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Cleveland Guardians at Houston Astros

Cleveland Guardians      3
Houston Astros           9

Status: Final

Line score

             1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9     R    H    E
Guardians    0    0    3    0    0    0    0    0    0     3    7    1
Astros       1    0    1    0    0    3    2    2    -     9   12    0

Scoring summary

B8         HOU    3-  9  Pena singled to right, Meyers scored.
B8         HOU    3-  8  Meyers hit a ground rule double, Smith scored.
B7         HOU    3-  7  Altuve doubled to left, Alvarez scored.
B7         HOU    3-  6  Pena homered to left (347 feet).
B6         HOU    3-  5  Altuve homered to left (349 feet), Alvarez
                         scored and Paredes scored.
B3         HOU    3-  2  Pena homered to left (351 feet). challenged
                         call on the field was upheld
T3         CLE    3-  1  Hoskins homered to left (376 feet), Rocchio
                         scored.
T3         CLE    1-  1  Rocchio doubled to right, Bazzana scored.
B1         HOU    0-  1  Paredes singled to right, Walker scored on
                         throwing error by right fielder Watson, Paredes
                         to second.

Headline

Jose Altuve, Jeremy Pena power the Astros past the Guardians, 9-3

HOUSTON -- Jose Altuve hit a three-run home run, Jeremy Pena had two solo shots and the Houston Astros beat the Cleveland Guardians 9-3 on Friday night.

Altuves eighth home run of the season came on the first pitch of the night from Guardians reliever Matt Festa . It landed in the first row of the left- field Crawford Boxes.

Penas first home run of the night came in the third inning to cut Clevelands lead to a run, and then he led off the seventh with his sixth home run of the season and third multi-homer game of his career. He finished the night 3 for 5 with three RBI.

Altuve added an RBI double later in the inning for a season-high four RBI.

After failing to complete the first inning in his previous start, Tatsuya Imai (4-3) struck out a career-high 11 batters while allowing three runs on six hits over six innings without issuing a walk. He retired the final 11 he faced after giving up a two-run homer to Rhys Hoskins in the third inning.

The 11 strikeouts were a season high by an Astros pitcher, and its the first time theyve had a pitcher strike out at least 11 without walking a batter since Yusei Kikuchi on Aug. 31, 2024.

Houston's Yordan Alvarez was 1 for 4 with a walk to extend his on-base streak to 25 games.

Tanner Bibee (2-8) was charged with four runs, three earned, over 5 1/3 innings.

Erik Sabrowski allowed two runs over 1/3 of an inning for Cleveland after being reinstated from the injured list before the game.

Up next

Astros RHP Spencer Arrighetti (7-2, 2.57 ERA) was set to face LHP Joey Cantillo (5-3, 4.38 ERA) on Saturday.

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