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Jeremy Penha and Alex Bregman hit home runs in the fifth inning, while Aledmys Diaz and Jordan Alvarez won eight consecutive victories, beating the Kansas City Royals 9-7 on Tuesday.
The Astros have won 13 out of 15, and continue to thrive in countless ways. After their pitching carried most of the load on this success, the attack went high gear on the current eight-game homestand. Houston is off to a 6-0 start there.
The Royals suffered a third defeat in four games.
Houston led 6-5 in the 7th inning, and Diaz followed Yuli Gurriel's 13-pitch walk with a left fielder's opening home run.
The Royals threatened Astros relief player Bryan Abreu in 8th place, scoring a base load walk from Michael A. Taylor. Alvarez cut the rally short with a double play that caught Nicky Lopez's flyball to the left and threw Hunter Dozier on the plate to finish the innings.
Then Alvarez hit 25 home runs at the bottom of the frame, leading 9-6.
Houston hits Astros and Royals right-handed Zack Greinke (2-5), who spent more than two seasons before, after reaching the 2019 trading deadline. Eliminates one early two-run deficit. Greinke allowed 6 runs with 10 hits and 2 walks with 5 innings. He hit two.
Bregman, who played 3 to 3 against Greinke, took a double lead as part of the frame that pulled the Astros apart in two runs and scored on Gurriel's ground out. I mentioned. After two innings, Gurriel scored a single with a Jake Meyers single that sliced the Astros deficit into 4-3.
The Astros tied the game 4-4 when Pena drilled five opening ceremonies over the central wall for the twelfth home run. Alvarez became a single and Bregman hit his tenth home run, taking a 6-4 lead to the left in two runs.
Astros right-handed Luis Garcia (7-5) surrendered a home run to MJ Melendez. .. , His 12th, once every three times.
Garcia recovered and retired 11 of the 12 batters before leaving after 6 1/3 innings. He allowed one walk with five runs and seven strikeouts with seven hits.
Rafael Montero of Houston allowed a ninth run on Whit Merrifield's triple and Andrew Benintendi's ground out, but recovered and recorded a sixth save.
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