Yainer Diaz, Trey Cabbage and Jake Meyers ignited early offense with extra-base hits and a quartet of pitchers successfully labored with site visitors on the basepaths because the Houston Astros capped a three-game interleague collection sweep of the Miami Marlins with a 6-3 victory on Thursday.
The Astros rode a balanced offensive assault to their sixteenth win in 20 video games and their ninth consecutive dwelling victory. Diaz, Cabbage and Meyers recorded doubles as Houston maximized its 5 hits off Miami starter Roddery Munoz.
Houston erased a 1-0 deficit with a pair of runs within the backside of the primary inning, keyed by a Diaz double that pushed Alex Bregman to 3rd base following his one-out stroll. Jon Singleton added a sacrifice fly to middle area that scored Bregman and Jeremy Pena posted a run-scoring single that pushed dwelling Diaz and lifted the Astros to a 2-1 lead.
After Miami pulled even on a Nick Fortes two-out single that plated Xavier Edwards within the high of the second, Cabbage doubled with one out within the backside of that body and scored after advancing to 3rd on a Munoz wild pitch earlier than Cesar Salazar delivered an RBI grounder to the best facet of the infield.
Meyers’ double within the fourth scored Joey Loperfido and lifted the Astros to a 4-2 lead. Houston prolonged that margin to a few runs later within the body when Meyers scored on a Bregman fielder’s alternative grounder.
Six completely different Astros drove in a run, with Loperfido becoming a member of the fray together with his sacrifice fly within the fifth that plated Singleton after he reached on an error and superior two bases on a wild pitch and balk. Munoz (1-4) allowed six runs (4 earned) and two walks with two strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings.
Astros rookie right-hander Jake Bloss allowed two runs on 4 hits and one stroll with 4 strikeouts over 4 innings in his first begin since his large league debut on June 21 towards Baltimore. He surrendered a one-out homer to Bryan De La Cruz, his sixteenth, within the first, however stranded runners in scoring place within the first and third.
Astros reliever Shawn Dubin allowed a leadoff dwelling run to Jazz Chisholm Jr., his twelfth, within the fifth, however induced a double-play grounder from Josh Bell to elude additional harm. Tayler Scott (6-2) relieved Dubin with two runners in scoring place and one out within the sixth and notched a strikeout of Vidal Brujan earlier than Fortes grounded out to second.
Bryan Abreu struck out the facet within the seventh and stranded Marlins on second and third. Miami completed 1-for-10 with runners in scoring place.
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