Kyle Freeland pitched 6 1\/3 strong innings, Willi Castro and Mickey Moniak homered and the Colorado Rockies beat the Houston Astros 5-1 in Denver on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Castro finished with three hits and three RBIs while TJ Rumfield singled twice for Colorado, which has won three in a row.<\/p>\n
Freeland (1-1) became the first Rockies starter to pitch into the seventh inning this season. He allowed one run on three hits, struck out five and walked one \u2014 the first batter of the game.<\/p>\n
Antonio Senzatela threw 2 2\/3 perfect innings to pick up his first career save.<\/p>\n
Christian Walker homered, one of just three hits for the Astros, who have lost three in a row.<\/p>\n
Walker hit a solo homer with one out in the second inning to give Houston a 1-0 lead, but Freeland was virtually untouched after that.<\/p>\n
Rockies catcher Brett Sullivan helped Freeland by using ABS challenges to get inning-ending strikeouts in the first and sixth innings. Freeland left after giving up a one-out single to Cam Smith in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
The Rockies, who had an eight-run fifth inning in a 9-7 win over Houston on Monday, scratched across a run in the bottom of the second on Tuesday. Troy Johnston led off with a single, went to second on a walk and scored on Castro\u2019s single to tie it.<\/p>\n
Colorado went ahead with a two-out rally in the fourth. Rumfield singled to center and Castro hit a 2-1 slider into the Rockies\u2019 bullpen, his first homer of the season. The hosts chased Astros starter Mike Burrows after Rumfield\u2019s one-out single in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Burrows (1-2) allowed three runs on eight hits in 5 1\/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one.<\/p>\n
Colorado padded its lead in the seventh. Kyle Karros drew a walk from reliever Steven Okert. Kai-Wei Teng took over on the mound and retired one batter before Moniak launched his third homer of the season.<\/p>\n
The Rockies will shoot for a sweep of the three-game series on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Freeland pitched 6 1\/3 strong innings, Willi Castro and Mickey Moniak homered and the Colorado Rockies beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-669851","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-houstonastros","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116367969637361892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669851","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=669851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}