{"id":350919,"date":"2026-06-26T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350919\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:05:12","slug":"houston-astros-beat-detroit-tigers-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350919\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros beat Detroit Tigers 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tatsuya Imai struck out 10 in six scoreless innings and Taylor Trammell homered to lead the Houston Astros to a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Imai (5-3) allowed two hits and a walk and threw 63 of his 96 pitches for strikes in the opener of the four-game series. AJ Blubaugh struck out three in two innings, and Enyel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2070311993018319155?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">De Los Santos gave up<\/a> Dillon Dingler&#8217;s 19th home run in the ninth on the way to his fifth save.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit starter Troy Melton took a perfect game into the sixth inning before <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2070296989946839269?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trammell hit<\/a> a one-out, 0-1 pitch 422 feet to right field for his second home run and a 1-0 lead. <\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Pe\u00f1a singled leading off the ninth against Kenley Jansen and then stole second. Pe\u00f1a took third on a groundout by Yordan Alvarez and scored on a sacrifice fly by Isaac Paredes for an insurance run for Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Melton (4-1) allowed one run on two hits with six strikeouts in six innings for the Tigers, who have lost three straight.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Greene&#8217;s two-out single off Imai in the fourth was the first hit by either team against the rookie starters.<\/p>\n<p>Houston (40-43) has won three in a row and seven of its last nine to close within two games of the first-place Mariners in the AL West.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros won two of three games in Houston against the Tigers earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Astros RHP Spencer Arrighetti (7-3, 3.13 ERA) starts Friday opposite Tigers RHP Keider Montero (3-5, 3.68).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tatsuya Imai struck out 10 in six scoreless innings and Taylor Trammell homered to lead the Houston Astros&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70908,56,5513,58,57,42750,154],"class_list":["post-350919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350919","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=350919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}