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“With Framber on the mound and losing the last two, we had to finish the series strong. “I thought we hit well, put up good at-bats,” McCormick said. McCormick had three of Houston’s nine hits and stole two bases. Houston tied the game on José Abreu’s sacrifice fly in the third before Chas McCormick’s two-out RBI single gave the Astros a 2-1 lead. Porter was later awarded second as first baseman José Abreu threw his glove at Valdez’s wild throw for a second error on the same play. After Logan Porter reached on Valdez’s throwing error and threw wildly to first, Loftin advanced to third. Hats off to them.”ĭrew Waters’ sacrifice fly opened the scoring. They made me work in the first, in the third, the fourth, fifth. “Gave up a two spot, then (homers) back to back innings after that,” Lyles said. He completed six innings, allowing four runs on six hits and a walk with six strikeouts. Houston collected leadoff hits in all but one inning against Lyles, who limited the damage as the Astros were 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Good hitters make you pay on those mistakes and he’s a really good hitter.” “I got a swing-and-miss (by Alvarez) with a cutter up and in, and tried to go back to that spot, a little bit farther in, and it went the opposite way, went middle-middle. Meyers led off the fourth with his 10th homer and Alvarez hit his 28th leading off the fifth, the 38th allowed by Jordan Lyles (4-17), tying a Royals record. “Some of them ran more, some of them didn’t much at all. “The movement was inconsistent,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. He threw first-pitch strikes to 11 of 26 batters while missing the strike zone with 16 of 39 changeups, but induced a pair of double plays to escape late-inning jams. He did really well commanding the zone.”įalling behind early, Valdez (12-10) had trouble locating his changeup. “We weren’t able to string together hits consecutively when we needed to. “He located his fastball really well,” said Royals second baseman Nick Loftin. We need Framber, and it was big for him.” “Then you go through streaks where you’re adding on and adding on and getting consecutive games, and you confidence grows.
“You go through streaks where you’re not yourself,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. Valdez pitched around three Astros errors for his fifth consecutive quality start, allowing one unearned run on five hits and a walk, striking out five. The Astros salvaged the final game of the series, expanding their American League West lead to 1 1/2 games as Texas lost to Cleveland 9-2.
Yordan Alvarez and Jake Meyers homered and Framber Valdez pitched seven strong innings as the Houston Astros beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Sunday.
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