Athletics visit Astros on 3-game road win streak
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HOUSTON — Shea Langeliers homered for a second consecutive game and a quartet of pitchers paced the Athletics to a 5-1 win over the host Houston Astros on Saturday that clinched this four-game series for the visitors.
Nick Kurtz became the first major league rookie to hit four homers in a game, leading the Athletics to a 15-3 victory over the Houston Astros
Houston was on a four-game winning streak before taking a series opening loss to the Athletics, 5-2 and vice versa, the win snapped a four-game losing streak for the A’s. The Astros are 4-3 versus the A’s this season.
McCullers’ injury serves as yet another blow to the Astros pitching staff. He now joins a long list of injured pitchers that includes Spencer Arrighetti, Ronel Blanco, J.P. France, Luis Garcia, Cristian Javier, and Hayden Wesneski.
Christian Walker singled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning and the Houston Astros beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep. Zack Short and Taylor Trammell started the ninth with bunt singles against Kevin Ginkel (1-4).
The Houston Astros already have one of the worst injury situations in baseball and it just got worse with their update on Isaac Paredes.