The league\u2019s best offense decided to take the night off as Astros pitching, defense continue to struggle.<\/p>\n
It was a night to forget for the Astros offense, who managed just 1 run on 3 hits with one walk against Rockies pitchers Kyle Freeland and Antonio Senzatela, as Houston loses its second straight game in Denver, 5-1 to the Rockies.<\/p>\n
A second inning opposite field HR by Christian Walker was the only run the Astros could muster.<\/p>\n
In fact, they would get only one runner to second base the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
Astros starter Mike Burrows was felled by his defense tonight much in the same way Ryan Weiss was felled by his defense last night.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the second inning, Burrows got Willi Castro to fly to left, or so he thought. LF Brice Matthews didn\u2019t get a good jump on the ball, charged in and slid to make the catch, but the ball bounced off the heel of his glove (which was somehow scored a hit) and allowed a run to score.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the fourth, Burrows allowed a 2-out single to T.J. Rumfield before hanging a slider over the heart of the plate that Castro blasted for a 2-run homer.<\/p>\n
The Rockies got 2 more runs in the seventh. After Steven Okert allowed a one out walk, he was replaced by Kai-Wei Teng. Teng got Hunter Goodman to pop out for second out, but then surrendered a 426 foot HR to Mickey Moniak. That made the game 5-1, which would be the final score.<\/p>\n
The Astros will try to salvage the final game of the series Wednesday behind Cristian Javier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The league\u2019s best offense decided to take the night off as Astros pitching, defense continue to struggle. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,67679,4522,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-669891","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-houston-astros-game-information","13":"tag-houston-astros-news","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116368130975879541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669891","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=669891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}