{"id":727157,"date":"2026-06-16T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/727157\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:51:24","slug":"colt-keith-has-3-home-runs-and-6-rbis-as-tigers-blow-past-astros-9-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/727157\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt Keith has 3 home runs and 6 RBIs as Tigers blow past Astros 9-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Colt Keith hit three home runs and six RBIs as the Detroit Tigers took down the Houston Astros 9-3 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McGonigle and Spencer Torkelson each added homers of their own in an 11-hit game for Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Keith, who entered the day with one home run in 65 games this season, became the youngest Tigers player with a three-homer game since 1955. This century, only eight different Tigers have accomplished the feat \u2014 including Miguel Cabrera twice.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigle homered in the second inning for a 2-0 lead before Keith drilled his first homer of the night, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2066689303372054753?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">a 411-foot two-run shot<\/a>, in the top of the third. Torkelson followed with his 12th home run of the season to put the Tigers up 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Keith launched his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2066708021699625319?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">second ball<\/a> over the right field wall to plate two more runs in the seventh before capping the scoring with a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2066717578983018919?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">solo shot<\/a> to left field in the ninth to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers also plated runs on a Keith RBI hit by pitch in the first and a passed ball by Astros catcher Christian V\u00e1zquez in the fifth that scored Dillon Dingler.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Finnegan (2-0) threw a one-hit fifth inning to earn the win in relief. Tyler Holton worked 1 2\/3 innings for his fifth-straight scoreless outing. The Tigers scratched starter Troy Melton with back tightness before the game, forcing a bullpen outing that allowed seven hits combined.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Paredes and Jose Altuve connected on back-to-back homers in the third inning to pull within 5-3, but that was all Houston mustered offensively.<\/p>\n<p>Kai-Wei Teng (3-6) surrendered five runs on six hits and struck out nine for the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>LHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/astros\/roster\/probable-pitchers\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Framber Valdez<\/a> (3-5, 4.40 ERA) gets the start for the Tigers and RHP Hunter Brown (1-0, 0.84 ERA) takes the mound for the Astros in the second game of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Colt Keith hit three home runs and six RBIs as the Detroit Tigers took down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,1250,1964,1390,79,139,54,3211,1328,893,817,37588,4140,102,8783,4,9500,9501,9496,9497,9498,9499,314,90756,33608,625],"class_list":["post-727157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-christian-vazquez","tag-colt-keith","tag-dillon-dingler","tag-framber-valdez","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-hunter-brown","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jose-altuve","tag-kai-wei-teng","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-kyle-finnegan","tag-miguel-cabrera","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-spencer-torkelson","tag-tigers-astros-score","tag-troy-melton","tag-tyler-holton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727157","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=727157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}