{"id":801770,"date":"2026-09-10T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/801770\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:30:26","slug":"jhoan-duran-surrenders-9th-inning-homer-as-phillies-lose-to-astros-fail-to-gain-ground-in-nl-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/801770\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhoan Duran surrenders 9th-inning homer as Phillies lose to Astros, fail to gain ground in NL East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cam Smith hit a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning off Jhoan Duran and Cristian Javier combined on a three-hitter to lead the Houston Astros over the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith connected on a splitter for the first home run off Duran (2-6) since May 22.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia dropped four games behind NL East-leading Atlanta heading into a three-game series at the Braves starting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Houston started the day with a two-game lead over second-place Texas in the AL West. The Astros (75-72) are the only team in the division with a winning record.<\/p>\n<p>Javier, who tossed the first six innings of a combined no-hitter for Houston against Philadelphia in the 2022 World Series, gave up one run, three hits and one walk while striking out five over six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Houston retired Philadelphia&#8217;s last 12 batters. Bennett Sousa, Bryan Abreu (6-3) and Josh Hader each pitched a perfect inning, and Hader needed just eight pitches to remain perfect in 25 save chances.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s Zack Wheeler allowed one run, five hits and two walks with nine strikeouts in seven innings. He&#8217;s eight strikeouts shy of striking out 2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Trammell&#8217;s second-inning RBI double scored Christian Walker from first. Bryson Stott hit into a run-scoring forceout in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Marsh fouled a pitch off a foot in the eighth inning and was removed from the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros head to Tampa Bay to face the American League&#8217;s top team in the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia will start Aaron Nola (6-10, 4.76 ERA) on Friday against Braves ace Chris Sale (14-9, 2.10 ERA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Smith hit a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning off Jhoan Duran and Cristian Javier combined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4,3838,25],"class_list":["post-801770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-mlb","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117248879810012938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801770","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=801770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}