{"id":669598,"date":"2026-04-08T04:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669598\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:41:27","slug":"willi-castros-three-rbi-leads-colorado-rockies-over-houston-astros-for-second-series-win-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669598\/","title":{"rendered":"Willi Castro\u2019s three RBI leads Colorado Rockies over Houston Astros for second series win of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Willi Castro<\/a> and Mickey Moniak<\/a> hit two-run homers and the Colorado Rockies<\/a> beat the Houston Astros<\/a> 5-1 on Tuesday night for their second series win, which they didn\u2019t accomplish last year until mid-June.<\/p>\n

Castro had with three hits and three RBIs for Colorado, which has won three straight and is 5-6. The Rockies didn\u2019t get their fifth win last year until April 30, when they were 5-25 en route to a major league-worst 43-119 record. <\/p>\n

Colorado didn\u2019t get its second series win last year until June 16-19. The Rockies won the first two games of the three-game series and clinched their first series of at least three games against the Astros since May 28-31, 2012.<\/p>\n

Kyle Freeland<\/a> (1-1) allowed one run and three hits in 6 1\/3 innings. Antonio Senzatela<\/a> struck out three in 2 2\/3 innings for his first major league save, needing just 26 pitches and retiring all eight batters he faced while finishing a three-hitter.<\/p>\n

Mike Burrows<\/a> (1-2) allowed three runs and eight hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Christian Walker<\/a>\u2019s third homer in four games put Houston ahead in the second.<\/p>\n

Castro had an RBI single in the bottom half and gave the Rockies a 3-1 lead in the fourth with his first homer for Colorado, a 436-foot drive to right-center. <\/p>\n

Moniak homered in the seventh off Kai-Wei Teng<\/a>, a drive that hit the top of the wall in front of the Rockies bullpen and bounced over.<\/p>\n

Four of seven ABS challenges were successful on calls by plate umpire Charlie Ramos.<\/p>\n

Colorado\u2019s TJ Rumfield had two hits and has reached base safely in all 10 games he\u2019s started this season.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Astros RHP Cristian Javier<\/a> (0-1, 12.96) starts Wednesday opposite Rockies RHP Michael Lorenzen<\/a> (0-1, 14.73) in the series finale.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Willi Castro and Mickey Moniak hit two-run homers and the Colorado Rockies beat the Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-669598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rockies","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116367254504703931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669598","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=669598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}