Jeremy Pena scored following his leadoff double within the first inning and Victor Caratini added a vital insurance coverage run within the backside of the eighth for the Houston Astros, who topped the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0 on Wednesday to say the three-game interleague sequence.
Earlier than Caratini slugged his sixth dwelling run of the season with two outs within the eighth, a 423-foot blast to left-center subject off Phillies reliever Matt Strahm, the Astros have been clinging to the one-run lead they grabbed within the first when Pena scored on Isaac Paredes’ single to middle.
Pena slapped an opposite-field double to proper off Phillies starter Zack Wheeler (7-3) and rounded third when Paredes dribbled a grounder previous the outstretched glove of shortstop Trea Turner.
Wheeler allowed two further hits and 4 complete earlier than departing after six innings with one run, three walks and eight strikeouts on his ledger. He threw 100 pitches, 64 for strikes.
Handcuffed by three left-handers — starter Colton Gordon (3-1) and relievers Steven Okert and Bennett Sousa — throughout seven innings, the Phillies mounted a severe risk in opposition to the fourth Houston southpaw, Bryan King, within the eighth.
Brandon Marsh and Turner laced consecutive one-out singles off King to position runners on the corners for Kyle Schwarber, who bounced a excessive chopper that Astros first baseman Christian Walker gloved with a leaping seize that prevented Marsh from scoring from third base. Nevertheless, Walker couldn’t beat Schwarber to the bag, loading the bases for Alec Bohm.
King rallied with a strikeout of Bohm, then induced a grounder to Pena at quick from Nick Castellanos that preserved the one-run lead. Nearer Josh Hader, the fifth left-hander of the night time for Houston, recorded his twenty first save with an ideal ninth.
Gordon labored 5 innings and allowed 4 hits with 4 strikeouts. Okert struck out the facet within the sixth, together with known as third strikes in opposition to Schwarber and Bohm. Sousa struck out Edmundo Sosa to shut the seventh whereas Hader recorded a strikeout of J.T. Realmuto to open the ninth.
The 5 Astros left-handers mixed for 10 strikeouts with out issuing a stroll.
Schwarber and Marsh had two hits apiece for the Phillies, who have been shut out by the Astros for the second straight night time.
–Discipline Stage Media
