HOUSTON, TX \u2013 Once upon a time, he was the de facto leader of Crush City. Today, Captain Crush was back.<\/p>\n
Carlos Correa, who has been open about his excitement of being back in Houston for a whole season and the high expectations he has for this team, hit a 3-run homer in the fifth to put the Astros ahead for good as Houston completed a 3-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox today at Daikin Park.<\/p>\n
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Correa demolished a 1-2 slider from Red Sox All-Star starter Garrett Crochet (L, 1-1) 402 feet and into the Crawfish Boxes to give the Astros a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Correa\u2019s shot left like a laser at 106.7 MPH. Correa is hitting .296 through 7 games with an .811 OPS. The HR gave the Astros a lead they would never relinquish on the way to a 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n
Correa spoke with SCHN\u2019s Julia Morales postgame:<\/p>\n
Correa\u2019s bomb made a winner of starter Mike Burrows, whose second start was notably better than his first. Burrows threw 5 innings of 2 run ball, allowing 5 hits and 3 walks while striking out 6. Burrows improved to 1-1 on the season.<\/p>\n
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The Astros also got run producing contributions from Isaac Paredes and Christian Walker, as well as a solo HR from catcher Christian Vazquez:<\/p>\n
Relievers A.J. Blubaugh and Bryan King each pitched clean innings for the Astros in the 6th and 7th innings. Blubaugh registered a strikeout and King had a pair of Ks.<\/p>\n
Bryan Abreu came on for the 9th in a save situation at 6-3. He surrendered a solo home run to the Red Sox\u2019 leadoff man in the 9th, Roman Anthony, but then settled down and struck out the next 3 batters for his first save of the season.<\/p>\n
More importantly, Abreu was back throwing his fastball in his more customary 96-97 MPH range.<\/p>\n
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With the victory, the Astros improved to 5-2 on the season, and lead the AL West by a half-game over the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n
They will have an off day Thursday and then open a 3-game series Friday in Sacramento against the Athletics. Cristian Javier will get the start Friday against Jeffrey Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, TX \u2013 Once upon a time, he was the de facto leader of Crush City. Today, Captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,47639,48,7618,9279,3225,1250,100,6175,922,139,54,3211,893,3239,363,4,793,1567,69,1949],"class_list":{"0":"post-658495","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-blubaugh","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-bryan-abreu","13":"tag-bryan-king","14":"tag-carlos-correa","15":"tag-christian-vazquez","16":"tag-christian-walker","17":"tag-cristian-javier","18":"tag-garrett-crochet","19":"tag-houston","20":"tag-houston-astros","21":"tag-houstonastros","22":"tag-isaac-paredes","23":"tag-jeffrey-springs","24":"tag-mike-burrows","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-roman-anthony","27":"tag-texas","28":"tag-texas-rangers","29":"tag-the-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116334562197305123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658495","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=658495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}