He may have been on a smaller pitch count than usual, but Hunter Brown didn\u2019t let that stop him from charging through the Boston lineup.<\/p>\n
Brown earned his first win of the season tonight, hurling 6 innings of 1 run ball with 8 strikeouts as the Astros throttled the Red Sox 9-2.<\/p>\n
Brown was lifted after 6 innings despite only throwing 78 pitches. The Astros led 8-1 at the time. After the game, manager Joe Espada said he wanted to keep Brown\u2019s workload a little lighter after he pushed Brown to 102 pitches on Opening Day.<\/p>\n
Brown threw 51 of his 78 pitches for strikes. He had 21 called strikes and 8 swings and misses in a dominating performance in which he allowed only 1 hit.<\/p>\n
After dropping the first two games of the season, the Astros have won four straight. They have also scored at least 8 runs in those 4 straight wins, the first time they\u2019ve scored at least 8 runs in 4 straight games since 7\/26-30 2021.<\/p>\n
Speaking of those 8 runs, Yordan Alvarez was responsible for 4 of those 9 runs. Yordan had an RBI double in the first that banged off the wall in center field in the bottom of the first inning, scoring Jeremy Pena from first. He hit a solo homer in to the second deck in right for the second straight night in the fifth. Alvarez also walked and scored on a Carlos Correa 2-run single in the 6th.<\/p>\n
Alvarez (2×3) was one of four Astros hitters with 2 hits on the night. Carlos Correa (2×3), Christian Walker (2×4) and Cam Smith (2×3) had 2 hits as well.<\/p>\n
Correa singled, doubled, walked, scored twice and drove in two.<\/p>\n
Walker singled, doubled, scored, and drove in two.<\/p>\n
Cam Smith had an opposite-field solo homer in the 7th.<\/p>\n
Cody Bolton, called up from Triple-A Sugar Land yesterday, pitched the final three innings for his first career save.<\/p>\n
Houston is now 4-2 on the season, the Red Sox are 1-4.<\/p>\n
The final game of the series is Wednesday at 1:10pm. Mike Burrows will start for the Astros, opposed by Garrett Crochet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He may have been on a smaller pitch count than usual, but Hunter Brown didn\u2019t let that stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,67679,78642,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-656179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houston-astros-game-information","13":"tag-houston-astros-scores-standings","14":"tag-houstonastros","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116328479032372651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}