another home run to left.<\/p>\n
Houston made it 5-1 in the third on two-out RBI hits by Taylor Trammell and Cam Smith.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi (5-6) permitted four hits in seven innings and walked two, with both coming around to score. He threw seven shutout innings 11 days earlier at Houston in an 8-0 win.<\/p>\n
Smith pulled back a ball hit by Brandon Nimmo over the 8-foot wall in right field with a leaping grab in the first inning.<\/p>\n
Alvarez, who entered leading the AL with a .312 batting average and tied for first with 20 home runs, went 0 for 3 with a strikeout and a walk.<\/p>\n
Both teams open weekend series at home on Friday. Astros RHP Kai-Wei Teng (3-3, 2.19 ERA) will face Milwaukee RHP Coleman Crow (0-0, 2.61). Rangers LHP MacKenzie Gore (3-4, 4.42 ERA) opposes Kansas City RHP Stephen Kolek (3-0, 2.77).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jeremy Pe\u00f1a and Isaac Paredes homered in the first inning, and Spencer Arrighetti pitched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,113562,32775,3267,88828,113563,90076,90584,39085,57328,941,23681,202,196,42094,942,1032,99620,84520,109337,27,57925],"class_list":["post-315990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-astros-rangers-score-arrighetti","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-california","tag-cam-smith","tag-coleman-crow","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-josh-jung","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-skip-schumaker","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-taylor-trammell","tag-texas","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315990","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=315990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}