HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Royce Lewis and Victor Caratini hit back-to-back homers, Zebby Matthews pitched seven stingy innings and the Minnesota Twins held off a late rally by the Houston Astros for a 5-4 victory Monday night.<\/p>\n
Josh Bell launched a two-run shot for the Twins, who led 5-1 before Travis Adams gave up a two-run homer to Taylor Trammell with two outs in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Yoendrys G\u00f3mez entered and immediately served up Cam Smith’s second home run of the game before retiring Joey Loperfido on a grounder for his ninth save.<\/p>\n
Houston had won five of six.<\/p>\n
Matthews (4-5) limited the Astros to one run and four hits while striking out seven and walking one.<\/p>\n
Peter Lambert (6-5) held Minnesota hitless until Lewis and Caratini went deep in the fourth. Bell’s drive made it 4-1 in the sixth, and Kody Clemens added an RBI groundout in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Lambert allowed four runs and five hits in 5 2\/3 innings. He had won four straight decisions.<\/p>\n
Smith pulled a hanging slider onto the train tracks above left field for a solo homer in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Astros reliever Miguel Ullola made his major league debut, striking out four in two scoreless innings.<\/p>\n
Houston returned home from a 5-2 trip and entered Monday an AL-best 15-10 in June.<\/p>\n
Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a sat out with left leg discomfort.<\/p>\n
Minnesota placed left-handed reliever Anthony Banda on the 15-day injured list with a left lat strain. The Twins recalled right-hander Cody Laweryson from Triple-A St. Paul.<\/p>\n
Twins RHP Joe Ryan (5-4, 3.18 ERA) faces Astros RHP Mike Burrows (3-8, 5.48) in the middle game of the series Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Royce Lewis and Victor Caratini hit back-to-back homers, Zebby Matthews pitched seven stingy innings and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[126418,126415,90584,88823,120530,120926,126416,44042,23681,202,95827,196,42094,41978,942,126417,126419,82,84,83,109337,126414,126413,115628],"class_list":["post-355291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-anthony-banda","tag-cody-laweryson","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-joey-loperfido","tag-josh-bell","tag-kody-clemens","tag-miguel-ullola","tag-mike-burrows","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-peter-lambert","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40793-ap-minnesota-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rhp-joe-ryan-mike-burrows","tag-royce-lewis","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-taylor-trammell","tag-travis-adams","tag-twins-astros-score","tag-victor-caratini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355291","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=355291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}