DENVER (AP) \u2014 Willi Castro and Mickey Moniak hit two-run homers and the Colorado Rockies beat the Houston Astros 5-1 on Tuesday night for their second series win, which they didn’t 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’t 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’t 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 (1-1) allowed one run and three hits in 6 1\/3 innings. Antonio Senzatela 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 (1-2) allowed three runs and eight hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Christian Walker’s 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 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’s TJ Rumfield had two hits and has reached base safely in all 10 games he’s started this season.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Astros RHP Cristian Javier (0-1, 12.96) starts Wednesday opposite Rockies RHP Michael Lorenzen (0-1, 14.73) in the series finale.<\/p>\n
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