Following Framber Valdez’s strong six-inning showing, four Astros relievers teamed to allow five earned runs at Globe Life Field. But the offense mustered only two runs; the Astros are 1-8 in games when they score two or fewer runs.
Phil Maton took over for Valdez and began the seventh inning with a 2-1 lead, but the Rangers immediately stacked two left-handed pinch hitters against him. On Maton’s second pitch, he gave up a leadoff double to Willie Calhoun, who moved to third base on a Kole Calhoun flyout. Marcus Semien slotted an RBI single through the left side of Houston’s drawn-in infield to tie the game. Adolis García followed it with another single and Baker asked Maton for the baseball.
Ryne Stanek was called to action next to face Rangers shortstop Corey Seager, one of the team’s top three hitters by batting average. Stanek’s wild pitch allowed Semien to slide safely into third base, and then to score the go-ahead run on Seager’s softly hit single to right field. A pair of Houston rookies, Parker Mushinski and Ronel Blanco, pitched for the second consecutive day and yielded three more runs between them in the eighth inning. Baker said his choice to rely on Mushinski and Blanco again was partly because he wanted to give them experience, and partly in order to avoid taxing other relievers.
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